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authority and strength, making Hobbes s body politic a leaner, more efficient, more harmonious machine than had ever been built before. Indeed, in the rhetorical construction of the commonwealth, the body politic proves to be the one metaphor Hobbes cannot do without. Less prominent in De Cive (1642) than in Leviathan, somatic imagery gains
18. Nov. 2023 · Abstract. Descartes’ application of mind-body dualism to the question of courage marks the early modern era, a position later echoed in Montesquieu’s climate-based perspective on the same topic. Étienne de La Boétie and Bernard Mandeville shift the focus to politics and the passions of the body, away from the rule of self-denial in the ...
Vor 5 Tagen · Search for: 'body politic' in Oxford Reference ». 1. An ideological struggle between individuals, groups, and social institutions over control of the human body.2. Institutionalized social practices and policies through which the human body is regulated.3. The active struggle of socially disadvantaged groups against the social forces ...
The Body Politic is a harbinger of hope in a country plagued by gun violence. Our protagonist is Brandon Scott, a young Mayor who grew up during Baltimore’s most troubling years and sets out, with unyielding idealism, to change the course of his battered and beloved city. Scott is elected Mayor amid the George Floyd uprising, and he introduces an ambitious plan for violence reduction and ...
The Pauline Epistles offered an important precedent for the use of body metaphors in medieval discourse. Here, the metaphor of the body is used to imply unity; each member of the Church may play an individual role, but all are incorporated in a common goal, the formation of a unified ecclesia, just as the different parts of the body work together to form a physical whole. 7 1 Corinthians 12:22 ...
The term body politics refers to the practices and policies through which powers of society regulate the human body, as well as the struggle over the degree of individual and social control of the body. The powers at play in body politics include institutional power expressed in government and laws, disciplinary power exacted in economic ...
10. Aug. 2016 · Rather, the body politic found in the Policraticus is the expression of a principle of cooperative harmony through which otherwise disparate individuals and interests are reconciled and bound together. John adopts a “physiological” approach to the political organism, according to which all of the organs cooperate reciprocally in order to achieve a common purpose. The
