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Showing 1 to 20 of 105 for “"Rationalist"”.
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Beyond Belief: Zhou Zuoren's Rationalist Writings and the Chinese Enlightenment
… of his rationalism. In many respects, Zhou's rationalist thought represented a self-reflexive voice concerning the Chinese Enlightenment. This dissertation aims to delineate the ways in which Zhou developed his rationalist thought and used it to criticize the mainstream Chinese Enlightenment. …
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Rationalist causes of war : mechanisms, experiments, and East Asian wars
This dissertation specifies and tests rationalist mechanisms of war. Why would rational states fight each other despite their incentives for peaceful bargains that would avoid the costs of war? In the rationalist theory of war, private information and the commitment problem are the key causes of …
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The Flower of Human Perfection: Moses Mendelssohn's Defense of Rationalist Aesthetics
… a tradition that arose in 18-century Germany. Rationalists held that aesthetic experience is primarily explained by the perfection of the object being considered, where perfection is a fundamental, rational (law-governed) property. As this work shows, Mendelssohn was among the first to …
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Beyond rationalist orthodoxy: towards a complex concept of the self in IPE
In this thesis I investigate the intellectual foundations of International Political Economy (IPE) in order to develop a more complex account of agency than that currently provided to the subject field by neoclassical economics. In particular, I focus on the thought of Adam Smith, whose ideas are …
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Schleiermacher's Doctrine of Biblical Authority: An Alternative to Content-Based/Supernaturalist and Function-Based Rationalist Models
… an alternative to strictly supernaturalistic and rationalistic models, his understanding allows the New Testament to speak authoritatively in Christian religion in an age of critical, historical awareness. After classifying Schleiermacher’s position in a typology of the doctrine of biblical …
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An appraisal of homoeopathic proving methodology as a bridge between the indigenous and rationalist-scientific understandings of medicinal plants : the case of Strychnos henningsii
Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements of the Degree of Doctor of Technology: Homoeopathy, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2011.
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Ny väg till nya vägar och järnvägar : Finanseringspragmatism och planeringsrationalism vid beslut om infrastrukturinvesteringar
… picture of a decision-making process based on rationalist premises where analytical methods and objective facts form the basis for decisions. Behind this purely rationalist façade, however, planning is also a highly political process where various actors try to impose their will on others. This …
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Reason, Utility, and Right Action in Hume's Moral Philosophy
… moral philosophy is his commitment to an anti-rationalist theory of ethics, I argue that Hume came to reject this position found the Treatise of Human Nature (1739) in his later Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751). In the Treatise, Hume endorses the view that reason is wholly …
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Perception and cognition : insights from Kant and cognitive science
My dissertation integrates rationalist and empirical approaches into a unified account of perceptual experience and cognition. I highlight important conceptual and theoretical distinctions that are critical for accurately interpreting the contributions of rationalist thinkers and the empirical …
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Pierre'o Manent'o iššūkis Ronaldo Dworkino žmogaus teisių sampratai /
… and politics, characterized by a positivist or rationalist mindset. The analysis aims to elucidate why the joint critique of modern positivist thought and its moral relativism, as articulated in the works of American legal theorist Ronald Dworkin and French political philosopher Pierre Manent, …
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Sense, Understanding and Language: A Genealogy of Sense in the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze 1953-1969
… Proust and Signs draws upon the empirical and rationalist tension between sense and meaning. For empiricists, in order to attain meaning, we must first make sense of the world and thereby associate experiential qualities to our ideas. They argue that without this process our ideas remain blank. …
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Coercion, norms and atrocity: explaining state compliance with international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia arrest and surrender orders
… and non-compliance outcomes, which range from a rationalist focus on material incentives and disincentives to norm-centric approaches, there will be an exploration of both ideational and material explanatory variables. Moreover, as mainstream neorealist and neoliberal institutionalist theories …
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Strategic culture and non-nuclear weapon outcomes: the cases of Australia, South Africa and Sweden
… by realist theories, which typically provide rationalist materialist explanations for outcomes. This thesis highlights the relevance of domestic strategic cultural context to strategic decision-making and, in the process, explores the potential inadequacies of non-cultural strategic analysis. …
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Rationalism and the organic analogy in fin-de-siècle Paris : Auguste Perret and the building at 25b rue Franklin
… It first distinguishes the different brands of rationalist theories in France at the end of the nineteenth century. An examination of the 25b shows the mark left by the writings of Eugene Viollet-le-Duc on Perret's rationalist conceptions of architecture. It also illustrates the link established …
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A study of the phenomena of conjoining terms and related aberrant transformations in the simplification of algebraic expressions by Grade 8 learners of two secondary schools in the Western Cape
… in early school algebra. The study took a rationalist view of knowledge acquisition and used a computational approach to analyse data obtained through a written test and semi-structured interviews with a selection of research subjects. The rationalist research orientation used rests on the …
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A Critical Analysis of the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge: Problems of Knowledge-Legitimation (Strong Programme, Rational Reconstruction, Relativism, Symmetry Thesis)
… context of justification, (ii) the relativist--rationalist controversy regarding questions of cognitive warrant, (iii) the tenets of the strong programme, particularly the symmetry and impartiality theses, and (iv) whether a consistent sociological and relativist reconstruction of scientific …
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John Adams and Unitarian Theology
… terms such as "Christian Deist" and "Theistic Rationalist." Then, the thesis suggests possible applications for Adams's religion, particularly when considering his emphasis on the ethical Jesus in relation to his desire for a moral society brought about by religion. Adams's theology can be …
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Power and International Relations Theory; Why the 'Debate About Empire' Matters?
… role of shared understandings. Mainstream or "Rationalist" scholars of IR have argued that shared norms and principles are epiphenomenal, existing only to the extent that sovereign states find utility in them. 'Reflectivist' scholars, on the other hand, have suggested that we attribute a much …
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