Full Issue,
2012
Brigham Young University
Plato’S Instruments: Harmony, Hubris, And Heartstrings,
2012
Bridgewater State University
Plato’S Instruments: Harmony, Hubris, And Heartstrings, Kendra Tully
Undergraduate Review
Plato’s Symposium strives to resolve the tension between physical and moral love. After characterizing this tension through an analysis of the speeches of Eryximachus (who advocates purely physical love) and Socrates (who advocates purely moral love), this essay argues that Plato offers an interpretation of love that bridges the physical/moral divide. Evidence for this claim is found in the content of the speech of Aristophanes, the timing of the arrival of Alcibiades, and the exchange between Alcibiades and Socrates. In taking seriously both the physical and moral aspects of love, Plato concludes that humans can live beautifully together only when …
Socrates (Historical),
2012
Santa Clara Univeristy
Socrates (Historical), William J. Prior
Philosophy
Socrates, one of the greatest philosophers of the ancient Greek world and for several ancient schools an exemplar of what the philosophical life should be, was an Athenian citizen born in 469 BCE. He was the son of Sophroniscus, a stonecutter, and Phaenarete, a midwife; and he was married to Xanthippe, with whom he had three children ( Phaedo 60a, 116a-b). His adult years coincided with the 'Golden Age' of Athens, and he was present during Athens' decline and fall during the Peloponnesian War (431-404). Socrates was a public figure during at least part of this period: the comic playwright …
Conceptualising The Structure Of The Biophysical Organising Principle: Triple-Aspect-Theory Of Being,
2012
University of Notre Dame Australia
Conceptualising The Structure Of The Biophysical Organising Principle: Triple-Aspect-Theory Of Being, Joseph Naimo
Philosophy Papers and Journal Articles
When examining the human being as a conscious being, we are still to arrive at an understanding of, firstly, the conditions required whereby physical processes give rise to consciousness and secondly, how consciousness is something fundamental to life as an intrinsic part of nature. Humans are complex organisms with myriad interacting systems whereby the convergence of the activities toward the support and development of the whole organism requires a high level of organisation. Though what accounts for the dynamic unity of the human being? From an empirical perspective the question remains unanswered. The aim of this paper is to conceptually …
Modernizing Matthew Paris: The Standards And Practices Of The First Printed Editions,
2012
University of Southern California
Modernizing Matthew Paris: The Standards And Practices Of The First Printed Editions, Kristen Geaman
Quidditas
This article discusses the first printed editions of Mathew Paris’s thirteenth-century chronicle, Chronica Maiora, arguing that these editions show a much higher level of editorial sophistication than has yet been recognized. Written between 1235 and 1259, the Chronica Maiora is one of the most extensive and detailed chronicles of medieval England; yet the work was not printed until 1571, as part of a series of historical publications overseen by Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury. Although the text of Parker’s edition has been almost universally criticized by scholars, this work suggests that he actually set a high editorial standard, especially by …
10. My Name Is Myshkin: A Philosophical Novel For Children By David Kennedy,
2012
Montclair State University
10. My Name Is Myshkin: A Philosophical Novel For Children By David Kennedy, David Kennedy
Middle School Curriculum
My Name is Myshkin is a philosophical novel written with children ages approximately 10-14 in mind. The book offers a fantasy adventure plot line interweaving narrative themes of ecology, mythology, psychology, spirituality and social justice, which interplay with its more purely philosophical material. Myshkin, the ten-year old narrator of the story, engages in numerous conversations with three school friends. A few of the many questions they take up are: whether one “is” one’s body, how we can tell what is real, animals and humans, youth and age, what is alive, the origins of evil, superstition and belief, whether there is …
Pluralismo Metodológico, Incomensurabilidade E O Status Científico Do Conhecimento Tradicional,
2012
Swarthmore College
Pluralismo Metodológico, Incomensurabilidade E O Status Científico Do Conhecimento Tradicional, Hugh Lacey
Philosophy Faculty Works
Cultural values may constructively have impact on scientific practices, and lead to legitimate culture-based variations in approaches to them. It follows that traditional or indigenous knowledge need not stand opposed to scientific knowledge, and only investigation on a case-by-case basis can establish whether or not the cognitive credentials of particular traditional knowledge claims are adequate or deficient. Building on an analysis of how different methodological strategies may both compete and complement one another, I argue that what is defensible about Thomas Kuhn's notion of incommensurability, and the possibility of the sound scientific status of traditional knowledge, have the same source. …
Aldo Leopold’S Concept Of Land Health: Implications For Sound Public Health Policy,
2012
Gettysburg College
Aldo Leopold’S Concept Of Land Health: Implications For Sound Public Health Policy, Paul Carrick
Philosophy Faculty Publications
I show that the late American ecologist and philosopher Aldo Leopold's concept of 'land health,' connects his holistic understanding of man and nature to core principles of public health policy at the center of today's global health concerns, e.g., world hunger, pandemics, sanitation.
