Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Scotus"”.
-
SCOTUS' Decisions on Sentencing Juvenile Offenders: An Examination of Risk and Protective Factors of Juvenile Conduct Disorder and Adult Offending
… and the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) indicate that juvenile offenders are more easily rehabilitated than adult offenders in that they do not fully appreciate the nature of the crime they have committed due to being psychologically immature. The current study is an examination …
-
Information, Risk, And Behavior: Evidence From The Public Finance Market
… public finance market in the context of a 2012 SCOTUS decision. I find that the court decision had significant effects on investor behavior in the hospital sector of the public finance market as manifested in trade volume and price changes. These effects appear to contradict models of market …
-
“In God we trust”: comparação da aplicabilidade fática dos princípios da laicidade do Estado e da liberdade religiosa com base na jurisprudência do Supremo Tribunal Federal e da Suprema Corte dos Estados Unidos da América
… da Supreme Court of The United States (doravante SCOTUS) busca-se verificar se tais princípios são aplicados dentro da mesma medida aos casos que envolvem religiões não-cristãs. Para tanto, será feita uma breve perspectiva histórica visando consolidar a construção destes princípios constitucionais …
-
Analyzing the Overturning of Roe vs Wade on Twitter using Natural Language Processing Techniques
<p>In 1973, the historic U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) case of Roe vs. Wade provided the constitutional right<br />to abortion. However, on May 2, 2022, Politico magazine leaked the draft opinion on the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The leak generated a surge of users to post their …
-
Labyrinthum capellae. Le "Annotationes in Marcianum" di Giovanni Scoto Eriugena e la fortuna del neoplatonismo cristiano
… Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii) and Iohannes Scotus Eriugena (Annotationes in Marcianum). Clearly it emerges that there were two opposite ways about this relatioship. According to the first, the human being is capable of get a knowledge about God thanks to its own reason and logical thought …
-
Il sindacato di legittimità costituzionale sulla misura delle pene detentive: un'indagine comparata The constitutional review of excessive prison terms: a comparative study
… both of the Italian constitutional court and the SCOTUS are analyzed in detail. There is also an in depth analysis of lower federal courts' and state courts' proportionality jurisprudence, and a focus on the most significant theoretical perspectives elaborated by U.S. scholars, who strongly …
-
Marriage in the 21st Century: From a State of Confusion to a State of Being
… the landmark Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruling in favor of national marriage equality, some members of society argued against marriage equality for gay people. Recently, a few presidential candidates have threatened to overturn the ruling. Consequently, the debate over what …
-
Powers and the Metaphysics of Fundamentality
… such as Ibn- Sīnā, Thomas Aquinas, and John Duns Scotus, I argue that if ground is understood as powerful, existential causation a strong argument can be formulated for foundationalism over infinitism. Thus, there must exist something fundamental whose existence is ungrounded, but which grounds …
-
Thomas Aquinas, the real distinction between esse and essence, and overcoming the conceptual imperialism
… or "thing". I then turn to the though of Duns Scotus to show that the mere identification of existence with essence does not entail"conceptual imperialism." Although situated in the period of medieval scholasticism, such a study resonates with more contemporary philosophical critiques of the …
-
A critical survey of the history and development of the present ban on the ordination of women in the Roman Catholic Church.
… as Gratian, Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventure and Duns Scotus, looking especially at their Commentaries on the Sentences of Peter Lombard. Subsequent chapters analyse in more detail the arguments from scripture and biology, drawing together strands of thought in the Middle Ages on these subjects, …
-
The Catholic Calvin: A study on the satisfaction of Christ and the necessity of the cross in John Calvin’s theology
… Medieval figures (Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, Scotus, Bernard, Abelard) to establish continuity in the tradition and then situates Calvin’s writings within that framework. It also engages in close exegetical analysis of biblical texts central to debates on the atonement (Gal. 3:13; 2 Cor. 5:21; …
-
The Roots of Franciscan Theology and Metaphysics: An Integrated Approach Towards Encounter, Participation, and the De-Radicalisation of Difference
… the contributions of Bonaventure and John Duns Scotus. Particular attention is given to doctrines such as divine illumination, intuitive cognition, and contingency, showing how these concepts articulate and extend a participatory Franciscan theological vision. The thesis engages directly with …
-
Is Ancient Eudaimonism a Defensible Normative Ethical Position?
… According to the third objection raised by Scotus and Christine Swanton, eudaimonism is insufficiently pluralistic and does not take account of the particularity and complexity of moral thinking. A counter-argument from Julia Annas which defends the thesis of the unity of the virtues will be …
-
Music, number, and logic in Eriugena’s reading of Augustine’s De musica
This thesis examines John Scotus Eriugena’s reading of Augustine’s De musica. It argues that material from Augustine’s text is presented within a nexus of musical, logical, and numerical traditions and that it contributes to those traditions. Eriugena was a careful and imaginative reader of …
-
Infinite Art: The Problem of 'Making' for a Christian Metaphysics
… even if this is later exacerbated by John Duns Scotus. I conclude that Nicholas of Cusa thinks through the eternal creativity of God more coherently, arriving at a more defensible metaphysical synthesis, and defying both of the dialectically interrelated poles of intellectualism and voluntarism …
-
Towards a classification of continuity and on the emergence of generality
… of nearness. Chapter 3 is devoted to Duns Scotus and Nicolas Oresme, and more generally, to the Medieval debate surrounding the “latitude of forms” or the “intension and remission of forms,” in which concerted efforts were made to re-focus attention onto the type of continuous motions …
-
Conoscenza e azione. La teoria delle intentiones nella Escuela de Salamanca (XV‐XVI secolo)
… of Thomas Aquinas, of Hervaeus Natalis and Duns Scotus, among the leaders of the deepening of the theory of knowledge and the formulation of intentiones as instruments for the apprehension. These authors analyze the most significant quaestiones of their works, including, respectively, the Summa …
-
Executive Powers: The Role of the Supreme Court in an Expanding Presidency
<p>In the "Pacificus-Helvidius" debate of 1793, Alexander Hamilton locked horns with James Madison in a classic exchange of broadsides on the issue of express versus inherent executive powers. In his interpretation of presidential powers, Hamilton sows the seeds for an argument which justifies the …