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Children's Moral Reasoning Regarding Physical And Relational Aggression, Diann Murray-Close, Nickix R. Crick, Kathleen M. Galotti Jan 2006

Children's Moral Reasoning Regarding Physical And Relational Aggression, Diann Murray-Close, Nickix R. Crick, Kathleen M. Galotti

Cognitive Science Faculty Work

Elementary school children’s moral reasoning concerning physical and relational aggression was explored. Fourth and fifth graders rated physical aggression as more wrong and harmful than relational aggression but tended to adopt a moral orientation about both forms of aggression. Gender differences in moral judgments of aggression were observed, with girls rating physical and relational aggression as more wrong and relational aggression as more harmful than boys. In addition, girls were more likely to adopt a moral orientation when judging physical and relational aggression and girls more often judged relational aggression than physical aggression from the moral domain. Finally, moral reasoning …


The Left And Humanitarian Intervention, Harry Van Der Linden Jan 2006

The Left And Humanitarian Intervention, Harry Van Der Linden

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Although the author concedes that much criticism from the left alleging ulterior imperialist motives of missions for “humanitarian intervention” is valid; nevertheless, the author argues that it would be wrong to rule out the concept of humanitarian intervention, even when conducted by imperialist powers for imperialist motives. The concept of “rescue” remains a valid humanitarian concept, and a logical foundation for solidarity with populations who find themselves under assault and defenseless. The author considers various regulative principles that may guide more careful thinking about humanitarian intervention.


Buddhist Exploration Of Peace And Justice, Ronald S. Green, Chanju Mun Jan 2006

Buddhist Exploration Of Peace And Justice, Ronald S. Green, Chanju Mun

Philosophy and Religious Studies

Contains five speeches and twenty-three articles presented in the Fifth International Seminar on Buddhism and Leadership for Peace on the theme "Exploration of Ways to Put Buddhist Thought into Social Practice for Peace and Justice." The seminar was held under the joint auspice of Dae Won Sa Buddhist Temple of Hawaii and the Korean Buddhist Research Institute of Dongguk University, 1991.


Reburying The Treasure—Maintaining The Continuity: Two Texts By Śākya Mchog Ldan On The Buddha-Essence, Yaroslav Komarovski Jan 2006

Reburying The Treasure—Maintaining The Continuity: Two Texts By Śākya Mchog Ldan On The Buddha-Essence, Yaroslav Komarovski

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

The rich and interconnected universe of Śākya Mchog Ldan’s views, including those on the buddha-essence, cannot be limited to or summarized in a few neat categories. Nevertheless, the following two interrelated ideas are crucial for understanding Śākya Mchog Ldan’s interpretation of the buddha-essence: 1) only Mahāyāna āryas (’phags pa) have the buddha-essence characterized by the purity from adventitious stains (glo bur rnam dag); 2) the buddha-essence is inseparable from the positive qualities (yon tan, guṇa) of a buddha; In his writings, Śākya Mchog Ldan argues against identifying the buddha- essence as a mere natural …


Ahistoricism And Oppresssion, Kenton Machina Jan 2006

Ahistoricism And Oppresssion, Kenton Machina

Faculty Publications - Philosophy

Many theories of moral accountability, whether libertarian or compatibilist, may be characterized as time-slice theories in that they do not allow the agent’s personal history to be relevant to moral accountability, instead making accountability rest solely on the state of things during one slice out of the agent’s life story. The point of this paper is to draw attention to the personal background irrelevance embedded in such theories, and to argue that any theory of accountability embracing such irrelevance supports injustice. My argument rests on an analysis of some generally accepted epistemic conditions on accountability, claiming that whether these conditions …


Weber's "Protestant Ethic" And His Critics, Ethan Duane Crowell Jan 2006

Weber's "Protestant Ethic" And His Critics, Ethan Duane Crowell

Philosophy & Humanities Theses - Archive

This thesis focuses on Max Weber’s “Protestant Ethic” Thesis. In his thesis Weber claims after the Reformation, Calvinism created the needed work ethic to produce modern capitalism. His critic’s arguments against this claim are presented and compared with Weber’s replies.


