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Problems In Epicurean Physics, David Konstan

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

This article treats several problems in Epicurean atomic theory, including how atoms rebound (the answer is that they must keep moving at a uniform speed and simply move in another direction when impeded), the role of minima in defining the boundaries of an atom and accounting for its impenetrability and why adjacent atoms do not merge, and the explanation of atomic weight as a tendency of atoms emerging from collisions to move in a preferred direction, which is by definition “down.”

Diogenes Of Oenoanda: The New Discoveries (1968-1976), Diskin Clay

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Short bibliography of the state of the art on the fragments of Diogenes of Oenoanda as of December 1976.

Epicurus' Conception Of The Psyche, K. W. Harrington

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

In this paper I try to establish the following differences between Epicurean and Lucretian psyches:

1. For Lucretius, the psyche is composed of particles of air, breath, heat, and a fourth unnamed constituent. Epicurus suggests that the psyche is composed of a single kind of atom, and that it in some way resembles heat and in some way resembles breath.

2. For Epicurus, breath and heat are properties of compounds, not kinds of atoms or kinds of compound entities. Lucretius apparently takes the opposite position.

3. For Lucretius, the components of the psyche seem to be entities larger than atoms.

Moral Perfection: An Interpretation Of The Nicomachean Ethics, Stephen Foster

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

[Book Review Of] Ethical Decisions In Medicine, By Howard Brody, William E. May

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Current Literature, Catholic Physicians' Guild

The Linacre Quarterly

Material appearing below is thought to be of particular interest to Linacre Quarterly readers because of its moral, religious, or philosophic content. The medical literature constitutes the primary but not the sole source of such material. In general, abstracts' are intended to reflect the substance of the original article. Contributions and comments from readers are invited. (E. C. Laforet, M.D. , 2000 Washington St. , Newton Lower Falls, MA. 02162.)

[Book Review Of] Two Comments On: Medicine And Christian Morality, By Thomas J. O 'Donnell, S.J., John P. Doyle, Priscilla Snell

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

[Book Review Of] The Doctor As Judge Of Who Shall Live And Who Shall Die, By Helmut Thielicke, Edwin L. Lisson

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

[Book Review Of] Aims And Motives In Clinical Medicine, By Brian P. Bliss And Alan G. Johnson, Robert G. Gassert

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

[Book Review Of] Operating On The Mind: The Psychosurgery Conflict, Edited By Willard M. Gaylin, M.D., Joel S. Meister, Ph.D., And Robert C. Neville, Ph.D., Vernon H. Mark

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Plato On The Complexity Of The Psyche, John Moline

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

What were the parts of the psyche posited by Plato in the Republic? The question calls not for a list but for an account of the grounds on which Plato posited and distinguished such parts. It calls for an account of their nature and role in his system.

We are not lacking in attempts at such an account. These parts have been termed "faculties", "principles", "activities", "aspects", "instances", and "levels" of the psyche. Their nature and role have been characterized in ways influenced as much perhaps by the connotations of these terms as by the details of Plato's text. …

Epicurus' Scientific Method, Elizabeth Asmis

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

I argued that Epicurus sought to infer all truths about what cannot be perceived (what is "non-apparent", adêlon) by using what is perceived (the "phenomena") as "signs" of what is non-apparent. This is an empirical method, based on the claim that sensory perception shows what is true. In the case of his basic physical doctrines, Epicurus argued by a reductio ad absurdum that if the negation of the doctrine were true, there would be a conflict with what we perceive. This applies to Epicurus' first two doctrines, that "nothing come to be from non-being" and that "nothing is destroyed …

Hegel's Dialectic Of Artistic Meaning, Gary Shapiro

Philosophy Faculty Publications

Whatever else they are, works of art are intentional human products. Our responses to such works are understandings and interpretations. That the works are or may be physical objects, cultural symptoms, or commodities and that audiences may be shocked, sexually excited, or politically instructed are irrelevant to the cognitive poles of intention and interpretation; these make art philosophically significant and differentiate it from that which has no meaning, despite possible similarities in apparent structure or emotional effect. Cognitivist theories of art usually tend to focus rather exclusively on just one of the two poles which characterize art so conceived - …

Pandemonium Dance Circus, Curtis Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Utah Repertory Dance Theatre, Curtis Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Dance Repertory Theatre, Curtis Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Habitat: A Festive Air, Serious Business, Curtis Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

A Critique Of John Mcneill, S. J. And Gregory Baum, O. S. A. On The Subject Of Homosexuality, John F. Harvey

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Current Literature, Catholic Physicians' Guild

The Linacre Quarterly

Material appearing below is thought to be of particular interest to Linacre Quarterly readers because of its moral, religious, or philosophic content. The medical literature constitutes the primary but not the sole source of such material. In general, abstracts' are intended to reflect the substance of the original article. Contributions and comments from readers are invited. (E. C. Laforet, M.D. , 2000 Washington St. , Newton Lower Falls, MA. 02162.)

