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Angus Brook

2015

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The Potentiality Of Authenticity In Becoming A Teacher, Angus Brook Jul 2015

The Potentiality Of Authenticity In Becoming A Teacher, Angus Brook

Angus Brook

This paper arises out of the transition from a PhD thesis on Heidegger's phenomenology to my attempts to come to terms with ‘becoming a teacher’. The paper will provide a phenomenological interpretation of being a teacher in relation to the question of an ‘authentic’ interpretation of teaching/learning and the possibility of an authentic interpretative praxis. I will argue that being a teacher is a phenomenon of human existence which can be interpreted as a possible way of being with authentic and inauthentic potentialities. This way of being is intrinsically linked to that of learning; of becoming human or becoming the …

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What Is Education? Re-Reading Metaphysics In Search Of Foundations, Angus Brook Jul 2015

What Is Education? Re-Reading Metaphysics In Search Of Foundations, Angus Brook

Angus Brook

There is a sense in which contemporary approaches to education and to training teachers for a career in educating have for the most part forgotten the philosophical question of the meaning of education; namely, the question of why it is that humans by nature require education. It will be the aim of this article to go back to and re-interpret the metaphysical foundations of the question of what education means through an analysis of the ontological principle first expressed by Aristotle: that ‘being is always the being on an entity’. Through this return to and re-reading of the metaphysical foundations …

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Using Standards Rubrics To Assure Graduate Capabilities Within The Context Of Undergraduate Liberal Arts Programmes, Angus Brook, Sandra Lynch, Moira Debono Jul 2015

Using Standards Rubrics To Assure Graduate Capabilities Within The Context Of Undergraduate Liberal Arts Programmes, Angus Brook, Sandra Lynch, Moira Debono

Angus Brook

In 2011 members of the School of Philosophy and Theology at The University of Notre Dame Australia (UNDA) Sydney campus, designed two standards rubrics as part of a project aimed at undertaking research within the area of assuring graduate attributes and capabilities in Australian universities. The standards rubrics designed were oriented towards developing particular graduate attributes intrinsic to the Core Curriculum programme in philosophy, ethics, and theology; all students at UNDA are required to undertake this programme, which reflects a ‘liberal arts’ or ‘liberal education’ approach to university education. In this paper, we engage in an institutional case study of …

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'Faith: The Basis Of Justice', Angus Brook Apr 2015

'Faith: The Basis Of Justice', Angus Brook

Angus Brook

Thomas Aquinas argues on various occasions that faith is the basis, the origin, or cause of
justice.1 However, in almost every instance of the argument Thomas means something different
by faith and by justice; at times he uses faith in an ordinary sense, at times withreference to the infused theological virtue; at times he uses justice in a human or naturalsense, and at others the way a human acquires an internal justice (or justification) throughGod’s grace. These various different instances of the argument that faith is the basis of justiceare nonetheless intrinsically interconnected (and even cross-referenced) in Thomas’ discussions.It …

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Substance And The Primary Sense Of Being In Aristotle, Angus Brook Feb 2015

Substance And The Primary Sense Of Being In Aristotle, Angus Brook

Angus Brook

Aristotle’s notion of substance and its relation to his investigation of the question of being qua being in the Metaphysics is one of the most important, enduring, and intriguing problems in scholarship focused on Aristotle and the tradition of metaphysics. This article explores some of the more recent developments in this area of scholarship, especially the trend toward more dynamic interpretations of Aristotle’s conception of substance, as a way of renewing the question of what Aristotle really means by being. On this basis, the article reinterprets Aristotle’s investigation of substance as the primary sense of being in the Metaphysics. It …

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