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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"History of Philosophy"”.
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The Quest for Happiness
… as such, it has always been a central matter of discussion in the history of philosophy. Many philosophers advanced different theories and put forward specific notions of happiness. Some of these call for a positive account on it (suggesting specific objective practices and strategies in order …
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Foucault, Marx and the question of politics: The materialist problematics of power
… by situating them within a new and specific kind of materialist discursive practice which Foucault seeks to develop on the basis of the discourse initiated by Marx at the modern theoretical conjuncture. For this purpose, it tries to bring to new light Foucault's understanding of Marx (the apparent …
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Aspects of the theory of negation
In this thesis I deal with a series of problems which involve the notion of negation. In Chapter 2 I discuss the issues raised by the question whether we should admit negative facts into our ontology or not. In Chapter 3 I discuss the so-called paradox of non-being and the problem of giving an …
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The Relationship Between God and Man
… perennial quest for truth, the pendulum of philosophical thought has swung consistently from one extreme to another, and this, not because man is incapable of attaining truth, as the sceptics would have us believe, but rather because no extreme explanation of reality, precisely because it …
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Lithuanian literary history: a theoretical study of writings /
… seeks to rethink newly the beginning of Lithuanian Literary History writings from the first historiography narrative episodes in the 19th century and the first amateur and professional literary history attempts in the first half of the 20th century. The research covers all forms of …
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Lietuvių literatūros istorija: teorinis rašymų tyrimas /
… seeks to rethink newly the beginning of Lithuanian Literary History writings from the first historiography narrative episodes in the 19th century and the first amateur and professional literary history attempts in the first half of the 20th century. The research covers all forms of …
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"Her organs were a question of the state" reading Adriana Cavarero from the Latin American post-colony
<p>This dissertation explores the place of the body in the history of philosophy to argue that despite the fact that the history of Western philosophy is well known for repudiating the body, in philosophy, the body nevertheless does a lot of work. Yet, the body of which philosophy speaks of is a …
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An analysis of the notion of truth in the theology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
This dissertation examines the notion of truth within the context of the theological framework of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Chapter 1 introduces the topic by focusing on the need to study the Latter-day Saints, giving particular attention to the numerical growth of the …
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Christianity, the Duty to Assist Others, and Supererogation
… article "Saints and Heroes" was the first in the history of philosophy to treat supererogation in a systematic manner. Arguing that the traditional threefold classification system consisting of <em>duties</em>, <em>permissible acts</em>, and <em>wrong acts</em> was insufficient, he went on to …
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Sadra and Hegel on the Relationship between Essence/Existence and Subject/Object
… between the medieval ontological relationship of essence/existence and the modern epistemological relationship of subject/object. Rather than investigating the many medieval and modern philosophers, this dissertation focuses on two philosophers as study cases: One is the Islamic philosopher …
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The Feminine Self as a Critique of Spirit: A Cultural Phenomenology
The problem of sexual difference remains a priority for feminists working within the continental tradition, with Luce Irigaray leading among those who affirm fundamental differences between masculine and feminine forms of subjectivity. I take up the problem of feminine subjectivity, but my approach …
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Conscious Conceptual Thought
… I defend the view that the phenomenal character of some conscious experiences is constituted in part by conceptual representations, including conceptual representations which are independent of sensory representations. In Chapter 1 I present an overview of debates in cognitive phenomenology. In …
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Principles of Soft Metrology and measurement procedures in humans
The current work represent both a compendium of ideas around Soft Metrology – the set of techniques and models for measuring quantities related to human perception - and a collection of personal abstracted articles on specific experiments conducted during the Ph.D. course. This thesis is not going …
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Maimon's Post-Kantian Skepticism
… Kant himself referred to Maimon as the best of his critics. The appraisal and reformulation of the Kantian project detailed in Maimon’s Essay on Transcendental Philosophy played a significant role in determining the criteria of success for post-Kantian philosophy, and was thus crucial to the …
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The Relationship Between Metaphysics and Logic
… and understand the underlying principles of reality, thought, and existence. The goals of these two disciplines appear to overlap in that they both seek implicit principles of reality. However, the debate on their relationship, the question of which presupposes which, has not reached …
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Roots and Role of the Imagination in Kant: Imagination at the Core
Kant's critical philosophy promises to overturn both Empiricism and Rationalism by arguing for the necessity of a passive faculty, sensibility, and an active faculty, understanding, in order for cognition to obtain. Kant argues in favor of sense impression found in standard empirical philosophies …
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Against Lying: Some Historical Arguments in Favor of Moral Absolutism
<p>Beginning with Augustine of Hippo, an unbroken lineage of philosophical arguments has been in place supporting an absolutist prohibition against all lies, a lineage that has often been referred to as the absolutist `tradition' against lying. This paper explores this so-called tradition by first …
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From Response to Responsibility: A Study of the Other and Language in the Ethical Structure of Responsibility in the Writings of Bonhoetrer and Levinas
This thesis explores the emergence of the concept of ethical responsibility in the writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) and Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995). It argues that 'the other' and 'language' are both indispensable and correlative elements in the analysis of ethical responsibility …
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The Constellations of Empiricism, New Science, and Mind in Hobbes, Locke, and Hume
… and negative tensions among the “unit-ideas” of New Science and empiricism are explored as they relate to explanations of aspects of mind in the Modern period. Some constellations of ideas are mutually supporting, and provide fruitful discussion on how mind can fit into the natural world. This …
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