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Full-Text Articles in Philosophy
The Incoherence Of An Evil God, Carlo Alvaro
The Incoherence Of An Evil God, Carlo Alvaro
Publications and Research
The evil god challenge is for theists to explain why a good god’s existence should be considerably more reasonable than an evil god’s existence. Challengers note that there is a symmetry between a good god and an evil god. Moreover, the classical arguments for a good god can prove the existence of an evil god just as well. Furthermore, theodicies can be mirrored by reverse theodicies. Consequently, the evil god challenge leads to two implications. One, if an evil god is deemed absurd, by logical symmetry, a good god must also be absurd. Two, if an evil god is not …
Story Boat (2020) By Kyo Maclear, Samantha Piede
Story Boat (2020) By Kyo Maclear, Samantha Piede
Picture Books
When the protagonist in Kyo Maclear’s Story Boat (2020) opens the book with “Here we are,” it is unclear to readers where exactly “here” might be. When safety must take precedence over familiarity, one develops a fleeting relationship with place. It is tempting, in stories like these, to emphasize the pain of the refugee experience: the uncertainty, the loss of one’s ‘heres’. But Maclear takes a different tack, giving readers the tools to focus on hope and wonder. Teachers may prompt students, in light of the book, to reflect on what they think a ‘home’ or a ‘here’ feels like …
Silan’S Box [Το Κουτί Του Σιλάν] (2017) By Άλκηστη Χαλικιά [Alkistis Chalikia], Maria Papathanasiou
Silan’S Box [Το Κουτί Του Σιλάν] (2017) By Άλκηστη Χαλικιά [Alkistis Chalikia], Maria Papathanasiou
Picture Books
Silan is an eight-year-old boy who was forced to leave his country and live in a new homeland, in Greece. He lives in a refugee center where he goes to a new school but does not speak the same language as the other children. He carries a little box with him—so precious that he keeps it with him constantly and does not share its contents with anyone. The children ask him every day about the contents of the box and try to guess what his hidden treasure might be. They think of what they would shield in their own box …
World Of Water: Betsy Damon’S Ties To Ecofeminism, Colleen Sullivan
World Of Water: Betsy Damon’S Ties To Ecofeminism, Colleen Sullivan
Dissertations and Theses
This thesis establishes a critical examination of the evolution of Betsy Damon’s artistic practice as overtime she engages with ecofeminist thought. As a whole, this work extends contemporary scholarship on ecofeminist engaged art to include Damon’s artistic production while amplifying social and critical ecofeminism as necessary ideologies to explore when analyzing art through an ecofeminist lens. Beginning with her first environmentally focused work in the United States the organization of the following chapters reveals Damon’s deepened understanding and exploration of ecofeminist principles and their application to her artistic practice. It goes on to further explore Damon’s pursuit of environmentally sustainable …
V.1 Winter 2022, Center For Arts & Language, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives
V.1 Winter 2022, Center For Arts & Language, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives
All Student Newspapers
v.1 is a publishing platform for the ongoing work, ideas, discussions, debates, and aspirations of students at the Rhode Island School of Design. The Winter 2022 issue is a special edition "art writing capsule," with three zines that each feature a student writing about a work of art, and a fourth zine with an editor's note and postscript. Writing 1 is Angelina Rogers on Salman Toor's "Two Boys with a Dog," Writing 2 is Maxwell Fertik on Shahzia Sikander's "Epistrophe," and Writing 3 is Sabo Kpade on Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's "Any Number of Preoccupations."
Stories Of Teaching On A Conceal And Carry Stage: A Dramaturgical Narrative Inquiry, Christopher J. Miller
Stories Of Teaching On A Conceal And Carry Stage: A Dramaturgical Narrative Inquiry, Christopher J. Miller
Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations
The story of a mass shooting occurring on the place of school seems to be a common one in contemporary American cultural narrative. One of the more controversial solutions offered within this narrative is allowing citizens to protect themselves through the practice of conceal and carry. The practice of legally allowing individuals to conceal and carry a firearm while at the place of school and in the place of class is at the cornerstone of this research inquiry.
