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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Comparative Philosophy"”.
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Religions of Doubt: Religion, Critique, and Modernity in Jalal Al-e Ahmad and Walter Benjamin
… Al-e Ahmad and Walter Benjamin is a work of comparative philosophy addressing selected works of the Iranian novelist and political thinker Jalal Al-e Ahmad and the German-Jewish critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin. I demonstrate that the perceived failure of utopian modern projects, …
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Kongzi, Rawls, and the sense of justice in the Analects.
This dissertation is a comparative study of the philosophy of John Rawls and the Confucian Analects regarding the idea of a sense of justice. The first aim of this work is to correct a view that has been advanced by several scholars of Chinese and comparative philosophy, namely, that the absence of …
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Il tema della città felice in Platone e al-Farabi, una lettura comparata di filosofia politica.
Il presente lavoro di ricerca analizza la filosofia politica di Platone e al-Farabi, filosofo del medioevo islamico, mediante il ricorso ad una metodologia di tipo comparativo. La riflessione politica farabiana accoglie dichiaratamente alcuni passaggi fondamentali del platonismo, insieme a diverse …
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The Evolution of Defeaters: A Taxonomy
<p>It has been widely argued that reasons for a belief come in degrees but not much literature has focused on the idea that defeaters for justification toward those beliefs also come in degrees. The aim of this paper is to explore epistemic defeasibility and construct a taxonomy for epistemic …
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To the Effort Itself: A Phenomenological Study of Wang Yangming's 王陽明 Theory of Moral Effort
… are also topics and phenomena studied by Wang’s philosophy.</p>
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The interdependence of nature and nurture in the establishment and maintenance of mind: an eco-dynamic paradigm
… Indo-Tibetan Buddhist practices, concepts and philosophy related to the nature of the mind come into contrast with those of Western medical science sharply in death and dying. The challenge posed to medical science is to study and explain what might appear to be anomalous cases of alleged …
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Nihilism and emptiness: Nishitani's encounter with Nietzsche
In this thesis, I examine the relationship between the Kyoto School philosopher, Nishitani Keiji, and the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, focusing on the two thinkers’ respective approaches to the problem of nihilism. The work begins by positioning Nishitani’s interpretation of Nietzsche’s account of …
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What Rome Really Adopted from Ancient Greece
… one another, trying to track the lineage of a philosophy if possible, or even pairing up possibly unrelated philosophies that share distinct similarities. It is then that the philosophies will be compared and contrasted, their differences and similarities brought into light and reflected on …
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What the Fuck is This?: Aesthetic Nature of Being or Ontology in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
<p>“What the Fuck is This?” examines the intersection of phenomenology and poetry arguing for an aesthetic nature of Being and focuses on how we know or experience the world instead of Cartesian absolutes. This subjective knowledge does not compete against objective knowledge but simply recognizes …
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Reflective judgment vs. investigation of things – a comparative study of Kant and Zhu Xi
… about a systemic unfolding of his critical philosophy via Kantian moral teleology. Zhu Xi and his Neo-Confucian contemporaries confronted a transformed intellectual landscape resulting from the Neo-Daoist and Buddhist discourses of “what is beyond the form”. The revival of Confucianism …
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Realisable climate change narratives in public discourse: an East/West comparative analysis of environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) as a response to global climate change
This thesis looks at how non-experts develop an opinion on climate change, and how those opinions could be changed by public discourse. I use Hubert Dreyfus’ account of skill acquisition to distinguish between experts and non-experts. I then use a combination of Walter Fisher’s narrative paradigm …
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Addressing Fragmented Relationships and Dislocation in Environmental Thinking: Ubuntu Insights on Human and Nonhuman Wellbeing
How can we address the fragmentation of inter-and intra-species relationships and the conceptual and material dislocations of humanity from its natural environments, in environmental thinking and practices? In answering this question, this dissertation offers an ubuntu-inspired solution. Ubuntu …
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Of Method: A Propaedeutic to Coleridge's Prose Works
… responses to skepticism and the ability of philosophy to progress by maintaining a double-minded and conflicted suture of both the practical or imaginative eclipse of knowledge and theorizing the hypothetical epistemological absolute that explains the relativity of facticity. Any inadequate …
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History in Collaboration: Equalizing the Arts and the Humanities in San Francisco
<p>Historically, there has been a critical imbalance in the way history and preservation organizations are civically supported in comparison with the amount of funding that is available to arts organizations in the United States. To correct this imbalance in San Francisco, I propose the creation of …
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Affect before Spinoza: Reformed Faith, Affectus, and Experience in Jean Calvin, John Donne, John Milton and Baruch Spinoza
… to faith, </p><p>devotional poetry and philosophy in early modernity. For early modern believers across </p><p>confessions, faith was neither reducible to a dry intellectual concern nor to a personal, </p><p>emotional appeal to God. Instead, faith was a transformative relation between …