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Eugenics and American Economics in the Interwar Years: The Case of Thomas Nixon Carver
2017
The aim of this paper is to explore in some detail Carver’s eugenic ideas with a main, albeit non-exclusive, focus on the interwar years. Although his major contributions had all appeared prior to 1918, Carver remained particularly productive throughout the 1920s and 1930s, publishing several articles and eight books, which include The Principles of National Economy (1921), and The Essential Factors of Social Evolution (1935)—two works which contain significant traces of eugenic reasoning. Just as important, Carver’s interwar activities were not limited to academia. After his retirement from Harvard in 1932 he became involved in the activities of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, while i…
Was Thomas Hobbes the first biopolitical thinker?
2023
Thomas Hobbes's name often comes up as scholars debate the history of biopower, which regulates the biological life of individual bodies and entire populations. This article examines whether and to what extent Hobbes may be regarded as the first biopolitical philosopher. I investigate this question by performing a close reading of Hobbes's political texts and by comparing them to some of the most influential theories on biopolitics proposed by Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Roberto Esposito, and others. Hobbes is indeed the first great thinker to assert the supreme political importance of safeguarding life. Furthermore, this prominence of non-contemplative life is not limited to mere su…
Sodan perusteet : sota länsimaisessa filosofiassa
2010
Hobbesin perusteet
2010
Thomas Hobbes ja pelon taloustiede
2013
Thomas Hobbesia (1588-1679) pidetään usein yhtenä ”kapitalismin isistä”. Näkökulma on kuitenkin sinänsä ongelmallinen, että Hobbes ei juurikaan kirjoittanut pääomista tai tuotannosta. Hänen poliittinen ajattelunsa oli vastakkaista Englannin nousevan porvariston pyrkimyksille toteuttaa vero- ja kauppavapaus. Hobbes piti aikansa Alankomaita huonona esimerkkinä pääoman ja vapauden liitosta.Kysymys omistuksesta löytyy kuitenkin Hobbesin yhteiskuntateorian perustasta. Kuuluisassa ”luonnontilassa” ei voi Hobbesin mukaan olla omistusta, koska vain oikeusjärjestelmä yhdessä väkivallan monopolin kanssa kykenee takaamaan sen. Hobbes kannustaa ihmisiä tuottavaan elämään ja näkee valtion tehtävänä sell…
Small angle neutron scattering study of the quaternary structure of haemocyanin of Rapana thomasiana
1996
Abstract Small angle neutron scattering (SANS) experiments were performed on a series of solutions of haemocyanin (Hc) of Rapana thomasiana . In a first series of solutions, by changing the external contrast a model of the molecule that is apparently in disagreement with electron microscopy (EM) measurements was obtained. The apparent disagreement was resolved by performing experiments on a series of variable protein concentration solutions in D 2 O. The physical parameters of the model, extrapolated to zero concentration, are in excellent agreement with the EM results obtained on samples more dilute than those examined with SANS.
John Keats kaukosiirtäjässä : paradigman murtumisen kuvaus Dan Simmonsin Hyperionissa
2005
De Una teoría de la justicia a El derecho de gentes: argumentos en contra de algunos contenidos doctrinales
2022
En esta contribución intentaremos demonstrar tres tesis. 1. La noción de estructura básica es principalmente una herramienta teórica (al igual de la idea de un mercado ideal) que mira a determinar lo que las prácticas redistributivas tácitamente asumen: su mantenimiento en el tiempo, la obligación de cada uno de cooperar según las normas establecidas, y la posibilidad de que haya sanciones para los que no cooperan, al fin de mantener relaciones de reciprocidad estables entre miembros libres e iguales de la estructura. 2. Las críticas de Beitz, Buchanan, Pogge, a las que han seguido muchas otras, se sustentan en una lectura parcial de la obra de Rawls. Una lectura que no considera el desarro…
Some Notes on Andrapolis, the Royal City: Apocryphal Acts of Thomas 3
2021
The following paper aims to explore the meaning and significance of the so-called royal city Andrapolis (Ἀνδράπολις) within the context of the Apocryphal Acts of Thomas’ s narrative (chapter 3). The identification of this Indian toponym have attracted the attention of many scholars during the last century and nowadays again, as witness of the few reliable historical traces supposedly transmitted by the apocryphal. For doing so, after a short introduction, we deal with the allegedly historicity of the text; then, we focus on the issue related mainly to the different variants of the location depending on the Syriac and Greek versions of the Acts of Thomas, and propose a new interpretatio…
Der pikareske Roman als Katalysator in geschichtlichen Abläufen : erzählerische Kommunikationsmodelle in Das Leben des Lazarillo von Tormes, bei Thom…
2005
Anna-Riitta Tunturi tutki väitöskirjassaan pikareski- eli veijariromaanin eri ilmenemismuotoja historiallisena läpileikkauksena, sosiologisena ilmiönä ja romaanitaiteen osa-alueena. Sana ”pícaro” tulee kastiliankielen verbistä ”picar”, joka tarkoittaa alempiarvoisten ammattien harjoittamista, kuten picador de toros, pikadori härkätaistelussa, toreadorin avustaja. Saksaksi sana on Schelm, joten oma sanamme kelmi on saksalaista lainaa. Lisäksi suomen kielessä on veijari, huijari, heittiö tai hulttio, ja lisääkin varmasti löytyy. This dissertation in comparative literature examines several Finnish picaresque novels of 20th century in relation to some classical continental European novels such …