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A Cultural Approach To Environmental Ethics: Milton, Nietzsche, And Indian Philosophy, Kenneth Lee Koenemann May 2023

A Cultural Approach To Environmental Ethics: Milton, Nietzsche, And Indian Philosophy, Kenneth Lee Koenemann

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

The aim of this M.A. thesis is to explore the way in which cultural factors have influenced humankind's relationship with the natural world, including plant life, animal life, and the ecology of planet Earth as a whole. While quantitative, scientific analysis provides objective evidence of global climate change that is being propelled by human activity, I argue that the religious and philosophical beliefs of individuals and societies has played, continues to play, and will continue to play an indelible role in the way in which humans consider other humans and the natural world at large. I focus primarily on Western …

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An Ethical Framework For Library Publishing Version 2.0, Tina Baich, Nina Collins, Jaime Ding, Abigail Gulya, Zoe Wake Hyde, Bernadette A. Lear, Joshua Neds-Fox, Charlotte Roh, Melanie Schlosser, Kate Shuttleworth, Christine Turner May 2023

An Ethical Framework For Library Publishing Version 2.0, Tina Baich, Nina Collins, Jaime Ding, Abigail Gulya, Zoe Wake Hyde, Bernadette A. Lear, Joshua Neds-Fox, Charlotte Roh, Melanie Schlosser, Kate Shuttleworth, Christine Turner

LPC Publications

Conceived at the Library Publishing Forum in 2017, the Ethical Framework for Library Publishing was a first-of-its-kind document for the LPC and the library publishing community. But remarkable social upheaval in the ensuing years, along with the continued maturation of our discipline, prompted the LPC to convene a task force to update the Framework for our current environment. What the task force developed, to our surprise, looks very little like the original document. An Ethical Framework for Library Publishing Version 2.0 is a true framework to help library publishers set an ethical baseline for their programs and activities. Consisting of …

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Reason And Rationality In The Post-Pandemic Era, Jordan David Schwanke May 2023

Reason And Rationality In The Post-Pandemic Era, Jordan David Schwanke

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

This paper investigates human reason’s proper function and role in the post-pandemic era. Sections 1 and 2 analyze recent literature on Kahneman’s dual processing theory and Hugo Mercier’s and Dan Sperber’s (M&S) interactionalist approach toward human reason. Kahneman’s theory cannot explain how System 2 is still prone to make serious mistakes, and M&S provide a more plausible alternative: reasoning is all intuitive. Humans can intuit reasons for their beliefs and intuitions. But more importantly, reason is the metarepresentational ability to evaluate the strengths or weaknesses of reasons and arguments. Reason, through the process of evolution, is fundamentally used for justification …

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Meta-Method Analysis On Therapists’ Experiences: An Inquiry Into Qualitative Psychotherapy Research Methodology, Javier L. Rizo May 2023

Meta-Method Analysis On Therapists’ Experiences: An Inquiry Into Qualitative Psychotherapy Research Methodology, Javier L. Rizo

Graduate Masters Theses

I conducted a meta-method study to explore the methodological and reporting characteristics of qualitative studies on therapists’ experiences conducting psychotherapy. Articles were identified through a PsycINFO search, and through a review of article text their methodological and reporting features were coded and quantitatively analyzed. Consideration was given to standards of qualitative research in psychology, especially methodological integrity. Results showed increases in the number of these qualitative studies from the 2000s onwards. This rise seems to be above that in psychology, but comparable to other psychotherapy literature. Publication characteristics of this body of literature, namely journal discipline and impact score, showed …

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The Call Of The Origin: On Christology, Conversion, And Peregrine Identity In Reiner Schürmann’S Early Work On Meister Eckhart, Francesco Guercio, Ian Alexander Moore May 2023

The Call Of The Origin: On Christology, Conversion, And Peregrine Identity In Reiner Schürmann’S Early Work On Meister Eckhart, Francesco Guercio, Ian Alexander Moore

Philosophy Faculty Works

In 1969, Reiner Schürmann submitted a thesis to the Dominican school of theology Le Saulchoir. It was titled Peregrine Identity: The Concept of Detachment in Meister Eckhart’s German Sermons. Three years later, Schürmann published Wandering Joy, his celebrated book on Eckhart. In this article, we examine four aspects of the earlier study that cannot, as such, be found in the later one: (1) the specifically Christological dimension of Eckhart’s teaching of detachment; (2) a logic of conversion at work in Eckhart and St. Francis; (3) Schürmann’s hermeneutics of the symbol; and (4) the practical outcomes of Heidegger’s ontological …

