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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Form of life"”.
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Aspiring Muslims in Russia: Form-of-Life and Political Ecoonomy of Virtue in Povolzhye's Halal Movement
… subjectivities are cultivated in a secular and often politically hostile environment. In addition, it deals with Povolzhye Muslims’s pursuit of worldly success in the context of social change brought about by Russia’s transition to a market economy. Povolzhye is a prosperous, multi-ethnic and …
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Hegel's Concept of Reconciliation: On Absolute Spirit
… reconstructs and defends Hegel’s concept of reconciliation as the highest goal of the three forms of Absolute Spirit: art, religion, and philosophy. I argue that Hegel’s concept of reconciliation can be expressed by the following temporal formula: to reconcile means to remember and work …
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Origin of viruses revealed by the genomic study of protein domain structures
The discovery of giant viruses with complex proteomes, remnants of translation machinery and virus-specific parasites have raised important questions about their origin. Evidence advocates for their inclusion into global phylogenomic studies and their consideration as a distinct and ancient form of …
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Agamben, the exception and law
Giorgio Agamben‘s work has been at the forefront of modern debates surrounding sovereign exceptionalism and emergency powers. His theory of the state of exception and engagements with Michel Foucault appear to focus upon sovereign power‘s ability to remove legal protections from life with impunity, …
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Regulatory opportunities and constraints facing private sector biodiversity conservation outside protected areas
Biodiversity2 comprises the variation of living species on earth upon which its human population depends for survival.3 This is so because diversity maintains biospheric conditions without which human life, integrally tied up with all other forms of life on earth, would become extinct. Related to …
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De Opere Monachorum and the Influence of Saint Augustine on Monasticism
It is the purpose of this thesis to demonstrate not only the importance and high esteem which St. Augustine held in monastic life, but also his influence on this form of life through his treatise De Opere Monachorum and his other writings. |It is not my intention to prove that St. Augustine …
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SOLAR ENERGY HARVESTING WITH PHOTOSYNTHETIC PIGMENT-PROTEIN COMPLEXES
… is a key player that sustains nearly every form of life on earth. Central to this process are the photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes that transduce sunlight into biologically useful forms of energy through a photochemical charge separation that has a quantum efficiency close to 100%. …
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Systematic Analysis of Gene Toxicity in Mycobacteriophage Bromden
With an estimated population of 10 31 individuals, Bacteriophages are the most abundant form of life present on this planet. This abundance can be observed in the diversity of their genome: over 70% of genes present in newly sequenced bacteriophages remain without an unknown function. To reduce …
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The Revealing Love of God: A Systematic, Hermeneutic, and Phenomenological Approach to Thinking Well About the Love of God
… that God is love. I am proposing that the idea of the self-revelational nature of God’s being functions, among other ways, rhetorically, such that the content of revelation (God’s love) determines the rhetorical mode of its communication (giving orders, inviting, begging, etc.). The three …
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The concept of revelation
… choosing an experiential approach to the concept of revelation and, in preferring this to either an informative or an instructional view, I have faced head-on a central concern for Christian theists. This appertains to the epistemological problem raised by the assumption at the heart of belief in …
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Translation after Wittgenstein
In this thesis, I examine how a reading of the later philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein can be of use to the reflective practitioner of literary translation. Wittgenstein, whilst a key figure in twentieth-century philosophy, remains peripheral to the field of translation studies and I argue that his …
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Assessing Microbial Diversity Through Nucleotide Variation
Microbes are the most abundant and most diverse form of life on Earth, constituting the largest portion of the total biomass of the entire planet. They are present in every niche in nature, including very extreme environments, and they govern biogeochemical transformations in ecosystems. The human …
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Moral realism: an anti-projectionist account of moral values as aspects of the manifest image
This thesis will argue that a significant part of our moral experience can be explained by an analogy with the phenomenon of aspect perception discussed by Wittgenstein in his Philosophical Investigations. I will argue that projectivism cannot give a satisfactory account of moral perception. This …
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Human and Machine in Formation: An Ethnographic Study of Communication and Humanness in a Wearable Technology Laboratory in Japan
… dissertation reports on an ethnographic study of human-centered technology researchers, conducted in Japan between 2010 and 2012. Researchers in this field—a multidisciplinary group mostly of computer engineers, as well as complex systems scientists, biologists, and psychologists—claim that …
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Conscience, Guilt and the Struggle for Purity of Heart in Kierkegaard
For Kierkegaard, “purity of heart” means to will only one thing- the good. He calls the pull towards the good “conscience”. At some point, any person may be forced to come to terms with their conscience when it disrupts their life through restlessness, anxiety or through one of its other …
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Law, Love and Freedom
How does one lead a life of law, love and freedom? This inquiry has very deep roots in the Judeo-Christian tradition. Indeed, the divergent answers to this inquiry mark the transition from Judeo to Christian. This dissertation returns to those roots to trace the routes that these ideas have taken …
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Damming the Nation: How Engineers Transformed Rivers into Water Tanks for Modern South Korea
Damming is one of the most high-profile forms of human intervention in the environment, and it is commonly found across the modern Korean landscape. Since the 1960s, under the name of "Comprehensive Water Resources Development," South Korean state engineers have constructed more than a dozen large …
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Debatable lands : exploring the boundaries of fiction and nonfiction through family history
This thesis consists of a work of life writing accompanied by a critical essay that examines the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction. It tells the story of a Victorian family from Cornwall, whose lives were transformed by the age of steam and empire. The men went to sea as sailors or …
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The self-sufficiency of the good man against the need for friendship. A discussion concerning the importance of friendship for the good man in Cicero.
Cicero wrote in Book Three of On Duties, that the Stoic sage being absolutely good and and perfect was the only one that could be truly happy. For his happiness was based in his virtue and as he had perfect virtue, he had perfect and lasting happiness. Yet the Peripatetics saw that happiness was …
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Class, labor, and color hierarchies: an ethnographic study of Mexican yarderos/as in South Chicago
"In 1916, the first wave of Mexican immigrants arrived in South Chicago. Despite shortage of housing, food, and work, the South Chicago colony grew in size to become one of the key destinations of thousands of Mexican immigrants in the twentieth century. In the late 1980s, triggered by a neoliberal …
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