Article history: Received 6 January 2012 Revised 24 August 2012 Accepted 25 August 2012 Available online 19 September 2012 Drawing on the general aggression model and theories of victimization and temperamental goodness-of-fit, we investigated trait anger and trait anxiety as antecedents of petty tyranny: employing a multilevel design with data from 84 sea captains and 177 crew members. Leader ...

When forming their preferences about the distribution of income, rational people may be caught between two opposite forms of “tyranny.” Giving absolute priority to the worst-off imposes a sort of tyranny on the rest of the population, but giving less than absolute priority imposes a reverse form of tyranny where the worst-off may be sacrificed for the sake of small benefits to many well-off ind...

Half-way through Alexandre Kojève’s six-year lectures on Hegel (1933–1939), the dialectic of struggle and work reaches its culmination in conceptual dyad Napoleon-Hegel as a necessary vehicle for universal emancipation absolute science. Anticipating ‘leap’ into post-historical existence, figure tyranny wisdom marks exception which dialectical process is suspended favour dualism. This article de...

SIMÓN BOLÍVAR’S REPUBLIC: A BULWARK AGAINST THE “TYRANNY” OF THE MAJORITY