This qualitative research study employs a dramaturgical narrative approach to explore the daily lives of full-time community college faculty members. In figuratively …
Dichotomous Logic And The Failings Of Girlboss Feminism: Multiplicity Beyond Man's Episteme, Grace Susan Robinson
Dichotomous Logic And The Failings Of Girlboss Feminism: Multiplicity Beyond Man's Episteme, Grace Susan Robinson
Senior Independent Study Theses
My Independent Study thesis is divided into three chapters. In Chapter 1, I explore the manner in which our colonial and gendered order revolves around a universalized and fragmented episteme. Such an episteme manufactures a dichotomous logic, separating people into categories such as the colonizer/native and man/woman. These categorizations serve to center and uplift white, bourgeois, heterosexual men as embodying ideal humanity, and assigning deviance, irrationality, and bestiality to all of those who do not fit in. I will discuss the way that such a framework was constructed and perpetuated to support patriarchal and colonialist aims, exploring the way that …
Normative Powers, Joseph Raz
Normative Powers, Joseph Raz
Faculty Scholarship
The chapter provides an analysis of normative powers as the ability to change a normative condition, and distinguishes and analyses several kinds of such powers. It distinguishes between wide normative powers possessed by any act that non-causally results in a normative change, and narrow normative powers, which are the main topic of the chapter. The most important theses of the chapter are: First, the distinction between basic normative powers and chained normative powers (the latter being powers created by the exercise of other powers) and second, defending the apparently surprising claim that people have narrow powers when and because there …
Wilderness As An Aesthetic Concept, Nathan A. Pagel
Wilderness As An Aesthetic Concept, Nathan A. Pagel
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
In this paper I argue that many of the philosophical problems with the concept of wilderness can be mitigated by thinking of wilderness as an aesthetic concept rather than as a real feature of the world or a special metaphysical category. In Section 1, I respond to arguments for wilderness no longer being extant in the world as well as being conceptually contradictory by examining the ways in which people continue to experience wilderness in spite of these challenges. To resolve this tension, I offer an account of wilderness as an aesthetic concept, that is, as something that cannot be …
Dismantling The Master's House: Epistemological Tensions And Revelatory Interventions For Reimagining A Transformational Family Science, Janine Jones, Andrea G. Hunter, Shuntay Z. Tarver
Dismantling The Master's House: Epistemological Tensions And Revelatory Interventions For Reimagining A Transformational Family Science, Janine Jones, Andrea G. Hunter, Shuntay Z. Tarver
Counseling & Human Services Faculty Publications
Using Audre Lorde's The Master's Tools as an epistemic guide, we propose two practice interventions for family science (FS) transformative praxes. The first, inspired by the thought of philosopher Charles Mills, challenges FS practitioners (research, practice, and policy) to explore differences in peripheral and positivist & post‐positivist (P&PP) ideologies responsible for differences in beliefs regarding the salience or non‐salience of power differentials within FS. The second, inspired by the thought of philosopher Rudolph Carnap, encourages FS practitioners to consider differences in peripheral and P&PP practitioners' understandings of what FS is at its core, and the beliefs and actions guided by …
