The Bhagavad Gita’S Ethical Syncretism, 2015 Department of Philosophy, Mount Allison University, Canada
The Bhagavad Gita’S Ethical Syncretism, Roopen Majithia
Comparative Philosophy
No abstract provided.
Hazel Barnes And Octavio Paz:Two Existentialist And Pan-American Philosophies Of Education, 2015 Millersville University, USA
Hazel Barnes And Octavio Paz:Two Existentialist And Pan-American Philosophies Of Education, John Kaiser Ortiz
Comparative Philosophy
No abstract provided.
Wittgenstein And Buddhism? On Alleged Affinities With Zen And Madhyamaka , 2015 Militärakademie and der Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland
Wittgenstein And Buddhism? On Alleged Affinities With Zen And Madhyamaka , Florian Demont-Biaggi
Comparative Philosophy
No abstract provided.
Personal Identity, Moral Agency And Liang-Zhi: A Comparative Study Of Korsgaard And Wang Yangming , 2015 Simian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, East China Normal University
Personal Identity, Moral Agency And Liang-Zhi: A Comparative Study Of Korsgaard And Wang Yangming , Tzu-Li Chang
Comparative Philosophy
No abstract provided.
Editor's Words, 2015 San Jose State University
Vol 6 No 1 Contents Page, 2015 San Jose State University
Vol 6 No 1 Information Page, 2015 San Jose State University
Vol 6 No 1 Information Page, Comparative Philosophy
Comparative Philosophy
No abstract provided.
Vol 6 No 1 Cover Page, 2015 San Jose State University
Vol 6 No 1 Cover Page, Comparative Philosophy
Comparative Philosophy
No abstract provided.
Infinite Power And Finite Powers, 2015 Valparaiso University
Infinite Power And Finite Powers, Kenneth L. Pearce
Kenneth L Pearce
No abstract provided.
Avoiding The Guillotine: The Need For Balance And Purpose In Determining Fundamental Rights Under The Fourteenth Amendment, 2015 University of Dayton
Avoiding The Guillotine: The Need For Balance And Purpose In Determining Fundamental Rights Under The Fourteenth Amendment, Timothy A. Campbell
Timothy A Campbell
This Article examines the need to bridge the two fields of thought in fundamental rights jurisprudence. This Article argues two points. Broadly, an objective principle to determine fundamental rights is non-existent because rights by their nature are subjective. Hence, the Court must accept some subjectivity, but it needs to install guideposts to direct the judge’s discretion. The Court also needs to adopt a balanced approach that combines rationalism and traditionalism. They need to look at the purpose of the asserted right, the specificity of the asserted right, legal precedent, and history in formulating a balanced approach.
A Cross-Cultural Qualitative Study: The Differences In Attitudes And Opinions On Advance Care Planning Among African, Caucasian, And Latino Americans, 2015 Bowling Green State University
A Cross-Cultural Qualitative Study: The Differences In Attitudes And Opinions On Advance Care Planning Among African, Caucasian, And Latino Americans, Jennifer Sims
International ResearchScape Journal
The purpose of this study is to identify African American and Latino Americans’ beliefs and attitudes about advance care planning (ACP) and compare these with beliefs held by Caucasian Americans. The objectives are to identify if there are differences in opinions between racial groups and to provide relevant information for health and social service providers. African American and Latino American participants in this study indicated many factors that affect their hesitation to utilize ACP services: spiritual and religious beliefs; family caregiving; and lack of knowledge about ACP services. Implications for practice include providing easy-to-understand information about ACP to clients of …
Dispersal: A Multidisciplinary Investigation Of Plant Life, 2015 Virginia Commonwealth University
Dispersal: A Multidisciplinary Investigation Of Plant Life, Alexandra E. Arzt
Theses and Dissertations
Using plants as a basis for exploring the interstices between the human and nonhuman, this thesis investigates ideas of awareness, intelligence, deep time, animism, and the fluctuating human perception of the agency of Nature. It outlines environmental art practices since the 1950s involving vegetal life. In addition, the paper provides a critical analysis of plant perception of Jakob von Uexküll’s work and theories of vital materialism and “critical plant studies” while noting recent studies in plant neurobiology. In my work, plants become active participants via their movement, seeding, and smell. This study takes the form of imitation, purposeful symbiosis, anthropomorphism, …
When Justice Demands Inequality, 2015 Chapman University
When Justice Demands Inequality, John Thrasher, Keith Hankins
Philosophy Faculty Articles and Research
In Rescuing Justice and Equality G.A. Cohen argues that justice requires an uncompromising commitment to equality. Cohen also argues, however, that justice must be sensitive to other values, including a robust commitment to individual freedom and to the welfare of the community. We ask whether a commitment to these other values means that, despite Cohen’s commitment to equality, his view requires that we make room for inequality in the name of justice? We argue that even on Cohen’s version of egalitarianism equality, freedom, and welfare are not always compatible. Justice will require trade-offs between these values. Sometimes, equality will need …
