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La Autohagiografía En La Edad Media: Teresa De Cartagena, Santa, Allison A. Riley
La Autohagiografía En La Edad Media: Teresa De Cartagena, Santa, Allison A. Riley
World Languages and Cultures Theses
This study analyzes the contribution of Teresa de Cartagena, a deaf Spanish nun and author of the first known piece of writing by a Spanish woman. First, the work is put into its cultural and literary context. Second, the term "autohagiography," a hybrid of "autobiography" and "hagiography" is applied in order to understand that the figure that Teresa de Cartagena employs to express her spiritual fight against sadness. It is conclueded that Teresa de Cartagena constructs herself as if she were a saint, and she uses herself as a model for the faithful and the infirm.
But What Kind Of Badness?: An Inquiry Into The Ethical Significance Of Pain, Andrew L. Hookom
But What Kind Of Badness?: An Inquiry Into The Ethical Significance Of Pain, Andrew L. Hookom
Philosophy Theses
In this thesis, I argue against a claim about pain which I call the "Minimization Thesis" or MT. According to MT, pain is objectively unconditionally intrinsically bad. Using the case of grief, I argue that although MT may be true of pain as such, it is not true of particular pains. I then turn to an examination of the justification provided by Thomas Nagle for offering the MT and find that his argument is inadequate because it depends on an implausible phenomenology of pain experience. I argue it is more plausible to claim, as Kant does, that pain has desire-conditional …