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Book Review Of Aristotle On Truth, By P. Crivelli, Owen Goldin Jan 2006

Book Review Of Aristotle On Truth, By P. Crivelli, Owen Goldin

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On The Question Of Latin American Philosophy, Michael Monahan Oct 2005

On The Question Of Latin American Philosophy, Michael Monahan

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Review Of Fichte’S Transcendental Philosophy: The Original Duplicity Of Intelligence And Will By Günter Zöller, Michael Vater Oct 2005

Review Of Fichte’S Transcendental Philosophy: The Original Duplicity Of Intelligence And Will By Günter Zöller, Michael Vater

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Private Property And Public Interest, Michael Monahan Jul 2005

Private Property And Public Interest, Michael Monahan

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In this paper I explore the limitations of liberal political theory in relation to the notions of public property and public interest. I argue that the fundamentally atomistic and individualistic ontological foundations of the liberal tradition preclude any coherent notion of public goods and public interest.


Husserl’S Concept Of The ‘Transcendental Person’: Another Look At The Husserl–Heidegger Relationship, Sebastian Luft Jun 2005

Husserl’S Concept Of The ‘Transcendental Person’: Another Look At The Husserl–Heidegger Relationship, Sebastian Luft

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This paper offers a further look at Husserl’s late thought on the transcendental subject and the Husserl–Heidegger relationship. It attempts a reconstruction of how Husserl hoped to assert his own thoughts on subjectivity vis-à-vis Heidegger, while also pointing out where Husserl did not reach the new level that Heidegger attained. In his late manuscripts, Husserl employs the term ‘transcendental person’ to describe the transcendental ego in its fullest ‘concretion’. I maintain that although this concept is a consistent development of Husserl’s earlier analyses of constitution, Husserl was also defending himself against Heidegger, who criticized him for framing the subject in …


Cassirer’S Philosophy Of Symbolic Forms: Between Reason And Relativism; A Critical Appraisal, Sebastian Luft Apr 2005

Cassirer’S Philosophy Of Symbolic Forms: Between Reason And Relativism; A Critical Appraisal, Sebastian Luft

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This paper pursues the double task of (a) presenting Cassirer’s Philosophy of Symbolic Forms as a systematic critique of culture and (b) assessing this systematic approach with regards to the question of reason vs. relativism. First, it reconstructs the development of his theory to its mature presentation in his Philosophy of Symbolic Forms. Cassirer here presents a critique of culture as fulfilling Kant’s critical work by insisting on the plurality of reason as spirit, manifesting itself in symbolic forms. In the second part, the consequences of this approach will be drawn by considering the systematics Cassirer intended with this theory. …


The Conservation Of Authenticity: Political Commitment And Racial Reality, Michael Monahan Mar 2005

The Conservation Of Authenticity: Political Commitment And Racial Reality, Michael Monahan

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Discusses issues related to the conservation of racial authenticity, political commitment and racial reality in the U.S. Growing interest in racial ontology in philosophical circles; Analysis of the concept of social constructivism.


Herbert Spiegelberg, Sebastian Luft Jan 2005

Herbert Spiegelberg, Sebastian Luft

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The Non-Modularity Of Moral Knowledge: Implications For The Universality Of Human Rights, Theresa W. Tobin Jan 2005

The Non-Modularity Of Moral Knowledge: Implications For The Universality Of Human Rights, Theresa W. Tobin

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Many contemporary human rights theorists argue that we can establish the normative universality of human rights despite extensive cultural and moral diversity by appealing to the notion of overlapping consensus. In this paper I argue that proposals to ground the universality of human rights in overlapping consensus on the list of rights are unsuccessful. I consider an example from Islamic comprehensive doctrine in order to demonstrate that apparent consensus on the list of rights may not in fact constitute meaningful agreement and may not be sufficient to ground the universality of human rights. I conclude with some general suggestions for …


Zabarella, Prime Matter, And The Theory Of Regressus, James B. South Jan 2005

Zabarella, Prime Matter, And The Theory Of Regressus, James B. South

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Faktizität Und Geschichtlichkeit Als Konstituentien Der Lebenswelt In Husserls Spätphilosophie, Sebastian Luft Jan 2005

Faktizität Und Geschichtlichkeit Als Konstituentien Der Lebenswelt In Husserls Spätphilosophie, Sebastian Luft

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In this paper I shall present two elements of Husserl’s theory of the life-world, facticity and historicity, which are of exemplary importance for his late phenomenology as a whole. I compare these two notions to two axes upon which Husserl’s phenomenology of the life-world becomes inscribed. Reconsidering and reconstructing Husserl’s late thought under this viewpoint sheds new light on a notoriously enigmatic problem, i.e., the concept of the transcendental and its relation to the „mundane“ – to the world as constituted by transcendental consciousness. Drawing on unpublished manuscript material I claim, specifically, that the transcendental subject, in its „self-enworlding“ activity, …


Atoms, Complexes, And Demonstration: Posterior Analytics 96b15-25, Owen Goldin Dec 2004

Atoms, Complexes, And Demonstration: Posterior Analytics 96b15-25, Owen Goldin

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There is agreement neither concerning the point that is being made in Posterior analytics 96b15-25 nor the issue Aristotle intends to address. There are two major lines of interpretation of this passage. According to one, sketched by Themistius and developed by Philoponus and Eustratius, Aristotle is primarily concerned with determining the definitions of the infimae species that fall under a certain genus. They understand Aristotle as arguing that this requires collating definitional predictions, seeing which are common to which species. Pacius, on the other hand, takes Aristotle to be saying that a genus is studied scientifically through first determining the …


