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The Theodicy Of The Timaeus, Thomas M. Robinson Dec 1990

The Theodicy Of The Timaeus, Thomas M. Robinson

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

I suggest that any explanation of the Demiurge that has a chance of being correct must take into account the fact that he is invariably described in non-contingent terms, and the entities to which many have wished to reduce him (the world’s soul, or the rationality within it) in invariably and unambiguously contingent terms. This holds true despite Timaeus’s readiness to speak without apparent qualm of the Demiurge as either a father or a craftsman or both, or even - after the manner of Anaxagoras - to talk of him on occasion simply as Reason; whatever the variants in the …

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Seneca And The Stoic View Of Suicide, Walter Englert Dec 1990

Seneca And The Stoic View Of Suicide, Walter Englert

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

will present a summary of the Stoic doctrine on suicide before Seneca, followed by an analysis of Seneca’s own views. Our sources on Stoic views of suicide before Seneca are meager. But they allow us to construct a coherent Stoic theory of suicide, and in Seneca we see the theory fleshed out. Rist is right to point out that we find a connection between suicide and libertas for the first time in Seneca, but wrong to suppose that it is inconsistent with earlier Stoic teaching, pathological, or based on a hatred of life.8 Seneca’s views are consistent with earlier, orthodox …

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Sagp Newsletter 1990/91.2 (December), Anthony Preus Dec 1990

Sagp Newsletter 1990/91.2 (December), Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Announcement of the Society's panels with the American Philological Association, and the Eastern, Pacific, and Central Divisions of the American Philosophical Association for 1990/91.

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The Philosophical Economy Of Plato's Psychology: Common Concepts In The Timaeus, Dorothea Aline Frede Dec 1990

The Philosophical Economy Of Plato's Psychology: Common Concepts In The Timaeus, Dorothea Aline Frede

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Plato's insistence that the eternal immobile model is “the real thing” and the mobile world only an image is to stress the sincerity of his conviction that the intelligible pattern, the unchangeable network of principles, must be the foundation of the physical reality. Only because there is such a fundamentum in re can we have concepts that allow us to understand and explain the world. Without such really existing concepts our thinking would be nothing, it would be a groping for stability in a changing world that could at best provide similarities without any fix point to determine their nature. …

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Television Technology And Moral Literacy, Clifford G. Christians Nov 1990

Television Technology And Moral Literacy, Clifford G. Christians

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Presented to the WMU Center for the Study of Ethics in Society March 22, 1990.

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Dry Bones Connected: Can Dead Bible Study Live Again?, Reta Halteman Finger Nov 1990

Dry Bones Connected: Can Dead Bible Study Live Again?, Reta Halteman Finger

Biblical, Religious, & Philosophical Studies Educator Scholarship

In the early 1970s, a group of six evangelical women in Chicago began meeting. Their topic of conversation? The emerging secular movement of feminism and what it might mean in a Christian context. These discussions would eventually lead to the Daughters of Sarah, a mid-20th century American journal for the particular audience of Christian feminists. Daughters of Sarah published some of the earliest religious scholarship on the topic.

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Rethinking "Original Intent", David B. Lyons Nov 1990

Rethinking "Original Intent", David B. Lyons

Faculty Scholarship

Although Dred Scott v. Sandford is one of the Supreme Court's most controversial decisions, it is not often taught or read. But its approach to constitutional interpretation is by no means outdated, and its historical importance has not diminished. So it seems a good example to consider.

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The Punctator's World: A Discursion (Part Five), Gwen G. Robinson Oct 1990

The Punctator's World: A Discursion (Part Five), Gwen G. Robinson

The Courier

This, the fifth in a series on the history and ambitions of punctuation, describes the first vigorous manifestation of logical pointing. In an enlightened atmosphere of book reading and language consciousness, it was discerned that the shapes of sentences and their working parts were better delineated when punctuated syntactically.

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Review Of "Moral Tradition And Individuality" By J. Kekes, Richard Thomas Eldridge Oct 1990

Review Of "Moral Tradition And Individuality" By J. Kekes, Richard Thomas Eldridge

Philosophy Faculty Works

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Review Of Helmut Holzhey, Cohen Und Natorp (1986): Volume I, Ursprung Und Einheit; Volume Ii, Der Marburger Neukantianismus In Quellen, Harry Van Der Linden Sep 1990

Review Of Helmut Holzhey, Cohen Und Natorp (1986): Volume I, Ursprung Und Einheit; Volume Ii, Der Marburger Neukantianismus In Quellen, Harry Van Der Linden

