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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Practical Philosophy"”.
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Choreographing relations: practical philosophy and contemporary choreography
… These singular relational assemblages defy practical philosophy insofar as they require a methodology which can account for their dynamic complexity without reducing them either to pre-established categories or to a static analysis. On the basis of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s …
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Listening with the third Ear: Exploring the practical philosophy of transcultural understanding
… instance of what Aristotle termed phronesis or practical wisdom. As such, culturally competent medical practice is dialogical engagement between patient and health-care provider with the aim of mutual understanding that then facilitates health promotion. \r\nAristotle's concept of phronesis was …
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Ministry, Mission, and Mercy: A Practical Philosophy for Groups to Live Out God’s Holistic Vision for the Church
… thesis argues for the importance of employing a practical philosophy of ministry, mission, and mercy in the local church, specifically in the context of small groups. The first chapter introduces the idea of the ministry, mission, and mercy paradigm, makes an argument for its necessity in the …
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Human goodness and natural goodness
… traditional concerns of philosophical ethics and practical philosophy. A key point of tension between the two accounts appears in Foot’s later naturalistic turn, which seems to constrast sharply with Taylor’s interpretive, and strongly anti-naturalistic, approach. In what follows I will explore …
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From Reflective Practice to Practical Wisdom: A Phenomenological Study of Preservice Teachers' Educational Growth in a Method Course
… principles of hermeneutic phenomenology and practical philosophy. It was central to this research study to explore the process of educational ""change"" and ""growth"" in preservice teachers' understandings overtime through deliberation, dialogue, and performance in method courses. Theories …
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Direito e moral em Haberrnas: uma leitura a partir da concepção do Estado democrático de direito
… relation to one of the aspects of his political philosophy, emphasizing the relationship between law and morality in the design of the democratic rule of law. Since, for Habermas there cannot be confusion between the spheres of morality and law, under penalty of establishing an irrationality of …
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Cures of the body and cures of the soul : from Hippocrates to the early Eastern Christian Fathers.
… to the diverging interpretation of pagan Greek philosophy. Although the Greek philosophical tradition was all-pervasive for intellectuals in both sides, its various theories did accommodate the distinct interests of Hippocratic medicine and of Christian medicine. Hippocratism expressed itself in …
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Prudence and providence in Kant
… of the concepts of prudence (or, equivalently, practical judgment) and providence (or, equivalently, the postulate of God’s existence) in Kant’s ethics, political philosophy, and moral theology. Kant famously breaks with the eudaimonistic tradition by rejecting the principle of happiness from …
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Struggling for Civility. The Idea and the Reality of Civil Society
Contains fulltext : 93537.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Adorno, Hegel and the Philosophical Origins of Classical Social Theory
… theory. In his ongoing engagement with the philosophy of German Idealism, and with Hegel in particular, Adorno’s philosophical, sociological, and cultural critical writings involve a critical rethinking of the relationship between subject and object, and between individual and society. I …
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Situations, incentives and reasons. Kant on rational agency and moral motivation
… of rational agency that underlies Kant's moral philosophy. These I call the problem of experiential incongruence and the problem of misdirected moral attention. The former problem arises because the central elements of Kant's theory of action (the possession of and action upon maxims; the …
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Social justice after Kant: Between constructivism and deconstruction (Rawls, Habermas, Levinas, Derrida)
… of justice as it develops in relation to Kant s practical philosophy. I then argue that the two projects are complementary. [New Paragraph] Whilst Rawls and Habermas emphasise the possibility of objectively realising Kant s idea of an impartial standpoint among autonomous persons, Levinas and …
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An Experiential Approach to Kant's Moral Philosophy: A Reply to Dogmatism, Formalism and Rigorism
… commentators and critics interpret his moral philosophy solely in terms of the cognitive dimension of his categorical imperative. Such a predominant manner of reading Kant gives rise to the criticism that his moral philosophy is too far removed from the actual way in which human beings orient …
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Teachers' Perceptions of the Importance of Identified Servant Leadership Characteristics for High School Principals in Two Diverse Communities
… two diverse communities. Servant leadership is a practical philosophy supporting people who serve first in their life and work (Frick, 2004, p. 8). Like other leadership philosophies, the practice of servant leadership may be influenced by variables that are particular to the environment in which …
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A Handbook For Secondary Teachers of Remedial Mathematics in Georgia
… These changes implied the need for a new practical philosophy of mathematics education as a basis for curricular reform. Each new generation needs to step away from current schooling practices, reflect on the mathematical expectations for students and society, and restate the assumptions …
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Re-cognising RPL – A Deleuzian enquiry into policy and practice of Recognition of Prior Learning
… explore the value of RPL in education. Using the practical philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari (DG), the conceptualization of RPL is explored in policy and practice and their concepts are employed to reimagine RPL for learning, and as pedagogy, in adult university education. A hybrid …
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Relativism in Democracy. Response to a new form of political theology
… the same reason Hegel already criticized Kant's practical philosophy: that 'reason' only stipulates a purely formal set of criteria, and it is impossible to deduce anything substantive from something merely formal. 'Rationalists' are therefore ultimately forced to re-import their substantive …
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Freedom and nature in Schelling's philosophy of Art
… thesis is to establish the centrality of the philosophy of art in Schelling's thought from the System of Transcendental Idealism (1800), through the period known as his absolute idealism or identity-philosophy (1801-1806), to the address Uber das Verhaltnis der bildenden Kunste zu der Natur of …
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The Effect of Gender Threat on Implicit Sexism and Stereotyping
Gender threat occurs in situations in which one is threatened by the possibility of acting like the opposite gender (Vandello et al., 2008) and is most pervasive for men (e.g., “you throw like a girl”). This study examined the question of whether men, after being told they performed like women, …
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