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The Chicken’S Too Fat To Cross The Road: Ethical Issues And Dangers Pertaining To Factory Farms, Michael J. Martinus May 2023

The Chicken’S Too Fat To Cross The Road: Ethical Issues And Dangers Pertaining To Factory Farms, Michael J. Martinus

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

In the mid-20th century, the meat industry implemented a method of rearing livestock called factory farming, which confined animals in close quarters until it was time for slaughter and allowed for more output with cheaper production methods. In modern-day unfortunately, factory farming is still used and treats their animals even worse; genetically modifying chickens until they can’t walk, the unrelenting impregnation of dairy cows, and forcing pigs to live in their own feces. Companies such as Tyson and JBS control about 85% of the meat industry and since their goal is to make the most profit with the least effort, …

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Artistic, Artworld, And Aesthetic Disobedience, Adam Burgos, Sheila Lintott May 2023

Artistic, Artworld, And Aesthetic Disobedience, Adam Burgos, Sheila Lintott

Faculty Journal Articles

Jonathan Neufeld proposes a concept of aesthetic disobedience that parallels the political concept of civil disobedience articulated by John Rawls in A Theory of Justice. The artistic transgressions he calls aesthetic disobedience are distinctive in being public and deliberative in their aim to bring about specific changes in accepted artworld norms. We argue that Neufeld has offered us valuable insight into the dynamic and potent nature of art and the artworld; however, we contend that Neufeld errs by constraining aesthetic disobedience to the artworld. Through a reconsideration of the parallel between aesthetic and civil disobedience, we illustrate how aesthetic disobedience …

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Paragons Of Art And Nature In Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetic Theory., Eduard Ghita May 2023

Paragons Of Art And Nature In Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetic Theory., Eduard Ghita

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation examines the interaction of nature and art as objects of aesthetic appreciation in eighteenth-century Britain, with special emphasis on the aesthetic theories of Anthony Ashley-Cooper-3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, Joseph Addison, and William Gilpin. Despite its openness to explore principles of aesthetics and concepts, such as beauty and sublimity, that were common to both nature and art, modern aesthetic theory framed the relation of art to nature hierarchically, an aspect captured by the term ‘paragon’. In this dissertation I trace a movement away from theories in which the superiority of nature to art was recognized (chapter 2 on Shaftesbury’s …

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The Well-Tempered Android: Philosophical Posthumanism In Science Fiction Cinema., Cody Gault May 2023

The Well-Tempered Android: Philosophical Posthumanism In Science Fiction Cinema., Cody Gault

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation examines philosophical posthumanism as a means for critical analysis of the interaction between humans and nonhuman androids in select science fiction cinematic universes. The interaction is analyzed through several facets, notably the interactions between humans and nonhuman androids, particularly as interactions between the human and nonhuman are often sites of violence. Chapter one is an introduction. Chapter two describes the development of philosophical posthumanism from humanism, also including an analysis of philosophical posthumanism, and how it can be used as a critical lens. Chapter three begins an analysis of science fiction cinema by examining the Blade Runner films …

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The Landscape Does Not Care It Is A Landscape: A Utopian Pessimist Journey In Kentucky., Shachaf Polakow May 2023

The Landscape Does Not Care It Is A Landscape: A Utopian Pessimist Journey In Kentucky., Shachaf Polakow

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

These thesis and exhibition, invite the viewers to travel through different places in Central and Eastern Kentucky. The region’s landscape, like many other American landscapes, is often known to the public through the settler colonial lens—a lens that ignores Indigenous peoples’ history in the region. The work in the exhibition is a response to landscape art's history and its complicity with American settler colonialism- art that was recruited to create a new identity for the settlers and for the country from the beginning of the American Colonial Project. Landscape art was a crucial part of this effort, presenting the land …

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Outside, Looking In: A Dissertation On Mindful Walking And How Green Exercise Affects State Mindfulness And Connectedness To Nature, Dustin Wyatt Davis May 2023

Outside, Looking In: A Dissertation On Mindful Walking And How Green Exercise Affects State Mindfulness And Connectedness To Nature, Dustin Wyatt Davis