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Harry van der Linden's review of: Helmut Holzhey, Cohen und Natorp (1986): Volume I, Ursprung und Einheit; Volume II, Der Marburger Neukantianismus in Quellen, Basel/Stuttgart: Schwabe & Co., 1986

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Land Rights And Aboriginal Sovereignty, Janna Thompson Sep 1990

Land Rights And Aboriginal Sovereignty, Janna Thompson

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

In 1988 Australia celebrated two hundred years of European settlement. At its annual conference the Australian Division of the Australasian Association of Philosophy marked the occasion with a symposium on claims by Aboriginal p_eople for compensation arising out of that settlement. The two papers below were presented at the symposium and were subsequently accepted for publication by the previous Editor. Though they are appearing well after the bicentennial events, the issues they address remain topical both in Australia, in New Zealand which in 1990 is celebrating its founding one hundred and fifty years ago with the signing of the Treaty …

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Sagp Newsletter 1990/91.1 (September) Ssips, Anthony Preus Sep 1990

Sagp Newsletter 1990/91.1 (September) Ssips, Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Announcement of the panels for the December meetings of the Society, as well as the program for the 9th annual SSIPS/SAGP conference at Baruch College, October 1990.

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Draft Of A Labor Theory Of Property - 1990, Wendy J. Gordon Aug 1990

Draft Of A Labor Theory Of Property - 1990, Wendy J. Gordon

Scholarship Chronologically

The Supreme Court in several recent cases has flirted with the notion that labor gives one an entitlement to ownership: a legal right to bar others from the fruits of that labor or to extract payment from them if they use the fruits without permission. Sometimes articulated in terms of "natural rights," and sometimes in terms of "fairness," this notion is at apparent odds with contract law's insistence that the only "fruits of labor" one is obligated to pay for are those one has agreed in advance to buy.

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Higher-Order Discrimination, Adrian M. S. Piper Jul 1990

Higher-Order Discrimination, Adrian M. S. Piper

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Presented to the WMU Center for the Study of Ethics in Society January 22, 1990.

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The Anatomy Of Aggression, Steven Luper Jul 1990

The Anatomy Of Aggression, Steven Luper

Philosophy Faculty Research

Quite mundane pursuits as well as lofty attempts to achieve the extraordinary turn us against each other in tragic, insidious ways. These pursuits give rise to an "invisible hand" that, far from guiding people toward, steers them instead toward confrontation and aggression. People end up literally making war in order to secure a good life. My aim here is to lay bare mechanisms by which our undertakings make aggressors of us. I begin with an analysis of competition, aggression, and related phenomena.

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Review Of Proofs For Eternity, Creation And The Existence Of God In Medieval And Islamic And Jewish Philosophy By Herbert A. Davidson, Richard C. Taylor Jul 1990

Review Of Proofs For Eternity, Creation And The Existence Of God In Medieval And Islamic And Jewish Philosophy By Herbert A. Davidson, Richard C. Taylor

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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To Love Delilah: Claiming The Women Of The Bible, Reta Halteman Finger Jul 1990

To Love Delilah: Claiming The Women Of The Bible, Reta Halteman Finger

Biblical, Religious, & Philosophical Studies Educator Scholarship

In the early 1970s, a group of six evangelical women in Chicago began meeting. Their topic of conversation? The emerging secular movement of feminism and what it might mean in a Christian context. These discussions would eventually lead to the Daughters of Sarah, a mid-20th century American journal for the particular audience of Christian feminists. Daughters of Sarah published some of the earliest religious scholarship on the topic.

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Evolution, Phenotypic Selection, And The Units Of Selection, Timothy Shanahan Jun 1990

Evolution, Phenotypic Selection, And The Units Of Selection, Timothy Shanahan

Philosophy Faculty Works

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Proposed Organization And Detailed Table Of Contents - 1990, Wendy J. Gordon May 1990

Proposed Organization And Detailed Table Of Contents - 1990, Wendy J. Gordon

Scholarship Chronologically

For many years copyright was a backwater of the law. Perceived as an esoteric and narrow field beset by hypertechnical formalities, the discipline and its practitioners were largely isolated from scholarly and case law developments in other areas. There were exceptions of course. Well before the explosion of intellectual property litigation in the last twenty years, persons such as Zcharia Chaffee Jr. and Judge Learned Hand brought a wealth of learning and a broad perspective to copyright.

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Draft Of New Versus Old Authors - 1990, Wendy J. Gordon May 1990

Draft Of New Versus Old Authors - 1990, Wendy J. Gordon

Scholarship Chronologically

Virtually all the issues canvassed above embody the tension that exists in seeking to honor the interests of two generations of creators. For example, the essay has discussed the need for new adaptive artists to have a copyright in their own productions and the dangers that the "subconscious copying rule" poses to new creators, particularly in an age of ubiquitous media.

