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Antonio Possevino, S.J. As A Counter-Reformation Critic Of The Arts, John Patrick Donnelly S.J.

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The Protestant Reformation called into question many traditions and practices of the Church, including the traditional relation of art to religion. Many Protestant theologians, for instance Calvin and especially Zwingli, condemned religious statues and art as idolatrous or superstitious, partly on the basis of Old Testament prohibitions. Luther and Lutherans approved of religious paintings but rejected the cult of the saints that had figured so largely in medieval and Renaissance religious art. In the Lutheran tradition religious art was more closely tied to the Bible, another manifestation fo the sola scriptura principle. In Catholic circles as well there arose lively …

Demonic Patterns In Tasso And Spenser, John Mulryan

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The term "demon" has embraced a variety of meanings over the centuries, and, while it can include the notion of one's own inner genius, or of a sprite midway between the gods and men, it is usually construed as an evil spirit, as Augustine said long ago:

... there is scarcely a man, no matter how well read and learned, whoo would dare say by way of praise to his slave, You have a demon, or who could doubt that the man to whom he said this would consider it a curse? Why, then, are we to subject ourselves to …

The Historical Evolution Of The Death Of King John In Three Renaissance Plays, Carole Levin

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Although King John died of dysentery in 1216, three Renaissance dramas, John Bale's King Johan, The Troublesome Reign of King John, and Shakespeare's King John, reflect the influence of late medieval legends that John was dramatically poisoned. Bale and the anonymous author of The Troublesome Reign emphasize the horror of the king's death, dwelling upon his role as a religious leader; Shakespeare, however, separates John from the kingship, focusing our attention upon a frightened man. This separation echoes the medieval political theory that the kingship is composed of two bodies. By deliberately stripping away the Christian images that …

Distortion As A Means Of Reassessment: Marguerite De Navarre's Heptameron And The "Querelle Des Femmes", Deborah N. Losse

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The crisis of sexual assault, with its many psychological implications, occupies a significant place in the narrative of Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron, composed in the first half of the sixteenth century at the height of the "Querelle des Femmes." If the storytellers conclude that parfaite amitié is with few exceptions inaccessible, it is in the scenes of sexual aggression that one witnesses the ascendancy of human passion over the formalized code of courtly love.

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Upside-Down Cat (1981) Elizabeth Parsons, Maughn Gregory

Chapter Books

Lily Black, nicknamed the “Upside-Down Cat” from her habit of lying on her back over a hot-air register to keep warm, lives with Joe and his parents in New York City and summers with them in Maine. When she disappears at the end of one summer, Joe and his family have no choice but to return to New York without her. A kind lobsterman finds Lily, takes care of her all winter, and becomes fond of her. The next summer, when Joe finds Lily on the man’s boat, they have to decide whom Lily really belongs to—if anyone.

Raging Robots And Unruly Uncles (1981) By Margaret Mahy, Gareth B. Matthews

Chapter Books

When, as a practical joke, the seven wicked sons of Wicked Jasper send a goody-goody robot named Lilly Rose Blossom to their virtuous cousin Prudence, daughter of their virtuous uncle Julian, she sends them a fiendishly insolent robot called the Nadger. Each household finds its robot so annoying that the cousins all run away from home and form a successful community together, eventually joined by a wiser Jasper and a chastened Julian. Though zany and wildly farcical, this story is also serious and thought-provoking – about the problem of minds and machines, the possibilities of free will, the nature of …

Risd Voice December 9, 1981, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated December 9, 1981, includes a series of responses from Lee Hall on students' concerned issues, a notice of the expiration of RISD's class D liquor liscense, a report of accreditation, an opinion on students' and faculty's continued involvement in the accreditation process, a letter to the editor from part-time faculties, comics, news articles, and advertisements.

Preference, Rational Choice And Arrow's Theorem, Tal Scriven

Philosophy

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The Unambiguity Of Aristotelian Being, Jaakko Hintikka

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

In this paper, I shall try to enhance our understanding of Aristotle's thought by relating it to certain contemporary problems and insights of philosophical logicians. One of the most central current issues in philosophical logic is a challenge to a hundred-year old dogma. Almost all twentieth-century philosophers in English-speaking countries have followed Frege and Russell and claimed that the words for being in natural languages — "is," "ist," ἔστι etc.— are ambiguous between the is of predication, the is of existence, the is of identity, and the generic is. The significance of this ambiguity thesis has not been limited to …

Some Heraclitean Problems, Miroslav Marcovich

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Beginning from a critique of the idea that a characteristic thought pattern in Heraclitus is the geometrical proportion (proposed by Hermann Fraenkel and others), the author critically discusses the fragments on which that interpretation rests, and goes on to delineate several characteristic means of expression: Paradox, Folklore Motifs, Traditional Wisdom (proverbs), vivid Similes, and metrical forms. The author concludes by discussing the meaning of "logos" in Heraclitus.