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

INTRODUCTION: Mindfulness, green exercise, and connectedness to nature are increasingly popular topics among academics and the public. These three topics overlap in the underexplored area called mindful green exercise. Mindful green exercise is a blend of mindful exercise and green exercise. Mindful exercise is physical exercise during which people pay attention on purpose without judgment to each new present moment. The person applies an accepting awareness to internal phenomena (thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations) and external phenomena (objects and events in the environment). Green exercise is exercise performed outdoors in natural environments. Despite its name, green exercise does not only …

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“I Chose To Look Like This”: Body Modification And Regretting Visibility, Stephen Ross May 2023

“I Chose To Look Like This”: Body Modification And Regretting Visibility, Stephen Ross

All Theses

I began collecting tattoos and piercings just after I turned eighteen. As my collection grows and it becomes harder for me to conceal my modifications, I must contend each and every day with the ways in which my body is Othered by my choice to look different. Body modification is self-actualizing for so many, but it can position someone to be stared at, to be physically violated, to be tokenized, or to be vilified. This current project dissects a few key literature areas, from body modification history to the contemporary politics of modification to aesthetic and spectacular philosophy, with the …

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Social Reproduction And Covid-19, Caroline I. Donovan May 2023

Social Reproduction And Covid-19, Caroline I. Donovan

Dartmouth College Master’s Theses

As Covid-19 rips across the world we are collectively asked to examine the structures of society to see what is working and what we can change. What can we learn from the roughly 6.9 million deaths (and counting) worldwide? How can we prevent something like this from happening again? This paper follows the course of Covid-19 from its birth in Wuhan, China, to the present day of mid-April 2023. By looking at the ways in which we have reacted to the pandemic, we are able to look forward and imagine new ways of tackling future pandemics and other pressing problems …

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Becoming The Imperfect Friend: Sḵwx̱Wú7mesh And Contemplative Pathways To Healing And Reconciliation In Higher Education, Denise Marie Findlay Apr 2023

Becoming The Imperfect Friend: Sḵwx̱Wú7mesh And Contemplative Pathways To Healing And Reconciliation In Higher Education, Denise Marie Findlay

Journal of Contemplative and Holistic Education

Throughout this reflective essay I explore Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Indigenous philosophy and contemplative education as ethical pathways to healing and reconciliation in higher education. I put forth the idea of becoming the imperfect friend in a world ethos of death by a thousand cuts as a response to the violence of colonialism perpetuated in academia. I reflect on the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh values of eslhélha7kwhiws and stélmexw as contemplative dispositions that lend themselves to the process of becoming the imperfect friend. I conclude by describing a Sḵwx̱wú7mesh -led program hosted by Simon Fraser University (SFU) in 2022-2023, named Moving Together In The Ways …

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Kebijakan Israel Dan Dampaknya Terhadap Cara Hidup Suku Badui Di Negev, Irena Arifa Khairunnisa, Suranta Abdul Rahman Apr 2023

Kebijakan Israel Dan Dampaknya Terhadap Cara Hidup Suku Badui Di Negev, Irena Arifa Khairunnisa, Suranta Abdul Rahman

Multikultura

Perubahan budaya nomaden Suku Badui Negev dipengaruh oleh beberapa faktor eksternal. Artikel ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis faktor-faktor yang memengaruhi fenomena tersebut, seperti adanya kebijakan Israel terhadap cara hidup Badui di Negev, yang pada awalnya dapat berkelana dengan bebas di padang gurun yang luas, sejak pembangunan Negara Israel pada 1948, semuanya berubah drastis. Transisi ini bahkan dibersamai dengan sengketa kepemilikan lahan yang terjadi antara Badui Negev dan pemerintah Israel. Suku Badui di Negev tidak lagi bisa berpindah-pindah seperti sebelumnya. Mereka mulai mengalami perubahan mulai dari pranata kehidupan, peran kaum laki-laki dan perempuan dalam ruang domestik, serta bentuk tempat tinggal mereka.

