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Cura Personalis: The Incarnational Heart Of Jesuit Education, Catherine Peters Jun 2022

Cura Personalis: The Incarnational Heart Of Jesuit Education, Catherine Peters

Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal

Cura personalis is one of the distinctive characteristics of Jesuit education, but the precise meaning of this phrase can sometimes be difficult to discern. Often translated as “care or education of the whole person,” the expansiveness of its formulations can lead to an overlooking of what should be central: the care of a person in their full personhood and a reminder of the person’s ultimate end. To understand cura personalis in a way that retains its distinctive character, I propose a return to Ignatius of Loyola himself, focusing especially on the importance of the Incarnation. I maintain that the …


How To Read Meister Eckhart’S Poverty Sermon, Ian Alexander Moore Jun 2022

How To Read Meister Eckhart’S Poverty Sermon, Ian Alexander Moore

Philosophy Faculty Works

This paper outlines a few strategies for reading Meister Eckhart’s famous sermon on the first beatitude (Pr. 52). It looks at the political and ecclesiastical background of Eckhart’s teaching on poverty, some ways to manage the role of paradox in his preaching, and how to navigate tensions between the spirit and the letter of his text.


The Potential Of Catholic Schools: Public Virtues Through Private Voucher, Joseph Prud'homme Jun 2022

The Potential Of Catholic Schools: Public Virtues Through Private Voucher, Joseph Prud'homme

Journal of Catholic Education

Recent US Supreme Court cases signal a likely increase in calls for K-12 school choice programs that include the option of enrolling in religious schools. In turn, criticism of religious school-inclusive school choice programming is likely to shift to policy and values-based critiques. This article addresses two allegations of Catholic primary and secondary school deficiencies in achieving objectives important to a pluralist society, allegations that would invalidate indirect state support of Catholic schools. By analyzing the aesthetics of Hans Georg Gadamer and Aristotelian moral theory in light of American Catholic schools’ potential, this paper rejects claims that Catholic education is …


Heidegger On Deep Time And Being-In-Itself: Introductory Thoughts On ‘The Argument Against Need’, Ian Alexander Moore, Tobias Keiling May 2022

Heidegger On Deep Time And Being-In-Itself: Introductory Thoughts On ‘The Argument Against Need’, Ian Alexander Moore, Tobias Keiling

Philosophy Faculty Works

The article provides an introduction to Heidegger's manuscript “The Argument against Need”. It comments on the nature of the manuscript, the circumstances of its composition, and its major philosophical themes. These themes include the problem of ontological independence, the nature of time, and the question of realism.


Strong Linguistic Relativity: A Continental Sense Of Language And Being, Ava Totah, Brian Treanor May 2022

Strong Linguistic Relativity: A Continental Sense Of Language And Being, Ava Totah, Brian Treanor

Honors Thesis

The theory of linguistic relativity can be divided into two hypotheses: the strong argument and the weak argument. The strong argument, often called linguistic determinism, posits that one’s native language determines one’s thought in an inescapable manner. The so-called “Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis” demonstrates this, though many modern linguists now believe this principle – and linguistic determinism in general – to be implausible. The weak argument for linguistic relativity states that one’s native language merely influences their worldview, such that it struggles to maintain a connection that is more than trivial. In this work, I seek a “third option” that is both …


Vedantic Basis And Praxis Of The Integral Advaita Of Sri Aurobindo, Debashish Banerji Mar 2022

Vedantic Basis And Praxis Of The Integral Advaita Of Sri Aurobindo, Debashish Banerji

Monsoon: South Asian Studies Association Journal

The integral nondualism of Sri Aurobindo can be traced to the great pronouncements (mahāvākya) of the Upanishads and later commentaries. This study examines teachings on the Supermind (vijñāna) and the other four kinds of consciousness that define human reality: Matter (annaṃ), Life (prāṇaḥ), Mind (manaḥ), and Bliss (ānanda). Through Yoga and Tantra, one learns and embodies the pathway to the divine.


