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Update - Winter 1985, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- Hastings Center and Ethics Center to present "Biomedical Ethics Today: Old models and New" at Loma Linda April 21 and 22
-- Maloney and Winslow address allocation
-- "Worship Aids" unite ethics and liturgy
-- Ethics Center: Priest, Prophet, or Participant? (Editorial)

[ Reflections Regarding William Bartling ]
-- Siding With Life
-- The Patient is the Final Arbiter
-- Competing Claims Make Hard Choices

-- Excerpts from the California appeals court decision
-- $200,000 given to Ethics Center

Sense And Sensibility, Lawrence Kimmel

Philosophy Faculty Research

It is no secret that philosophy has gone out of the marketplace, nor has it shown up recently in the councils of kings. There seems some justified confusion, if not complaint, among an intelligent and educated public that philosophy has become a private matter among academic professionals. Even then, it often seems to reduce to linguistic scepticism or solipsism. This confusion is also felt among some philosophers. It is tied up somehow with both the conviction and disappointment that the domain of philosophy is neither the world nor the mind -- that philosophy is indeed, as an academic majority contend, …

(1985) Philosophy For Children: An Important Curriculum Innovation, Laurance J. Splitter

Collected Papers of Laurance J. Splitter

Young children possess attributes which deserve to be called philosophical. These may be separated into two broad clusters: a structural or methodological component and a substantive component. These components provide the basis of a curriculum and teaching methodology which addresses some key educational objectives. Philosophy for Children is a program which utilizes and expands upon the capacity for reflection and inquiry which all children possess by creating, in the classroom, a community of inquiry. This is achieved with the help of three resources: (a) a philosophical novel, (b) an accompanying manual for teachers, (c) a teacher who is both philosophically …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 26 No. 2, John A. Mills, William C. Pratt, Angela Hague, Clayton Koelb, Edward L. Galligan, John Churchill, Michael Heffernan, John Stone, Brendan Galvin, Gordon D. Marino, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

JOHN A. MILLS finds in The Time of Your Life an absurdist meaning lurking below the surface vision of pleasant typicality. Associate Professor of English at the University of Arizona, Mills has written several articles and a book, Hamlet on Stage: The Great Tradition, on the theater.

WILLIAM C. PRATT dissects the roles of the intellectual in contemporary society and finds merit still in that calling. Pratt is Professor of History at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. His scholarly interest in the American left and farmer and labor movements has resulted in several …

Introduction From Morality And Universality: Essays On Ethical Universalizability, Nelson T. Potter, Mark Timmons

Department of Philosophy: Faculty Publications

CONCLUSION

The aim of the present volume is to show that recent philosophical thought on universalizability is multifaceted and alive, and is making advances. This has been done by presenting a wide variety of work by authors who are among the best of those currently working on these issues. This introduction has aimed to present the main points of our authors in summary form, exhibiting some of their relationships to each other.

Now that we have briefly discussed the papers included here it can be seen that they each have an important role to play in further discussions of this …

From The Sublime To The Political: Some Historical Notes, Gary Shapiro

Philosophy Faculty Publications

Let me document my suggestion that modernist poetics tends to give a privileged position to what has traditionally been known as the sublime by adducing two examples from rather disparate traditions. Martin Heidegger's ontological poetics can reasonably be viewed as a renewal of the aesthetics of the sublime -- although Heidegger never uses the term sublime, so far as I know -- and is explicitly hostile to the limitations of aesthetics, conceived as an autonomous study of a certain kind of experience. Harold Bloom does recur to the Romantic terminology of sublimity in his attempt to construct a poetics which …

King Alfred And The Latin Manuscripts Of Gregory's Regula Pastoralis, Richard W. Clement

Quidditas

King Alfred's translation of Pope Gregory the Great's Liber Regulae Pastoralis has long been recognized by students of Anglo-Saxon literature as one of the earliest and greatest monuments of Old English prose. Alfred's first translation, commonly referred to as the Pastoral Care, has been the focus of much scholarly attention by historians, philologists, and literary critics. Historians have seized upon the work more for Alfred's two prefaces and what they tell us in Ninth-century England than for the translation itself, but nonetheless the mode of translation is not without its biographical and historical implications. Philologists on the other hand …

Ua37/30/2 Wku Research Notecards - P Topics, Lowell Harrison

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Notecards created by Lowell Harrison while researching his book Western Kentucky University. The cards transcribed below are for 134 topics beginning with P ranging from P.O.W. to Purpose.

Reference And Intentions To Refer: An Analysis Of The Role Of Intentions To Refer In A Theory Of Reference, Corliss Gayda Swain

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Hegel On Leibniz And Individuation, David Ingram

Philosophy: Faculty Publications and Other Works

No abstract provided.

Substances, Accidents, And Kinds: Some Remarks On Aristotle's Theory Of Predication, Frank A. Lewis

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

A major feature of Aristotle's strategy against Plato in the Categories is to collapse the dichotomy that Plato's theory of (metaphysical) predication attempts to make between forms and sensibles. In Aristotle's theory, Socrates IS some of his predicables, but HAS others. He IS what is essential to him, and HAS the rest. These different relations between Socrates and his various predicables form a large part of the motivation for the further ontological distinctions that Aristotle draws in the Categories.

Parmenides On Naming By Mortal Men: Fr. B8.53ff. Vs, Leonard Woodbury

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

"They made up their minds to name two forms / Of which it is not right to name one, that is where they have erred." In the flickering of light and darkness that men recognise in what is the effect of their own actions there is discovered a kind of being, but one divided and turned against itself in contradiction.

