An Exposition Of Augustine's Theodicy: From Its Influences To Its Modern Application, 2011 Providence College
An Exposition Of Augustine's Theodicy: From Its Influences To Its Modern Application, Kevin J. Gray
Philosophy Student Scholarship
This paper delineates the thrust of Augustine's theodicy against the broader background of his Christian Neoplatonic outlook. We examine Augustine's initial Manichean influences and see how these beliefs carry over to his mature thought, which is evident in the seventh book of the Confessions. After Augustine's time with the Manicheans, we look at how he was so influenced by the books of the Platonists (libri platonicorum). Although Augustine's position regarding the problem of evil shifts, his idea of the primacy of the soul is still evident in his thought process. To wit, Augustine posits that evil must …
Language Discourse- A Critical Analysis Of Michel Focault's Work On Language Discourse With Special Reference To His Masterpiece "The Archeology Of Knowledge", 2011 India Today Group
Language Discourse- A Critical Analysis Of Michel Focault's Work On Language Discourse With Special Reference To His Masterpiece "The Archeology Of Knowledge", Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr
Ratnesh Dwivedi
Discourse generally refers to "written or spoken communication or debate". The following are three more specific definitions: (1) In semantics and discourse analysis: A generalization of the concept of conversation to all modalities and contexts. (2) "The totality of codified linguistic usages attached to a given type of social practice. (E.g.: legal discourse, medical discourse, religious discourse.)" (3) In the work of Michel Foucault, and social theorists inspired by him: "an entity of sequences of signs in that they are enouncements (enoncés)" (Foucault 1969: 141). An enouncement (often translated as "statement") is not a unity of signs, but an abstract …
Robot Ethics: Mapping The Issues For A Mechanized World, 2011 California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
Robot Ethics: Mapping The Issues For A Mechanized World, Patrick Lin, Keith Abney, George Bekey
Philosophy
As with other emerging technologies, advanced robotics brings with it new ethical and policy challenges. This paper will describe the flourishing role of robots in society—from security to sex—and survey the numerous ethical and social issues, which we locate in three broad categories: safety & errors, law & ethics, and social impact. We discuss many of these issues in greater detail in our forthcoming edited volume on robot ethics from MIT Press.
Revisiting The Zahavi–Brough/Sokolowski Debate, 2011 Dordt College
Revisiting The Zahavi–Brough/Sokolowski Debate, Neal Deroo
Faculty Work Comprehensive List
In 1999, Dan Zahavi’s Self Awareness and Alterity: A Phenomenological Investigation initiated a critique of the standard interpretation of the distinction between the second and third levels of Husserl’s analysis of time-constituting consciousness. At stake was the possibility of a coherent account of self-awareness (Zahavi’s concern), but also the possibility of prereflectively distinguishing the acts of consciousness (Brough and Sokolowski’s rebuttal of Zahavi’s critique). Using insights gained from Husserl’s Analyses Concerning Passive Synthesis rather than the work on time-consciousness, this paper provides a new, more precise vocabulary in which to carry on the debate, in the hopes of bringing it …
Zu Nietzsches Statuen: Skulptur Und Das Erhabene, 2011 Fordham University
Zu Nietzsches Statuen: Skulptur Und Das Erhabene, Babette Babich
Articles and Chapters in Academic Book Collections
Metaphern aus dem Feld der Bildhauerein kommen überraschend oft bei Nietzsche vor: von der Statue als einem Ideal von Unweglichkeit ebenso wie von der Skulptur als einer Metapher der Selbst-Darstellung, bis hin zu Nietzsches ikonoklastischer Klärung: wie mit dem Hammer zu philosophieren sei.
In Bezug auf die griechische Platik sowie Nietzsche’s Texte argumentiert die Autorin mit Nietzsche gegen eine damals und noch heute weit verbreitete Auffassung, wonach wir solche Statuen fast unvermeidlich aus einem jüdisch-christlichen Gesichtspunkt betrachten. Außerdem geht sie besonders ein auf Nietzsches Beschwörung der Skulptur in dem Zarathustra-Abschnitt Von den Erhabenen.
Nietzsche And Lou, Eros And Art : On Lou’S Triangles And The « Exquisite Dream » Of Sacro Monte, 2011 Fordham University
Nietzsche And Lou, Eros And Art : On Lou’S Triangles And The « Exquisite Dream » Of Sacro Monte, Babette Babich
Research Resources
No abstract provided.
Review Of Michael Heidelburger And Gregor Schiemann, Eds. The Significance Of The Hypothetical In The Natural Sciences, 2011 University of San Francisco
Review Of Michael Heidelburger And Gregor Schiemann, Eds. The Significance Of The Hypothetical In The Natural Sciences, David J. Stump
Philosophy
No abstract provided.
Cognitive Relatives Yet Moral Strangers?, 2011 International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities
Cognitive Relatives Yet Moral Strangers?, Judith Benz-Scharzberg, Andrew Knight
Animal Welfare Collection
This article provides an empirically based, interdisciplinary approach to the following two questions: Do animals possess behavioral and cognitive characteristics such as culture, language, and a theory of mind? And if so, what are the implications, when long-standing criteria used to justify differences in moral consideration between humans and animals are no longer considered indisputable? One basic implication is that the psychological needs of captive animals should be adequately catered for. However, for species such as great apes and dolphins with whom we share major characteristics of personhood, welfare considerations alone may not suffice, and consideration of basic rights may …
“Human Rights, Development, And Global Justice”, 2011 Louisiana State University
“Human Rights, Development, And Global Justice”, Ian Cruise
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
Three Steps To Mindfulness Meditation, 2011 DePaul University
Three Steps To Mindfulness Meditation, Michael Skelley
Michael Skelley, Ph.D.
