Digital Commons Network^™

Ethical Similarities In Human And Animal Social Structure, William J. Ellos

Between the Species

No abstract provided.

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

The Courier

This is the third in a series of articles on the past and future of punctuation. The years under focus here are crucial ones, for they include the invention of the printing press and the shift it caused in the human response to the written word.

Unity And Logos: A Reading Of Theaetetus 201c-210a, Mitchell Miller

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Abstract for “Unity and Logos” (Anc Phil 12.1:87-111):

A close reading of Socrates' refutation of the final proposed definition of knowledge, "true opinion with an account." I examine the provocations to further thinking Socrates poses with his dilemma of simplicity and complexity and then by his rejections of the three senses of "account," and I argue that these provocations guide the responsive reader to that rich and determinate understanding of the sort of 'object' which knowledge requires that the Parmenides and the Eleatic dialogues will go on to explicate.

This paper is available at http://pages.vassar.edu/mitchellmiller/.

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

The Courier

Part One of this serialized survey (Courier 23.2, Fall 1988) dealt with the emergence of a late-Classical and early-Christian interest in eliciting, with 'euphuistic' punctating techniques, the voice patterns inherent in text. Part Two, herewith, gives attention to the Middle Ages. In this haphazard era, logical punctuation, which concentrates on syntactical structures and is therefore more appealing to eye than ear, begins its faltering growth.

Review Of "A Theory Of Value And Obligation" By R. Attfield, Hans Oberdiek

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Review Of "The Common Life: Ambiguity, Agreement, And The Structure Of Morals" By B. Zwiebach, Richard Thomas Eldridge

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

The Good As Unity: Its Role In The Good Life In Plato's Later Thought, Cynthia Hampton

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

In the sixth book of the Republic. Socrates begins leading his interlocutors down the 'longer road' that leads to the Form of the Good which is to complete the earlier account of virtue given in Book IV. The end of this road in the Republic is reached via the sketch of the Good portrayed in the famous Sun, Line, and Cave passages. In this paper, I wish to suggest that the road does not, in fact, end here, but extends to the account of the Good offered in one of Plato's latest dialogues, the Philebus . This account, like the …

Work On A Labor Theory Of Meaning, Kenneth Casebeer

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

State And Civil Society In Hegel's Philosophy Of Right: Comments On Dallmayr And Arato, Kenneth Baynes

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Rethinking The Hegilian State, Fred Dallmayr

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Barad, Aquinas, And "From-To" Perspective, Daniel Dombrowski

Between the Species

No abstract provided.

On Moral Personhood: Philosophy, Literature, Criticism, And Self-Understanding, Richard Thomas Eldridge

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Intertextuality In The Anglo-Norman Lyric, Carol J. Harvey

Quidditas

The rhetorical formulae that permeate the poetry of the Middle Ages are not always used in a conventional or consistent manner. On the fringes of the main literary movements are works that raise doubts as to the very nature of medieval poetics. Some texts challenge accepted criteria with respect to genre, tone, or interpretation; others appear unfamiliar and heterogeneous in comparison with accepted poetic concepts; still others use the language and imagery of established poetics as a polemic strategy. Such problematic texts are found among the lyric poems composed in England during the Anglo-Norman era, particularly among the macaronics. These …

All’S Well That Ends Well: Toward A Policy Of Assisted Rational Suicide Or Merely Enlightened Self-Determination?, George P. Smith Ii

Scholarly Articles

The central purpose of this Article is to show that through the self determination of an individual's life plan, not only is the full meaning of liberty acknowledged, the individual further recognizes that the very endowment of free will forms "the basis of our right to individual freedom of action, [and] the right to carry into execution the things we freely choose to do."

Do Professors Need Professional Ethics As Much As Doctors And Lawyers?, James W. Nickel

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Papers Published by the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, Western Michigan University.