Concerned Philosophers For Peace, Vol. 1, No. 10, Concerned Philosophers For Peace

Concerned Philosophers for Peace

No abstract provided.

Predication And Immanence: Anaxagoras, Plato, Eudoxus, And Aristotle, Russell M. Dancy

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

A theory of predication invokes immanence if it explains why snow is white by introducing something that is in snow that accounts for its being white. Aristotle's theory of predication in the Categories is partly immanentist, see Cat. 2, 1a24-25. My object here is to shed some indirect light on this passage. I suggest that the comment is a disclaimer responding to an immanentist theory of predication under discussion in the Academy, according to which the something that is immanent in snow that makes it white is a physical ingredient. This theory was an idea of Eudoxus'. Aristotle was sympathetic …

Risd Voice November 7, 1984, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated November 7, 1984, includes an interview with President Thomas Schutte, Halloween costume awards including Most Original for Brian Selznick, a sports column, editorials, comics, news articles, and advertisements.

Sagp Newsletter 1984.3 (Nov), Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Announcement of the meetings of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy with the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association and with the American Philological Association, December 1984.

Risd Voice October 24, 1984, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated October 24, 1984, includes articles on Director of the Academic Computer Center Sean Keating, a new advocacy group Architects for Social Responsibility, Brown students' perceptions of RISD students, freshmen at RISD, and an upcoming concert by David Van Tieghem, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.

Review Of "Beyond Objectivism And Relativism: Science, Hermeneutics, And Praxis" By R. J. Bernstein, Richard Thomas Eldridge

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Sagp/Ssips 1984, Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Program of the 1984 Meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy with the Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science.

Is Αγαθον A Pros Hen Equivocal In Aristotle's Ethics?, Lawrence Jost

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Is agathon a pros hen equivocal? EN does not unambiguously endorse this idea, and it is difficult to defend. EE remains silent on the question.

Ma Baozhong: Creating A Visual Theater Of Power, Curtis Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 26 No. 1, Otis C. Mitchell, James Tice Moore, David Lloyd Jones, Haig Bosmajian, Judith A. Spector, David W. Pitre, Ralph Burns, Paul Hamill, Michael Heffernan, Ben Howard, Stephen Meats, Eric Pankey, Stephen J. Teller, Richard D. Fulton, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

OTIS C. MITCHELL traces the rise of the desperado in Hungary and Italy in the bitter denouement of World War I. With extensive publications in the history of Nazism and totalarianism, Mitchell is author of Hitler Over Germany and editor of Nazism and the Common Man. He is Professor of History and Head of the Department at the University of Cincinnati.

JAMES TICE MOORE focuses on King Vidor's assertion of rural values and collective agriculture in his 1930s film, Our Daily Bread. Chairman and Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University, Moore has published …

Philosophical Hermeneutics And The Analects: The Paradigm Of Tradition, Alan Kam Leung Chan

Research Collection College of Integrative Studies

Hermeneutics, as a philosophical enterprise, is not new; it can be traced back at least to Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834) and Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911).1 Yet hermeneutics did not reach its philosophical maturity and acquire the worldwide recognition that it deserves until Hans-Georg Gadamer published his magnum opus, Truth and Method, in 1960.2 Here, with the help of Heidegger, hermeneutics is transformed from a general methodology of the "human sciences" (Geisteswissenschaften) into a full-fledged "practical" philo- sophy.3 With Gadamer, as we shall see, hermeneutics can no longer be under- stood as merely a theory of interpretation; rather, it is to be seen …

Concerned Philosophers For Peace, Vol. 1, No. 9, Concerned Philosophers For Peace

Concerned Philosophers for Peace

No abstract provided.

The Quest That Failed: Jack London's Last Tales Of The South Seas, David A. Moreland

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

Pauline N. King's Review Of Michael E. Hoare's Edition Of The Resolution Journal Of Johann Reinhold Forster, 1772-1775, Pauline N. King

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

Deborah Waite's Review Of Jehanne Teilhet-Fisk's Paradise Reviewed: An Interpretation Of Gauguin's Polynesian Symbolism, Deborah Waite

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

Nietzschean Aphorism As Art And Act, Gary Shapiro

Philosophy Faculty Publications

Nietzsche is commonly said to be an aphoristic writer, perhaps the master of the aphorism. Yet it is not clear what is entailed by this stylistic designation or how far it takes us in understanding Nietzsche's thought and writing. It is a mistake to see Nietzsche's writings as exclusively aphoristic, if this is meant to imply that his writings lack philosophical and literary structure. Certainly sections of those books (conveniently numbered and titled) can be regarded as independent aphorisms (if aphorisms are ever independent, a question which must be assessed). In fact the long third essay of The Genealogy of …

Book Reviews Of Moral Clarity In The Nuclear Age By Michael Novak -- Our Right To Choose: Toward A New Ethic Of Abortion By Beverly Wildung Harrison -- The Death Decision: Eight Experts Address The Legal And Ethical Issues Emerging On The Frontier Of Today's New Biology Edited Leonard J. Nelson -- Challenge To Love: Gay And Lesbian Catholics In The Church Edited By Robert Nugent, Catholic Physicians' Guild

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Art, Religion And Musement, Michael L. Raposa

Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications

Discussion of how verbal artworks may be religiously significant.