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Representasi Nilai Moral Kemanusiaan Dalam Iklan Ramadhan - Month Of Mercy – Almara’I Emotional Commercial 2015: Sebuah Analisis Semiotika, Indy Alyssa Mumtaza, Letmiros Letmiros Apr 2023

Representasi Nilai Moral Kemanusiaan Dalam Iklan Ramadhan - Month Of Mercy – Almara’I Emotional Commercial 2015: Sebuah Analisis Semiotika, Indy Alyssa Mumtaza, Letmiros Letmiros

Multikultura

Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk meneliti tentang representasi nilai moral kemanusiaan yang terkandung dalam iklan Ramadhan - Month of Mercy – Almara’i Emotional Commercial yang dirilis pada 29 Juni 2015 lalu. Almara’i adalah salah satu perusahaan makanan dan minuman terbesar di Arab Saudi yang berdiri tahun 1977 mengiklankan produk-produknya, di antaranya melalui situs YouTube. Iklan yang sudah ditonton oleh lebih dari 70 ribu kali ini berisi nilai-nilai moral kemanusiaan baik yang tersurat maunpun yang tersirat. Melalui iklan ini, penulis akan menganalisis nilai-nilai moral kemanusiaan yang direpresentasikan melalui beberapa adegan dan cuplikan yang ditampilkan dalam iklan ini dengan pendekatan Semiotika beserta …

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Leksem Makara Dengan Turunannya Dalam Al-Qur’An Dan Kata Makar Dalam Bahasa Indonesia, Diana Fajrin Mardhiyyah, Basuni Imamuddin Apr 2023

Leksem Makara Dengan Turunannya Dalam Al-Qur’An Dan Kata Makar Dalam Bahasa Indonesia, Diana Fajrin Mardhiyyah, Basuni Imamuddin

Multikultura

Penelitian ini menganalisis makna leksem makara yang terdapat di dalam bahasa Arab dan Al-Qur’an, dan makna kata makar yang terdapat pada bahasa Indonesia. Penelitian ini dilatarbelakangi leksem makara yang diserap ke dalam Bahasa Indonesia tidak memiliki makna ‘menjatuhkan Pemerintah’ atau berasosiasi dengan politik. Untuk membuktikan leksem makara tidak memiliki makna ‘menjatuhkan Pemerintah’, seluruh leksem makara dan derivasinya di dalam Al-Qur’an yang berjumlah 43 tidak memiliki makna tersebut. Penelitian dilakukan dengan metode kualitatif dan studi pustaka dengan tahapan identifikasi, klasifikasi, analisis, dan penarikan kesimpulan. Teori yang digunakan di dalam penelitian ini adalah teori perubahan makna dari Abdul Chaer dan komponen makna …

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Pengaruh Anime Yuru Camp Terhadap Pariwisata Perfektur Yamanashi, Alisa Nur Rachmawati, Didit Dwi Subagio Apr 2023

Pengaruh Anime Yuru Camp Terhadap Pariwisata Perfektur Yamanashi, Alisa Nur Rachmawati, Didit Dwi Subagio

Multikultura

Pemerintah Jepang melakukan berbagai upaya untuk mempromosikan pariwisata. Anime merupakan salah satu bentuk dari budaya populer yang berperan sebagai media promosi oleh pemerintah Jepang dalam upaya tersebut. Salah satunya adalah anime Yuru Camp yang diluncurkan pada tahun 2018. Yuru Camp adalah anime yang bertema kemah dan kegiatan outdoor pada musim dingin. Anime ini menstimulus penontonnya untuk berkunjung ke perfektur Yamanashi. Penelitian ini akan membahas mengenai upaya yang dilakukan guna mengembangkan pariwisata Yamanashi serta dampak dari kerjasama tersebut. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah mengkaji seberapa besar pengaruh anime Yuru Camp terhadap pariwisata perfektur Yamanashi. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah kualitatif …

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Fenomena Godoksa (Meninggal Dalam Kesendirian) Di Korea Selatan Dalam Drama Move To Heaven, Ella Cipta Dewi, Euis Sulastri Apr 2023

Fenomena Godoksa (Meninggal Dalam Kesendirian) Di Korea Selatan Dalam Drama Move To Heaven, Ella Cipta Dewi, Euis Sulastri

Multikultura

Fenomena meninggal dalam kesendirian (MDK) kini kian menjadi masalah sosial utama di Korea Selatan. Fenomena MDK merupakan keadaan ketika seseorang yang tinggal sendiri, terputus hubungannya dari keluarga atau kerabat, meninggal sendirian dan jasadnya ditemukan setelah jangka waktu tertentu berlalu. Fenomena ini menunjukkan lemahnya ikatan sosial atau solidaritas dalam masyarakat Korea Selatan. Isu ini diangkat ke dalam berbagai karya sastra, salah satunya drama Korea. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menjelaskan bagaimana fenomena MDK dan eksklusi sosial pada korban MDK digambarkan dalam drama Move to Heaven. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode deskriptif kualitatif dengan konsep eksklusi sosial untuk menganalisis gambaran fenomena MDK melalui gambar …