Toward A Dialectical Account Of Nature, Georgia Rae Grimm
Toward A Dialectical Account Of Nature, Georgia Rae Grimm
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
The protection of nature has been a central aim of environmentalism for well over a century. However, the concept of nature has been subjected to abundant critiques in recent literature, threatening the conceptual tenability of this goal. In this paper, I discuss why I find the concept of nature too valuable to dismiss and offer an account of nature that I believe remedies existent critiques. In Chapter 1, I recount arguments for the protection of nature and illustrate their dualistic underpinnings. In Chapter 2, I discuss issues with dualistic accounts of nature and demonstrate why Steven Vogel’s monistic alternative is …
Traversing Paradigms: An Environmental Journey To Body And Mind, Martin Ceja Mejia
Traversing Paradigms: An Environmental Journey To Body And Mind, Martin Ceja Mejia
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
Traumatic life experiences altered the way I perceive the world. As a result, I embark on a journey to reshape my relationship to self, the built and natural world; to environment. In this thesis I ask: How do I want to relate to the environment? Considering I am a doubly colonized agent, I also aim to decolonize my relationship to environment along the process. Therefore, this work aims to formulate a new, personal, relationship to environment through academic literature, history, psychology, Indigenous knowledge and science, and literary studies, among other fields of knowledge. This work is interdisciplinary in nature; life …
The Use Of Personal Digital Archiving For Effective Learning During Pandemic Covid-19, Naufal Ahmad Rijalul Alam
The Use Of Personal Digital Archiving For Effective Learning During Pandemic Covid-19, Naufal Ahmad Rijalul Alam
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)
The Covid 19 pandemic that ravaged the world, particularly Indonesia, had a negative impact on aspects of learning, particularly for children aged three to six years in early childhood education. The implementation of distance learning disrupted the face-to-face learning model, which was supposed to be the primary medium for increasing children's knowledge and interest. In this regard, the role of parents is critical in ensuring that learning at home is effective and enjoyable. This study explores the using personal digital archiving (PDA) conducted by parents for effective learning during pandemic covid-19. By using a case study, this qualitative research took …
Age And Pain Predicting Hospital Length Of Stay Among Individuals With Sickle Cell Disease, Tyanna Qualls
Age And Pain Predicting Hospital Length Of Stay Among Individuals With Sickle Cell Disease, Tyanna Qualls
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Most patients with sickle cell disease (SCD), especially those from low socioeconomic status, experience financial constraints in meeting their hospital bills resulting from prolonged hospital stays. The research was guided by Andersen’s (1995) behavioral model of health services (BMHS) as the theoretical framework. The purpose of this retrospective quantitative correlational study was to evaluate whether and the extent to which age and pain crisis affect the length of hospital stay among patients with SCD in the United States. Secondary data were collected from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). A chi-square test was used to test the relationship between …
