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Perhaps the most central concept in Locke's political philosophy is his theory of natural law and natural rights. The natural law concept existed long before Locke as a way of expressing the idea that the...

Turner's loose brushwork creates the impression of speed and movement. The directional brushstrokes consisting of pale white paint, evident for example in the right foreground as the brushstrokes interjec...

Biological Naturalism is a theory developed by John Searle who sought to end the relentless debate between materialists and dualists. As the name of the theory suggests, Biological Naturalism (BN) is crea...

Like the Republican conception of the general will, the liberal notion of the ‘will of all’ is formed in relation to how LDT understands the notion of liberty. For LDT, liberty is centred on Hobbes’ notio...

Modern republican thought, with the help of a growing number of discovered ancient Greek texts, began developing during renaissance Italy . Marsilius in his Defensor pacis, proposed the notion that the so...