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Analisis Mono No Aware Dalam Film Animasi Kono Sekai Nokatasumi Ni Karya Sunao Katabuchi, Fathia Aufa Syahidah, Thufail Akhdan Zaki, Ilma Sawindra Janti Apr 2023

Analisis Mono No Aware Dalam Film Animasi Kono Sekai Nokatasumi Ni Karya Sunao Katabuchi, Fathia Aufa Syahidah, Thufail Akhdan Zaki, Ilma Sawindra Janti

Multikultura

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui mono no awareness yang terdapat dalam film “Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni” atau “In This Corner of the World” dengan bantuan teori mise en scène. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah pendekatan metode analisis deskriptif. Lima adegan dengan empat belas foto terlampir dari film ini digunakan sebagai sampel data untuk analisis. Hasil analisis yang diperoleh menunjukkan bahwa seluruh data yang diambil dari film tersebut mengandung mono no awareness di dalamnya. Mise en scène yang terdapat dalam adegan tersebut sebagian besar memiliki pencahayaan lembut (matahari) yang memberikan kesan lembut dan sedih pada adegan tersebut. Secara …

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Akulturasi Budaya Belanda Dan Indonesia Di Restoran H.E.M.A. Tis Square Tebet, Khalisya Zahwa Rachmadina, Fajar Muhammad Nugraha Apr 2023

Akulturasi Budaya Belanda Dan Indonesia Di Restoran H.E.M.A. Tis Square Tebet, Khalisya Zahwa Rachmadina, Fajar Muhammad Nugraha

Multikultura

Indonesia dan Belanda dikenal memiliki banyak keterkaitan karena adanya kontak secara terus-menerus pada masa lampau sehingga terdapat berbagai dampak dalam berbagai aspek. Salah satu aspek yang terdampak hingga saat ini adalah budaya, seperti pada restoran-restoran Belanda di Indonesia yang melakukan akulturasi budaya. Penelitian ini dibuat dengan tujuan untuk mengetahui upaya penyesuaian budaya dalam bentuk akulturasi apa yang telah dilakukan oleh Restoran H.E.M.A. TIS Square Tebet dan bagaimana respon dari para pengunjung terhadap akulturasi yang dilakukan. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan teori akulturasi oleh Redfield, Linton, dan Herskovits melalui pendekatan studi kasus yaitu mengumpulkan data dengan mengobservasi objek yang diteliti …

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Tari Toga Dari Nagari Siguntur Dharmasraya: Eksistensi Dan Pelestarian 1990–2022, Hendra Naldi, Yelda Syafrina, Diana Putri Nengsi, Erniwati Erniwati Apr 2023

Tari Toga Dari Nagari Siguntur Dharmasraya: Eksistensi Dan Pelestarian 1990–2022, Hendra Naldi, Yelda Syafrina, Diana Putri Nengsi, Erniwati Erniwati

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

This article report the study of traditional dance in Siguntur Dharmasraya, West Sumatra. Marhasnida, a cultural activist from Nagari Siguntur, created the toga dance. This article explains how the dance was created, developed, and performed from stage to stage and passed on to the younger generation for preservation. This historical research observed and analyzed the actions of an individual closely related to the development of toga dance. Data were obtained through observation, interviews, and tracing of personal archives pertaining to various aspects of the dance, including its history and movements. This research found (1) that Marhasnida has been involved in …

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Geurae Sebagai Pemarkah Wacana Dalam Percakapan Bahasa Korea, Mellyana Murtanu, Usmi Usmi Apr 2023

Geurae Sebagai Pemarkah Wacana Dalam Percakapan Bahasa Korea, Mellyana Murtanu, Usmi Usmi

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

In Korean, the word geurae is positioned as an exclamation in a sentence. Its use in oral communication has diverse meanings and functions. Previous research shows that, apart from conveying its basic meaning, the word geurae is also often used as a discourse marker (DM), especially in a conversation. DMs are words used by speakers to express their feelings and view about the contents of a conversation to a speech partner. The purpose of this study was to analyze the form, meaning, and function of the word geurae as a DM in Korean conversations. This literature study is linguistics description …

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Review Of Socrates In The City: Conversations On “Life, God, And Other Small Topics”, Crystal Hurd Apr 2023

Review Of Socrates In The City: Conversations On “Life, God, And Other Small Topics”, Crystal Hurd

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Eric Metaxas, ed., Socrates in the City: Conversations on “Life, God, and Other Small Topics” (Boston, 2011). 400 pages. Kindle Edition $7.99. ISBN: 9780525952558.

