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Nomos

In Greece, a political subdivision, roughly equivalent to a province, that existed before 2010.

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48) The second implication is that individual wards could have varying community standards, customs, and social expectations, even when they lived under the same sets of state nomoi and the authority of the same officials.

"The crowns of their babtum": on wives, wards, and witnesses

Thus construed, freedom becomes tantamount to auto-nomy (and not anomy), because it is the agent (or, more specifically, his proairesis) that determines the nomoi by which his actions are to be guided (Cf.

Critical assent, intellectualism, and repetition in Epictetus

Essas regras nao escritas, que os gregos ja denominavam agrafa nomoi, as leis nao divulgadas que regem a polis, parecem estar vinculadas diretamente as possibilidades de aplicacao de qualquer juizo etico.

A configuracao da questao dos interesses no ambito de uma etica do profissional de comunicacao

Baragwanath makes a really interesting point in asserting that "Herodotus seems more interested in exploring the extent to which nomoi [customs] do not determine behaviour; he considers, for example, how, even where custom is strong, humans may have a determining role, choosing to transgress them.

E. Baragwanath: Motivation and Narrative in Herodotus

Rather, these public decisions are the nomoi, the widely shared and publicly available laws, norms, and customs of the society.

The law of duty and the virtue of justice

Strauss is as far from simply rejecting such analyses as to argue that, in the best possible city, the nomoi can only be 'completed' by religious narratives concerning their origins, laid down by prophetic rhetoricians:

Leo Strauss: the sphinx's secret? Or how we learnt to stop worrying and believe through the 'Hoi Poloi'

For the ancients, the nomoi, or laws, encompassed not just formal legislation but also the "ways" or "conventions" of the city--what we might call "the culture.

Citizens of the Heavenly City: A Catechism of Catholic Social Teaching

Man's law, the nomoi of the Polis, must conform to a higher

Cain, Abel, obligation, and right

The notion that there are two nomoi competing for control of the

The NAFTA chapter 11 expropriation debate through the eyes of a property theorist

Ultimately, only he can cause the hero, the "resourceful" statesperson Odysseus, to modify the nomoi of the demos.

Reconciliation in Bosnia and the phenomenology of a little people: the Serbs, Europe, and the liberation of our reconciled future liberty *

Echoing Cover, Scalia charged the Court with mistaking a "Kulturkampf," which Scalia probably meant as a culture clash between fundamentalist religious and pro-gay nomoi, for a vicious "fit of spite.

A jurisprudence of "coming out": religion, homosexuality, and collisions of liberty and equality in American public law

The NOMOI of Gemistus Plethon in the Light of Plato's Laws.

Cyriacus of Ancona and the revival of two forgotten ancient personifications in the Rector's Palace of Dubrovnik