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Democracy And Its Critics, Cary Coglianese May 1990

Democracy And Its Critics, Cary Coglianese

All Faculty Scholarship

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Symposium Draft For Tragic Choices In Everyday Life - 1990, Wendy J. Gordon Apr 1990

Symposium Draft For Tragic Choices In Everyday Life - 1990, Wendy J. Gordon

Scholarship Chronologically

In the age of high technology, ordinary life situations often demand tragic choices: kidney dialysis, new pesticides, and even simple legal contracts can pose excruciating choices for people from all walks of life and inescapable dangers for innocent victims. This human dilemma-facing a world in which some innocents will die- is paralleled by the central Christian mythos of a willing crucifixion. Law and myth help us clarify the human situation.

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Women's Dilemma: Is It Reasonable To Be Rational?, Harriet Baber Apr 1990

Women's Dilemma: Is It Reasonable To Be Rational?, Harriet Baber

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Based on a presentation to the WMU Center for the Study of Ethics in Society February 17, 1990.

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The Punctator's World: A Discursion (Part Four), Gwen G. Robinson Apr 1990

The Punctator's World: A Discursion (Part Four), Gwen G. Robinson

The Courier

This, the fourth in a series of essays on the history of punctuation, deals with Renaissance and Jacobean England, a period of intense experiment both in language and in the bookmaking arts. Printing, now fully in action, governed the public perception of what looked best on the page and how text should be pointed and spelled. Special attention is given to authors such as William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson.

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When Gorillas Do Philosophy: Philosophy At Pittsburg State University, 1912-1990, Donald W. Viney Apr 1990

When Gorillas Do Philosophy: Philosophy At Pittsburg State University, 1912-1990, Donald W. Viney

Faculty Submissions

Charles B. Pyle (1872-1957), who received his doctorate in philosophy from Boston University under the direction of E. S. Brightman, taught at the Kansas State Teacher's College--now Pittsburg State University--from 1924 until 1947 and was chair of the Department of Psychology and Philosophy from 1924 until 1942. He introduced the basic curriculum in philosophy at the university and, in his final years, directed the thesis of Prescott Johnson (perhaps the only philosophy master's thesis to have been completed at PSU). Johnson went on to teach at Monmouth College in Illinois. This article traces philosophy at PSU from the time of …

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Plotinus On Freedom, Creativity And The One, Laura Westra Apr 1990

Plotinus On Freedom, Creativity And The One, Laura Westra

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

In this paper I want to show the import and the centrality of Freedom as Creativity in the philosophy of Plotinus. I will only say a little about Freedom's cardinal role and centrality in his thought, as I defend that position at length in my forthcoming book on the topic (and on Enneads 6.8). Instead, I will show the link between Freedom and Creativity in Section 1, then speak of Creativity as a human good and ideal when understood in the Plotinian sense, touching also upon the light it sheds on general problem of philosophy (Section 2); and finally, of …

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Aristotle On Unity: Metaphysics Delta 6, Constantine Georgiadis Apr 1990

Aristotle On Unity: Metaphysics Delta 6, Constantine Georgiadis

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

The brief passage on accidental unity (ἕv κατὰ συμβεβηκός) in Chapter 6 of Metaphysics Δ (1015b 16-34) raises a number of questions for which the text does not provide explicit answers. Aristotle does not define the nature of accidental unity, nor does he explain the status and character of the items which partake in accidental unities. One may wonder whether those items pertain to language, or to reality or whether they involve a certain relation of language to reality. Aristotle lists different examples which are purported to illustrate different kinds of accidental unity but those kinds are not described in …

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Review Of "Fictions, Philosophies, And The Problems Of Poetics" By P. J. Mccormick, Richard Thomas Eldridge Apr 1990

Review Of "Fictions, Philosophies, And The Problems Of Poetics" By P. J. Mccormick, Richard Thomas Eldridge

Philosophy Faculty Works

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Review Of "Myth, Truth And Literature: Towards A True Post-Modernism" By C. Falck, Richard Thomas Eldridge Apr 1990

Review Of "Myth, Truth And Literature: Towards A True Post-Modernism" By C. Falck, Richard Thomas Eldridge

Philosophy Faculty Works

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Can Ignorance Be Bliss? Imperfect Information As A Positive Influence In Political Insitutions, Michael A. Fitts Apr 1990

Can Ignorance Be Bliss? Imperfect Information As A Positive Influence In Political Insitutions, Michael A. Fitts

All Faculty Scholarship

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