The Relationship Between Kindergarten To Grade 8 Principals’ Epistemological Beliefs And School Success, Leland Stuart Sanford
The Relationship Between Kindergarten To Grade 8 Principals’ Epistemological Beliefs And School Success, Leland Stuart Sanford
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Although current research links teacher effectiveness and student success to epistemological beliefs, little is known about how those beliefs influence principal leadership and school success. The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which epistemological beliefs of K-8 principals predict school success in a large U.S. metropolitan area (LMA). The theoretical framework was Perry’s theory of epistemological development and Schommer-Aikin’s theory of personal epistemology. In this quantitative correlational study, epistemological beliefs of K-8 principals were measured with the Schommer-Aikins Epistemological Belief Inventory and school success with School Quality Rating Policy (SQRP). Data were collected through a convenient …
Procurement Fraud Prevention Strategies In Ghanaian Gold Mining Companies, Alfred Ekow Taylor
Procurement Fraud Prevention Strategies In Ghanaian Gold Mining Companies, Alfred Ekow Taylor
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Procurement fraud occurs at various stages of the procurement lifecycle and can be very costly to organizations. Business managers are concerned with the enormous impact of procurement fraud on business revenue. Grounded in Cressey’s fraud triangle theory, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore strategies business managers use to detect, control, and prevent procurement fraud successfully. The participants were six procurement managers in Ghanaian gold mining companies who successfully detected, controlled, and prevented procurement fraud. Data were collected using semistructured interviews and a review of company documents. Through thematic analysis, three themes emerged: (a) internal control …
The Effects Of Authentic Leadership On Individual Occupational Well-Being, Tedd Allen Wheeler
The Effects Of Authentic Leadership On Individual Occupational Well-Being, Tedd Allen Wheeler
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Leaders play a critical role in an organization, and their presence and behavior significantly affect nonmanagement employee work performance, behavior, and well-being. Authentic leadership has a positive effect on an organization. The problem was nonmanagement employees spend so much time at work and desire meaningful experiences and relationships during the workday to counter feelings of uncertainty and a lack of job satisfaction. The purpose of this transcendental phenomenological study was to identify and report the lived experiences of nonmanagerial employees of the architect, engineer, and construction (AEC) industry located in the Northeastern United States about work-related well-being defined as people’s …
Latino Pastors’ Perceptions Of Referring Intimate Partner Violence Victims To Secular, Esther M. Rios
Latino Pastors’ Perceptions Of Referring Intimate Partner Violence Victims To Secular, Esther M. Rios
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Information about intimate partner violence (IPV) perceptions within the Latino clergy population is scarce. This research study investigated perceptions, experiences, and biases, precluding Latino clergy in referring church members to outside resources. The research question focused on Latino pastors’ perceptions about referring church members victims of IPV to secular organizations. Understanding clergy’s IPV perceptions provided an opportunity for scholars to explore ways for clergy to discover other organizations contributions to IPV. Historical oppression was used as the framework for the study because Latino women victims of IPV experience severe victimization and are afraid to report the abuse. Previous research does …
