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Showing 1 to 20 of 98 for “"B Philosophy (General)"”.
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Understanding Kant’s architectonic method in the critique of pure reason and its role in the work of Gilles Deleuze
How we read Kant's Critique of Pure Reason has a huge influence on how convincing we find the parts of which it is composed. This thesis will argue that by taking its arguments and concepts in isolation we neglect the unifying architectonic method that Kant employed. Understanding this text as a …
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Coercion
In difficult times, political, social or economic, it is usually the case that opportunities for politicians, bureaucrats and men of power to exploit their fellow men and to threaten their liberties increase. No apology, therefore, is required to justify a re-examination of the nature of coercion, …
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A hermeneutics of the ontology of time and technology
… that it has roots that can be found within the philosophy of Plato. Moreover, this model is interpreted as being contingent on the technological development and adoption of literacy that predicated an emergent and reflexive understanding of the ‘what-ness’ of the self-subject. However, this …
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Modernity, crisis and critique: an examination of rival philosophical conceptions in the work of Jürgen Habermas and Charles Taylor
In this thesis, I examine the rival conceptions of modernity, crisis and critique developed in the work of Jürgen Habermas and Charles Taylor. Since the publication of Habermas's highly influential The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity in the mid-1980s, scholarship on the conceptions of …
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Punishment
Summary available: p. i-ii.
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The metaphorical problem : realism and anti-realism in the philosophy of metaphor
… it examines a contemporary dispute in the philosophy of language, primarily comprising critical responses to Donald Davidson’s seminal work in the area, which focuses on the question of whether metaphorical utterances, qua metaphors, ought to receive distinctive semantic evaluations. I …
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Plato on soul and body
… than the body, becomes crucial within Plato's philosophy. The dialogues that follow, the Gorgias and the Meno, provide early indications of the complex relation required between soul and body, for Plato's moral, metaphysical and epistemological concerns. Thus, although Plato, in these …
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Courage and the soul in Plato
… has a great influence on the literature and philosophy of this period. Plato prioritises these quiet moral virtues, but also tries to hang on to some of what had come before, and thus faces difficulties with his moral theory. I will show that courage presents Plato with an acute difficulty …
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The content, context and influence of the work of Juan Luis Vives (1492-1540)
… It will be explained that his educational philosophy rests upon his theory of the soul. This led him to consider such things as the role of memory in the learning process, the need to take account of children's psychological maturation when planning a course of study, and the way in which …
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Aquinas and the realist dispute in science an Aristotelio-Thomistic contribution to current discussions in language, logic and science
… I is entirely devoted to current issues in the philosophy of language, logic and science. The burden of the Introduction is to familiarise ourselves with the strengths and weaknesses of scientific realism and scientific anti-realism, and to show that a synthesis of realist and anti-realist …
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Limiting Heteronomy : An Account of Autonomy to Deal with Oppression.
Is it possible to limit heteronomy under oppression through critical self-assessment and self-transformation? I answer by testing available models of autonomy in light of their capacity to deal with the forms of heteronomy which typically characterise oppression. Drawing from Foucault’s analysis of …
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Aiming to practice freedom : a constitutivist approach to Foucault’s ethics
In a 1984 interview, Michel Foucault introduced a distinction between two forms of freedom: freedom as the ontological condition of ethics, and ethics as the “practice of freedom” informed by reflection. This text suggests that a good understanding of Foucault’s thoughts on freedom would require …
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Negative and Positive Philosophy in the late work of Fichte and Schelling
In this thesis I attempt to uncover the general philosophical significance of the distinction made by F.W.J. Schelling (1775–1854) between negative and positive philosophy in his later work. Instead of approaching this issue in the customary way, via a comparison with Hegel, I argue that the …
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Personhood, Collective Intention and Corporate Moral Responsibility
This study in applied ethics addresses whether the ontology of corporations as rights-bearing artificial legal persons allows them to be held morally responsible as unitary entities and members of the moral community, or if their status requires ascription of moral responsibility to reduce to their …
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Recognition, Normative Reconstruction and Economic Justice: National and Transnational Perspectives
Drawing on Axel Honneth’s theory of recognition, this thesis seeks to develop a normative-reconstructive approach to the theory of justice for the economic sphere, reflecting domestic and transnational perspectives. In the first part, I first reconstruct and critically evaluate how Honneth’s views …
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The Phenomenology of Ethical Self-Awareness
This thesis offers a phenomenological study of self-awareness. I argue that, in its most basic form, self-experience consists of two aspects: affectivity and temporality. I then demonstrate that self-awareness can be primarily either affective or temporal. However, in both of its forms, …
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History and ideality in Husserl, Derrida, and the Critical Theory tradition
… for the most part rejected phenomenology for its general philosophical approach, but I argue that an engagement with Derrida’s reading of Edmund Husserl is essential if Critical Theory wishes to make progress with the problem of normativity. To begin with, I examine Theodor Adorno’s notion of a …
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Autism, Neurodiversity, and the Good Life: On the Very Possibility of Autistic Thriving
… stemming from empathy deficits as well as more general cognitive and sensory issues. In turn it is further associated with other purported harms: ranging from psychological suffering to diminished moral agency. Given such associations, in the philosophical literature, autism is widely taken to …
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