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Author : Albert Salomon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Sociology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011923500
Author : John Beattie Crozier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Civilization
ISBN : NYPL:33433082427372
Author : Tamás Nyirkos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351211413
Tamás Nyirkos provides a timely and essential reassessment of the concept of the "tyranny of the majority" for the study of democracy today. The analysis is divided into three parts: the first discusses the "prehistory" of majority tyranny; the second reviews the elements of the "standard theory" in the modern era; while the third deals with the current "postmodern" challenges to the prevailing order of liberal democracy. Combining different elements of theories dating from the Middle Ages to the present, Nyirkos theorizes that while the term "the tyranny of the majority" may be misleading, the threat that tyrannical governments justify themselves by reference to the majority will remain with us for the foreseeable future. He shows how some of the greatest political philosophers of the past – democrats and antidemocrats alike – shared the same fears about the majoritarian principle. The Tyranny of the Majority will offer all those who read it a better understanding of what is meant not only by this term, but also by related terms like democratic despotism, populism, or illiberal democracy. It will be of interest to scholars of politics and international relations, political philosophy, political theology, and intellectual history.
Author : Gerard Casey
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 969 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781845409609
In Freedom's Progress?, Gerard Casey argues that the progress of freedom has largely consisted in an intermittent and imperfect transition from tribalism to individualism, from the primacy of the collective to the fragile centrality of the individual person and of freedom. Such a transition is, he argues, neither automatic nor complete, nor are relapses to tribalism impossible. The reason for the fragility of freedom is simple: the importance of individual freedom is simply not obvious to everyone. Most people want security in this world, not liberty. 'Libertarians,' writes Max Eastman, 'used to tell us that "the love of freedom is the strongest of political motives," but recent events have taught us the extravagance of this opinion. The "herd-instinct" and the yearning for paternal authority are often as strong. Indeed the tendency of men to gang up under a leader and submit to his will is of all political traits the best attested by history.' The charm of the collective exercises a perennial magnetic attraction for the human spirit. In the 20th century, Fascism, Bolshevism and National Socialism were, Casey argues, each of them a return to tribalism in one form or another and many aspects of our current Western welfare states continue to embody tribalist impulses. Thinkers you would expect to feature in a history of political thought feature in this book - Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Locke, Mill and Marx - but you will also find thinkers treated in Freedom's Progress? who don't usually show up in standard accounts - Johannes Althusius, Immanuel Kant, William Godwin, Max Stirner, Joseph Proudhon, Mikhail Bakunin, Pyotr Kropotkin, Josiah Warren, Benjamin Tucker and Auberon Herbert. Freedom's Progress? also contains discussions of the broader social and cultural contexts in which politics takes its place, with chapters on slavery, Christianity, the universities, cities, Feudalism, law, kingship, the Reformation, the English Revolution and what Casey calls Twentieth Century Tribalisms - Bolshevism, Fascism and National Socialism and an extensive chapter on human prehistory.
Author : George William Foote
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Free thought
ISBN : OXFORD:N12186273
Author : P. H. Partridge
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483186306
Society, Schools, and Progress in Australia focuses on the principles, methodologies, practices, and measures employed in education in Australia. The book first offers information on historical influences and organization of public education. Discussions focus on local communities and schools, teaching in state schools, administration within states, educational policy, secondary education, geographical and social background, centralization, question of state aid, and background of the education acts. The book then ponders on schools and society, pattern of higher education, and teachers. Topics include economic change, organization of technical education, future development of technical colleges, adult education, diversification of tertiary education, teaching in universities, and reorganization of secondary education. The text examines education and national growth, including changing balance of the federation, social teaching, quality of teachers, aspects of national development, and social change and educational change. The manuscript is a dependable reference for students, teachers, and educators wanting to study the form of education in Australia.
Author : James Shepard Dennis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Christian sociology
ISBN : UOM:39015069279142
"The Students' Lectures on Missions at Princeton Theological Seminary, which form the basis of the book now issued, were delivered by the author in the spring of 1896"--Preface.
Author : Herbert Spencer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : MINN:319510009461529
Author : Jean Claude Guillebaud
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Sexual ethics
ISBN : 9781892941053
This provocative book stands our sixties' liberation on its head, taking an inventory of its unintended side-effects.--Le Nouvel Quotidien. (Philosophy)
Author : Isaac B. Cooke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IOWA:31858046024703
Author : Waller R. Newell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108424301
The Philosophy of Freedom from Rousseau to Heidegger transformed political thought, feeding catastrophic revolution, tyranny and genocide.
Author : Robert Nisbet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351515467
The idea of progress from the Enlightenment to postmodernism is still very much with us. In intellectual discourse, journals, popular magazines, and radio and talk shows, the debate between those who are "progressivists" and those who are "declinists" is as spirited as it was in the late seventeenth century. In History of the Idea of Progress, Robert Nisbet traces the idea of progress from its origins in Greek, Roman, and medieval civilizations to modern times. It is a masterful frame of reference for understanding the present world. Nisbet asserts there are two fundamental building blocks necessary to Western doctrines of human advancement: the idea of growth, and the idea of necessity. He sees Christianity as a key element in both secular and spiritual evolution, for it conveys all the ingredients of the modern idea of progress: the advancement of the human race in time, a single time frame for all the peoples and epochs of the past and present, the conception of time as linear, and the envisagement of the future as having a Utopian end. In his new introduction, Nisbet shows why the idea of progress remains of critical importance to studies of social evolution and natural history. He provides a contemporary basis for many disciplines, including sociology, economics, philosophy, religion, politics, and science. History of the Idea of Progress continues to be a major resource for scholars in all these areas.
Author : George
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00039733
Author : Henry George
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Economics
ISBN : UCAL:B4358886
Author : Earl John Russell Russell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Christianity
ISBN : BL:A0026374575