What Myths Reveal About How Humans Think: A Cognitive Approach To Myth, Keith Mitchell Hodge Jan 2006

What Myths Reveal About How Humans Think: A Cognitive Approach To Myth, Keith Mitchell Hodge

Philosophy & Humanities Theses - Archive

This thesis has two main goals: (1) to argue that myths are natural products of human cognition; and (2) that structuralism, as introduced by Claude Levi-Strauss, provides an over-arching theory of myth when supplemented and supported by current research in philosophy of mind, cognitive psychology, and cognitive anthropology. With regard to (1), we argue that myths are naturally produced by the human mind through individuals' interaction with their natural and social environments. This interaction is constrained by both the type of body the individual has and the environment in which the individual is situated. From this interaction, we argue, is …


Gebser's Integral Consciousness And Living In The Real World: Facilitating Its Emergence Using A Course In Miracles, Cornelius J. Holland, Douglas A. Macdonald Jan 2006

Gebser's Integral Consciousness And Living In The Real World: Facilitating Its Emergence Using A Course In Miracles, Cornelius J. Holland, Douglas A. Macdonald

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

This paper discusses certain parallels between the work of Jean Gebser, the European philosopher and student of consciousness, and A Course in Miracles (ACIM), a contemporary spiritual system. More specifically, it 1) establishes parallels between Gebser’s conception of the ego, especially its basis in anger, and the ego according to ACIM, and 2) shows how a forgiveness exercise may lead to a time-free present, called in ACIM, “The Holy Instant.”


Manifest, Hidden, And Divine: Introduction To Sefirot Aikido, Jack Susman Jan 2006

Manifest, Hidden, And Divine: Introduction To Sefirot Aikido, Jack Susman

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

The potential for forging a valuable relationship between two transpersonal systems, Aikido, a Japanese martial art and spiritual tradition, and Kabbalah, a Jewish spiritual tradition, is explored. Aikido is not simply a martial art, rather it is also a way to achieve a sense of the spiritual. However, especially for Westerners, many of its spiritual tenets are elusive, based on abstruse Japanese cultural roots, whereas Kabbalah, as a spiritual tradition more fully explicated for Western audiences, can provide an accessible framework for grasping some of Aikido’s deeper meanings. A blend of these traditions, called Sefirot Aikido, uses Kabbalah to understand, …


(2006) The Pig In The Spigot (2000) By Richard Wilbur, Peter Shea Jan 2006

(2006) The Pig In The Spigot (2000) By Richard Wilbur, Peter Shea

Collected Papers of Peter Shea

We can learn from our words, if we listen to them and play with them and see what they contain. That’s a lesson from the outer limits of philosophy, from Heidegger and Wittgenstein and Ricoeur. But the journey of listening to our own words can’t begin with these venerable giants. It has to start with fine springboard books like The Pig in the Spigot and with good games, played for life.


Orientalisms In The Interpretation Of Islamic Philosophy, Muhammad Ali Khalidi Jan 2006

Orientalisms In The Interpretation Of Islamic Philosophy, Muhammad Ali Khalidi

Publications and Research

The recent death of Edward Said has reignited the debate as to whether his landmark work Orientalism still has something to teach us about the study of Arab-Islamic civilization. In this article, I will argue that Saidʼs central thesis in Orientalism has a direct explanatory role to play in our understanding of the work produced in at least one area of scholarship about the Arab and Islamic worlds, namely Arab-Islamic philosophy from the classical or medieval period. Moreover, I will claim that it continues to play this role not only for scholarship produced in the West by Western scholars but …


Reading, Writing & Religion: Teaching The Bible In Texas Public Schools, Mark A. Chancey Jan 2006

Reading, Writing & Religion: Teaching The Bible In Texas Public Schools, Mark A. Chancey

Occasional Papers

No abstract provided.