Episteme And Logos In Plato's Later Thought, Alexander Nehamas

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

"What is knowledge?" Plato does try to answer this question, asked at the beginning of the Theaetetus, but the answer is not in the dialogue itself, either negatively (as Cornford argued) or positively (as Fine suggested). His answer is partially given in the Sophist and Statesman: the project of definition has been shown to involve the mastery of the whole field to which the object of definition belongs, and hence a science of the field in question. The dramatic sequels to the Theaetetus are also its doctrinal complements. By making knowledge the object of knowledge, Plato was able to …

Plato's Theory Of Social Justice In Republic Ii-Iv, Edward Nichols Lee

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Plato presents the enigmatic and ambiguous formula, "each one doing his own" as his definition of social justice. I will search for the sense that he establishes for that definition: to show how he thinks he has established that that unlikely formula is in fact a reasonable definition of social justice, and to analyze what it means. Plato's theory of justice has its primary sources in sophistic thinking, in particular to the contractarian approach to political philosophy.

Pandora, Vol. 1, No. 2, Concerned Philosophers For Peace

Concerned Philosophers for Peace

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Risd Voice November 18, 1981, 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 18, 1981, includes a report of President Lee Hall's convocation speech, editorial on faculty self-study committe's "petty" move to ask to remove its report from the library , controversies of "RISD 2000" plan, letters to the editor, sperate interviews with vice president of administratin John Stevens, and Ad-Hoc Committe chairman Merlin Szosz, night snack bar, comics, news articles, and advertisements.

Risd Voice November 4, 1981, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated November 4 1981, includes an Institution Report, a students' comment on Tap Room closing, a report on long-time English faculty member Mike Fink's new publication, letters to editor, An introduction to The Third World Coaliation of Artists, comics, news articles, and advertisements.

[Book Review Of] Informed Consent In Medical Therapy And Research, By Bernard Barber, Carson Strong

The Linacre Quarterly

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[Book Review Of] A Philosophical Basis Of Medical Practice: Toward A Philosophy And Ethic Of The Healing Professions, By Edmund D. Pellegrino And David C. Thomasma, Joseph M. Boyle

The Linacre Quarterly

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Analogues Between The Homeric & Preoperational Conceptions Of Mind, Robert Taylor

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Jean Piaget and Eric Havelock are two writers who have essentially identical conceptions of the nature and development of ideas and the mind. This essential identity is the case even though Piaget is studying the cognitive development of the individual preoperational child, while Havelock is studying the development of the Homeric Greek mind and ideas in relation to the oral processes of communication which existed in Homeric Greece. Both the Homeric and the preoperational conceptions of the mind are examined in regard to the content and form of their ideas, as well as to the mechanisms of their development.

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Presentation Of Linacre Quarterly Award, Catholic Physicians' Guild

The Linacre Quarterly

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[Book Review Of] Sex And The Illusion Of Freedom, By Dr. Donald Demarco, Eugene F. Diamond

The Linacre Quarterly

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Current Literature, Catholic Physicians' Guild

The Linacre Quarterly

Material appearing below is thought to be of particular interest to Linacre Quarterly readers because of its moral, religious, or philosophic content. The medical literature constitutes the primary, but not the sole source of such material. In general, abstracts are intended to reflect the substance of the original article. Contributions and comments from readers are invited. (E. G. Laforet, M.D., 2000 Washington St., Newton Lower Falls, MA 02162)

Review Of "The Nature Of Law" By A. Watson, Hans Oberdiek

Philosophy Faculty Works

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Risd Voice October 21, 1981, 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 21, 1981, includes a between RISD and Brown, a commentary on faculty self study for accreditation, letters to the editor, editorial on the closing of the Tap Room, comics, news articles, and advertisements.

Risd Voice October 7, 1981, 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 7, 1981, includes a column David Macaulay -- a resigning faculty member, a letter to the editor from the Student Board President, a summit meeting between RISD and Brown, a column on RISD Performance Art Society (PAS), a report of John Lennon lithograph exhibition, editorials, comics, news articles, and advertisements.

Ideas Of Relevance To Law, Mortimer J. Adler

West Virginia Law Review

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All My Friends Are Becoming Strangers: The Psychological Perspective In Legal Education, James R. Elkins

West Virginia Law Review

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Industrial Design: On Its Characteristics And Relationships To The Visual Fine Arts, Curtis Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

Industrial design and the visual arts share a common aesthetic basis as demonstrated by their common use of aesthetic principles and by designers who are also visual artists. The author examines the rationale for exhibiting industrial products in art museums and the similarities and differences between industrial design and the fine arts. He argues that industrial design shares important theoretical concepts (expression, representation and style) with the visual fine arts.

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 23 No. 1, Anthony S. Brennan, James Cicarelli, John L. Dusseau, Christine Mchugh, Donald E. Shepardson, Joseph J. Wydeven, Peter Cooley, William Virgil Davis, Greg Kuzma, Kathy Wagner, Harold Witt, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

ANTHONY S. BRENNAN received his Ph.D. from McMaster University, where he teaches English. He has published two novels, and his short stories and critical essays have appeared in numerous literary magazines and scholarly journals.

JAMES CICARELLI received his Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut. He is visiting associate professor of economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has published numerous articles.

JOHN L. DUSSEAU was educated at Haverford and Duke. Since his retirement from W. B. Saunders Company, where he was Editor-in-Chief, he has published widely on a number of subjects.

CHRISTINE McHUGH received her Ph.D. …