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The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 39 No. 3, Victoria Wodzak, A. James Wohlpart, B. H. Gilley, Mathew Miller, Arthur Scheer, Nancy Clasby, Laura Lee Washburn, Priscilla Atkins, Eric Gardner, Kim Horner, Michael Hudson, Gary Lechliter, Robert Lee, Susan Marshall, Dennis Saleh, James Scofield, Lauren Smith, Ronald Wallace, Adonna Zordel Helmig, Kenneth Robbins, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

VICTORIA WODZAK elegantly limns the distance, interaction, and tension between warriors and weavers, the heroic code and the domestic code, in classical epics, notably those of Homer and Beowulf. Wodzak is a Ph.D. candidate in the English program of the University of Missouri-Columbia, teaches composition for that Department, and not least is the mother of seven children, ages one to sixteen, to whom she attributes at least part of the inspiration for her essay. This is her first published scholarly work.

A. JAMES WOHLPART discusses the deft use Mary Shelley made of Frankenstein to comment on the isolation of …

Whatever Comes To Be Has A Cause Of Its Coming To Be: A Thomist Defense Of The Principle Of Sufficient Reason, Mark Nowacki

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

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Collapsing The Philosophy/Rhetoric Disjunct: Nietzsche, Plato And The Perspectival Turn, Ned Vankevich

Institute for the Humanities Theses

Often overlooked within the standard views of academe lie hidden a number of tacit assumptions. Until the time of Nietzsche, the status of rhetoric as a discourse formation in Western intellectual history was often colored by the unflattering view generated by Plato in a number of his dialogues. In this thesis I present a case that revisits Plato and Nietzsche with an eye toward understanding the reasons why these two highly influential figures in contemporary philosophy adopt the views they advocate. In doing so, I attempt to illumine the reason Plato forms a fundamental split between philosophy and rhetoric and …

The Receptivity Of Νοῦς In De Anima Iii.4, Joseph M. Magee

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

• For Aristotle, the faculty of thought is legitimately characterized as being receptive of its objects. To construe Aristotle as holding that it is not renders a significant part of DA 3.4 to be of highly questionable internal coherence, since it makes it seem that he is claiming that something foreign might intrude into a power that has no organ and render that power inoperable. Moreover, failure to acknowledge the intellect's receptivity renders what is clearly supposed to be an explanation (mind is unmixed because it 7 knows all things) otiose and virtually unrelated to the logic of his argument. Finally, …

Who Are You?, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University

The Philosopher's Stone

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Trends. Injustice Through Justice Within The Ins And The Fbi: Fertile Territory For Information, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses the quest for justice, in which policymakers, legislators, and those who seek to influence them sometimes seek to effect mandatory sequences of adjudicative procedure upon allegations of misbehavior.

Mixed Media March 9, 1998, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The March 9, 1998 issue includes articles on the formation of a Student Advocacy Committee, the former NEA director who approved the grant for the controversial Mapplethorpe exhibition in the 80s, RISD student attitudes, a theatre production of "Hot L Baltimore," and the film "Wild Things," along with the comic "Post Mortem" by Adam Swaab, "Confessions of a RISD Nude Model" by Noa, event notices, and other announcements.

Memorials 1998, James A. Borland

SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Involving Others: Towards An Ethical Concept Of Risk, Christoph Rehmann-Sutter

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Dr. Rehman-Sutter argues for a juridical concept of risk as it relates to an ethic of care. He also contrasts his view with traditional economic risk analysis.

Mixed Media Febraury 23, 1998, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The February 23, 1998 issue includes articles on apathy at RISD, the elective "Community Art Program," the Jewish FIlm Festival, RISD Museum updates, the second annual Queer Arts Festival, an upcoming forum on information technology, and students playing video games, along with the comic "Detective Vance Marble," "Daydream," "Rainbow Rot" by Jim Drain, classifieds, dining hall menus, event notices, and other announcements.

What Is The Difference Between Fact And Truth?, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University

The Philosopher's Stone

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It Somehow Seeps Into Our Consciousness. . ., Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University

The Philosopher's Stone

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[Book Review Of] Love And Family, By Mercedes Arzu-Wilson, John J. Brennan

The Linacre Quarterly

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[Book Review Of] Theologies Of The Body: Human And Christian, By Benedict Ashley, O.P., Patrick Lee

The Linacre Quarterly

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[Book Review Of] Core Readings In Medical Ethics, Edited By Patrick Guinan, M.D. And Ted Jagielo, M.D., Eugene F. Diamond

The Linacre Quarterly

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Trends. Clinton's Saddam Hussein Problem, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses the similarities between the problems of the United States (US) President and the current Iraqi leader.

Mixed Media January 27, 1998, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The January 27, 1998 issue includes articles on a columnist's quest for cheap beer, the RISD party scene, how RISD funds its operations, Spring courses related to art and nature, scholarship opportunities, Kristen Mahon and the show "Swans Crossing," renovation of the ISB, and political apathy at RISD, along with the comic "Buckshot Bill" by Ron Janson and "A Real American Hero," event notices, and other announcements.