The God-World Relationship Between Joseph Bracken, Philip Clayton, And The Open Theism,
2012
Claremont Graduate University
The God-World Relationship Between Joseph Bracken, Philip Clayton, And The Open Theism, Dong-Sik Park
CGU Theses & Dissertations
This dissertation investigates the God-world relationship between Joseph Bracken as a process theologian, Philip Clayton as a panentheist, and the open theism. They have affinities and differences as conversational partners in their multilayered relations. Their common question must be as follows: “What does it mean to believe in God today?” In this dissertation I compare their respectively theological perspectives and explore their affinities and differences. Many scholars have already noted more affinities than untenable differences among Bracken’s theology, Clayton’s panentheism, and the open theism. On the one hand, even though theological perspectives of Bracken and Clayton are obviously different from …
Desert Islands: Europe's Atlantic Archipelago As Ascetic Landscape,
2012
Bucknell University
Desert Islands: Europe's Atlantic Archipelago As Ascetic Landscape, Paul Siewers
Faculty Contributions to Books
A focus on early literatures around the Irish Sea as both archipelagic and ascetic in their engagement of the environment.
Aesthetics And Art Of Friendship,
2012
Bucknell University
Aesthetics And Art Of Friendship, Sheila Lintott
Faculty Contributions to Books
In the spirit of exploring fresh perspectives, I offer this investigation into the aesthetic aspects of personal relationships with a focus on friendship.1 Glossing the aesthetic aspects of friendship, as we too often do, impoverishes our understanding of the value and meaning of friendships, relationships which give shape and content to our lives, which animate our lives or, as Nancy Sherman (1993) puts it, relationships which structure the good life. The friendships we forge and those we forgo, the loves we cultivate and those we lose, these varying and variable relations broaden (or impoverish) our experiences, intensify (or diminish) our …
Ethics And Critical Thinking,
2012
University of Richmond
Ethics And Critical Thinking, Jonathan B. Wight
Economics Faculty Publications
This chapter seeks to demonstrate that investigations in positive economics rely on ethical perspectives and practices, and further, that critical thinking requires a wider ethical viewpoint than normative economics generally permits. Positive economics generally relies, for example, on the unsung virtues of the investigator who demonstrates honesty and transparency in the search for truth. Ethical failures in this regard are not uncommon (DeMartino, 2011). But another unstated ethical perspective appears in the worldview from which a researcher sets out to model behavior. Modelers almost always assume that rationality requires that an economic actor undertake an action in pursuit of a …
Truly Normative Matters: An Essay On The Value Of Truth,
2012
University of Kentucky
Truly Normative Matters: An Essay On The Value Of Truth, Charles Kamper Floyd Iii
Theses and Dissertations--Philosophy
Is truth valuable? In addressing this question, one must parse it into questions that are more manageable. Is the property of truth only instrumentally valuable, or is it both instrumentally valuable and noninstrumentally valuable? Is the normativity of the concept of truth an intrinsic or extrinsic property of the concept? In addressing the first of these questions, I show that certain arguments are flawed, arguments that purport to show that truth is not valuable in any kind of way. After establishing that it is reasonable to think that the property of truth is valuable, I show how inflationists and deflationists …
Reflections On Science And Technoscience,
2012
Swarthmore College
Reflections On Science And Technoscience, Hugh Lacey
Philosophy Faculty Works
Technoscientific research, a kind of scientific research conducted within the decontextualized approach (DA), uses advanced technology to produce instruments, experimental objects, and new objects and structures, that enable us to gain knowledge of states of affairs of novel domains, especially knowledge about new possibilities of what we can do and make, with the horizons of practical, industrial, medical or military innovation, and economic growth and competition, never far removed from view. The legitimacy of technoscientific innovations can be appraised only in the course of considering fully what sorts of objects technoscientific objects are: objects that embody scientific knowledge confirmed within …
Transformative Education In A Broken World: Feminist And Jesuit Pedagogy On The Importance Of Context,
2012
Marquette University
Transformative Education In A Broken World: Feminist And Jesuit Pedagogy On The Importance Of Context, Theresa W. Tobin
Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications
This chapter relates the concept of positionality from feminist theory and pedagogy to the Ignatian paradigm to show how its focus on the individual, at the expense of the structural, fails to acknowledge the unequal power relationships that disadvantage students from minority groups. Focusing on the positionality of gay and lesbian students in the author's classroom at a Jesuit college, it explores how becoming attentive to our own positions with respect to our students allows us better to examine how relationships of domination and subordination between members of oppressed and privileged groups in larger social and ecclesial contexts are re-created …
Review Of A Revolution Of The Mind: Radical Enlightenment And The Intellectual Origins Of Modern Democracy, By Jonathan Israel,
2012
Marquette University
Review Of A Revolution Of The Mind: Radical Enlightenment And The Intellectual Origins Of Modern Democracy, By Jonathan Israel, Ericka Tucker
Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Review Of A Revolution Of The Mind By Jonathan Israel,
2012
Marquette University
Review Of A Revolution Of The Mind By Jonathan Israel, Ericka Tucker
Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Narrative,
2012
Marquette University
Narrative, Pol Vandevelde
Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Toward A History Of Aesthetics Of The Twentieth Century,
2012
Marquette University
Toward A History Of Aesthetics Of The Twentieth Century, Curtis Carter
Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Salvador Dali: Design For The Three-Cornered Hat Ballet,
2012
Marquette University
Salvador Dali: Design For The Three-Cornered Hat Ballet, Curtis Carter
Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
