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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Ethical philosophy"”.
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The Ethical Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas: A Phenomenological Approach to Cormac McCarthy’s <em>The Road</em>
… 1: Cormac McCarthy’s <em>The Road</em> and the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas</li> <li>Chapter 2: Proximity, Justice, and Memory: Elements to Rebuild an Ethical Society</li> <li>Chapter 3: Violence in <em>The Road</em>: The Face, Killing, and Freedom</li> <li>Chapter 4: Investigating God and the …
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Georgia Elementary Principals' Perceptions of their Ethical Philosophy, Formal Leadership Preparation in Ethics, and Actions Related to the Development and Maintenance of an Ethical School
… elementary principals' perceptions of their ethical philosophy, formal leadership preparation in graduate school in the area of ethics, and actions needed for the development and maintenance of an ethical school. The persons most appropriate to provide the answers to the research questions …
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Kiš’s vigilance: ethics as aesthetics in the prose of Danilo Kiš
… particular tradition of European aesthetics and ethical philosophy (namely Levinas and Blanchot) can be compared to Danilo Kiš’s poetics. Beyond critically evaluating Kiš, I am to make connections between ethics, literature and philosophy. The major objective of my thesis is to argue that ethical …
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The dialogism of self and other in contemporary American drama
… American theatre (and culture) and contemporary ethical philosophy. I am introducing the French philosopher Emmanuel Lévinas and his theory of Self and Other to an analysis of contemporary American drama—a mode of approach that is new to the discipline of theatre studies. Lévinas’s insights are …
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Acting in Conscience A Natural Law Based Approach to Freedom of Conscience
… state is a perennial issue in both political and ethical philosophy. The extreme emphasis on the authority of the state or conscience leads to the undermining of a free society. This thesis will explore the issues at play in this interaction from the perspective of natural law by exploring the …
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Community and the Recognition of the Other: A Levinasian Examination of The City, Inc. 1987-1992
… within a conceptual framework based on the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, this study explores how the idea of community, as constructed and reinforced through organizational initiatives and local print media, impacts the everyday relationships of those within and between …
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Responsible responding: the ethics of a literary criticism of the Other
… the field of Coetzee Studies, appropriates the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas in its creation of an ethics-based, theme-reliant interpretive framework. While Derek Attridge, Mike Marais and Stefan Helgesson have each contributed greatly to this critical outlook, which I abbreviate as the …
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On the Margins of the Grand Unity: Empire, Violence, and Ethnicity in the Virtue Ethics and Political Practice of Wang Yangming (1472--1529)
… between Wang Yangming's Neo-Confucian philosophy---his learning of the mind-heart---and his political career (practice) have generally been framed in the larger context of a reading of Neo-Confucianism as a whole. Condemnatory interpretations of Neo-Confucian philosophy yield an agent …
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Divided into Stands, Together they Fall: A critical analysis of salvage logging in the Rogue-Siskiyou National Forest
… on environmentalism -- political theory and ethical philosophy -- and evaluates them together in the context of the conflict over salvage logging in the Rogue-Siskiyou National Forest in Oregon. I tell the story of the conflict through a history of land and fire management in the U.S. Through …
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Examining Loyalty The Folk and The Philosopher
… While this may be true in the field of ethical philosophy, it is not true elsewhere. In this paper, I examine loyalty from the perspectives of the "folk and the philosopher" where I consider the points of view of philosophers and non-philosophers. Each presents a uniquely valuable …
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Lyric Subjectivity, Ethics, Contemporary Poetics: Claudia Rankine, Fanny Howe, Elizabeth Robinson
… lyric subjectivity and reformulates it as ethical insofar as it is "circumspective" or "other-oriented"; that is, the lyric "I" is depicted as constituted through its relations with alterity. I apply contemporary literary-ethical methodology, notably the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel …
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Towards an ethics of voice as hospitable space
… between performance practices and the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas (1905-1996) and other relevant philosophical disciplines, such as Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002) and Richard Rorty's (1931-2007) hermeneutics. Levinas' ethics were founded upon a distinction between the …
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Ideal motives : self-perfection and self-knowledge in the work of Dostoevsky.
I offer a read ing of Dostoevsky's eth ical philosophy, Jrawing on his fiction and non-fiction work. I argue that coJ1cepts of human oalure and flouri shing are central to Dostoevsky's ethical thought ~d underpin his argum entative strategy in the fiction. ln Part I, l set oul Dostoevsky's ethical …
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Liberal Value Pluralism: A Study of the Political Ideas of Michael Ignatieff
… to try to answer whether the value pluralist philosophy he espouses is compatible with his doctrine of human rights. Value pluralism is a political and ethical philosophy first developed by Isaiah Berlin that believes the values we hold to be plural. This plurality of values is fundamentally …
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The Objective Pluralism of Isaiah Berlin A Historical Approach to Ethical and Political Philosophy
… has been criticised as amounting in fact to ethical and political relativism. Berlin has relied on two arguments in attempting to refute this charge, those from common intelligibility and from shared values. I propose that the former argument alone is sufficient to refute relativism, whilst …