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[Book Review Od] Karol Wojtyla: The Thought Of The Man Who Became Pope John Paul Ii, By Rocco Buttigline, Donald Demarco

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Sagp Newsletter 2001.4 (May), Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

No abstract provided.

How Children And Adolescents Relate To Nature, Patricia Nevers

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Paper presented at the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society at Western Michigan University, September 21,1999.

Irrelevancy Of God: Criticism Of The Rational Religious Paradigm, Boaz Ahad Ha'am

Undergraduate University Honors Capstones

The author looks at works that call for the assimilation of philosophy with religion. The capstone questioned the rationality of this logic by taking a closer look at the Real Religious Paradigm. It is argued that one cannot claim to be Rational and Religious at the same time without compromising either position, therefore no person can be RRP unless they are nonsensical.

The American Board's Single Missionary Women In American Indian Missions, 1810–1860, Lisa Jacqueline Travis

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

Between 1810 and 1860 in American Indian missions, single missionary women comprised half of the female workforce in the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM). Because the ABCFM operated as a business for converting and assimilating American Indians, it hired single women to perform vital and various tasks. Missionary couples requested that the ABCFM appoint single women to teach, perform domestic work, and care for mission children. Biographically, they resembled each other, but their reasons for becoming missionaries varied. Some single women became missionaries after lifelong dreams, but others because the suggestion was made. As workers, some were …

Emerson, Virtue, And Evil: Thoughts For A Rescue Operation, Lois M. Eveleth

Faculty and Staff - Articles & Papers

Interpretations of Emerson's theme of self-reliance which generate charges that he understood neither evil nor virtue are inappropriate. A fairer reading should keep in mind the Neo-Platonism of Plotinus, which gave to Transcendentalism a dynamic emanation/return schema and to mankind a place of privilege in knowing and valuing Nature.

Evolutionary Progress?, Timothy Shanahan

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

The Effective Variable On Beliefs About Organ Donation, Sarah M. Brunhoeber

Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Limited research has been conducted over the beliefs affecting organ donation. The current literature that does exist offer conflicting results, especially concerning race and religion. A study at a university in the Midwest reported that there was a difference in support of organ donation between different races. This is the case throughout the literature. These factors leave organ procurement centers and society, in general, with little definitive information from which to draw conclusions. Without this valuable information, it may prove difficult to determine how to increase both awareness and donation rates. This study found that the major factors affecting a …

Reviews Of The Book Of Miracles: The Meaning Of The Miracle Stories In Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, And Islam By Kenneth L. Woodward And God And The Sun At Fatima By Stanley Jaki, Howard P. Kainz

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Earth And Stars In The Cosmology Of Xenophanes, Alexander P.D. Mourelatos

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

The doxography for Xenophanes of Colophon unambiguously attributes to him a theory that all the meteora, i.e. all 'objects suspended above us' or 'objects seen in the sky' are different types of clouds. My concern in this paper is with two sets of assumptions that are likely to have framed Xenophanes' theory: a) assumptions concerning the size and shape of the eareth, and b) assumptions concerning the motions of the fixed stars.

Mixed Media April 18, 2000, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The April 18, 2000 issue includes articles on student life at RISD, a Phillip Glass performance at the RISD Auditorium along with an interview of Glass, a story artist at Warner Bros. named Fergal Reilly, a recent lecture by author Ngugi wa Thiong'o, interest in a RISD student radio, RISD alum Treva Orfutt, a conversation with Brian Chippendale of Fort Thunder, the opening of Hoyt's Cinema in the Providence Place mall, and how Roger Mandle lives in the President's House, along with the comics "Brie" by Brie, "Adventures of the …

Friedrich Nietzsche’S Eternal Return Of The Same, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University

The Philosopher's Stone

No abstract provided.

Racial Profiling In The Persian Gulf: Ethical, Moral, And Legal Implications, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes attributions about race and ethnicity that color the discourse on the ethics, morality, and legality of profiling.

Trends. Altruism As Egoism In International Trade Policy: Some Strange Bedfellows, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article discusses the tenuous nature of political cooperation between advocates of trade unionism and environmentalism.

Invisible Lines Of Connection: Sacred Stories Of The Ordinary, Lawrence Kushner

Richard L. Horwitz Lecture on Ethics

Lawrence Kushner has served as Rabbi of Congregational Beth El in Sudbury, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, for the past 27 years and is widely regarded as one of the most creative religious writers in America. Through his lectures, articles and ten books, he has helped shape the present agenda for personal and institutional spiritual renewal.

He originated the concept of synagogue havurot, family fellowship groups, led his congregants to publish their own prayerbook, V'Tahaer Libenu (Purify Our Hearts), the first gender-neutral liturgy ever written, and has conducted over seventy-five kalla weekends for personal religious growth. He was the …

The Philosopher's Stone, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University

The Philosopher's Stone

No abstract provided.

