Leviathan In Metaphors we live by, Lakoff and Johnson cite Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and John Locke (1632-1704) as the chief proponents of a philosophical trend through which " the suspicion of poetry and rhetoric became dominant in Western thought " and " metaphor and other figurative devices [became] objects of scorn " (Lakoff and Johnson 1980: 190). In his overview over " Metaphor in the Phi...

We intend to analyze the plausibility of two kind ethical justi-fications that are most commonly used in order defend concept an «intellectual property» copyrights. Firstly, we will examine justifications property based on natural law, like one originally provided by John Locke. argue, with help authors Lysander Spooner, same arguments Locke uses for general entirely appli-cable intellectual pr...

O objetivo desse ensaio é realizar uma reflexão sobre o Estado em face da pandemia de Covid-19. Como particularidade analítica, toma-se caso do financiamento políticas sociais (sobretudo, na saúde) no contexto neoliberalismo. Busca-se os fundamentos teórico-analíticos concepção Karl Marx e Friedrich Engels, dialogando com Antonio Gramsci, Ernest Mandel István Mészáros. Critica-se, brevemente, a...

Abstract In the Addenda to Naming and Necessity (1980), Kripke famously argues that it is false there could have been unicorns, or more properly, “no counterfactual situation properly describable as one in which would unicorns.” He adds he holds similarly ‘one cannot say of any possible person Sherlock Holmes, had existed.” notes “cryptic brevity” these remarks refers a forthcoming work for ela...

The Status of Family System in the Middle East Crisis and the Role of Comparative Education Abbas Madandar Arani, Ph.D. Regional conflicts have greatly increased during the last two decades, a trend that is the outcome of the type of relationships among civilizations. Considering the political, social and economic relations between Muslim and western countries majority...

Locke on Perception Michael Jacovides Revised 1/7/2012 For Locke, the first step in an investigation of perception should be reflection: “What Perception is, every one will know better by reflecting on what he does himself, when he sees, hears, feels, etc. or thinks, than by any discourse of mine” (2.9.2). As a second step, I say, we may learn from reading him. Locke’s use of the term ‘percepti...