Freedom And Rights, Richard Dagger Jan 2006

Freedom And Rights, Richard Dagger

Political Science Faculty Publications

Liberalism, of course, is quite a capacious theory, with room for liberals to debate quite vigorously among themselves, as well as with others, the meaning and significance of freedom, rights and other concepts. It is also capacious enough to allow for a rethinking of these concepts at a time of pressing environmental problems. Such a rethmking, I shall argue, should lead us to conceive of freedom and rights less as barriers or shields that protect individuals against interference - as forms of independence - and more as matters of organic growth and connection, or interdependence. Indeed, we must conceive …


A Phenomenological Aesthetic Of Cinematic 'Worlds', Christopher Yates Jan 2006

A Phenomenological Aesthetic Of Cinematic 'Worlds', Christopher Yates

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Contemporary film aesthetics is beset by difficulties arising from the medium itself and the bewildering itinerary of film theory. Inspired by Martin Heidegger's hermeneutical vision in "On the Origin of the Work of Art" (1935), my essay seeks to overcome this paralysis by grounding the aesthetic value of cinematic art in its ability to "disclose the world" through a convergence of artist and viewer intentionalities. Stanley Cavell has gone far by exploring a corresponding "natural relation" between philosophy and cinema, but his work assumes an ontological discourse without an appropriate phenomenological method. I contend that Mikel Dufrenne's phenomenology of aesthetic …


Can Corporations Be Morally Responsible? Aristotle, Stakeholders And The Non-Sale Of Hershey, Steven Gimbel Jan 2006

Can Corporations Be Morally Responsible? Aristotle, Stakeholders And The Non-Sale Of Hershey, Steven Gimbel

Philosophy Faculty Publications

Stakeholder theory is a significant development in the drive to provide a foundation for intuitions concerning the moral responsibility connected to corporate decision making. The move to include the interests of workers, consumers, the communities and biological environment in which the corporations instantiations are located run counter to the view in which stakeholders' interests are paramount. The non-sale of the Hershey Foods company to Wrigley was the ultimate result of a massive call by stakeholders to put other interests before stakeholder financial stakes, yet the discussion was notably not held in terms of stakeholder theory. Rather, the discussion was explicitly …


Front Matter Jan 2006

Front Matter

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


A Celebration, J. T. Scanlan Jan 2006

A Celebration, J. T. Scanlan

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Hume And The Interaction Of Ideas In The Long Eighteenth Century, E. M. Dadlez, James W. Mock Jan 2006

Hume And The Interaction Of Ideas In The Long Eighteenth Century, E. M. Dadlez, James W. Mock

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Thinking Outside The Box The Non-English Speaking World In The First Decade Of 1650-1850, Theodore E. D. Braun Jan 2006

Thinking Outside The Box The Non-English Speaking World In The First Decade Of 1650-1850, Theodore E. D. Braun

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


A New Latitude In The Culture Wars, Scott P. Gordon Jan 2006

A New Latitude In The Culture Wars, Scott P. Gordon

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Hume, Comte, And The Religion Of Le Grand Etre, Darian C. Debolt Jan 2006

Hume, Comte, And The Religion Of Le Grand Etre, Darian C. Debolt

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


David Hume, "Ofthe Standard Of Taste," And Esthetic Theory, James W. Mock Jan 2006

David Hume, "Ofthe Standard Of Taste," And Esthetic Theory, James W. Mock

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Hume And The Eternity Of The World, Gregory L. Reece Jan 2006

Hume And The Eternity Of The World, Gregory L. Reece

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Hume And The End Of Design, Michael F. Patton Jr. Jan 2006

Hume And The End Of Design, Michael F. Patton Jr.

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Dense Insensibility Humean Vices And Virtues In The Work Of Jane Austen, E. M. Dadlez Jan 2006

Dense Insensibility Humean Vices And Virtues In The Work Of Jane Austen, E. M. Dadlez

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Cumulative Index To Volumes 1-10 Jan 2006

Cumulative Index To Volumes 1-10

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Smelfungus's Strumpet Smollett's Iconoclastic Reading Of The Medici Venus In Travels Through France And Italy, William Gibson Jan 2006

Smelfungus's Strumpet Smollett's Iconoclastic Reading Of The Medici Venus In Travels Through France And Italy, William Gibson

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


On Allusion, Narrative, And Annunciation In Hogarth's A Harlot's Progress, Alexander S. Gourlay Jan 2006

On Allusion, Narrative, And Annunciation In Hogarth's A Harlot's Progress, Alexander S. Gourlay

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Front Matter Jan 2006

Front Matter

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Audience And The Layered Art Of Method In John Bunyan's The Life And Death Of Mr. Badman And The Pilgrim's Progress, H. C. Maddux Jan 2006

Audience And The Layered Art Of Method In John Bunyan's The Life And Death Of Mr. Badman And The Pilgrim's Progress, H. C. Maddux

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.