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The Reemergence Of Kantian Ethics: Have We Adequately Responded To Hegel's Objections?, Gwen C. Thompson

Dissertations and Theses

The philosophies of Kant and Hegel have experienced a renaissance for the past thirty years, and a debate continues as to whether Hegel's objections to Kant's moral philosophy are sound, and/or whether Hegel's ethics are an improvement on Kant's. This debate takes many forms, and most recently, theorists have been interested in measuring Hegel's objections against contemporary theories following in the Kantian tradition. 'Critics,' (theorists defending Hegel's moral point of view) suggests such reconstructed theories leave themselves open to identical criticisms Hegel wielded at Kant almost 200 years ago. 'Defenders,' (theorists supporting Kant's moral philosophy, or a revised version) reply …

Searching For Zarathustra: A Nietzschean Critique Of Post-Traditional Ethical Theory, Joshua Knutsen

Institute for the Humanities Theses

Following Friedrich Nietzsche's critique of ethics, twentieth century philosophical investigations into ethics have attempted to abandon the universalist principles which guided the endeavors of Christianity, Kant and Bentham. The purpose of this work was to examine exactly how successful that endeavor has been. In order to represent the field of ethics as a whole given the limited space of the work I chose three distinct ethics, which in their formulations are representative of the current ethical clime. Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialism serves as a model for radical individualism and solipsism. Alasdair MacIntyre' s virtue based ethic demonstrates communitarian trends. And the …

The Language Of Transformation In A "Conversation For Possibility": A Metaphor Analysis, Deborah Jean Gabbert

Dissertations and Theses

Metaphor allows us to understand and experience "relatively abstract or unstructured subject matter in terms of more concrete, or at least m~re highly structured subject matter" (Lakotf, 1993, p. 245). Lakoff and Johnson's (1980) and Lakoffs (1993) contemporary theory of metaphor contends that: metaphor is fundamentally conceptual; metaphoric structuring is the basis for the organization and functioning of much of the ordinary human conceptual system; and metaphorical language found in everyday speech is a surface manifestation of underlying conceptual metaphors. The metaphors most salient in a culture's discourse will reveal something about what is thinkable, knowable, and doable in that …

Philosophy Of Counseling; Society And Sexually Active Teens, The American Of Mexican Descent, Donna Heiser

Student Dissertations & Theses

This paper is an introspective study of the writer’s philosophy of counseling and the' psychologists from which this philosophy was drawn. The sources are drawn from the writings of Alfred Adler, Robert Kegan, and Carl Rogers. Two concerns of the writer are also explored. The first concern is sexually active teens in our society. The resources used are from current periodicals. The third concern of the paper is the writer’s exploration of the views and concerns of the Mexican American at the time of the Chicano Movement in the late 1960's. The sources are drawn from the writings of Mexican …

The Place Of Otherness And Indeterminacy In Aristotelian Science, Joshua William Rayman

Master's Theses

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Performing The Self: Subjectivity, Feminist Theory, And Political Praxis, Ann Victoria Dolinko

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Perception And Context: A Contextual Theory Of Perception Based Upon Husserl's Theory Of Horizons And James's Theory Of Fringes, Christopher John Broniak

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The Complementarity Of Dogmatism And Criticism And Its Function Within Tradition And Revolution: A Debate Between Kuhn, Popper, Gadamer, And Blumenberg, Mark Tazelaar

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Postmodern Philosophy And Legal Thought, Douglas E. Litowitz

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Being And God In Aristotle And Heidegger: The Role Of Method In Thinking The Infinite, Catriona Hanley

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In Vitro Fertilization And Artificial Insemination: Ethical Consideration, Joseph Ibegbulem Ekweariri

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James Tyrrell, John Locke, And Robert Filmer: Ideas On Property In Late Seventeenth Century England, Christopher Chatlos Strangeman

Masters Theses

In this thesis, I examine the political theories of Sir Robert Filmer, John Locke, and James Tyrrell and, in turn, compare their respective conceptions of property which are at the foundation of their political theories. This political debate about property must be set amongst the political circumstances of the exclusion crisis. Arising from the Whig-Tory division, which arose in part from the Popish Plot, Filmer, Locke, and Tyrrell reveal the ideas of the parties they represented. Locke and Tyrrell, as Whig representatives, refuted the patriarchal theory of Filmer's Patriarcha, representative of the Tory party. In refuting Filmer, Locke and …

Swift's Vexed Satire Of Hobbes And Lucretius, Sarah Reynard Thumm

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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Spiritual Quest As Poetic Sequence: Theodore Roethke's "North American Sequence" And Its Relation To T S Eliot's "Four Quartets", Rebecca Eldridge Hurst Hurst

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"Time Is One": The Temporal Aspect Of The Hopi Language And Its Experimental Application In Postmodernist Novels, Peter Buru

Masters Theses

My thesis examines the relationship between the temporal aspects of the language of the Hopi Indians, based on Benjamin Lee Whorf’s linguistic analyses, and postmodernist narrative theory. Within postmodernism itself, the study focuses on the narratives' handling of time and space, as illustrated by the following novels: Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson; Time's Arrow by Martin Amis; Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.; and Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko.

The study investigates how these postmodernist novels experiment with the application of a timeless temporal scheme. This scheme originates from what I refer to as Benjamin Lee Whorf’s …

Integrity And Personhood Looking At Patients From Abio/Psycho/Social Perspective, Roberta Springer Loewy

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