The essay’s concern is to estimate the digital phenomenon. First, it tries to understand clearly the phenomenon itself, the threefold connection between digitalization – virtuality – digital world. The essay then charts ...
Today, the battle between great ideas is not only fought via texts or speeches on TV screens, the radio, or at lectures or public debates, but also through real and virtual images, and so-called imagetexts. This paper ...
Diversity is the unity of sameness and non-sameness (difference). In a basic situation, the more significant the difference, the greater the diversity. However, the organic systems based on relatively homogeneous groups, ...
that was rather revolutionary in its era from a theoretical point of view, and since then has had several significant implications in modern political thought: “before we examine the act by which a people elects a king, ...
Tocqueville’s thought-world is decisively influenced by the conviction that modern democracy that is based on the will of the majority is rather appropriate for creating equality than freedom. Moreover, the mass democracy ...
In several of his works, Thomas Hobbes contrasts rhetorical and scientifi c speech. Although in Leviathan his position is changed, Hobbes continues to emphasize the inordinate, excessive nature of rhetorical speech in ...