PUBLICITY, PRIVACY, AND RELIGIOUS TOLERATION IN HOBBES'S LEVIATHAN

Publicity, Privacy, and Permanence of Information

The quantum principles of superposition and entanglement have led to a recasting of the foundations of information and computation theory, and are especially helpful in understanding the nature of privacy. The most private information, exemplified by a quantum eraser experiment, is best regarded as existing only conditionally and temporarily—after the experiment is over no trace remains. Less p...

Religious toleration of Muslims in the German Public Sphere

This study investigates public resistance towards Muslims’ civil liberties, such as the wearing of headscarves, the provision of Islamic education and the building of mosques as well as the official recognition of Islam by creating a Islamic public holiday. Explanations were sought in negative perceptions and attitudes towards Muslims and individual value orientations. The main findings, based ...

Religious Toleration in the Age of Ale Booye

Religious toleration meant as being lenient to and bearing opponents thoughts and ideas, has been accepted in Islam as a principle. During the history, Islamic states have been lenient to the followers of other religions in their realm and this method of governmental action has been counted as one of their bold character. Yet, the religious toleration has not been of one form; it had been of ma...

Networked Publics : Publicity and Privacy on the Internet

It is undeniable that contemporary internetworking practices are drastically altering the social, political, moral, epistemological, and cultural landscapes in which we live. In a world in which an increasing amount of information is increasingly available everywhere and in which an increasing amount of everyday activity yields information about our innermost selves, we simply cannot stand stil...

The Crisis of Religious Toleration in Imperial Russia: Bibikov's System for the Old Believers, 1841-1855