What's So Special About A Special Ethics For Business?, Earl W. Spurgin

Philosophy

In business ethics literature, debate over a special ethics generally has framed examination of the rules governing business. By constructing a dilemma faced by proponents of a special ethics, I argue that this framing is misguided. Proponents must adopt either an insular or a derivative conception. The former, the view that business is insulated from moral rules, is problematic because arguments used to support it force proponents to accept the idea that each aspect of life is insulated from moral rules. This idea, however, renders philosophically insignificant the claim that business has a special ethics. Proponents no longer make a …

Concepts: Core Readings, By Eric Margolis And Stephen Laurance, Robert Stainton

Philosophy Publications

No abstract provided.

Literary And Poetic Performance In Plato's Laws, Gerard Naddaf

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Plato’s evaluations of the written and spoken word are complex, even ambiguous. On the one hand, he clearly privileges the give-and-take oral conversation as the paradigm for philosophical discussion, and on the basis of this paradigm he offers strong critiques of the written word, notably in the Phaedrus and Letter 7. On the other hand, he is a most famous enemy of the oral performance of poetry − notwithstanding the fact that in the Republic he gives ‘music’ a prominent place in education. When we turn to the Laws, we encounter another aspect or dimension of Plato’s thinking about the …

Thinking, Thought And Nous In Aristotle's De Anima, Michael Bowler

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Michael Wedin in his “Tracking Aristotle’s Nous’’ wishes to argue that the most plausible interpretation of De Anima, Book III, chapter 5 is . .that these chapters provide the essentials of a thoroughly finitistic account of individual noetic activity.” I want to argue that Wedin’s account is not the most plausible interpretation of Aristotle’s theory of individual noetic activity. I think Wedin’s interpretation misses a crucial distinction between the actualization of mind and the being of mind, insofar as he argues that mind is identical simpliciter with its object in the act of knowing when in fact, for Aristotle, mind …

Concerned Philosophers For Peace, Vol. 20, Nos. 1-2, Concerned Philosophers For Peace

Concerned Philosophers for Peace

No abstract provided.

Mixed Media March 18, 2000, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The March 18, 2000 issue includes articles on mullets, apparel events at Woods Gerry and Fort Thunder, Spring Break, Fort Thunder, the death of the actor Jim Varney, and the band Beulah, along with the comic "r&n dy" by Travis, illustrations by Brie, event notices, and other announcements.

How Do We Know There Is A Population-Environment Problem?, Peter J. Taylor

Working Papers on Science in a Changing World

Five fictional friends of the author have agreed to meet and talk, hoping that he was right when he claimed that discussion crossing the usual boundaries of their fields would enrich their different inquiries and concerns. Ecolo, a natural and human ecologist, breaks the ice. He wants to marshall scientific knowledge to persuade others of the seriousness of the population problem. He is questioned by Philoso, whose philosophical bent leads her to observe the models that people use and to ask how they support the claims they make. In turn, the other three join in: Activo, an activist who is …

Trends. Hissen Habre And Human Rights: Right Or Wrong?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article discusses which high authorities (or national leaders), inside a given country and outside it, may be held accountable for human rights violations in given place.

Mixed Media March 2, 2000, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The March 2, 2000 issue includes articles on student life, mullets, things to do in Providence, a J.C. Walker retrospective at MoMA, RISD soccer team the Sacs, and Mt. Hope Learning Center, along with the comic "Ben" by Frenzer, event notices, and other announcements.

Memorials 2000, James A. Borland

SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.

The Moral Complexion Of Consumption, Albert Borgmann

Philosophy Faculty Publications

Vigorous consumption is the sign of a prosperous and confident society. Some critics, however, find a high level of consumption morally objectionable. To see what is valid in these objections, one needs to understand the connection between consumption and the characteristic pattern of technology that is highlighted by the device paradigm and gives rise to paradigmatic consumption. Such consumption induces disengagement from reality and a decline of excellence. The response to these debilities is to accept paradigmatic consumption in some areas of life and to make room for focal things and practices in others. Research is needed to determine the …

Sagp Newsletter 2001.3 (March), Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Can A Postmodern Philosopher Teach Modern Philosophy?, Ladelle Mcwhorter

Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Faculty Publications

This paper considers the following question: how can those whose thought is informed by poststructuralist values, arguments, and training legitimately teach the history of philosophy? In answering this question, three pedagogical approaches to courses in the history of philosophy are considered and criticized: the representational, the phenomenological, and the conversational. Although these three approaches are seemingly exhaustive, each is problematic because the question they attempt to answer rests on the false assumption that there is one, universally right way to teach philosophy and many wrong ways. In rejecting this assumption, the author considers a new, more concrete, and contextualized question …

Center For Professional Ethics, Volume 2, Issue 3, 2000, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Continuing The Observer Debate: A Panel Discussion on Law, Religion, and Homosexuality
• Thinking about Ethics: Quotable Quotes
• Kimberly Adams-Davis: From Cowboy Nurse to Primary Healthcare Advocate
• Three Judges Weigh In: The Art of Judging: How Do Judges Judge?
• Director's Corner: The Seven Deadly Sins Revisited by Robert P. Lawry
• Spring 2000: News, Notes, and Events