Multi-Cultural Model Of Relational Personhood And Implementing Philosophy For Children (P4c): A Refusal Of The Illusion Of Individualism In America, 2015 University of North Florida
Multi-Cultural Model Of Relational Personhood And Implementing Philosophy For Children (P4c): A Refusal Of The Illusion Of Individualism In America, Aron J. Burnett
UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The goal of this thesis is to influence a re-evaluation of self conceptions in America in order to influence an alternative relational understanding of one’s self and others. This thesis begins based on the premise that individualism is a prominent aspect of American societies meaning its member’s understandings of their selves are self-centered, often non-empathetic, and in general more concerned with their own lives than that of others. The first half of this thesis is dedicated analyzing the American situation through an analysis of the sources of individualism and proving that individualism is actually an illusion that individuals falsely believe …
Humorous Developments: Ridicule, Recognition, And The Development Of Agency, 2015 University of North Florida
Humorous Developments: Ridicule, Recognition, And The Development Of Agency, Kevin Andrew Afflerbach
UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations
In this thesis I examine various theories of humor to establish an account of the functional roles of humor in social interaction and agentive development. These roles are integrated into a view of agency developed by G.H. Mead, and further refined by the recognition theory of Axel Honneth. The core thesis is: Humor is under-examined as an aspect of human interaction, because it plays such an integral role in individual agency and social development. Understanding how humor works helps to explain how agents are formed through the internalization of the expectations of others via processes of recognition, either positively or …
Intellectual Property, Asian Philosophy And The Yin-Yang School, 2015 Texas A&M University School of Law
Intellectual Property, Asian Philosophy And The Yin-Yang School, Peter K. Yu
Faculty Scholarship
As an introduction to a special issue on intellectual property philosophy, this article focuses on insights from Asian thought. Such a focus is needed not only to provide balance within this special issue, which includes articles focusing primarily on Western philosophy, but also to highlight the compatibility between Asian philosophy and the notion of intellectual property rights. More importantly, this article aims to demonstrate that Asian philosophy may suggest new ways to address the ongoing and highly complex intellectual property challenges confronting emerging economies and the digital environment.
This article begins by providing a brief discussion of the many different …
For The Good Of The Thing, 2015 The University of Western Ontario
For The Good Of The Thing, Sarah Louise Kristine Warren
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
What is to be done about the thing? There is a growing interest in contemporary philosophy in re-considering the ontological status of the object – traditionally considered the passive substrate of human experience. This paper argues that, if we treat the object qua object seriously as an area of inquiry and attempt to accord it – à la Jane Bennett’s Vibrant Matter – a certain amount of agency, we can come to see it as both unique in its capacities and more than superficially enabling of subjective cognition. By using Jane Bennett’s aforementioned text, Clark and Chalmers’ extended mind theory, …
Forsake Your Moneymaker: Defining And Defending The True Value Of Music, 2015 Bard College
Forsake Your Moneymaker: Defining And Defending The True Value Of Music, Preston Rw Ossman
Senior Projects Spring 2015
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
The Common Sense Of Contract Formation, 2015 University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
The Common Sense Of Contract Formation, Tess Wilkinson-Ryan, David A. Hoffman
All Faculty Scholarship
What parties know and think they know about contract law affects their obligations under the law and their intuitive obligations toward one another. Drawing on a series of new experimental questionnaire studies, this Article makes two contributions.First, it lays out what information and beliefs ordinary individuals have about how to form contracts with one another. We find that the colloquial understanding of contract law is almost entirely focused on formalization rather than actual assent, though the modern doctrine of contract formation takes the opposite stance. The second Part of the Article tries to get at whether this misunderstanding matters. Is …
A Capabilities Approach To The Non-Identity Problem, 2015 Claremont McKenna College
A Capabilities Approach To The Non-Identity Problem, Jared S. R. Thomas
CMC Senior Theses
Most recent attempts at solving the Non-Identity Problem have focused on providing a deontological solution to the problem, often by giving special attention to rights. In this paper, I argue for a solution that focuses on highlighting the morally permissible second-personal reasons and claims that nonidentity victims may have. I use a natural marriage between a Kantian conceptualization of what it means to be free and equal—being one’s own master—and Nussbaum’s Capabilities Approach to identify the rights that all individuals, current and future are assigned. I claim that these rights, or capabilities, are what all are entitled to master for …