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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Trust, Well-Being And The Community Of Philosophical Inquiry, Laura D'Olimpio
Trust, Well-Being And The Community Of Philosophical Inquiry, Laura D'Olimpio
Philosophy Papers and Journal Articles
Trust is vital for individuals to flourish and have a sense of well-being in their community. A trusting society allows people to feel safe, communicate with each other and engage with those who are different to themselves without feeling fearful. In this article, I employ an Aristotelian framework in order to identify trust as a virtue and I defend the need to cultivate trust in children. I discuss the case study of Buranda State School in Queensland, Australia, as an instance of successful school reform that reinstates trust in an educational setting. Buranda makes use of the community of inquiry …
Neuroscience, Virtues, Ethics, Compassion And The Question Of Character, R Younis
Neuroscience, Virtues, Ethics, Compassion And The Question Of Character, R Younis
Philosophy Conference Papers
There has been much debate recently about the meaning, place and function of “character” and “character traits” in Virtue Ethics. For example, a number of philosophers have argued recently that Virtue Ethics would be strengthened as a theory by the omission of talk of character traits; recent neuroscientific studies have suggested that there is scope for scepticism about the existence of such traits. I will argue that both approaches are flawed and unconvincing: in brief, the first approach tends to be predicated on a narrow or insufficient conception of “character” and “character traits”; the second approach tends to go well …
Playing With Philosophy: Gestures, Performance, P4c And An Art Of Living, L D'Olimpio, C Teschers
Playing With Philosophy: Gestures, Performance, P4c And An Art Of Living, L D'Olimpio, C Teschers
Philosophy Conference Papers
John Dewey’s Art as Experience (1934) explores how art develops out of everyday experience. Imbued with the pragmatism of William James, Dewey widens the discourse of aesthetics so as to recognise that our creation, experience and appreciation of the aesthetic is linked intrinsically to being human. By encouraging the natural playfulness of children, advocates of Philosophy for Children (P4C) may creatively engage students to think, reflect and be more aware of the impact their gestures have on others. One of the most fundamental aspects of the embodied human life is human interaction that is based on expressions, what Schmid (2000b) …
From Temperament To Character, Andrew Mullins
From Temperament To Character, Andrew Mullins
Philosophy Conference Papers
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We Make Ourselves Real By Telling The Truth: Merton And Aging, Glenn J. Morrison
We Make Ourselves Real By Telling The Truth: Merton And Aging, Glenn J. Morrison
Philosophy Papers and Journal Articles
In No Man is an Island, Thomas Merton asserts that, “We make ourselves real by telling the truth”. Where such transcendent truth uncovers the reality of the self, there is something about the “telling” of a narrative that gives life to the psyche in both the body and soul together. When the process of ageing anchors itself in a formative journey of reminiscence and storytelling, it seeks to be grounded in the reality of spirituality, the very desire to become real. Reality then takes on a transcendent perspective in terms of awakening (to the risen Christ’s narrative of truth, love, …
The Dictionaries In Which We Learn To Think, Timothy Flanagan Dr.
The Dictionaries In Which We Learn To Think, Timothy Flanagan Dr.
Philosophy Papers and Journal Articles
Taking its title from the discussion of a ‘new Meno’ to be found in Difference and Repetition, through an examination of the link between learning and thinking set out across Deleuze's work this paper charts the important sense in which philosophical thought is characterised by an apprenticeship. The claim is that just as certain aesthetic and biological processes involve inscrutable and non-resembling elements that cannot be known in advance, the experience of learning is one oriented by unforseen encounters. With a view to a peculiarly heuristic use of dictionaries in the case of language learning, the paper shows how …
European Identity And Other Mysteries - Seeking Out The Hidden Source Of Unity For A Troubled Polity, P Jimenez
European Identity And Other Mysteries - Seeking Out The Hidden Source Of Unity For A Troubled Polity, P Jimenez
Philosophy Papers and Journal Articles
The economic crisis in Europe exposes the European Union’s (EU) political fragility. How a polity made of very different states can live up to the motto “Europe united in diversity” is difficult to envisage in practice. In this paper I attempt an “exegesis”—a critical explanation or interpretation of a series of published pieces (“the Series”) which explores, first of all, if European unity (and what kind) is desirable at all. Second, it presents a methodology running throughout the Series —analogical hermeneutics—to approach the problem of unity. Third, it conceptualises the source of unity as political identity (and solidarity). Fourth, it …