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Helena, Heraclius, And The True Cross, Hans A. Pohlsander

Quidditas

More than three hundred years stand between the empress Helena, or St. Helena, and the Byzantine emperor Heraclius. This chronological distance has not been a hindrance to a very close association of the two personalities with each other. The link is not dynastic but thematic; it is provided by the Holy Cross, or the True Cross, i. e. the very cross of Christ's passion. It is the purpose of this article to show the manifestation of this link in the religious literature and ecclesiastical art of the Middle Ages and in the liturgy to this day.

Wittgenstein And The Recovery Of Virtue, G. Scott Davis

Religious Studies Faculty Publications

Modern, scientific, man doesn't see miracles, only odd phenomena that call out for more thorough study. Ethics, like the miraculous, doesn't defy scientific explanation; it just doesn't exist. In what follows I hope to do two things., On the one hand, I want to embrace Wittgenstein's rejection of ethics as theory, in the sense of a systematic body of knowledge about the world. On the other, I hope to suggest that this rejection opens up conceptual space for understanding ethics as a critical human enterprise.

An Extended Lewis-Stalnaker Semantics And The New Problem Of Counterpossibles,, Jeffrey C. Goodman

Faculty Scholarship

Closest-possible-world analyses of counterfactuals suffer from what has been called the ‘problem of counterpossibles’: some counterfactuals with metaphysically impossible antecedents seem plainly false, but the proposed analyses imply that they are all (vacuously) true.  One alleged solution to this problem is the addition of impossible worlds.  In this paper, I argue that the closest possible or impossible world analyses that have recently been suggested suffer from the ‘new problem of counterpossibles’: the proposed analyses imply that some plainly true counterpossibles (viz., ‘counterlogicals’) are false.  After motivating and presenting the ‘new problem’, I give reasons to think that …

Is Anyone To Blame For Pollution?, Aaron Lercher

Faculty Publications

By making use of a distinction between "making something happen" and "allowing it to happen," a polluting act can be defined as making something happen with widely scattered externalized costs. Not all polluting acts are blameworthy, but we can investigate which polluting acts are sufficiently badly performed as to be blameworthy. This definition of polluting act permits us to justify the belief we often have that behavior concerning pollution may be blameworthy, even when we do not know whether the behavior caused harm.

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

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Mary Leapor The Female Body And The Body Of Her Texts, Michael Meyer

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

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"Forc'd Into An Interest" High Church Politics And Feminine Agency In The Works Of Mary Astell, William Kolbrener

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

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Picturing Aesops Re-Visions Of Aesop's Fables From L'Estrange To Richardson, Anja Muller

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

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Crusoe The Isolato Daniel Defoe Wrestles With Solitude, Irene B. Beesemyer

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

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Domestic And Colonial Space In Humphry Clinker, Brett C. Mcinelly

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

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The Glass Armonica Its Development, Use, And Misuse As A Musical Instrument Of Social Change In The Eighteenth Century, Robert B. Craig

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

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The Devil In Tom Jones, Betty Rizzo

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

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Special Feature Enlightening The Renaissance

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

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Condillac's Modernization Of Rationalist Language Theory Evidence, Propositions, And A Newtonian Linguistics, R. C. Coski

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

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Johnson's "Life Of Foucault" A Pastirody, Alan Mckenzie

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

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Jonathan Swift's Crimes Against Humanity Truth Or Fiction?, John J. Burke Jr.

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

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Boswell's London Journal, Lord Eglinton, And The Politics Of Preferment, William F. Hatzberger

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

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Negotiating The Interregnum The Political Works Of Davenant And Tatham, Chad Thomas

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

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Building The Perfect Silence The Use Of Renaissance Architecture In Margaret Cavendish's Bell In Campo, Miranda Wilson

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

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King Lear And "The Taste Of The Age," 1681-1838, Jack Lynch

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

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The Poet's Monument Assessing The National Literary Tradition From Elizabethan Times To The Restoration Era, Marlin E. Blaine

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

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Masculinity And Affect In Shakespeare's Winter's Tale Men Of Feeling From The Renaissance Through The Enlightenment, Jennifer Vaught

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

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Editor's Choice Underapplauded Books

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

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Richardson Reads The Renaissance The Use Of Renaissance Narrative Theory In The Novels And Prefaces, Elaine A. Phillips

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

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

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On Locating Disaster, Brad Kallenberg

Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications

Imagine a man, unknown to you, standing in your backyard calmly clasping and unclasping his hands three times each hour. If we ask "What is he doing?" we would not likely be satisfied with these words: "He's clasping his hands three times per hour." There is something unnerving about the whole scene, not only because we cannot comprehend the point of clasping one's hands three times per hour; we want to know, "What's he doing in my back yard?"

There is a similarly unnerving quality about the description of the Columbia disaster as posed by the case study. By it …

The Strange New World In The Church: A Review Essay Of 'With The Grain Of The Universe' By Stanley Hauerwas, Brad Kallenberg

Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications

Hauerwas's refusal to translate the argument displayed in With the Grain of the Universe (his recent Gifford Lectures) into language that "anyone" can understand is itself part of the argument. Consequently, readers will not understand what Hauerwas is up to until they have attained fluency in the peculiar language that has epitomized three decades of Hauerwas's scholarship. Such fluency is not easily gained. Nevertheless, in this review essay, I situate Hauerwas's baffling language against the backdrop of his corpus to show at least this much: With the Grain of the Universe transforms natural theology into "witness." In the end, my …

Praying For Understanding: Reading Anselm Through Wittgenstein, Brad Kallenberg

Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications

If Wittgenstein is correct to assert that practice gives words their sense, then it is logically possible that an understanding of the ontological "argument" Anselm presents in Proslogion requires some level of practical participation in prayer. A close inspection of Anselm's historical context shows that the conceptual distance we stand from him may be too great to be overcome by mere spectatorship. Rather, participation in this case likely requires of the modern reader a reproduction of Anselm's conduct in prayer. If so, Anselm's case falsifies, and thus warrants our resistance of, the commonly presumed disconnect between knowledge and practice.

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Conversion Of One’S Systems Of Beliefs; Godparents, Ethical Responsibilities Of., Howard Bromberg

Book Chapters

Contributions by Howard J. Bromberg to Ethics, Revised Edition