Arash Abizadeh () is an Iranian-Canadian philosopher, R.B. Angus Professor of Political Science, and Associate Member of the Department of Philosophy at
McGill University
McGill University (French: Université McGill) is an English-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter,Frost, Stanley Brice. ''McGill University, Vol. I. For the Advancement of Learning, ...
. He is known for his expertise on
democratic theory,
political and social power,
migration and border control, and
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes ( ; 5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679) was an English philosopher, best known for his 1651 book ''Leviathan (Hobbes book), Leviathan'', in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory. He is considered t ...
.
He is a recipient of a
Rhodes Scholarship
The Rhodes Scholarship is an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford in Oxford, United Kingdom. The scholarship is open to people from all backgrounds around the world.
Established in 1902, it is ...
(1994).
As a democratic theorist he is known for his advocacy of
sortition
In governance, sortition is the selection of public officer, officials or jurors at random, i.e. by Lottery (probability), lottery, in order to obtain a representative sample.
In ancient Athenian democracy, sortition was the traditional and pr ...
, and has proposed the adoption of random selection to fill seats in the
Senate of Canada.
Books
* ''Hobbes and the Two Faces of Ethics'', Cambridge University Press, 2018,
See also
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Ethnic group
An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people with shared attributes, which they collectively believe to have, and long-term endogamy. Ethnicities share attributes like language, culture, common sets of ancestry, traditions, society, re ...
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Pistis
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Civic nationalism
Civic nationalism, otherwise known as democratic nationalism, is a form of nationalism that adheres to traditional liberal values of freedom, tolerance, equality, and individual rights, and is not based on ethnocentrism. Civic nationalists ...
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National myth
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Nationalism
Nationalism is an idea or movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, it presupposes the existence and tends to promote the interests of a particular nation, Smith, Anthony. ''Nationalism: Theory, I ...
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johann Gottlieb Fichte (; ; 19 May 1762 – 29 January 1814) was a German philosopher who became a founding figure of the philosophical movement known as German idealism, which developed from the theoretical and ethical writings of Immanuel Ka ...
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The Ethics of Immigration''
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Bahá'í administration
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Branding national myths and symbols
References
External links
Arash Abizadeh at McGill UniversityArash abizadeh personal website
Iranian philosophy academics
Canadian philosophy academics
Living people
Canadian political philosophers
Academic staff of McGill University
Canadian Rhodes Scholars
Alumni of the University of Oxford
21st-century Iranian philosophers
Canadian political scientists
Iranian political scientists
Hobbes scholars
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Winnipeg alumni
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
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