On The Philosophical Consistency Of Season Seven; Or, "It's Not About Right, Not About Wrong…", James B. South Oct 2004

On The Philosophical Consistency Of Season Seven; Or, "It's Not About Right, Not About Wrong…", James B. South

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Environmental Education And Metaethics, Owen Goldin Jun 2004

Environmental Education And Metaethics, Owen Goldin

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Contrā Dale Jamieson, the study of the metaethical foundations of environmental ethics may well lead students to a more environmentally responsible way of life. For although metaethics is rarely decisive in decision making and action, there are two kinds of circumstances in which it can play a crucial role in our practical decisions. First, decisions that have unusual features do not summon habitual ethical reactions, and hence invite the application of ethical precepts that the study of metaethics and ethical theory isolate and clarify. Second, there are times in which the good of others (including organisms and systems in the …


Review Of Feminists Doing Ethics Edited By Peggy Desautels And Joanne Waugh, Theresa W. Tobin Apr 2004

Review Of Feminists Doing Ethics Edited By Peggy Desautels And Joanne Waugh, Theresa W. Tobin

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Review Of New Essays On Fichte's Later Jena Wissenschaftslehre By Daniel Breazeale And Tom Rockmore, Michael Vater Feb 2004

Review Of New Essays On Fichte's Later Jena Wissenschaftslehre By Daniel Breazeale And Tom Rockmore, Michael Vater

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Resentment And Assurance, Margaret Urban Walker Jan 2004

Resentment And Assurance, Margaret Urban Walker

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Conceptual Art: A Base For Global Art Or The End Of Art?, Curtis Carter Jan 2004

Conceptual Art: A Base For Global Art Or The End Of Art?, Curtis Carter

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“Real-Idealism”: An Unorthodox Husserlian Response To The Question Of Transcendental Idealism, Sebastian Luft Jan 2004

“Real-Idealism”: An Unorthodox Husserlian Response To The Question Of Transcendental Idealism, Sebastian Luft

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Ways Of World Making: J.R.R. Tolkien, Curtis Carter Jan 2004

Ways Of World Making: J.R.R. Tolkien, Curtis Carter

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Husserl's Phenomenological Reduction Revisited: An Attempt Of A Renewed Account, Sebastian Luft Jan 2004

Husserl's Phenomenological Reduction Revisited: An Attempt Of A Renewed Account, Sebastian Luft

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This essay attempts a renewed, critical exposition of Husserl’s theory of the phenomenological reduction, incorporating manuscript material that has been published since the defining essays of the first generation of Husserl research. The discussion focuses on points that remain especially crucial, i. e. the concept of the natural attitude, the ways into the reduction, and the question of the “meaning of the reduction”. The reading attempted here leads to two, not necessarily related, focal points: a Cartesian and a Life-world tendency. In following these two paths, Husserl was consistent in pursuing two evident leads in his philosophical enterprise; however, he …


Husserl’S Theory Of The Phenomenological Reduction: Between Life-World And Cartesianism, Sebastian Luft Jan 2004

Husserl’S Theory Of The Phenomenological Reduction: Between Life-World And Cartesianism, Sebastian Luft

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This essay attempts a renewed, critical exposition of Husserl's theory of the phenomenological reduction, incorporating manuscript material that has been published since the defining essays of the first generation of Husserl research. The discussion focuses on points that remain especially crucial, i.e., the concept of the natural attitude, the ways into the reduction (and their systematics), and finally the question of the "meaning of the reduction." Indeed, in the reading attempted here, this final question leads to two, not necessarily related, focal points: a Cartesian and a Life-world tendency. It is my claim that in following these two paths, Husserl …


Die Archivierung Des Husserlschen Nachlasses 1933—1935, Sebastian Luft Jan 2004

Die Archivierung Des Husserlschen Nachlasses 1933—1935, Sebastian Luft

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Avantgarda In Medijske Umetnosti, Curtis Carter Jan 2004

Avantgarda In Medijske Umetnosti, Curtis Carter

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Suicide Bombing: A Challenge To Just-War Theory And Natural Law, Howard P. Kainz Oct 2003

Suicide Bombing: A Challenge To Just-War Theory And Natural Law, Howard P. Kainz

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Quelques Problèmes Fondamentaux Dans Les Textes Tardifs De Husserl Sur La Réduction Phénoménologique, Sebastian Luft Jul 2003

Quelques Problèmes Fondamentaux Dans Les Textes Tardifs De Husserl Sur La Réduction Phénoménologique, Sebastian Luft

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Review Of Forgiveness And Revenge By Trudy Govier, Margaret Urban Walker Jun 2003

Review Of Forgiveness And Revenge By Trudy Govier, Margaret Urban Walker

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The Person As Signatory: Contractarian Social Theory At Work In Suburbia, Michael Monahan Apr 2003

The Person As Signatory: Contractarian Social Theory At Work In Suburbia, Michael Monahan

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Truth And Voice In Women’S Rights, Margaret Urban Walker Jan 2003

Truth And Voice In Women’S Rights, Margaret Urban Walker

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No abstract provided.


“The Sound Of Urgent Bells And Drums” Gao Xingjian Ink Paintings, Curtis L. Carter Jan 2003

“The Sound Of Urgent Bells And Drums” Gao Xingjian Ink Paintings, Curtis L. Carter

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No abstract provided.