Factors That Influence Seeking Prostate Cancer Preventive Care In African Immigrants, Millicent N. Seilenga
Factors That Influence Seeking Prostate Cancer Preventive Care In African Immigrants, Millicent N. Seilenga
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
AbstractProstate cancer is a major public health problem, being the second leading cause of cancer deaths in U.S. men, but mortality can be prevented with the use of early detection strategies. African American men are more than twice as likely to die of prostate cancer as compared to Hispanic and White men. African immigrant men as compared to African American men born in the United States have higher mortality rates of prostate cancer due to not seeking preventive care. However, little is known about the factors that prevent African immigrant men living in the United States from seeking prostate cancer …
Ethical Leadership Effects On Medical Laboratory Personnel Accountability Behaviors, Claude-Marthe Daverdine Cherizard
Ethical Leadership Effects On Medical Laboratory Personnel Accountability Behaviors, Claude-Marthe Daverdine Cherizard
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Ethical scandals have continued to generate disturbances in the corporate world and have encouraged ethics studies in organizations. Research has shown there is a relationship between ethical leadership and employee accountability in a variety of organizational settings, including healthcare. However, in medical laboratories that relationship has not been explored. A quantitative study was conducted to examine if medical laboratory employee perceptions of manager ethical leadership was associated with their own accountability behavior. A total of 69 participants responded online to three instruments to measure the study variables: ethical leadership was assessed by the Ethical Leadership at Work Questionnaire, employee accountability …
Lived Experiences Of African American Women Climbing The Corporate Ladder For Executive Positions In Healthcare Administration, Oriaku Hampton Sowell
Lived Experiences Of African American Women Climbing The Corporate Ladder For Executive Positions In Healthcare Administration, Oriaku Hampton Sowell
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
The need for strong African American leadership and increased diversity remains a significant challenge in healthcare. While the issue of women in executive healthcare leadership has gained awareness, they remain underrepresented in the industry. A qualitative descriptive phenomenological study collected data from 12 participants through semistructured in-depth interviews. In this study, the experiences and perceptions of African American women regarding the limited number of women being promoted to executive roles were examined. The glass ceiling and critical race theories were the theoretical foundation used to cultivate a voice for African American women who aspire to healthcare executive roles. However, findings …
A Journey To Finding Space In The Tension: Experience Of Instructors' Relationship With Religion And Spirituality In Doctoral Psychology Programs, Samantha Mcgee
Antioch University Dissertations & Theses
