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Peter Holbrook
Published: 01 July 2015
... Whitehead Alfred North William Shakespeare Freedom Agency Humoralism Coriolanus samuel johnson said that reading Shakespeare would help ‘a confessor predict the progress of the passions’. 1 Shakespeare’s works have always been a prime location of powerful and intense feeling...
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Rights, segregation and discrimination
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Karin Fischer
Published: 01 September 2016
... (mainly religious bodies) acting as private patrons, with the exception of the Education and Training Boards. The human rights of children, including the right to freedom of conscience, have been ignored by the Irish State, despite calls from various United Nations Committees and from local groups...
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Schools, ethos and inclusion
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Karin Fischer
Published: 01 September 2016
... in terms of respect for the freedom of conscience and religion of both adults and children in the school community, and it has helped perpetuate the segregated school system. The chapter engages with the question of the ethical and civic role of schools, the idea of transmitting specific communal moral...
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Published: 01 July 2008
...This chapter opens with a discussion of John Winthrop, Governor of New England, who delivered a rousing sermon entitled A Model of Christian Charity . Winthrop outlined the hopes and fears of the community of men and women who had left Europe in search of religious freedom...
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The exceptional and the ordinary
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Thomas Docherty
Published: 01 August 2018
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Conclusion: the drink question today
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James Nicholls
Published: 01 October 2009
... that the drink question has exposed is that between the competing conceptions of freedom. The question is whether or not intoxication itself can be understood an expression of freedom. binge drinking Licensing legislation by year title in parentheses population approaches public health temperance movement...
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Published online: 19 July 2012
Published in print: 01 October 2009
..., individual freedom, and the relationship between government and the market. The book argues that in order to properly understand the cultural status of alcohol, we need to consider what attitudes to drinking tell us about the principles that underpin our modern, liberal society. It presents a wide-ranging...
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Published: 01 February 2010
... to understand the crucial role that affect plays, both in xenophobic, ethno-nationalist attitudes, as well as in their proposed remedies. This chapter argues that democracy is founded not only a constitutive political paradox concerning the irreconcilability of individual freedom and collective equality...
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Published: 01 December 2018
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From English republicans to British commonwealthmen
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Rachel Hammersley
Published: 04 June 2010
... that the commonwealthmen were much more closely in line with the seventeenth-century republican tradition than their rejection of kingless government would initially suggest. In their emphasis on the concept of liberty and their concern with both civil and religious freedoms, they were following directly in the earlier...
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Roads, rivers, canals: spaces of freedom from Epstein to Vigo
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Jean-Louis Pautrot
Published: 16 March 2018
... period reflect in other titles an ‘accelerating transformation of the world’. Tropes of euphoric mobility and freedom would lose their force by the close of the 1930s, when the mood sours and the suburb turns dark. Deleuze Gilles freedom topography Certeau Michel de couples motorcars Renoir Jean...
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Published: 01 December 2012
...This concluding chapter emphasises the role of ships in migrant journeys and the symbolic importance of the ship as a transporter of people from persecution and exploitation to freedom and acceptance. It summarises the refugee escape to Britain, the role of the Navy in the suppression of slave...
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The media
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Edwin Bacon and others
Published: 30 October 2006
...Fears about the deterioration of press freedom in Russia during the presidency of Vladimir Putin have been widely discussed since his election in March 2000. Concerns with regards to adverse developments of press freedom under Putin have been voiced particularly about the closure of independent...
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Democracy and ecological governance – a balancing act
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Lennart J. Lundqvist
Published: 11 March 2004
... ecological governance in Sweden as an open political process which provides common access to information and safeguards individual rights and freedom of choice. autonomy democratic processes participation in decision making Baker Susan ecological governance legitimacy special interests Barry J...
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Gewirth: action and agency
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Lynn Dobson
Published: 01 May 2012
...Chapter 4 presents an analytical introductory overview of the universalistic rights-based theory of action of Alan Gewirth's Reason and Morality , drawing out its focus on action and agency, its basic claim that moral agents have rights to freedom and well-being...
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The new rhetoric of airport protest
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Steven Griggs and David Howarth
Published: 30 September 2013
...-term settlement between rival stakeholders backfired. Rather than resolving the heightened tensions and sharpening contradictions, the consultation process created the conditions for the development of two antagonistic discourse coalitions: the pro-expansionist Freedom to Fly and the pro-regulation...
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Published: 01 February 2013
... intellectual and religious domains in relation to wider attempts by women to intervene in the public sphere. The chapter argues that the Freethinking emphasis on freedom of discussion opened the way for women to participate in conversations on science and reason while simultaneously marginalising the ‘feminine...
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Published: 01 September 2015
..., the trajectory from constraint to freedom that the protagonist Nazneen follows is shaped primarily by patriarchal structures within the community and their subversion, and there is little sense of the pressures that are exerted on the community’s men from outside this space. The chapter explores the reception...
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Published: 28 November 2016
... with simplistic intuitive accounts rather than building on earlier traditions in analytic political theory. This is particularly apparent in social-choice and game-theory analysis of rights and freedoms. This chapter reviews these approaches and demonstrates that by ignoring the grammar of rights and freedoms...
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Shils and Oakeshott
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Efraim Podoksik
Published: 01 March 2019
..., and by the perception of similarity, if not identity, between the left-wing and right-wing radicalisms. They both occupied the conservative-liberal slot within the broad anti-totalitarian spectrum, combining their adherence to freedom and minimal state with their deep appreciation of tradition. At the same time...