Digital And Spatial Humanities Mapping: Eurasia-Pacific Early Trade And Belief Linkages, Igor Sitnikov, David Blundell Mar 2022

Digital And Spatial Humanities Mapping: Eurasia-Pacific Early Trade And Belief Linkages, Igor Sitnikov, David Blundell

Monsoon: South Asian Studies Association Journal

The Eurasia-Pacific is a dynamic region of rapid economic growth, cultural awareness, natural resource exploration, and military buildup. The concept of the region is relatively new, featuring contested vast areas of geo-resource space of numerous cultures and languages. The current findings in anthropology and archaeology and even its more specific subfields such as folklore are important contribution to the understanding of periodic environmental changes and technical innovations were the main forces of transformations in social structures that have determined the mechanisms and levels of cross-cultural trade activity across the region. We have traced early trade and belief linkages across Eurasia-Pacific …


Tusha Hiti: The Origin And Significance Of The Name, Deepak Shimkhada Mar 2022

Tusha Hiti: The Origin And Significance Of The Name, Deepak Shimkhada

Monsoon: South Asian Studies Association Journal

In this article, the author examines the royal bath called Tushā Hiti located in Sūndari Chowk (Beautiful Courtyard) of Pātan Durbar Square, using six different methods of investigation. The question: What is in a name? started the ball of investigation rolling and along the way were added more supporting blocks such as history, iconography, function and purpose, notion of purity and impurity, and finally the hiti in popular culture to get a complete picture of the subject in question.


Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion: Perspectives From Contemporary India And 6th Century Jain Yoga, Christopher Key Chapple Mar 2022

Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion: Perspectives From Contemporary India And 6th Century Jain Yoga, Christopher Key Chapple

Monsoon: South Asian Studies Association Journal

Times New Roman


Ganges In Indian Sculpture And Literature: Mythology And Personification, Nalini Rao Mar 2022

Ganges In Indian Sculpture And Literature: Mythology And Personification, Nalini Rao

Monsoon: South Asian Studies Association Journal

The river Ganges is a symbol of wealth, purity and eternity, and its sacred waters have inspired sages, philosophers, and artists in India who have immortalized its divine imagery. However, it has rarely been understood from a historical point of view, as to how it became so sacred and to view it from a multi-dimensional and interdisciplinary perspective with an accumulation of layers of historical thought and practices, provides a rationale for the living practices around the river. The paper explores the evolution of the concept of sacredness and eternity of River Ganges through art- historical and archaeological evidence. It …


Pain Is Beyng Itself: Heidegger’S Algontology, Ian Alexander Moore Jan 2022

Pain Is Beyng Itself: Heidegger’S Algontology, Ian Alexander Moore

Philosophy Faculty Works

Among the many words Heidegger explores in order to elucidate his primary matter for thought, one would not likely expect Schmerz (“pain”) to play a prominent role. And yet, in a selection of notes recently published in a limited German edition under the title Über den Schmerz (On Pain), Heidegger goes so far as to claim that pain is beyng itself. In this paper I analyze Heidegger’s ontological treatment of pain and his etymology of its Greek counterpart, asking whether he does not ultimately anesthetize his readers to pain’s most rending effects.


Translating Gadamer And Heidegger Translating Aristotle: Über'setzen' And 'Über'setzen, Ian Alexander Moore Jan 2022

Translating Gadamer And Heidegger Translating Aristotle: Über'setzen' And 'Über'setzen, Ian Alexander Moore

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Philosophy And Theology: Gender Ideology, Christopher Kaczor Jan 2022

Philosophy And Theology: Gender Ideology, Christopher Kaczor

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Philosophy And Theology: Lethal Organ Donation, Christopher Kaczor Jan 2022

Philosophy And Theology: Lethal Organ Donation, Christopher Kaczor

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Philosophy And Theology: Conscientious Objection, Christopher Kaczor Jan 2022

Philosophy And Theology: Conscientious Objection, Christopher Kaczor

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Thomas Aquinas On Gratitude To God, Christopher Kaczor Jan 2022

Thomas Aquinas On Gratitude To God, Christopher Kaczor

Philosophy Faculty Works

Discussions of gratitude to God characteristically presuppose some philosophical or theological framework. This philosophical and theological exploration of gratitude to God examines the topic in light of the thought of Thomas Aquinas. Unlike some treatments of Aquinas’ account of gratitude, I draw extensively on Aquinas’ commentaries on Scripture as well as lesser known works, such as his sermons, to illuminate these topics rather than exclusively relying on the Summa theologiae. In the first part of this article, I focus on how Aquinas understands the virtue of gratitude to God. In the second part, I examine his account of ingratitude to …


Deductive And Inductive Arguments, Timothy Shanahan Jan 2022

Deductive And Inductive Arguments, Timothy Shanahan

Philosophy Faculty Works

In philosophy, an argument consists of a set of statements called premises that serve as grounds for affirming another statement called the conclusion. Philosophers typically distinguish arguments in natural languages (such as English) into two fundamentally different types: deductive and inductive. Each type of argument is said to have characteristics that categorically distinguish it from the other type. The two types of argument are also said to be subject to differing evaluative standards. Pointing to paradigmatic examples of each type of argument helps to clarify their key differences. The distinction between the two types of argument may hardly seem worthy …


