milosc-i-bliskosc: William Shakespeare

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“Bodies can be compelled; minds must be turned, since they cannot be compelled”: Preaching as an “Introduction” to Law in the Ecclesiastes of Erasmus of Rotterdam. The recent studies on the relations between humanism or humanists and jurisprudence convince that Reneaissance, especially in XVIth century, when the national states began to raise, belonged to the periods of increased interest in the issue of law. Although Erasmus was not a layer, nor he introduced in any of his works a complete theory of law, he maintained close relations with many leading theoreticians of the law and jurists (Alciati, Budé, Cantiuncula, Zasius) and sometimes spoke in the legal discussions of his age. Among his…

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Compelled to drink: Why some cannot stop. Individual differences in aversive stimulus processing may explain compulsive alcohol drinking

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Seeing Mercy, Staging Mercy in Measure for Measure. Recent critical history interprets Measure ’s Duke sceptically. His theatricality and questionable distribution of mercy seem to quash both justice and others’ freedom. Suspicion of Shakespeare’s character mirrors objections to the Reformers’ uncoupling of divine mercy from human merit in their flagship doctrine of justification by faith alone. Some critics contend for Shakespeare’s opposition to Protestantism by reading Measure ’s authoritarian Duke as representative of this doctrine. In contrast, this chapter draws on a popular Renaissance trope – theatrum mundi – to frame its argument that the Reformers’ ideas about mercy, justice, law,…