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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"B Athroniaeth (Cyffredinol)"”.
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The Dichotomy Between Private and Public Spaces has Lost its Relevance as an Arbiter of Legitimate Expectations of Privacy.
There has been a traditional distinction in both philosophical and legal discussion between the different expectations of privacy that apply in public spaces and private spaces. This dissertation argues that this dichotomy has always been more ambiguous than commonly presumed and has become even …
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Soteriological Apprehension in Modern Religious Thought: From John Hick to Contemporary Cognitive and Affective Approaches
This dissertation examines the extent to which differences in religious interpretation arise not primarily from doctrinal divergence, but from historically conditioned cognitive and affective frameworks through which human experience is structured and evaluated. Taking the pluralistic philosophy of …
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A Review of the Principal Questions in Richard Price’s Moral Intuitionism
Richard Price (1723-1791) was a Welsh philosopher who defended, among other views, what contemporary philosophers would label as “intuitionism.” Adherence to this metaethical theory assumes, at minimum, the following: 1) Moral claims can be true stance independently, or, in other words, morality …
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How Ought We to Justify our Moral Judgements?
What counts as a good defence of a moral judgement? In answer to this question, I begin with an account of the structure of the simplest moral judgements. I point out that for moral responsibility – praise or blame to be appropriately ascribed to the person making it, such a judgement must be …
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Indigenous worldviews meet Western paradigms: a path to renewal of human/non-human relationships
This thesis attempts to identify and overcome barriers to potential knowledge transfer and collaboration between Western and Indigenous worldviews regarding our human relationship with more-than-human nature. Issues of discrimination and epistemic injustice are contextualised with existing minority …
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An Examination of the Cosmology and Medical Astrology of St. Hildegard of Bingen (CA. 1097 – †1179 CE)
In the heart of the twelfth century renaissance in the Latin west, the polymath, magistra, foundress and consecrated Benedictine virgin, St. Hildegard of Bingen, invites the superlative among all who encounter her and her vast and varied oeuvre. The twelfth century was a time of intellectual …
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God’s Foreknowledge – A philosophical investigation
Traditionally, God is considered to have four primary characteristics: Omnipotence (all-powerful), Omnipresence (everywhere at once), Omnibenevolence (all-loving) and Omniscience (all-knowing). God’s foreknowledge is a subset of God’s Omniscience and refers to his knowledge of the future. Many …
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An Inquiry into the nature of Justice
This paper is concerned with the principles of justice and their dominion. I will argue that justice requires an ethic that is both robustly egalitarian and cosmopolitan. In section 1 will attempt to demonstrate that rather than constraining calls for equality that liberty, properly understood, …
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The Quest for Happiness
The desire to attain happiness is inescapable for every human being and, as such, it has always been a central matter of discussion in the history of philosophy. Many philosophers advanced different theories and put forward specific notions of happiness. Some of these call for a positive account on …
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Looking at the Curious Game of Translation: Exploring the Worlds of Alice, Wittgenstein and the Translator
The unfolding phenomenon of globalization, permeating the arenas of technology, politics and economics, necessitates greater levels of translation than ever before. The language services industry is becoming one of the world's fastest-growing industries. The extent of translation's penetration into …
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Does implicit bias threaten the semicompatibilist position on free will and responsibility?
The nature and limitations of human freedom have been discussed for millennia and continue to be widely and enthusiastically debated today. This is not surprising, as our sense of freedom is felt to be an essential part of what it is to be human and many fundamental issues, such as responsibility, …
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Better than the alternative? Epicurus and the harm of death.
This essay will defend Epicurus’ (341 – 270 BCE) view that death is not a harm to us.
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A Realist Argument for the Self: Emotions and Consciousness in Self-Making
The question of the self, of what the self is (or even if there is a self) has been one that has grown alongside humanity, one that has haunted humanity, throughout our collective history. It is the purpose of this study to add to that questioning, and to attempt a small contribution to a field …
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The Disagreement between Avicenna and al-Ghazali on the Issue of the Pre-eternity of the Universe, how their Arguments Originated from Greek Philosophers and their Effect on Muslim Philosophers
The aim of this thesis is to explore one of the three condemnations by al-Ghazali of Avicenna in his widely publicised book ‘Incoherence of the Philosophers’. The paper will focus on one of these three specific issues because it was these topics that were used by al-Ghazali to insinuate that …
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The Ontology of Mental Events: Lacan’s Psychoanalytic Categories of the Self and the Ontological Derivation of Qualia
In this dissertation I examine the relations between qualitative and quantitative aspects of perceptual experience. I do this by examining the difficulties in delineating these concepts as discrete categories as they relate to apperception; in particular, it seems that contemporary analytic …
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Astrology and truth: a context in contemporary epistemology
This thesis discusses and gives philosophical context to claims regarding the truth-status of astrology – specifically, horoscopic astrology. These truth-claims, and reasons for them, are sourced from advocates and critics of astrology and are taken from extant literature and interviews recorded …
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Hope now and then - Sartre and the ethical end of history
This study examines the theme of ‘hope’ in an ethical end to History as expressed by Sartre in his final thoughts in the dialogue Hope Now shortly before his death. It first examines in detail Sartre’s thinking in the controversial text of Hope Now and then proceeds through a close examination of …
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Keeping wonder secure and the people awake:on the nature of wonder and its importance for civilisation.
Wonder is an emotion readily communicated to others by a generally understood expressive signature. In the form of a digital emoticon with its basic visual clues, the 'Wow’ moment, shown as a face with open mouth and raised eyebrows, offers a representation of an unmistakable feeling. Such an …
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The concept of a non-rational foundation of meaning with reference to the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein
The Notebooks 1914-1916 record Ludwig Wittgenstein's preliminary writings in preparation for the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921) and offer an excellent insight into the so-called 'early period' of his thought. The writing carefully documents the extraordinary way in which the philosopher …
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