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Substantial Unity And Living Things In Aristotle, Errol G. Katayama
Substantial Unity And Living Things In Aristotle, Errol G. Katayama
Philosophy and Religion Faculty Scholarship
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Inter-Generational Youth Ministry And The Solution To Volunteers, Steve R. Vandegriff
Inter-Generational Youth Ministry And The Solution To Volunteers, Steve R. Vandegriff
SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations
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Reports Relating To The Fifty-Ninth Annual Meeting Of The Society, James A. Borland
Reports Relating To The Fifty-Ninth Annual Meeting Of The Society, James A. Borland
SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations
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Memorials 2008, James A. Borland
Memorials 2008, James A. Borland
SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations
No abstract provided.
Adam Smith And His Sources: The Evil Of Independence, Sandra J. Peart, David M. Levy
Adam Smith And His Sources: The Evil Of Independence, Sandra J. Peart, David M. Levy
Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications
This paper explores the foundations of Adam Smith’s view that the philosopher is the same as the street porter. Despite their innate similarity, Smith recognized that the role of the philosopher, someone who provides useful instruction to fellow humans, is not that of the street porter (Pear and Levy 2005; Schliesser 2005, 2006). He also saw that this potentially useful employment may entail a biased perspective on human conduct. Motivated by matters too distant for ordinary people to notice, the philosopher may come to believe that he is better than those he studies and to regard himself as independent form …
A Conversation On Theodicy, Martin Zwick
A Conversation On Theodicy, Martin Zwick
Systems Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
The following is a dialog, published in The Global Spiral, January 9, 2008, about the idea of a systems-theoretic 'secular theodicy,' discussed in the author's "Towards an Ontology of Problems," "Understanding lmperfection," and (exemplified in a preliminary way in) "Incompleteness, Negation, and Hazard: On the Precariousness of Systems." The dialog was inspired by Susan Neiman's Evil in Modem Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy, Princeton University Press, 2002.