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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Ethical life"”.
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Roles and the ethical life.
Role ethics, broadly speaking, is a normative ethical theory that has a prominent emphasis on roles. Although it was prominent in ancient cultures, such as in China and Greece, role ethics waned during the Enlightenment era. Not until very recently has role ethics been articulated in its own terms. …
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Environmental values, animals, and the ethical life
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Ethical Life and Ontology in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
I develop a connection between Hegel's account of Ethical Life (Sittlichkeit) and his ontology, arguing that Ethical Life draws out some of the more intuitive and subtle sides of Hegel's ontology on the one hand, and some of its more ambitious and challenging aspects on the other. Ethical Life, for …
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Embracing Ethical Life: Hegel on Freedom, Solidarity, and Law
… defense of a Hegelian conception of freedom and ethical life, a contribution not only to contemporary work on Hegel, but also an attempt to engage current mainstream debates in social, political, and legal philosophy. I begin with an abstract and structural characterization of Hegel's conception …
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Liberalism and ethical life : on equality, neutrality, and culture
… a hands-off attitude toward a society's ethical life. It seems the state should not regulate the value systems that underlie a society's ethos, group interests, or individual lives. Yet plausible sociological claims suggest that to respect liberal values, the state should interfere with …
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The Root of Respect: Perspectives on Ethical Life on Dobu, Papua New Guinea
… element of her explorations of Dobuan social life, my thesis takes amayaba as its focal point to examine Dobu. I take inspiration from Ellis Finkelstein’s observation that respect has received little empirical focus in anthropology by aiming to show the ways in which respect could be …
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Learning to Live Together: Hannah Arendt on the Political Conditions of Ethical Life
"I examine four dimensions of Arendt's political ethic: her critique of the political shortcomings of conscience; her attempt to derive a political ethic from the conditions of political action rather than from the potentially anti-political preoccupations of morality; her inquiry into the nature …
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Second Nature and Ethical Life: Habit, Culture, and Critique in Hegel's Science of Right
… of reflection in Hegel's account of modern ethical life. I ask, on the one hand, why Hegel places so much significance on unreflective attitudes, and on the other, which forms of reflection remain compatible with what he calls the habit of the ethical. This question exposes crucial …
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Reaching for Opacity: Contemporary Afrodiasporic Literature
… defends a shared opacity as the ground of ethical life, thereby reimagining our relation to distant geographies, lost ancestries, broken inheritances, and shattered subjectivities. Offering readings of writers such as Edwidge Danticat, Fred Moten, M. NourbeSe Philip, Dionne Brand, and …
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A pobreza na teoria social hegeliana
… it challenges the legitimization of rational ethical life and the realization of freedom. Here, we revisit Hegel's steps through his critical legacy, to present his conception, that is, the concept itself, its actuality, and possible solutions to poverty. In the first chapter, we present …
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The Ethics of Care of the Self as Resistance to a “Peculiar Institution”
… study argues that in consequence such modern ethical theories have serious difficulties in dealing with the issues these philosophers raise. Nevertheless, while valuing their contributions, I attempt to formulate a more plausible solution to the problems of morality systems. In particular, I …
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Everyday aesthetic existence and discipleship: exploring the connections between aesthetics, faith and ethics in being human and becoming Christian
… role in faith formation and concomitantly frames ethical life by conjoining praxis and poiesis through incarnational living. Aesthetics is not to be disconnected from action, as Nicholas Wolterstorff elucidates, but is best understood in light of social practice, playing a narratival role toward …
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Rethinking Shame
… Kantian moral theory shame is essential to one's ethical life. I argue that feeling shame is morally appropriate, and I consider to what extent shame has a role in practices like punishment.
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Rethinking misrecognition and struggles for recognition: critical theory beyond Honneth
… fits into the normative structure of social life while acknowledging the positive value of recognition. The second conceptualization is an expanded view of struggles for recognition that takes such struggles beyond group political conflicts into everyday social experiences. I identify two …
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Becoming Accountable: Jehovah's Witnesses and the responsibilities of evangelism
… “accountability” and “responsibility” in Witness ethical life to show how they differ in their temporality, their institutionalization, and the way they relate to the human subject. This allows for an analysis that can make sense of how Witnesses’ take universal moral thinking and apply it to …
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Prudence in Aristotle and ST. Thomas Aquinas
… good at thinking about how to live a fulfilled life as a whole, and to be successful in so doing. The prudent person is the only one who is truly just, courageous and temperate, and the good person is truly good only if he is prudent. According to Aristotle, there is a fundamental connection …
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Sandwich Generation Caregivers: Ethical Legacies Throughout Generations
… critical hermeneutic research study explores ethical meanings during a time of dual-generation care and how these interpretations may affect one's view of family life across generations. The research participants in this study were adults situated between young children and dependent elders, …
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Exploration of the Model of the Self Attributed to Ostad Elahi and Its Implications for the Education of Ethical Literacy: An Education That Enhances an Individual’s Sense of Dignity
… to the complex interplay between education for ethical literacy and the notion of an agent as an ontological reality capable of self-transformation and self-realisation. To this end, ethical literacy, as a function of a holistic education, is conceived as enabling individuals to realise their …
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Disconsolate Subjects: Figures of Radical Alterity in the Twentieth Century Novel, From Modernism to Postcolonialism
… and limits of political critique and ethical life within a global modernity. I delineate a history of the disconsolate subject that cuts across the categories of modernist, postmodernist, and postcolonial literatures in order to reveal a different literary genealogy, in which an exilic …
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Reanimalizing religion: Hegel, habit, and the nature of spirit
… this cultus becomes the basis of the ethical as well as the philosophical life.
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