“The Pealing Of Stillness”: Gadamer On Georg Trakl, Ian Alexander Moore Jan 2022

“The Pealing Of Stillness”: Gadamer On Georg Trakl, Ian Alexander Moore

Philosophy Faculty Works

Addressing the place of the Austrian poet, Georg Trakl, in the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer, this article turns in particular to Trakl’s poem “A Winter Evening” in order to unfold a sense of language in dialogue with the poet. This engagement equally becomes the occasion for Gadamer to confront Heidegger, whose own reading of Trakl becomes both an inspiration and a challenge.


An Examination Of Alternative Break Trips And Whiteness In Jesuit Higher Education, Susan Haarman, Annie Selak Nov 2021

An Examination Of Alternative Break Trips And Whiteness In Jesuit Higher Education, Susan Haarman, Annie Selak

Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal

Alternative break trips punctuate life on Jesuit college campuses, acting as experiences of conversion and putting faith into action. The Universal Apostolic Preferences of “walking with the excluded” and “accompanying the youth” come together in the practice of alternative break programs. However, these trips often operate through the position of whiteness. In this paper, we examine alternative service trips through the lens of whiteness. Too often, predominately white groups insert themselves into non-white contexts and assert themselves as owners of the space. Practices of white university students instrumentalizing experiences of service as agents in their own conversion displace the agency …


Can A Machine Flow Like Dao? The Daoist Philosophy On Artificial Intelligence, Robin R. Wang Sep 2021

Can A Machine Flow Like Dao? The Daoist Philosophy On Artificial Intelligence, Robin R. Wang

Philosophy Faculty Works

This question might seem odd, but it is, nevertheless, directly relevant to our life today. My intention is to bring ancient Daoist philosophy into a conversation about the challenges that technology poses. Today, cutting-edge technologies do not exist just in research labs but have already easily penetrated all aspects of our lives. It is difficult to argue that we do not yet inhabit a world with Artificial Intelligence (AI), for it has become a pervasive and effective technology woven into the fabric of everyday living.


On The Manifold Meaning Of Letting-Be In Reiner Schürmann, Ian Alexander Moore Jan 2021

On The Manifold Meaning Of Letting-Be In Reiner Schürmann, Ian Alexander Moore

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Heidegger, Our Monstrous Site: On Reiner Schürmann’S Reading Of The Beiträge, Ian Alexander Moore, Francesco Guercio Jan 2021

Heidegger, Our Monstrous Site: On Reiner Schürmann’S Reading Of The Beiträge, Ian Alexander Moore, Francesco Guercio

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Memory And Mystical Detachment In Paul Celan's Eckhart-Poems, Ian Alexander Moore Jan 2021

Memory And Mystical Detachment In Paul Celan's Eckhart-Poems, Ian Alexander Moore

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Philosophy And Theology: Birth, Viability, And Bestowing Meaning, Christopher Kaczor Jan 2021

Philosophy And Theology: Birth, Viability, And Bestowing Meaning, Christopher Kaczor

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Philosophy And Theology: The Repugnant Conclusion On Earth-C, Christopher Kaczor Jan 2021

Philosophy And Theology: The Repugnant Conclusion On Earth-C, Christopher Kaczor

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Book Review: Rudolf Bultmann, Hans Jonas: Briefwechsel 1928–1976, Ian Alexander Moore Jan 2021

Book Review: Rudolf Bultmann, Hans Jonas: Briefwechsel 1928–1976, Ian Alexander Moore

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Philosophy And Theology: Revisiting The Violinist Argument, Christopher Kaczor Jan 2021

Philosophy And Theology: Revisiting The Violinist Argument, Christopher Kaczor

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Philosophy And Theology: Artificial Wombs, Christopher Kaczor Jan 2021

Philosophy And Theology: Artificial Wombs, Christopher Kaczor

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Two Concepts Of Intellectual Humility, Jason Baehr Jan 2021

Two Concepts Of Intellectual Humility, Jason Baehr

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


The Puzzle Of Humility And Disparity, Dennis Whitcomb, Heather Battaly, Jason Baehr, Daniel Howard-Snyder Jan 2021

The Puzzle Of Humility And Disparity, Dennis Whitcomb, Heather Battaly, Jason Baehr, Daniel Howard-Snyder

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.