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Review Essay: Some Thoughts On The Greater Integration Of Islamic Sources Into The Wider Framework Of Medieval History, John J. Curry

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The study of Islam has been attracting greater interest in recent years, due to high-profile political and economic events. In addition, the rise of world history programs has generated a need for resources by which both students and faculty alike can strengthen their knowledge in this field. Still, general knowledge on the field is limited. This disparity has occurred, in part, because the field of Islamic history, especially in its formative and medieval periods, has been oriented toward specialists rather than a general audience. Often, world history sourcebooks are content to give only short selections from religious sources such as …

Charlemagne’S Denarius, Constantine’S Edicule, And The Vera Crux, John F. Moffitt

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In 806 a much-discussed silver denarius bearing the likeness of Charlemagne was issued. This is called the “temple-type” coin due to the (as yet unidentified) architectural structure illustrated on the reverse side, and which is explicitly labeled as representing the epitome of “Christian Religion.” By examining different kinds of archeological and documentary evidence, this building can now be finally identified. It is, in short, the “Edicule” built by Constantine the Great in 326 to cover the Tomb of Christ (or Holy Sepulcher) in Jerusalem.

Rawls And Health Care, Elizabeth H. Coogan

Honors Theses

John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice (1971), his first major work articulating his theory of justice as fairness, was immediately recognized as a fundamental contribution to political philosophy in the twentieth century. Working within the tradition established by previous philosophers such as Kant and Locke, Rawls employed the contract theory approach. Taking it to a higher order of abstraction, he sought to determine not what the structure of social organization would be, but what the principles which governed social institutions would be under a hypothetical contracting situation. Rawls uses this contract theory approach to construct a society in which the …

Collective Moral Responsibility, Allyson Rudolph

Honors Theses

What is collective moral responsibility? And why should you care? The answer to the former, like any good philosophical question, is largely unresolved. Although writing on collective responsibility has flourished, particularly in the wake of the Holocaust, and despite the existence of an increasingly consistent bibliography of essential writings in the field, there is no definitive authority on the subject. Unlike individual moral responsibility, however, there is little consensus among the ranks. Many theories disclaim the existence or the possibility of collective moral responsibility—a group is just not the sort of thing that can ever be considered a morally responsible …

From The Center To The Periphery The Changing Role Of Dress In The Eighteenth-Century Novel, Brigitte Glaser

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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The Spirituality Of Trees In Later Seventeenth-Century Horticulture, Sandra Sherman

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Index

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Front Matter

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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From The Court To The Colonies Jacobites Over The Water, Edward Corp

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Anne The Last And George The First Handel And The Politics Of Dynastic Succession, Christopher Paul Ssf

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Feminine Identity In Eliza Haywood's The Wife And The Husband, Margo Collins

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Montesquieu's Persian Chain Letters A New Solution To The Riddle, Randolph Runyon

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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"Aaron's Serpent": The Ideology Of The "Master Passion" In English Serious Drama, 1660-1880, William J. Burling

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Jacobite Travelers And Fellow-Travelers

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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The Justice Of Tom Jones A Reevaluation Of Henry Fielding's Moral Theory, Matthew Binney

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Orlando The Marriage Of Literary History And Humanities Computing, Isobel Grundy, Susan Brown, Patricia Clements

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Some Further Thoughts On "Organic Georgics," Or, The Politics And Poetics Of Johnson's Manure, Michael Rotenbetg-Schwartz

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Book Reviews

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Diderot's Uncle, Hegel Or, Rameau's Nephew As A Branch Of The Phenomenology Of Spirit, Isabelle C. Demarte, J. M. Fritzman

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Jacobites And Freemasons In Sweden Esoteric Intelligence And Exoteric Politics, Maisha K. Schuchard

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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"A Polish Lady" The Art Of The Jacobite Print, Neil Guthrie

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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The Descriptive Problem Of Evil, Brad Kallenberg

Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications

Language is like the cane in the hand of the blind person. The better one becomes at getting around with the cane, the more he or she is apt to forget the cane but through the cane perceive the objects scraped and tapped by the other end. A defective cane may distort the world perceived by the blind person. So too, defective use of language threatens to muddy our understanding of the things we talk about. When discussing something as difficult as natural evils, a frequently undetected defect in our language use is “overly attenuated description.” In this piece, I …

Review Of The Paradoxes Of Art: A Phenomenological Investigation, By Alan Paskow, Robert J. Dostal

Philosophy Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Aristotelian Privacy: Perfectionism, Pornography, And The Virtues Of The Polis, G. Scott Davis

Religious Studies Faculty Publications

In the United States privacy is a hot topic, not least because of the current administration's desire to have unbridled access to its citizens' overseas conversations. But in what follows I do not plan to deal directly with any legal or policy concerns. Instead, I am interested in the philosophical foundations,- if any there be, of privacy as something to which individuals and other groups may be entitled. Because much of the discussion of "privacy rights" has revolved around matters sexual, I shall key the discussion to individual access to sexually explicit publications and what limits, if any, moral reflection …

The Qualitative Character Of Spatial Perception, Douglas Meehan

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Ordinary perceiving relies heavily on our sensing the spatial properties of objects, e.g., their shapes, sizes, and locations. Such spatial perception is central in everyday life. We safely cross a street by seeing and hearing the locations of oncoming vehicles. And we often identify objects by seeing and feeling their distinctive shapes.

To understand how we perceive spatial properties, we must explain the nature of the mental states figuring in spatial perception. The experience one has when seeing a cube, e.g., differs from the experiences one has when seeing other shapes, e.g., spheres and pyramids. We must explain how such …

Locke And The Problem Of Toleration, Lois M. Eveleth

Faculty and Staff - Articles & Papers

More than ever before, being able to draw a distinction between the tolerable and the intolerable is necessary. Unfortunately the traditional understanding, as identified with the Enlightenment view first articulated by John Locke, presents merely formalistic criteria. Lacking substantive criteria, our contemporary understanding of toleration is inadequate to our needs.

Nationhood And Political Culture, Anna Moltchanova

Philosophy Faculty Work

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A Novel Category Of Vague Abstracta, Jeffrey C. Goodman

Faculty Scholarship

Much attention has been given to the question of ontic vagueness, and the issues usually center around whether certain paradigmatically concrete entities – cats, clouds, mountains, etc. – are vague in the sense of having indeterminate spatial boundaries.  In this paper, however, I wish to focus on a way in which some abstracta seem to be locationally vague.  To begin, I will briefly cover some territory already covered regarding certain types of “traditional” abstracta and the ways they are currently alleged to be vague.  I then wish to discuss two types of “nontraditional” abstracta and the sense in which I …

A Critical Discussion Of Talking Past One Another, Jeffrey C. Goodman

Faculty Scholarship

One sort of usage of the phrase ‘talking past one another’ that is quite prevalent in the philosophical literature suggests the following account of a particular phenomenon of miscommunication: Agent A and agent B talk past one another during a philosophical discussion if and only if A has in mind one meaning or conception of a crucial expression P that is distinct from some meaning or conception of P had in mind by B.  In this paper, however, I argue that this account – given the sort of phenomenon it is intended to be an account of – misses the …