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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Axiology"”.
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An enquiry into Nicolai Hartmann's appreciation of Nietzsche's axiology
In a world and a time when man is confronted with but one ultimate choice: either a return to self-responsibility or the annihilation of life, in which, because of his now proverbial technical ascendancy and its train of spiritual impoverishment, he can indeed neglect to relearn the ability of …
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Axiology-based modeling and valuation for human-centered and value-sensitive building design
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2018-12-01
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A Theory of the Animate Form of Literary Art: Kind-normativity, Criticism, and Axiology
In this dissertation, I ask whether the possibility of experiencing a work of literary art as literature is conditioned by concept of literature or whether we can just get on with reading literature without such a concept. I begin with the question: is a concept of literary art necessary? I explore …
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Parental involvement: an examination of principal sensemaking to engage low-income and/or minority parents
… emerged related to principals’ epistemology, axiology, and ontology that influence principals’ current commitments, sensemaking, and leadership actions in practice. The strongest emerging themes related to epistemology associate with personal family experiences and influential individuals. The …
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Exploring archive value: an axiological approach
… from outside of the archival discipline – from axiology – this concept can be examined in an innovative and reflective manner. The evaluation of archives is a core activity for archivists. Archivists make value judgements when they decide what to keep and what to destroy, and in how they choose …
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An analysis of epistemology in the book of Proverbs in relationship to the sources of knowledge used in evangelical Sunday School curriculum
… known as metaphysics, epistemology and axiology. Most research focused on the areas of metaphysics and axiology while very little study concentrated on epistemology, leaving a gap of knowledge in curriculum development. By the term epistemology, the study looked at only one question from …
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A Lakota/Nakota/Dakota Model Of Oratory
… Native-specific epistemology, ontology and axiology played a central role in forming and supporting the function of communication as well as the speaking conventions that continue to be used today. These culturally-based patterns and structures present both challenges and opportunities that …
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Some German influences in American philosophical thought from 1800-1850
… metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, axiology, religion, and politics. [TRUNCATED]
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Derrida, Deconstruction and a Dialogue on the Contemporary Nursing Curriculum
… the philosophy of epistemology, ontology and axiology.
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Love and ecology as an integrative force for good and as resistance to the commodification of nature and planetary harms: Introducing Fluminism.
… are inseperable (Milton), and in terms of axiology, love is largely incommensurable with commodification and, therefore, I propose Fluministic love serves to resist the debasing of nature by market force. I defend the use of neologisms and introduce Spring Theory to help redefine human …
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The creative dance of love and consciousness: an integral, phenomenological inquiry into the experiences of belonging and not-belonging
… approach to method incorporates a Participatory axiology and leans upon Gendlin's philosophy for its interpretative framework. The thesis considers some of the complex individual and social phenomena which are implicit to a sense of alienation and the behaviour of marginalisation, as well as …
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Perspectives on occupational therapy transformation in South Africa
… the impetus for which is seen to reside in the axiology of the profession, starting with the morn! values, attitudes and beliefs of individual practitioners and moving towards a collectively revisioned professional ontology. It is proposed that the ·identification, analysis and resuscitation of …
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Retention of lecturers at the university of Zambia, 1990 to 2016.
… onion and it showed epistemology, ontology and axiology. There were 113 respondents who were purposively sampled using probability and non-probability sampling procedures. Administrators and lecturers were sampled in order to provide quantitative data through questionnaires. Qualitative data was …
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Retention of lecturers at the university of Zambia, 1990 to 2016.
… onion and it showed epistemology, ontology and axiology. There were 113 respondents who were purposively sampled using probability and non-probability sampling procedures. Administrators and lecturers were sampled in order to provide quantitative data through questionnaires. Qualitative data was …
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A theory of value in design
… from a value perspective in terms of axiology, economics, psychology, sociology, value interpretations across disciplines, and value types; and from a design perspective in terms of value interpretations in design, product and process value management, economic value of design, and …
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John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism and Liberalism as Virtue and Character
… of utility” (as the utilitarian principle of axiology) provides the theoretical foundation for what Mill calls “the ultimate principle of teleology” (as the utilitarian principle of practical reason), which, in turn, serves as the basis on which all human actions are to be pursued, in …
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The normative structure of science, hermeneutics, and leisure experience
… nature, methods, and limits of knowledge), and axiology (the over-riding goals of a paradi~m). This model can be used to evaluate the "internal consistency" of the various commitments adopted by research programs and to match assumptions about the phenomena being studied to appropriate …
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An Afrocentric analysis of social entrepreneurship as a tool for development in Johannesburg, South Africa
… tied to modernity, whose basic epistemology and axiology are not always reconcilable with local epistemologies. On the other hand, flourishing allows societies to define their unique trajectories of progress such as ubumbano/letsema – a concept embracing collective progress instead of individual …
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The impact of Self-Generated Images in online pornography
… ontology, epistemology, research paradigms and axiology, ethical underpinnings, practical considerations, and the strengths and limitations of methods chosen. In the third section, chapters six-to-eight, the study’s key findings include a taxonomy of the six main types of SGI. Passive SGI …
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