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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Personalism"”.
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Personalism in religious education
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Personalism in John Donne's Art
This study examines personalism in John Donne's art: to what extent his poems are a product of his personality over and above conscious invention and artifice. It argues that Donne writes the way he does because, for the most part, he fails to attain distance from his work. The subjects that he …
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The citizen: an Ubuntu personalism conception
In this thesis, I argue for an Ubuntu personalism conception of the citizen as a foundationalist account of a grounding for the pluralist political arrangement based on human rights. I start with John Rawls who employed what he called a political conception of the citizen to develop a neutralist …
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The personalism of Denis de Rougemont: spirituality and politics in 1930s Europe
… malaise of liberal democracies in 1930s Europe. Personalism puts the emphasis on the human person – understood to be an individual $\textit{in relation}$ to others – as the foundation and aim of society. Yet, because of the impossibility of subjecting the human person to a systematic definition, …
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An analysis of the metaphysics of personhood: with special reference to Kant, Fries, Schelling, Cieszkowski, Royce, Scheler and Otto
… modernism and idealist developments in American personalism. It examines the personalism inherent in the faith-philosophers of the post-Enlightenment and also in Schelling, Schleiermacher and Dilthey. Symbolism and story found in supernatural fiction relating to Fries and Otto’s phenomenology of …
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Toward a richer account of human rights in Christian moral theory : from Wolterstorff and Hauerwas to Wojtyla.
… of human dignity and perfectionism in his personalism that results in this alternate understanding of the human agent. When using this different understanding of the human agent, we can discover a richer account of human rights, an account that encourages us not only to do actions that …
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Teacher Practices in Primary Schools with High Value-Added Scores and Engaging Lessons in Disadvantaged Communities in Rural Mexico
… practices, clarity, academic press, academic personalism, trust, and rigour; and the variables parental support and teacher qualification. Results from a multiple case study conducted in two of the 18 schools, and where students reported relative high levels of student engagement, corroborated …
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St. Ignatius' Quill Pen: Exploring the Orality-Literacy Difficulty in the Spiritual Exercises
… and phenomenological interpretations within personalism.</p>
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Between informal and formal politics : Neopatrimonialism and party development in post-Soviet Kazakhstan
… of political parties. It investigates how personalism of political office, patronage and patron-client networks and factional elite conflict have influenced and shaped the institutional constraints affecting party development (institutional choice, electoral design and party law), the type …
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Revelatory Texts and Moral Lives: Reinterpreting the Specificity of Christian Morality Through a Ricoeurian Hermeneutic
… and practices supplement ethics with the kind of personalism that was lacking in traditional moral theology. The study will further demonstrate that Ricoeur’s understanding of history and tradition can provide a way of answering to the respective concerns of the Autonomy and Glaubensethik schools …
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GEORGES V. FLOROVSKY AND VLADIMIR N. LOSSKY: AN EXPLORATION, COMPARISON AND DEMONSTRATION OF THEIR UNIQUE APPROACHES TO THE NEOPATRISTIC SYNTHESIS
… and of the person. But he also arrives at his personalism through his apophatic method, applied in a universal manner, and his true synthesis of the Fathers with contemporary thought.
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Karol Wojtyła’s Interpersonalist Ethics: A Critical Sartrean Appraisal and Confucian Adaptation
… as acting subject as the foundation for ethical personalism, his analysis could be significantly enhanced through engagement with the classical Confucian interpersonal ethical sensibility. After all, Wojtyła reviles both individualistic and collectivistic forms of ethics. With Jean-Paul Sartre …
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Persian miniature writing: An ethnography of Iranian organizations in Washington, D.C.
… body, suffering from fissures, inactivity, personalism, organizational chaos, and sentiments such as fear, distrust, suspicion, submission, alienation, indifference, envy, paranoia, hypocrisy, insecurity, and pessimism. Second, that the two major organizations that I worked with, one human …
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From Level 5 to Level 3 Lockdown: The Work Experiences and Employment Relationships of Domestic Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic in South Africa
… relationship, domestic workers experienced personalism with some form of distant hierarchy before the pandemic and experienced distant hierarchy in the form of physical and social distancing during the pandemic, as perceived carriers of COVID-19. In addition, domestic workers experienced …
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Freedom in the thought and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
… his commitment to the ideas of Christian personalism; his belief that a good state will both protect and provide freedom; and that the moral law of God is on the side of freedom. Questions for further consideration arise out of this dissertation. Is King's dream too utopian? Is he …
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The word that makes you go hmmm: exploring the relation between African Americans’ linguistic ideologies, racial identity attitudes, and usage of the n-word
… on the social situation or cultural context), Personalism (i.e., the deciding factor in determining the meaning for the word nigga comes from the beliefs and/or intentions of the speaker), Reshaping (i.e., the word nigga is a reshaping of the historical racial slur nigger), Baptismal (i.e., the …
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Toward Better Knowledge: A Social Epistemology of Pragmatic Nonviolence
… nonviolence, prophetic pragmatism, and American personalism. The views of Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Cornel West, and Randall Auxier are treated in this part. The third and fourth sections of chapter three applies the theories advanced in previous sections and chapters to …
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The nature, role and formation of cnscience in the thoughts of John Henry Newman, Germain Grisez and Linda Hogan: an assessment of their thoughts in relation to Church teaching
… principles and Hogan’s by the tenets of personalism. The thesis evaluates the usefulness and efficacy of these distinctive approaches by examining them in relation to the overall teaching tradition of the Catholic Church.
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