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Response: What Does Evolutionary Theory Tell Us About The Moral Status Of Animals, Timothy Menta

Between the Species

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Review Of Rollin's The Frankenstein Syndrome, Steve F. Sapontzis

Between the Species

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Review Of Francione's Animals, Property And The Law, Lesli Bisgould

Between the Species

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Beyond Representation: Philosophy And Poetic Imagination, Richard Thomas Eldridge

Philosophy Faculty Works

The essays in this volume explore the ways in which traditional philosophical problems about self-knowledge, self-identity, and value have migrated into literature since the Romantic and Idealist periods. How do so-called literary works take up these problems in a new way? What conception of the subject is involved in this literary practice? How are the lines of demarcation between philosophy and literature problematized. The contributors examine these issues with reference both to Romantic and Idealist writers and to some of their subsequent literary and philosophical inheritors and revisers. Their essays offer a philosophical understanding of the roots and nature of …

Personal Relationships: Love, Identity, And Morality., Hugh Lafollette

Faculty Books

This volume is a philosophical introduction and exploration of the nature and value of personal relationships. It is an ideal text for introductory philosophy, ethics, or applied ethics courses.

Book Review: Quantum Non-Locality And Relativity, Francisco Flores

Philosophy

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Prefatory Notes

Between the Species

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Response: Autonomy, Animals, And Conceptions Of The Good, R. G. Frey

Between the Species

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Response: Language And Thought, Lilly-Marlene Russow

Between the Species

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The Flickering Flame: An Essay On Companion Animal Euthanasia, Nancy L. Bischof

Between the Species

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Back Cover

Between the Species

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Ethics And Sovereignty, William L. Blizek, Rory J. Conces

Philosophy Faculty Publications

In the political arena, every nation is considered to be sovereign. That is, what happens within the legitimate borders of a nation, what docs not affect other nations, is to be decided by the people of that nation or the government of' that nation and no one else. If a nation wants to centralize economic decisions, that is its business. If a nation wants a free market economy, no other nation can interfere. If a nation wants to be represented by a new form of government, it has the right to change governments. And so on.

Outside or the political …

Existential Vacuum And How To Overcome It, V. V. Nalimov

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

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The Doctrine Of The "Mysterious Female" In Taoism: A Transpersonalist View, Evgueni A. Tortchinov

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

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Biological Texts, Spiritual Values, T. R. Soidla

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

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Thou, The Friendly Constant Hand On The Back Of My Head, Thou, The Transparent Door From The Place Where One Dies Like A Dog, T. R. Soidla

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

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Aorists Of The Decrepit A Composition On Harmony, Henri Volohonsky

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

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Ketamine-Assisted Psychedelic Therapy, E. M. Krupitsky, A. I. Paley, T. N. Berkaliev, V. B. Ivanov, O. O. Dubrovina, D. A. Kozhnazarova, I. V. Dunaevsky, E. V. Rzhankova, A. Ya. Grinenko

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

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8. Nous (Novel), Matthew Lipman

Later Elementary School Curriculum

Pixie has invented this short novel, which is the sequel to the story she narrated in the novel Pixie. In this story, we are introduced to an intelligent giraffe confronted with a moral dilemma. The Giraffe, whose name is Nous, thinks first of what her moral obligations would be as a person of virtuous character. Brian and Pixie, along with their classmates, try to help her by discussing what a moral education should be. In so doing they help Nous decide what to do, even though it is not a decision they favor. Matthew Lipman's Nous is a wonderful …

9. Deciding What To Do: Instructional Manual To Accompany "Nous", Matthew Lipman

Later Elementary School Curriculum

Deciding What to Do consists of a variety of exercises and discussion plans with which teachers can initiate or flesh out classroom discussion of concepts in the Nous program. The program concentrates on some of the ethical considerations children should take into account deciding what to do when faced with a moral problem.

The Gospel According To Augustine: Augustine's Use Of The Gospels In The Confessions, Nikki Goodrick

Anthós Journal (1990-1996)

St. Augustine makes use of many predecessors and precursors throughout his work, the Confessions. Among the most prominent of these predecessors are the writings of the early Christian church, in particular the Gospels. Augustine makes extensive use of the Gospels throughout his work but it is quite obvious that he does not view them to be a homogenous group but four distinctly different books. Augustine approaches each book in a markedly different manner and uses them for distinctly different purposes in the Confessions. He pays special attention to the Gospel of John and from this book he derives the most …

Plato's Phaedo, Adam Coberley

Anthós Journal (1990-1996)

