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A critical index to the letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge from 1820 to 1834 : on the subjects of "philosophy and religion" and "literature" : a presentation of his later thought.
… Taylor Coleridge are published in six volumes and edited by Earl Leslie Griggs. Volumes II, IV, and VI contain indexes for the letters which include primarily the names of people and publications mentioned throughout the correspondence. This Critical Index is a listing of Coleridge's comments, …
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Humanities Faculty Perceptions of Learning Outcomes Assessment At a Regional Comprehensive University
… university. Participants from History, English, and Philosophy and Religion departments were interviewed about their perceptions of assessment. The results were that Humanities faculty members hold both positive and negative perceptions of assessment. Positive perceptions are driven by receipt of …
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Valuing
… dissertation, <em>Valuing</em>, takes its title and inspiration from Allen Grossman’s unorthodox understanding of value in<em> True-Love: Essays on Poetry & Valuing</em>. Grossman sees our most human acts of valuation as transcendent of the orthodoxy it is commonly associated with because it is …
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Through the Yoruba Lens: A Postcolonial Discourse of Female Circumcision
<p>Despite the Western media attention and the critique of female circumcision in sub-Saharan Africa, few studies consider the local populations' traditions, values, and ideologies.<em> Through the Yoruba Lens: A Postcolonial Discourse of Female Circumcision</em> investigates female circumcision …
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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 modern …
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Francis Thompson’s Solution's to the Problem of Evil in the Hound of Heaven
… mountains, the fertility of the valleys, the grandeur of forest. Whoever observes the universe and considers the admirable order manifested by the never-failing alternation of seasons, the regular change of day and night, and the fixed courses of the planets, must conclude that there is an …
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A critical analysis of William Alston's view of religious language, with a comparison with classical and modern Islamic theories
… turn. Because of the close relation between philosophy and religion, this recent philosophical interest in language has had a great effect on the understanding of religious language. The present work concentrates on two controversial questions regarding religious language: (1) What are the …
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The perversion of the absolute: religion and representation in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
<p>The question of the role of religion in Hegel’s philosophical legacy has long been a fraught one. Beginning with the schism between so-called Right and Left Hegelianism, two lines of interpretation have developed in nearly diametric opposition. On the one side, Hegel’s system is regarded as the …
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The Concept of "Angel” and "Devil" in Shakespeare’s Plays
… Shakespeare1s concept by a study of his plays and of the commonly held opinions of the Elizabethans has not yet been worked out. It is important that it should be, for although the conclusions of the investigator concerning one .concept cannot be applied to the work as a whole, they furnish the …
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Rethinking Death and Donation: Mediating Death at the End of Life in the Wake of Brain Death's Failings
… Indeed, its almost universal acceptance in law and medical practice seems to confirm this depiction. However, over the last fifteen years or so, a growing number of experts in medicine, philosophy, and religion regard brain death as an untenable criterion for human death. Given that the debate …
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Finitude and Transcendence: A Study in Paul Ricœur’s Early Philosophy
… which distinguish it from many that were (and still are) prevalent in French philosophical discourse, almost all of which draw significantly on the work of Martin Heidegger (1889–1976). In Ricœur’s philosophy, human finitude cannot be described from a metaphysically or religiously neutral …
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Complementariteit in kennistheoretisch perspectief
… (entities have pre-existing properties) and in terms of internal relations (the properties are a consequence of the relation). These two ways of description are complementary. They are found in the work of different authors (Bohr, Whitehead, systems theory, Bohm, Löfgren, Prigogine). Bohr …
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Here be dragons: exploring the hinterland of science
This dissertation is an exploration of the hinterland of science and the strange ‘creatures’ dwelling there. In philosophical circles, the subject of pseudoscience has stirred relatively little philosophical excitement. The demarcation project has fallen on hard times, and many philosophers have …
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The status of the world : rochdian creationism and peripatetic eternalism
… or created through the eyes of the Hellenes and especially Aristotle and the Muslim theologians led by Ibn Rochd. Such exploration would be a sort of comparative study between religion and philosophy, and we do mean by religion here the monotheistic tenets represented by the Abrahamic …
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