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Review Of The Mind And The Machine: What It Means To Be Human And Why It Matters, Aku Visala Apr 2023

Review Of The Mind And The Machine: What It Means To Be Human And Why It Matters, Aku Visala

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Matthew Dickerson, The Mind and the Machine: What It Means to Be Human and Why It Matters (Grand Rapids, 2011). 230 pages. Kindle edition $9.99. ISBN: 978158743272-9.

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Recasting The Discarded Image: C. S. Lewis On The Modern Side, Sanford Schwartz Apr 2023

Recasting The Discarded Image: C. S. Lewis On The Modern Side, Sanford Schwartz

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Excerpt: It is then something of a simplification to see Lewis as a “dinosaur” out of step with his own time. As a modern apologist he managed to retain the framework of the multi-level medieval model, but only with the assistance of credible modern sources that challenge the hegemony of the one-story “developmental” model of evolutionary naturalism. The threetier hierarchy – material, organic, spiritual – that arose out of the turnof- the-century revolt against positivism provided a means of exposing the reductive tendencies of the naturalistic orientation and affirming a traditional conception of the Supernatural that transcends natural order. The …

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Combating Systemic Racism With Truth Commissions, Katherine E. Miles Apr 2023

Combating Systemic Racism With Truth Commissions, Katherine E. Miles

Theses

The main form of justice practiced in the United States when it comes to criminal proceedings and individual wrongdoings is a form of justice called Retributive Justice. Retributive justice is committed to following these three principles, 1: that those who commit certain kinds of wrongful acts, morally deserve to suffer an equivalent punishment; 2: that it is intrinsically morally good—good without reference to any other goods if some legitimate punisher gives them the punishment they deserve; and 3: that it is morally impermissible to punish the innocent intentionally or to inflict disproportionately large punishments on offenders. From the three principles …

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Nature Or Natures Or Natural Laws? Some Comments On C.S. Lewis's Use Of The Concept Of Nature In Miracles, A Preliminary Study, Thomas Storck Apr 2023

Nature Or Natures Or Natural Laws? Some Comments On C.S. Lewis's Use Of The Concept Of Nature In Miracles, A Preliminary Study, Thomas Storck

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Now, although Lewis, of course, did not think that nature was a closed system inaccessible to any action from outside it, and in fact, his entire book was written to argue the opposite point of view, I hope to show that this continual usage of nature as “total system” prejudices the argument against miracles, at least subconsciously, by suggesting that nature is a closed system, or at least a system which ordinarily is blocked to outside entry or interference. Thus, David Hume’s unfortunately classic definition— “A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature . . .”6—is premised on …

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Part Of The Team: Effecting Change And Sharing Power In Healthcare Settings, Jessica Stanier, Rachel Purtell, Dave Thomas, William Murray Apr 2023

Part Of The Team: Effecting Change And Sharing Power In Healthcare Settings, Jessica Stanier, Rachel Purtell, Dave Thomas, William Murray

Patient Experience Journal

In 2019, we, as a group of patients and researchers, were invited to rethink how the executive board received and responded to patient stories at a specific NHS hospital trust in the UK. Through an iterative series of meetings, we were able to co-identify common concerns and together develop a distinctive narrative framework for effecting change by sharing patient experiences. This narrative framework is designed to help patients position themselves as ‘part of their healthcare team,’ emphasising roles and responsibilities between patients and health practitioners to compare ideals with reality in patient experiences. While the project was promising, several factors …

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The Gladius And The Katana: Viewing The Seven Samurai Through The Lens Of Roman Stoicism, Joseph White Apr 2023

The Gladius And The Katana: Viewing The Seven Samurai Through The Lens Of Roman Stoicism, Joseph White

Honors College Theses

This paper examines the concepts of traditional Bushido and Roman Stoicism as they relate to the unique interpretation of Bushido by Akira Kurosawa in the movie the Seven Samurai. I explain the main concepts of Bushido and Roman Stoicism, focusing upon the virtues of each, and their connection to Kurosawa’s view on how Bushido should be practiced. I then draw similarities between these two ways of life. I examine how the genre of film dealing with samurai deals with this question.

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