Intention, practice and reflection as the three steps to mindfulness meditation practice.
Review Of Rethinking The History Of Skepticism: The Missing Medieval Background, 2011 John Carroll University
Review Of Rethinking The History Of Skepticism: The Missing Medieval Background, Sharon M. Kaye
Philosophy
No abstract provided.
Dante’S Understanding Of The Two Ends Of Human Desire And The Relationship Between Philosophy And Theology, 2011 Saint Xavier University
Dante’S Understanding Of The Two Ends Of Human Desire And The Relationship Between Philosophy And Theology, Jason Aleksander
Faculty Publications
I discuss Dante’s understanding that human existence is “ordered by two final goals” and how this understanding defines philosophy’s and theology’s respective scopes of authority in guiding human conduct. I show that, while Dante devalues the philosophical authority associated with the traditional Aristotelian emphasis on the significance of contemplative activity, he does so in order to highlight philosophy’s ethico-political authority to guide human conduct toward its “earthly beatitude.” Moreover, I argue that, although Dante subordinates earthly beatitude to spiritual beatitude, he nonetheless maintains that philosophy’s authority to reveal a path to spiritual beatitude requires its fundamental independence from theology.
Jean Hampton’S Theory Of Punishment: A Critical Appreciation, 2011 University of Richmond
Jean Hampton’S Theory Of Punishment: A Critical Appreciation, Richard Dagger
Political Science Faculty Publications
Jean Hampton’s work first came to my attention in 1984, when the summer issue of Philosophy & Public Affairs appeared in my mailbox. Hampton’s essay in that issue, “The Moral Education Theory of Punishment,” did not persuade me—or many others, I suspect—that “punishment should not be justified as a deserved evil, but rather as an attempt, by someone who cares, to improve a wayward person” (Hampton 1984, 237). The essay did persuade me, though, that moral education is a plausible aim of punishment, even if it is not the “full and complete justification” Hampton claimed it to be (Hampton 1984, …
On Art Education: Can Art Give Us Knowledge?, 2011 College of DuPage
On Art Education: Can Art Give Us Knowledge?, James Magrini
Philosophy Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Acquiring The Notion Of Dependent Origination: Reply To Berger, 2011 Smith College
Acquiring The Notion Of Dependent Origination: Reply To Berger, Jay L. Garfield, Jan Westerhoff
Philosophy: Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Climate And Teleology In Aristotle's Physics Ii.8, 2011 Seattle University
Climate And Teleology In Aristotle's Physics Ii.8, Yancy Hughes Dominick
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Weather, including rain, happens as a result of natural and teleological processes, but that is compatible with the claim that rain falls not for the sake of something, but of necessity, and any benefit from the rain comes by chance. Aristotle need not embrace the conclusion, therefore, that it rains for the sake of the crops. Climate, on the other hand, is regular and beneficial. If the disjunct from Physics II.8 holds, climate ought to be for the sake of something even while rain is not.
Sagp Newsletter 2010/11.3 Pacific, 2011 Binghamton University
Sagp Newsletter 2010/11.3 Pacific, Anthony Preus
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Justice As Self-Transmitting Power And Just Acts In Republic 4, 2011 Saint Joseph's University
Justice As Self-Transmitting Power And Just Acts In Republic 4, Andrew Payne
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
In his influential paper “A Fallacy in Plato’s Republic,” David Sachs charged Plato with committing a fallacy of irrelevancy. Plato’s Socrates is asked to show that justice understood as acting in conformity with conventional morality, so-called vulgar justice, is beneficial to the just person. Socrates actually demonstrates something else, namely that psychic justice, a state of internal harmony between parts of the soul, is beneficial to its possessor. A generation of Plato scholarship has reacted to Sachs’ reading of the Republic by using discussions of moral psychology and education elsewhere in the dialogue to bridge the gap between psychic justice …
The Beauty Of The Ethical: An Everyday Ethics That Brings Grace To Life, 2011 George Fox University
The Beauty Of The Ethical: An Everyday Ethics That Brings Grace To Life, Ross W. Mccullough
Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology
Excerpt: "Malcolm Muggeridge entitled his reflection on Mother Teresa Something Beautiful for God. Perhaps the force of that expression does not immediately strike us, but consider how curious a statement it is: that here was something—an act, a project, a life—beautiful for God. By far the most curious aspect, and the hardest to see afresh and not as mere formula, is that it was for God; but I leave that to a subsequent essay, with only the saints, here Teresa and Irenaeus, to point toward my sequel. For now note instead that it was something beautiful."
Adorno On Science And Nihilism, Animals, And Jews, 2011 Fordham University
Adorno On Science And Nihilism, Animals, And Jews, Babette Babich
Articles and Chapters in Academic Book Collections
No less than Heidegger or Nietzsche, Adorno had his own critical notions of truth/untruth. But Adorno’s readers are unsettled by the barest hint of anything that might be taken to be anti-science. Thus it is argued that Adorno opposes not science but scientism. But, and here not unlike Arendt, Adorno argued that so-called “scientistic” tendencies are the very conditions of society and of scientific thought.” I ask how we are to read Adorno by exploring his thought on animals and nihilism.