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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Modern Philosophy"”.
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Postmodern philosophy, relativism, and a renewed vision of education
Contemporary postmodern philosophy has been characterized by its radical rejection of the epistemic foundations and metanarrative of modern philosophy. By denying the ultimate Archimedean point for grounding truth, objectivity, and rationality, postmodern philosophy invokes relativism in which the …
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Sea-Cards for the Impetuous Muse: A Reading of Shaftesbury's Characteristicks
… dissent from the general trend of early modern philosophy. This dissertation argues that Shaftesbury's book undertakes a restoration of the classical understanding of philosophy in contradistinction to the understanding presented by the writings of Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, and other …
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Selected aspects of the use of simple instruments in the music curriculum of the elementary school
… experiences should be in agreement with the modern philosophy of music education. An attempt was made to present these experiences in such a manner that they can be readily utilized by any teacher in the primary grades.
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Towards heuristic systems methods for generating new knowledge in post-industrial business
… current work is to appropriate aspects of post-modern philosophy into systems methods that support new knowledge creation in post-industrial business. The author has developed a three-part model of the organization as a knowledge system: The first component is the formative system, which enables …
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Definitions, interpretations and the scarce resource : Canadian refugee policy 1947-1993
… refugee policy from its modest beginnings to its modern philosophy and general direction. This thesis is divided into two parts. The first is the Literature Review on the 'refugee' definition itself. The second part consists of an overview and analysis of Canadian refugee policy from 1947 to 1992. …
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WHAT MATTER MATTERS: BODY, SPIRIT, AND VITAL MOTION IN ANNE CONWAY'S METAPHYSICS
… I investigate the metaphysics and natural philosophy of Lady Anne Conway, the understudied seventeenth-century English female philosopher. In her Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy (1690), Conway questions the common idea of matter. She critically engages with the …
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Being and Literature: The Disclosure of Place in Modernity
… an original ontology of place by reading Modernist literature (1864-1950) as a critical reaction to Modern philosophy (1641-1800), and builds a platform upon movements implicit in literature from which future metaphysical and epistemological inquiries can begin. Western metaphysics and …
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The Entanglement of Anzaldúan Materiality as Bodily Knowing: Matter, Meaning, and Interrelatedness
… work of ancient materialist philosophers, modern philosophy which advanced a theory of monism, and contemporary philosophies that further extends monism into new terrain, including 'new materialism.' While monism is a strand of this project, the core features of this project are materiality …
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Buddhism and the state in Burma: English-language discourses from 1823 to 1962
… suggest that three core concepts have guided the modern academic understanding of this relationship: the concept of the state as a religious entity, the concept of the state as a harmonious mirror of the greater Buddhist cosmos and the concept of the sangha as the state’s most influential …
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Freedom, Society, And The Individual In Early Modern Women's Thought
… Wollstonecraft, and other women of the early modern period in Europe. From these disparate sources—Cavendish’s vitalist metaphysics, Suchon’s practical ethics, Wollstonecraft’s polemical aesthetics—a unifying political concern can be drawn: one of how individuals relate to their societies, and …
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A questão da subjetividade na virada antropológica de Ludwing Feuerbach: Um díálogo com Martinho Lutero
… as to the secularization of the philosophical Modernity. The criticism from Feuerbach to the Christianism, consequent to the speculative philosophy, concentrates itself in its illusory character and in the subjectivism provided by the scission of the man from its own essence and by the …
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The Reader of Milton's "Higher Argument" in Paradise Lost
… in epic development maintains a grand style, but modern critics have problems with Milton's God. Autobiographical elements in The Reason of Church-Government indicate Milton's sense of a divine calling in poetry, but Professors Grierson and Tillyard disagree regarding Milton's prophetic powers in …
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A study of Śāntarakṣita's Madhyamakālaṃkāra
… reasons for its neglect among traditional and modern scholars, this being the first major study and translation of the MA1 in a Western language. The work is also set against the general background of the development of the Madhyamaka tradition in Tibet. In the first chapter, the "methodology" …
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Repetition Repeated: Reconstructing a Lacanian Subjectivity Through Kierkegaardian Repetition
… discourse. Hegel called this the beginning of modern philosophy, but the Cartesian <em>cogito</em> elevated human reason, ushered the Enlightenment, and led to scientific and political revolutions. But as Slavoj Zizek has pointed out, almost from the moment Descartes posited the mind-body …
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CARE OBFUSCATION AS THE PERFORMANCE OF VERTICALITY: THE POSTURAL GEOMETRIES OF (DESIRING) ACADEMIC PARENTS
… the masculine legacies central to much western modern philosophy. Whilst governing rationalities in neoliberal societies revere what Cavarero calls a kind of “verticality” – an analogy for the autonomous and self-sufficient Kantian man – the extent to which this posture is attainable is …
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Scientific laws and causality in the philosophy of second language acquisition: A neo-Aristotelian approach
… effort to situate SLA within the history of modern philosophy (Jordan, 2004) begins in the seventeenth century with Descartes and accepts the early modern denunciation of Aristotelianism without reservation. The recent neo-Aristotelian revival in philosophy, however, indicates that such an …
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Freud : moments of modernism
… it the precise measure of its influence. Across modern philosophy, the human sciences, and the arts - from surrealism to pop art, from advertising to social welfare policies - Freud's psychoanalysis permeates the ways in which we live, and is one of the key elements of that experience of …
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The aesthetics of radical critique : Kant or the dialectic and revolution
… dialectical method to Adorno and Horkheimer's philosophy of history, which posits Enlightenment both as break with the history of reason, and as ahistorical concept of that history. The dissertation takes as its point of departure their discussion of Kant, as exemplary Enlightenment thinker. I …
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Obscurity and involvement on the unconscious of thought in Leibniz, Spinoza, and Hume
<p>In this dissertation I argue for the central metaphysical importance of unconscious dimensions of thought in philosophical systems of Leibniz, Spinoza, and Hume, and analyze how these unconscious dimensions inform how each conceives of freedom and volition. I show that they develop robust …
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Power, Relationships and Ethics in Counselling Psychology
… the theoretical base in critical theory, post-modern philosophy and linguistics offers an additional body of knowledge which may enlighten our understanding of the therapeutic process. Section C Case work: Reflections on clinical supervision: an analysis of the supervisory relationship with …
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