Critical Pedagogy And The Postmodern Challenge: Toward A Critical Postmodernist Pedagogy Of Liberation, Peter Mclaren, Rhonda Hammer

Education Faculty Articles and Research

"Work within the field of critical pedagogy is currently being undertaken in the United States and Canada during what we consider a precipitous and precarious time. The present historical juncture may be singled out as a moment of particular urgency and importance for the future of democracy as we bear witness to two conflicting potentialities which manifest themselves in the struggle on an increasing worldwide basis between democratic forms of social life and those which can be labelled totalitarian and autocratic. A significant dimension of this crisis involves the politics of meaning and representation. We call attention to the present …

Review Essay: J. D. Pickles And J. L. Dawson, Eds., A Concordance To John Gower's "Confessio Amantis", Katharine S. Gittes

Quidditas

J. D. Pickles and J. L. Dawson, eds., A Concordance to John Gower's "Confessio amantis," D. S. Brewer, 1987.

Foucault's Move Beyond The Theoretical, Ladelle Mcwhorter

Philosophy Faculty Publications

Theory plays an important role in virtually every academic discipline currently vital. The specific functions of theory may differ from discipline to discipline, but it is difficult to think of any serious discipline that is able to dispense with it entirely; for theory, we usually assume, is quite simply the name of all instances of systematic speculation, all attempts at rational explication. Ordered mentation, most of us unwaveringly believe, is and must be theoretical. All that is not theoretical is either confused thinking – or, more positively, perhaps it is poetic – or it is not thinking at all, but …

Full Issue

Quidditas

No abstract provided.

Discourse And Perspective In Daoism: A Linguistic Interpretation Of Ziran, William A. Callahan

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

In Chinese philosophical literature, the term zirana is generally rendered as "spontaneity," "natural," or "self-so" by both Chinese and Western trans- lators. I think that these translations not only miss the point being made in the texts, but actually serve to obscure it

Problems With Graham's Two Systems Hypothesis, Owen Goldin

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Problems With Graham’S Two-Systems Hypothesis, Owen Goldin

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Ontological Structures In Aristotle, Donald Morrison

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

According to the traditional view of the Categories, the ten "categories" are the highest genera of beings. Each of them stands at the head of a tree-like division of the the items falling under it; this division is also sometimes called a "category". The metaphysical structure made up of these ten divisions is the "system of the categories". According to the traditional view, the system of the categories is very rigidly laid out. Not only is every being included in the structure, but every being has exactly one location. Each being is predicated essentially of those below it along the …

Journey From Iowa Farm Boy To Animal Rights Bibliographer, Charles Magel

Between the Species

No abstract provided.

The Punctator's World: A Discursion, Gwen G. Robinson

The Courier

"The Punctator's World: A Discursion" is a study, in several parts, of the origins of punctuation and its development to the present day. Part One, herewith, follows the subject from its murky beginnings into the broad daylight of classical usage.

Concerned Philosophers For Peace, Vol. 8, No. 2, Concerned Philosophers For Peace

Concerned Philosophers for Peace

No abstract provided.

Review Of "Painting As An Art" By R. Wollheim, Richard Thomas Eldridge

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

The Vorpel Blade: A Philosophical Adventure In Meaning, Patrick Cely

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Fol.r major accounts of linguistic meaning are considered. A referential theory of meaning as developed by Bertrand Russell is considered and rejected on the grounds of some critical observations made by P. F. Strawson. An instrumentalistic theory of meaning as adopted by Ludwig Wittgenstein is next considered and found after an evaluation by C. S. Chihara and J. A. Fodor to be inconclusive. A behavioristic theory of meaning as advocated by Charles W. Morris is considered next. Based on questions posed by L. O. Kattsoff this theory of meaning is found to be, at best, incomplete. Finally, an ideational account …

How Clever Was The Old Fox, Lawrence Finsen, Susan Finsen

Between the Species

No abstract provided.

Internal Realism: Transcendental Idealism?, Curtis Brown

Philosophy Faculty Research

Idealism is an ontological view, a view about what sorts of things there are in the universe. Idealism holds that what there is depends on out own mental structure and activity. Berkeley of course held that everything was mental; Kant held the more complex view that there was an important distinction between the mental and the physical, but that the structure of the empirical world depended on the activities of the mind.