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The Promise Of Reconciliation Through Sympathy, Raphael Faith Moser
The Promise Of Reconciliation Through Sympathy, Raphael Faith Moser
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
A history of policies and practices of racial injustice against black Americans in the United
Novel Passions : Re-Reading English Fiction Through The History Of Emotion, 1689-1751, Joel P. Sodano
Novel Passions : Re-Reading English Fiction Through The History Of Emotion, 1689-1751, Joel P. Sodano
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
“The passions” were of paramount importance in the 18th century. Classical contexts established excessive emotions as potentially dangerous forces that could override the will and dictate human action, but they also perceived them as inessential to and even extirpable from human nature. With the advent of empiricism, the theoretical framework of emotion shifted from an external condition to an internal proposition. Thus, in the 18th century a conceptual symbiosis is formed between “the Gales of Passion” and “the Reins of Reason” (Spectator, no. 408, 1712). This seemingly archaic idea is actually being confirmed by contemporary neuroscience. For recently discovered neural …
Efficiency, Growth And The Pursuit Of Social Utility, Mary-Elizabeth Theresa Breitmaier
Efficiency, Growth And The Pursuit Of Social Utility, Mary-Elizabeth Theresa Breitmaier
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This paper discusses and analyzes the claim that laissez-faire policies achieve greater efficiency and growth, which in turn provides overall social utility. This paper outlines and defines the terms used in the defense of laissez-faire policies and shows that this defense is suspect on all grounds. That is to say these policies do not provide greater efficiency, growth, or overall social utility. This paper argues against the questionable claim that a laissez-faire economy attains greater efficiency and growth. Further, even assuming that it did succeed in these two areas, it does not necessarily imply that greater social utility will follow …