Religion and spirituality, when viewed through a holistic lens, can reflect important aspects of a person’s identity. It can be a source of well-being and also struggle. The fields of religion, spirituality and psychology have had a history of being polarized, with some efforts to integrate the two fields. Tensions exist at multiple ecological levels around the topic of religion and spirituality, which can make it easier to avoid discussing it in classrooms and therapy rooms. It is important to address and create room for discussion of experiences around religion and spirituality in classrooms that are training psychologists so they …
Notices, Editorial Office
Notices, Editorial Office
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
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Recent Publications, Editorial Office
Recent Publications, Editorial Office
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
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Thinking, Meaning, And Truth: Arendt On Heidegger And The Possibility Of Critique, Jennifer Gaffney
Thinking, Meaning, And Truth: Arendt On Heidegger And The Possibility Of Critique, Jennifer Gaffney
Philosophy: Faculty Publications and Other Works
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Casting And Splinting Options For Pseudo-Jones Avulsion Fractures: An Evidence-To-Practice Review, Amber M. Kingsley, Aysha B. Reyes, Zachary K. Winkelmann
Casting And Splinting Options For Pseudo-Jones Avulsion Fractures: An Evidence-To-Practice Review, Amber M. Kingsley, Aysha B. Reyes, Zachary K. Winkelmann
Clinical Practice in Athletic Training
Avulsion fractures of the fifth metatarsal bone occur when a portion of the bone is broken or pulled off the rest of the bone. These fractures are often seen in athletes, especially those of a young age. Avulsion fractures of the fifth metatarsal bone are commonly treated non-surgically with immobilization of the foot. There are several different options for immobilization of the foot with no clear result as to which immobilization method is the most effective. The purpose of this evidence-to-practice review was to summarize a systematic review on comparative outcomes of immobilization interventions on avulsion fractures of the fifth …
"What's In A Name?”: The Use Of Instructional Design In Overcoming Terminology Barriers Associated With Dark Patterns, Andrea Curley, Damian Gordon, Dympna O'Sullivan
"What's In A Name?”: The Use Of Instructional Design In Overcoming Terminology Barriers Associated With Dark Patterns, Andrea Curley, Damian Gordon, Dympna O'Sullivan
Conference Papers
Many users experience a phenomena when they are shopping on-line where they feel they are being pressured to either spend more money than they had intended, or to share more personal data than they wanted. In academic circles we use the term “Dark Patterns” to describe these deceptive practices, and categorize them as being within the discipline of User Experience (Narayanan, 2020). As academics it is important to name phenomena, and to categorize them, so that we can discuss and analyze these issues. However, this particular topic is one that all users should be made aware of when interacting online, …
มโนทัศน์ประชาธิปไตยของฌอง-ลุค นองซี, กมลกา จิตตรุทธะ
มโนทัศน์ประชาธิปไตยของฌอง-ลุค นองซี, กมลกา จิตตรุทธะ
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
วิทยานิพนธ์นี้มีวัตถุประสงค์ในการศึกษามโนทัศน์ประชาธิปไตยของฌอง-ลุค นองซีซึ่งถูกปรับแปลงใหม่ผ่านมโนทัศน์ทางภววิทยาของนองซีและการตีความเหตุการณ์พฤษภาคม 1968 ในฝรั่งเศส นองซีนิยามประชาธิปไตยว่าหมายถึงคอมมิวนิสซึมอันเป็นมโนทัศน์ที่ถูกปรับแปลงเช่นกันและให้ความสำคัญกับการเป็นอยู่-ร่วม-กันอย่างเป็นเอกพหุสภาวะของประชาชนทั่วไปโดยปราศจากฐานรากและการกำหนดล่วงหน้าใด ๆ ทว่าธำรงไว้ซึ่งความแตกต่างหลากหลายผ่านการสร้างและแบ่งปัน “โลก” ร่วมกัน เพื่อให้อำนาจอธิปไตยเป็นของประชาชนอย่างแท้จริงอีกครั้ง โดยที่กระบวนการทั้งหมดนี้เป็นการขั้วตรงข้ามของความคิดทางปรัชญาระหว่างการสร้างตำนานและการตกลงสู่สุญนิยม