Mixed Media January 13, 1998, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The January 13, 1998 issue includes articles on an upcoming lecture by Mary Oliver, another student trip to Wright's Farm, and film reviews, along with the comic "Zoot the Flute," event notices, and other announcements.

On The Future Of Total Theory: Science, Antiscience, And Human Candor, Joseph Vining

Books

Since we will be talking about science and antiscience, let me begin by recalling the work of Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles Darwin.

Erasmus was a naturalist like his grandson. He was distinguished in his time and is well known still in his own right. But he wrote scientific works in verse, even what might be called poems. One of them was The Botanic Garden, and the best known and most effective part of it was entitled The Loves of the Plants. It was full of imagery from the classics and from biology, full of metaphor and play. Our noticing …

The Scope Of Hermeneutics In Natural Science, Patrick A. Heelan

Research Resources

THE SCOPE OF HERMENEUTICS IN NATURAL SCIENCE Hermeneutics or interpretation is concerned with the generation, transmission, and acceptance of meaning within the lifeworld and was the original method of the human sciences stemming from F. Schleiermacher and W. Dilthey. Hermeneutic philosophy refers mostly to M. Heidegger’s. This paper addresses natural science from the perspective of Heidegger’s analysis of meaning and interpretation. Its purpose is to incorporate into the philosophy of science those aspects of historicality, culture, and tradition that are absent from the traditional analysis of theory and explanation, to re-orient the current discussion about scientific realism around the hermeneutics …

Currently Accepted Practices That Are Known To Lead To Death, And Pas: Is There An Ethically Relevant Difference?, Thomas A. Cavanaugh

Philosophy

A number of common and generally noncontroversial practices in the care of patients at the end of life lead to their deaths. For example, physicians honor a patient's refusal of medical intervention even when doing so leads to the patient's death. Similarly, with a patient's or surrogate's consent, physicians administer sedatives in order to relieve pain and distress at the end of life, even when it is known that doing so will cause the patient's death. In contemporary U.S. public policy, these practices are accepted as ethical and legal while physician-assisted suicide (PAS) is—for the most part—rejected in current U.S. …

Stoic Children, Lawrence C. Becker

Philosophy Faculty Scholarship

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Twenty-Third Annual Midwest Philosophy Colloquium, 1998-1999, University Of Minnesota - Morris. Philosophy Department

Midwest Philosophy Colloquium

Programs for the twenty-third Midwest Philosophy Colloquium at the University of Minnesota Morris in 1998-1999.

Infinity In Philosophy, Sandi Wilbur

Capstone Research Projects

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Philosophy, Literature, And Laughter: Notes On An Ontology Of The Moment, Lawrence Kimmel

Philosophy Faculty Research

There is an initial difficulty which merits acknowledgment at the outset of this inquiry. In philosophy, all categories are weighted toward reflection and away from spontaneity. It is hard to envision a philosophy of laughter, notwithstanding Bergson's familiar efforts to categorize the comic, or Nietzsche's provocations lauding caprice. Philosophical discourse has been solidly and traditionally anchored in eternal concerns far from the madding eruption of laughter--the sound of frolic signifying nothing. The characteristic philosophical disdain for, and obsession with escape from: the momentary, the pleasurable, the distraction of the body and temptations of the senses, the seduction of, and abandonment …

Telling Stories, Lawrence Kimmel

Philosophy Faculty Research

In what follows I will be using Native American culture and literature as the primary focus for a discussion of storytelling. For this culture, the life of speech and the presencing of meaning through the sharing of stories are vital to the very existence and identity of a people. Momaday's remarks about the nature of the relationship between language and experience surely are not limited to the lives of Native Americans. His accompanying claim that we cannot exist apart from the moral dimension of language is no less applicable to our own culture, but showing the importance of an awareness …

Quantifier Phrases, Meaningfulness 'In Isolation', And Ellipsis, Robert Stainton

Philosophy Publications

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Rhetoric And The Aids Virus Hunt, Carol Reeves

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

By comparing the papers produced by the laboratory teams of Robert Gallo and Jean Luc Montagnier during the AIDS virus hunt, we have an opportunity to discern the fine line between a bold, explicit rhetoric that may convince as well as offend and a bald, reserved rhetoric that may actually conceal important implications. Going too far in either direction may create misunderstandings and ethical dilemmas as will be demonstrated in a textual analysis deepened by an exploration of historical context and interviews with key participants. Since a public health crisis calls upon communication that thwarts misunderstandings, scientists should understand the …

A Selective Defence Of Tolstoy's What Is Art?, Todd R. Long

Philosophy

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Animals, Ethics And Geography, William S. Lynn

Attitudes Towards Animals Collection

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