Plato's Phaedo is a work in which five complex language forms are used in an intertwining manner in order to form complex ideas. These five language forms are responsible for creating everything that comes out of the Phaedo and are responsible for the formation of any ideas that the reader might make. These forms, narrative frame, periods of debate and interlocution, long speeches, mythopoeisis, and allusions to the cultural corpus join together in order to form the Phaedo. This paper focuses on these concepts but makes more explicit use of the narrative frame to show how all five interact in …

The Consolation Of Philosophy, Shawna Purcell

Anthós Journal (1990-1996)

As twentieth century readers we can understand earlier works such as the Consolation of Philosophy by reading it against a traditional background and applying the four fold scheme of interpretation. This paper shows how Boethius has deeply woven into his poems the philosophies and writing styles of his predecessors Homer, Seneca, Ovid and Plato, including the Stoics. In addition, this paper shows that, like the planets, each unique, but made of similar elements, Boethius attained his own notoriety by building on the works of his predecessors.

A Hermeneutic Reading Of Natalie Barney And Renee Vivien, Antoinette Sherman

Anthós Journal (1990-1996)

Traditional representational discourses have constructed others within Europe-women, homosexuals, the insane-as well as others external to Europe. As two lesbian women born at the turn of the century, Natalie Barney and Renee Vivien were the traditional other to their native land. In response to this, each chose expatriation and made France her permanent home, where they created a working and living relationship that would last for nearly fifteen years. Leaving one's world and culture behind, voluntarily or involuntarily, means engaging oneself in a complex process of composing one's identity and otherness. For Natalie Barney and Renee Vivien, French language and …

Confessions, Rachel Duvack

Anthós Journal (1990-1996)

Augustine of Hippo was a man who wanted two inharmonious states. He wanted to have the security of an absolute and sustaining faith in God, a faith that would have proscribed and clear definitions of what he should believe. At the same time, he was quite unable to control the roaming of his restless, seeking mind. Written 10 years after his conversion, the Confessions is both an exploration of his changed thinking since his conversion and a message from the Bishop of Hippo to his congregants. It is his attempt to reconcile his need for faith with his consuming doubts …

The Protagoras, Rebecca Sparks

Anthós Journal (1990-1996)

In the Protagoras Plato points out the reasons Socrates was allowed to be tried and condemned to die even though this was against everything the city stood for. By being at conflict with the society and those around him, and in no small part, because he was a Sophist, Socrates ends up doing himself in. As Socrates moves from one narrative frame to another, he not only shows what it is he cares about, but also how he manages to annoy just about everyone. This paper traces just how Plato illustrates Socrates’s Sophist traits.

Deep Ecology And Natural Resource Industries: Some Lessons From A Fishing Boat, Christopher J. Preston

Philosophy Faculty Publications

Commercial fishing is one natural resource industry that has so far almost escaped the attention of the deep ecology movement. In this paper I will bring fishing into the debate. However, rather than write as a supporter of the deep ecology platform making certain recommendations about how fishermen ought to behave, I write as a part-time Alaskan fisherman who is familiar with the platform but anticipates conflicts between the platform and his trade. By reversing the usual direction of critique I hope to emphasize that the practical task of changing the way the industrialized world does business can only be …

Ethics And The Awareness Of Complex Individuals: Reflections On Adolf Eichmann And Oskar Schindler, Glen Tautges

Honors Theses, 1963-2015

Like many philosophers who favor Aristotelian virtue ethics over more legalistic and impersonal theories like those of Kant and Mill, I claim that ethics is more a matter of cultivating the right character than of living by a set of rules based on abstract principles. True to this stance, I present a certain attitude toward others as crucial to living well. This attitude involves cultivating a powerful awareness of the intricate complexity of other people and a deep appreciation of the value of such complex beings. Also with this attitude comes a sense of relation and community inspired by our …

Review Of Kant's Platonic Revolution In Moral And Political Philosophy, Harry Van Der Linden

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Article reviews the book "Kant's Platonic Revolution in Moral and Political Philosophy," by T.K. Seung.

Mechanisms And The Nature Of Causation, Stuart Glennan

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

In this paper I offer an analysis of causation based upon a theory of mechanisms – complex systems whose "internal" parts interact to produce a system's "external" behavior. I argue that all but the fundamental laws of physics can be explained by reference to mechanisms. Mechanisms provide an epistemologically unproblematic way to explain the necessity which is often taken to distinguish laws from other generalizations. This account of necessity leads to a theory of causation according to which events are causally related when there is a mechanism that connects them. I present reasons why the lack of an account of …