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Full-Text Articles in Philosophy
Book Review: G. A. Cohen's Self-Ownership, Freedom, And Equality. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995, Jeffery Nicholas
Book Review: G. A. Cohen's Self-Ownership, Freedom, And Equality. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995, Jeffery Nicholas
Jeffery Nicholas
No abstract provided.
Reason, Tradition, And The Good: Alasdair Macintyre's Reason Of Tradition And Frankfurt School Critical Theory, Jeffery Nicholas
Reason, Tradition, And The Good: Alasdair Macintyre's Reason Of Tradition And Frankfurt School Critical Theory, Jeffery Nicholas
Jeffery Nicholas
In Reason, Tradition, and the Good, Jeffery L. Nicholas addresses the failure of reason in modernity to bring about a just society, a society in which people can attain fulfillment. Developing the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, Nicholas argues that we rely too heavily on a conception of rationality that is divorced from tradition and, therefore, incapable of judging ends. Without the ability to judge ends, we cannot engage in debate about the good life or the proper goods that we as individuals and as a society should pursue. Nicholas claims that the project of enlightenment—defined as the promotion …
Identity: Cultural Knowledge--Self-Knowledge. Disclosure Interviews Linda Alcoff, Ann Ciasullo, Christine Metzo, Jeffery Nicholas
Identity: Cultural Knowledge--Self-Knowledge. Disclosure Interviews Linda Alcoff, Ann Ciasullo, Christine Metzo, Jeffery Nicholas
Jeffery Nicholas
No abstract provided.
Nation, Culture, Language, Metaphor: Living With And Understanding Each Other. Disclosure Interviews David Ingram, Kelli Mcallister, Christine Metzo, Jeffery Nicholas
Nation, Culture, Language, Metaphor: Living With And Understanding Each Other. Disclosure Interviews David Ingram, Kelli Mcallister, Christine Metzo, Jeffery Nicholas
Jeffery Nicholas
No abstract provided.
Others Play At Dice: Friendship And Dungeons And Dragons, Jeffery Nicholas
Others Play At Dice: Friendship And Dungeons And Dragons, Jeffery Nicholas
Jeffery Nicholas
D&D garners exemplify Aristotle's claim that "no one would want to live without friends" (1155a5). The popular view is that a gamer is a loner or maybe even a loser, someone without friends, who maybe spends his time in a room alone or, if he has managed to find other losers like himself, in his mom's basement until he's 40, unemployed, and still a virgin. Movies like Saving Silverman or Shaun o f the Dead play with this stereotype, some- times reinforcing it and at other times resisting it. Yet garners in fact value friendship highly. One might even see …
Of Buggers And Gods: Friendship In Ender’S Game, Jeffery Nicholas
Of Buggers And Gods: Friendship In Ender’S Game, Jeffery Nicholas
Jeffery Nicholas
Andrew “Ender” Wiggin is a genius—a boy wonder who shouldn’t exist except that his older siblings showed such promise that the government allowed his parents to have a “Third.” Ender is so smart that he never loses a military strategy game at a school for geniuses. He’s such a genius that when fighting the alien buggers, he loses a few battles but wins the war. Orson Scott Card writes the story of Ender to make us believe that Ender’s genius rests on his ability to empathize with his enemy so that he can anticipate their strategy and use it to …