[Nine Book Reviews], Paul R. Gastonguay

The Linacre Quarterly

• Death Inside Out: The Hastings Center Report, edited by Peter Steinfels and Robert M. Veatch.
• Living and Dying at Murray Manor, by Jaber E. Gubrium.
• How to Face Death Without Fear: Selections from the book "Preparation for Death" by St. Alphonsus Liguori, edited by Norman J. Muckerman.
• The Dilemmas of Euthanasia, edited by John A. Behnke and Sissela Bok.
• Death and Beyond, by Andrew Greeley.
• Handbook on Euthanasia, by Susan M. and Robert L. Sassone.
• The Release of the Destruction of Life Devoid of Value, by Karl Binding and Alfred Hoche, with comments …

Who Is To Judge?, Hans Oberdiek

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

The Dancer: A Dance-Choreographer Speaks: An Interview With James Cunningham, Curtis Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Dance Literacy: Intelligence And Sensibility In The Dance, Curtis Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Horace Walpole And The Methodists, Samuel J. Rogal

University of Dayton Review

In England between 1739 and 1775, opposition to the Methodist movement and its leadership-especially John Wesley (1703-1791), his brother Charles (1707-1788), George Whitefield (1714-1770). and Lady Selina Shirley, Countess of Huntingdon (1707-1791)-assumed three distinct forms: Anglican bishops prohibited Methodist preachers from conducting services in Established churches; mobs, instigated by Anglican vicars, rioted at Society meetings; beginning around 1739 and continuing even into the nineteenth century, a steady stream of anti-Methodist pamphleteers poured forth invective and twisted Biblical evidence in an effort to expose what they generally concluded to be political traitors, religious heretics, and empty-minded enthusiasts. These opponents, although achieving …

Fathers And Son: Conrad's The Shadow Line As An Initiation Rite Of Passage, Donald Gutierrez

University of Dayton Review

Conrad's late short novel The Shadow Line, which has struck some critics as a poorly constructed romance, acquires coherence and depth when regarded as an initiation rite of passage. Indeed the ritual character of this story is so dominant in orienting the protagonist and his initiatory society significantly as to constitute the chief narrative mode in the story. Society in this fiction is divided in ways that highlight ritual features but also ironize the initiand, the initiators, and, by implication, the community, the basic triad in traditional initiation ceremony. Its ritualistic character, furthermore, is accentuated by a pattern of motifs …

The Ghost Of Cromwell — Republican Revolution Without Military Dictatorship: The American Constitutional Experience, 1775-1800, Stephen M. Millett

University of Dayton Review

Lt. Gen. Oliver Cromwell met with the House of Commons in a stormy session on April 20, 1653. Enraged by their obstinacy, he harangued the Commons with violent language. "Perhaps you think that this is not Parliamentary language; I confess it is not; neither are you to expect any such from me," he concluded defiantly. "You are no Parliament, I say you are no Parliament. I will put an end to your sitting." At his command, his troops entered the hall and pulled the Speaker off his chair. Cromwell had forcibly terminated the Long Parliament, which had governed for the …

Napoleon I And Education In The Sciences: One Aspect Of The Two Cultures In Conflict, Raymond J. Maras

University of Dayton Review

Several years ago the position was taken that Napoleon's patronage of the sciences when weighed against the provisions for the teaching of science in the schools seems to be in the nature of propaganda. According to the research on the subject, science, under the Napoleonic aegis, was defined in a narrow, utilitarian manner and "any attempt to institutionalize a concept of science which went beyond this utilitarianism was immediately thwarted." Hence, Napoleon's contribution was merely to continue the close link between science and the military which the Revolution introduced. In fact, in Napoleon's regime "the pursuit of a scientific education …

Menelik Ii: Another Look, Erving E. Beauregard

University of Dayton Review

Mankind has a penchant for adulation. This trait glows in the great man theory of history. Thomas Carlyle gave the classic rendition of this: "We come now to the last form of Heroism; that which we call Kingship. The Commander over Men; he to whose will our wills are to be subordinated, and loyally surrender ourselves, and find their welfare in doing so, may be reckoned the most important of Great Men." Carlyle, being a racist, raised only Europeans to that supreme hall of the earthly Valhalla. Various writers, historians and other sundry, perhaps lesser, breeds, have entered the fray …

The Fox And The Hyenas, Leroy V. Eid

University of Dayton Review

In late October of 1884 a huge parade wended its muddy way in a heavy rain down the streets of New York City. A fascinated English visitor watched as a thousand lawyers chanted their ridiculous:

Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine
We don't care a bit for the rain,
O-O-O-O-HI-O

The visitor knew they were celebrating the state of Ohio voting in favor of James G. Blaine for the presidency. Modern historians are just as amazed as was James Bryce, the first Viscount Bryce, when he described this unreal scene in his classic work, The American Commonwealth. Who was Blaine and …

This Side Of Rapture: The Quiet Sisterhood Of The British Feminists, Alice Gilmore Vines

University of Dayton Review

"Women were struck with fists and knees, knocked down, dragged up, hurled from hand to hand, and sent reeling back, bruised and bleeding, into the arms of the crowd. They were no longer demonstrators; they were monsters, their presence unendurable. They were pummeled and they were pinched, their thumbs were forced back, their arms twisted, their breasts gripped, their faces rubbed against the pailings; and this went on for nearly six hours ... there were a certain number of tough characters who did not choose to let this opportunity slip, and some ... were dragged away and miserably ill-treated; indeed, …