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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Charles Taylor"”.
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La articulación lingüística de los universos morales la obra de Charles Taylor
… un lado, pretende estudiar la obra del filósofo Charles Taylor, analizando sus ideas filosóficas más importantes. En este sentido, cada capítulo se presenta como un estudio de algunos de los aspectos más relevantes
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L'individu dans la modernité : Georges Herbert Mead, Charles Taylor et Alain Touraine
… dans la sociologie de Georges Herbert Mead, Charles Taylor et Alain Touraine. Avec les écritures de ces derniers, nous enfonçons l'individu profondément dans le social et nous produisons les arguments nécessaires à une conception interactive, intersubjective et dialogique de l'individu. …
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La noción de trasfondo en la filosofía de Charles Taylor: aportes desde perspectivas Heideggerianas
… del trasfondo (background) en la obra de Charles Taylor, sobre las influencias fenomenológicas heideggerianas que en él convergen y sobre la posibilidad de complementar su noción de trasfondo con el Mitsein (coestar, ser-con) heideggeriano, que no aparece explicitado en su obra. Nuestra …
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The conception of human nature in modern political thought : with special reference to the work of Charles Taylor
… of human nature. By reference to the work of Charles Taylor it will be argued that Modern conceptions of human nature are (to echo Nietzsche) 'dead'. This is to attack the suggestion that a conception of human nature may be understood in an ahistorical, universalist, abstract or 'unencumbered' …
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From ‘Sacred’ to ‘Secular’?: The Hermeneutical Future of Religion in the Thought of Gianni Vattimo and Charles Taylor
… of Religion in the Thought of Gianni Vattimo and Charles Taylor” aims at a deconstructive analysis of religion and secularism in order to explore both its postmodern and post-secular implications. It suggests that Vattimo and Taylor’s philosophies of religion and secularism exemplify the key …
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Modernity, crisis and critique: an examination of rival philosophical conceptions in the work of Jürgen Habermas and Charles Taylor
… 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 modernity and critique contained therein has gained its keenest focus in the context …
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Multinational corporations in violent conflict: a case study of firestone in Liberia
… Civil War began with an insurgency led by Charles Taylor on Christmas Eve in 1989. At the time, the company Firestone Liberia (one of many of the subsidiaries of the multinational, Bridgestone Corporation) had been operating the world’s largest rubber plantation in Liberia’s Margibi County …
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The application of the concept of 'citizens plus' to status Indians in Canada
… such as T.H. Marshall, Will Kymlicka and Charles Taylor. Some recent work concerning citizenship in Canada recommends that the state ought to extend differentiated citizenship rights to certain groups, such as status Indians in Canada. This thesis argues that the Canadian state is already …
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From intellectualism to contextualism to metaethical realism : an exploration of our ethical language-games and their conditions of intelligibility
… conceptions of moral justification. The works of Charles Taylor, Martha Nussbaum, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Martin Heidegger will play a central role in the articulation of this critical narrative.
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Human goodness and natural goodness
… philosophies and ethics of Philippa Foot and Charles Taylor. Foot is perhaps best known for her contribution to neo-Aristotelian ‘virtue ethics’, including her influential work on the meanings of moral concepts and the rationality of moral action. While Taylor is better known as a social and …
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The rhetoric of the patent wars: how technology becomes "Common Sense"
… society and technology offered by philosophers Charles Taylor and Andrew Feenberg. I apply this theoretical lens to three sets of texts: 1) public rhetoric surrounding Google's purchase of Motorola Mobility--these texts come in the form of press releases, blog posts, and tweets; 2) public …
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Time Machines: technology, temporality, and the Victorian social imaginary
Drawing on the conceptual framework developed by Charles Taylor in his A Secular Age (2007), this thesis seeks to recast the question of Victorian ‘secularization’ – a notion largely abandoned by historians. It does so by analysing the temporal dimension of three Victorian social imaginaries and …
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Educational value is not private! : defending the concept of public education
… Drawing on a broad range of scholars including Charles Taylor, Richard Pildes, Janice Gross Stein, Henry Giroux, Francois-Lyotard and Michel Foucault, this thesis argues that the values involved in the very concept of private education reinforce, and are reinforced by, neoliberal views about the …
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The Concept of Learning and Education
… ways of thinking have become the accepted thing. Charles Taylor (The Explanation of Behaviour, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1964: p. 143) has noted that stimulus - response (S - R) theory can be construed as "a mechanistic transposition of the traditional empiricists views of epistemology". In …
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The Jesuit Imaginary: Higher Education in a Secular Age
The philosopher Charles Taylor argues in A Secular Age (2007) that people who live in secular cultures are losing the capacity to experience genuine "fullness." Described by Taylor as a philosophical-anthropological conception of human flourishing that corresponds with existential senses of meaning …
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Ethical Ideals, Nonrational Forces: Melville's Critique of Morality
… like Alasdair MacIntyre, Martha Nussbaum, Charles Taylor, and Bernard Williams have brought to the interpretation of narrative, I attempt to draw out the ethical arguments of Melville's Pierre (1852), ""Benito Cereno"" (1855), and Billy Budd, Sailor (1891; pub. 1924). As my readings …
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Authenticity and the transformation of the Camino : an analysis of secular pilgrimage in contemporary academic literature
… while using theorists José Casanova and Charles Taylor and their theories of secularisation in order to bring in a philosophical account of meaning and access deep ontological differences in order to support my argument for the distinction between religious pilgrimage, secular pilgrimage …
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Identitätsbildung von trans\*Migrant\*innen. Eine empirische Analyse unter Berücksichtigung heteronormativer Machtstrukturen
… Gedanken des atomistischen Individuums ab, Charles Taylor sieht die Ermöglichung von Identität nur durch die Anerkennung des signifikanten Anderen als gegeben. Ausgeweitet wurde dies durch eine genealogische, diskursive Perspektive, welche Identität als veränderbar und sich prozesshaft …
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The politics of cultural diversity : a survey in the liberal-communitarian debate
… from each group: Alasdair Macintyre, Charles Taylor and Michael Walzer from the communitarians: and John Rawls, Joseph Raz and Will Kymlicka from the liberals. The critical examinations of their arguments which are presented here concern the normative aspects of the problem and …
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"Laughter in the Dark": Belief and Literature in a Secular Age
… and I use this term as the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor does in his book A Secular Age (2007)—“a move from a society where belief in God is unchallenged and indeed, unproblematic, to one in which it is understood to be one option among others, and frequently not the easiest to embrace”—it …
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