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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Moral World"”.
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Humanity in the Balance: The Relationship Between the Moral Law and the Promotion of the Moral World in Kant's Ethics
… between two seemingly divergent approaches to morality. On the one hand, there are those who take the view that morality concerns itself with the promotion of certain ends. This is a teleological or consequentialist view of ethics. On the other hand, we see thinkers who take the view that …
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The Polyphonic Qurʾān: Ethical Antinomy, Narrative Ambiguity, and the Construction of the Qurʾān’s Moral Universe
… (i.e., stories), this study explores the moral world of the Qurʾān through an analysis of its narrative pericopes. It seeks to show how the Qurʾān employs ethical antinomy and narrative ambiguity to ethical purpose—rather than viewing moral conflict as a dilemma, and ambiguity as an …
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The dehumanization of nature and the naturalization of the human: A study of Spinoza and Nietzsche
… freedom of the will, teleology, and the moral world order—which are largely responsible for the intractable delusion that human beings occupy a privileged position in nature. However, the task of naturalizing the human is not accomplished merely in exposing lies as lies but requires that, …
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An Overarching Defense of Kant's Idea of the Highest Good
… criticisms pointed out in the English-speaking world, within the framework of the so-called "Beck-Silber controversy."</p><p>As it is known, since the second half of the last century, when the "Beck-Silber controversy" started, Kant's idea of the highest good has been subject to a massive …
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The Greedy Eaters: A moral politics of continuity and consumption in urbanising central Kenya
… Kikuyu in central Kenya have argued about the morality of wealth and the delinquency of poverty. A kinship-based labour ethic was at the heart of these moralising debates. Men and women could gain public standing from accumulating the land and tenants that sustained families over generations. …
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Exploration of nonevent among Israeli expatriates
… home country entailed a threat to the values, world-view and sense of belonging which were held by the participants as fundamental to the security of their identity. It altered their expected course of life, a range of personal commitments and the way they conceived of themselves, all of which …
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Die rundköpfe und die spitzköpfe oder reich und reich gesellt sich gern Ein Greuelmärchen: an analysis of Bertolt Brecht’s creative reception of William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure
… anachronistic political tendencies, attacks the moral world Shakespeare portrays in Measure for Measure. He achieves this mainly by supplying certain actions with a materialist motivation and by allowing figures to mock moral considerations. The Vienna-version is a parody, therefore, and also …
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A Disability Theology of Limits for Responding to Moral Injury
… home from a decade of war, ridden by PTSD and moral injury, only to discover lethargy, lack of seriousness and complacency in societal response. The seriousness of our soldiers’ wounds, to body and spirit alike, demand ethical, societal and theological responsibility. Failure to address the …