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ทฤษฎีความเชื่อใจที่ไม่ใช่แบบรู้คิดกับการกระทำร่วมระหว่างคนแปลกหน้า, กานต์ วศินสมบัติ
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
วิทยานิพนธ์ฉบับนี้ศึกษาคำอธิบายเรื่องความเชื่อใจจากทฤษฎีแบบรู้คิดและทฤษฎีที่ไม่ใช่แบบรู้คิด เพื่อตอบคำถามว่าความเชื่อใจในความหมายใดที่สามารถนำไปสู่ปฏิสัมพันธ์แบบการกระทำร่วมระหว่างคนแปลกหน้าได้ กรณีปฏิสัมพันธ์ระหว่างคนแปลกหน้าที่วิทยานิพนธ์นี้สนใจคือเมื่อฝ่ายหนึ่งเป็นผู้มาเยือนในถิ่นฐานใหม่ ฝ่ายที่มาใหม่จำเป็นจะต้องได้รับความร่วมมือจากคนท้องถิ่น แต่คนท้องถิ่นไม่มีความจำเป็นต้องร่วมมือด้วยกับผู้ที่มาใหม่นั้น คำอธิบายแบบทฤษฎีเกมกล่าวว่าพวกเขาสามารถที่จะร่วมมือกันได้บนฐานที่พบว่าความร่วมมือนั้นจะนำไปสู่ผลประโยชน์สูงสุดแก่แต่ละฝ่ายโดยต่างตอบแทนซึ่งกันและกัน แต่คนแปลกหน้าในกรณีที่ศึกษานี้ ต่างฝ่ายต่างย่อมมิอาจรู้ได้ว่าการร่วมมือกับอีกฝ่ายหนึ่งนั้นจะตอบสนองต่อผลประโยชน์ที่พึงปรารถนาเมื่อมีการปฏิสัมพันธ์เกิดขึ้นระหว่างกันได้หรือไม่ คำอธิบายของทฤษฎีแบบรู้คิดของรัสเซลล์ ฮาร์ดินกล่าวว่าการเชื่อใจเกิดขึ้นได้เมื่อบุคคลหนึ่งมีคุณสมบัติไว้ใจได้ที่เกิดจากการถูกกำกับโดยเงื่อนไขทางสถาบันเช่น กฎหมาย และเงื่อนไขทางสังคมที่มีอยู่ในสังคมที่จูงใจอยู่ แต่คนแปลกหน้าในกรณีที่ศึกษานี้ ฝ่ายหนึ่งถูกกำกับโดยเงื่อนไขทางกฎหมายและสังคม ขณะที่อีกฝ่ายหนึ่งจะเข้ามาสู่การกำกับโดยเงื่อนไขนี้ได้จำเป็นต้องได้รับความเชื่อใจก่อน การกำกับดังกล่าวจึงไม่อาจใช้เป็นพื้นฐานให้สำหรับความเชื่อใจ คำอธิบายของมารูซิคกล่าวว่าการเชื่อใจเกิดขึ้นได้โดยการเห็นคนที่ถูกเชื่อใจในฐานะที่เขาเป็นผู้กระทำผู้ที่ตั้งมั่นที่จะทำบางสิ่งให้สำเร็จ แต่สำหรับมารูซิคคนที่จะถูกมองเห็นเช่นนี้ได้ต้องเป็นผู้ที่อยู่ในความสัมพันธ์กับผู้ที่เชื่อใจตนอยู่แล้ว คำอธิบายแบบทฤษฎีที่ไม่ใช่แบบรู้คิดของแบร์อ้างจากความเปราะบางซึ่งจะทำให้การมอบความเชื่อใจให้เป็นการสูญเสียการควบคุมซึ่งคนมีเหตุมีผลอาจจะต้องการหลีกเลี่ยง ส่วนคำอธิบายของโจนส์กล่าวว่าการเชื่อใจคือการมีจุดยืนในทางบวกต่อเจตนาดีและความสามารถของผู้อื่นที่ก่อตัวได้เองจากพื้นฐานที่ไม่ใช่หลักฐานตามปรกติ ทำให้สามารถตอบสนองเงื่อนไขเรื่องความมีเหตุมีผลเชิงความเชื่อและความมีเหตุมีผลเชิงปฏิบัติสำหรับทั้งฝ่ายผู้มาเยือนและคนท้องถิ่นได้
อิสรภาพและการเล่นในคัมภีร์จวงจื่อ, ธนวัฒน์ วุฒิศิริศาสตร์
อิสรภาพและการเล่นในคัมภีร์จวงจื่อ, ธนวัฒน์ วุฒิศิริศาสตร์
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
วิทยานิพนธ์เล่มนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษามโนทัศน์อิสรภาพและการเล่นในคัมภีร์จวงจื่อ และเสนอว่ากรอบวิเคราะห์การเล่นใน 6 แง่มุมความหมายของการเล่นในคัมภีร์จวงจื่อ อันได้แก่ การเล่นในฐานะการกระทำ การเล่นในฐานะการมีปฏิสัมพันธ์ การเล่นในฐานะกิจกรรม การเล่นในฐานะท่าที การเล่นในฐานะประสบการณ์ และการเล่นในฐานะบริบท การวิเคราะห์การเล่นใน 6 แง่มุมดังกล่าวจะช่วยขับเน้นความเข้าใจต่อมโนทัศน์อิสรภาพในคัมภีร์จวงจื่อได้ชัดเจนว่า มิได้มีเพียงมิติเดียว นั่นคือ อิสรภาพในเชิงการคิดและอารมณ์ความรู้สึกซึ่งผ่านกระบวนการแปรเปลี่ยนทางจิตวิญญาณเพียงเท่านั้น แต่ยังมีอีกมิติและโดดเด่นด้วยการเล่น นั่นคือ อิสรภาพที่เกี่ยวข้องกับการจัดการชีวิตและสิ่งแวดล้อมเพื่อบรรลุเป้าหมายบางอย่าง โดยวิทยานิพนธ์เล่มนี้ชี้ให้เห็นถึงความเชื่อมโยงระหว่างการเล่นและอิสรภาวะของผู้เล่น หรือ มนุษย์ที่แท้ว่า การฝึกฝนการเล่นเป็นการเสริมอำนาจให้คนทั่วไป ตลอดจนคนต้อยต่ำสามารถ “ปรับใช้” และส่งผ่านความชำนาญในการเล่นอันมีความว่างเป็นลักษณะสำคัญไปสู่การเล่นในพื้นที่ส่วนตัวสู่พื้นที่การเมืองที่ใหญ่ขึ้นได้ มนุษย์ที่แท้ผู้สามารถเล่นได้อย่างแท้จริงย่อมสามารถยังผลสำเร็จได้ในทุกพื้นที่ที่ตนเข้าไปเกี่ยวข้องและผดุงชีวิตตนและสิ่งที่ร่วมเล่นเอาไว้ได้ สุดท้ายนี้ การเล่นเป็นข้อเสนอของจวงจื่อที่เชิญชวนมนุษย์ปลดเปลื้องพันธนาการต่างๆ ซึ่งส่วนมากจำกัดโดยความรู้และชุดความเข้าใจของตนให้เปิดกว้างต่อความเป็นไปได้ต่างๆ ในชีวิตท่ามกลางความแตกต่างหลากหลายอย่างขี้เล่น รื่นรมย์ และเปี่ยมด้วยอิสรภาวะ