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The Focus Philosophical Library's edition of Aristotle's Politics is a lucid and useful translation for the student of undergraduate philosophy, as well as for the general reader interested in the major works of western civilization. Includes an introductory essay and glossaries of names and important Greek words.

With an unrivalled combination of exceptional clarity and analysis, this introduction to politics is the perfect text with which to begin your studies of the political world.

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First of all, the article analyzes, in panorama, Spinoza's ontology. Secondly, it shows how, from the concepts present in the ontology, the author derives others, as man, desire, joy and sorrow, hope and fear, security and despair, action and passion. From the relationship between ontology, men and desire - as well as from the other affects -, are extracted, in brief considerations, some Spinoza ́s political thesis. In this argumentative movement, the hypothesis is that many Spinoza's political thesis a rise from its ontology and its conception of man as desire and potency variation. The concept of desire is analyzed in the light of the variation of potency and the theme of natural right, which in Spinoza is identical to potency. When the subject is the brief derivations to politics, some hobbesian thesis - related to the following subjects, namely, the multitude, the people, the representation, the natural right, the civil state, etc. - are brought to show, by contrast, the importance of Spinoza's innovations.

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A critical review of James Hinton's Protests and Visions: Peace Politics in Twentieth Century Britain (London: Hutchinson Radius, 1989). Hinton argues that British peace politics has been characterized throughout the century by imperialist pacifism (IP) -- the belief in GB's civilizing mission to create a more harmonious international order. GB's renunciation of its weapons would set an exemplary standard for other nations to follow. Hinton aruges that the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament's (CND) program of unilaterlism -- the demand that GB unconditionally relinquish its nuclear weapons & thus take the lead internationally -- was a variant on this perspective. What CND failed to grasp was contemporary GB's very limited leverage on the behavior of other nation states. Although Hinton's arguments are valid, it is noted that unilateralism was a more complex program than Hinton recognizes; by focusing on IP, he underplays the more creative & politically successful aspects of CND's campaigning: eg, its role in the making of the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty in Dec 1987. 16 References. Modified AA

Abstract:The victim has become among the most important identity positions in American politics. Victimhood is now a pivotal means by which individuals and groups see themselves and constitute themselves as political actors. Indeed, victimhood seems to have become a status that must be established before political claims can be advanced. Victimhood embodies the assertion that an individual or group has suffered wrongs that must be requited. What seems new is that wounded groups assert a self-righteous claim that they stand for something larger than their particular injury. The article explores how and why victimhood has become such a powerful theme in American politics. It suggests that victimhood as politics emerged from the contentious politics of the 1960s, specifically the civil rights movement and its aftermath. Key factors include the reaction to the minority rights and women's movements, as well as internal dynamicswithinthe rights movements.