In recent years the polarized debate surrounding the relative influence of the liberal and classical republican traditions on the political thought of the ...
Adam Smith's adaptation of the classical tradition of moral philosophy constitutes an important attempt to shape the language of the virtues to the conditions of commercial society. An overlooked avenue to understanding his enterprise is...
From the turn of the fifth century to the beginning of the eighteenth, Christian writers were fascinated and troubled by the "Problem of Paganism," which this book identifies and examines for the first time. How could the wisdom and virt...
While sociologists have largely turned their back on the foundations of their discipline as a science of society, historians have recently focused on the f...
The Classical roots of the illuminations created for the Czech translation of The Travels of Sir John Mandeville located in the British Library (Ms Additio...
"One can almost date 鈥 since Mandeville's The Fable of the Bees 鈥 the triumph of the notion of individual interest." Thus, Mauss offered a starting point for the theoretical controversies culminating in his own essay: the ...
The world of the Georgian wits was populated by articulate physician-authors: Garth, Locke, Mandeville, Armstrong, Cheyne, Hartley, Goldsmith, Smollett and dozens of others among the medically educated who never practiced medicine and no...
;The crucial role of self-interest and rationality in his thought makes Machiavelli a forerunner of Mandeville, Adam Smith, and all those who believe ...
In lieu of an , here is a brief excerpt of the content: New Literary History 30.2 (1999) 389-410 Figures The majority of early modern accounts of discovery...
The current practice in multiagent systems typically associates the environment with resources that are external to agents and their communication infrastr...
In contrast to standard approaches based on agent communication languages (ACLs), environment-based coordination is emerging as an interesting alternative ...
There is a growing awareness in the multiagent systems research community that the environment plays a prominent role in multiagent systems. Originating fr...
