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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"B Athroniaeth (Cyffredinol)"”.
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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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Diogenes in his own time.
The advancement of the ideas of Plato an Aristotle on the one hand and the Stoics on the other overshadowed the view of the Cynicism of Diogenes which chronologically served as a bridge between them, historically rendering Cynicism for much of its history nothing more than a stopgap. The purpose of …
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Saving reason : Jurgen Habermas's synthesis of western philosophy.
This dissertation argues that Jürgen Habermas’s philosophy of communicative reason successfully defends the Enlightenment notion of Reason as the vehicle of truth and progress, while integrating Postmodern insights into the illusory nature of metaphysical foundations. Habermas discards the …
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Henri Bergson, Duree Reelle and high modernism.
The cultural status and popular appeal of the philosopher Henri Bergson in the first decade of the 20th century is said to have exceeded even that of his fellow Parisian, Jean-‐Paul Sartre in the 1950s. Bergson was an important influence on modernism, achieving a particular resonance with the …
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Cures of the body and cures of the soul : from Hippocrates to the early Eastern Christian Fathers.
This study examines the differences between Hippocratic medicine and Eastern Christian medical notions in relation to the human body and mind in health and disease. The aim is to demonstrate that there were two major reasons why the two traditions valued dissimilarly the body and the soul. First, …
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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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