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Showing 1 to 20 of 569 for “"Thinkers"”.
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Seven contemporary French political thinkers
… in the analysis of the work of seven political thinkers. All of these thinkers, recognizing a break in the continuity of French political thought consequent upon the claim of François Furet that the "Revolution is complete", have sought to rationalize and reconcile the values of individualism, …
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An Examination of Some Modern Liberal Thinkers
… <p>This thesis considers modern liberal thinkers who address the meaning of liberalism and the contemporary crises faced in Western democratic nations. These thinkers, Guy Debord, John Kenneth Galbraith, Norberto Bobbio, and Ralf Dahrendorf, provide a convenient overall perspective on the …
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The status of love in philosophy : an examination of the role of love (eros) in the work (or works) of selected French thinkers
This dissertation exposes the status of eros in the works of Levinas, Irigaray, and, Nancy. I begin by evaluating Levinas’s phenomenological analyses of eros in Time and the Other and Totality and Infinity. In order to fully appreciate this, however, I must necessarily also provide a summary …
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Freedom, Markets, and Equality in Eighteenth Century Philosophy
… dissertation examines how eighteenth century thinkers Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Adam Smith, and Immanuel Kant defended the value of free markets. It reconstructs their defense of liberal economic reforms, including free trade (domestic and foreign) and the deregulation of markets in labor …
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Aliens, dreams and strange machines: an investigation into thought, interpretation and rationality
… rather than the internal make-up of candidate thinkers; (2) it can fend off certain apparent counterexamples. The thesis is split into four parts. Part I explains why one might want to answer ‘No’ to the question ‘Are there particular sorts of internal organisation which a being must have in …
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A discourse of the non-discursive in Plato and pseudo-Dionysius
… in the history of Western philosophy where thinkers have pushed against the boundaries of logocentrism from within. These thinkers strive to push discursive reasoning to the point where it breaks so that we can experience the limits of discourse.</p> <p>The Platonic conception of eras and …
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Personality and Longevity in the Profession of Athletic Training
… directors, organizers, soothers and thinkers. Of the 1102 analyzed respondents, 216 were communicators, 51 were directors, 427 were organizers, 331 were soothers, and 77 were thinkers. The distribution of athletic training setting were as follows: academic instruction, 67; …
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Comparison of Evangelical Christian Children's God-Concepts and Logical Thinking Ability.
… real, and parental. The majority of concrete thinkers conceptualized God as a gracious guide. The majority of transitional thinkers viewed God also as a gracious guide as well as a distant divinity. Implications were given for religious educators to develop a model for age-appropriate …
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Reconceptualizing Intellectual Histories of Africana Studies: A Review of the Literature
… thought. It posits several generations of thinkers associated broadly with what can be referred to as Africana Studies have determined that African intellectual traditions should influence and often provide the methodological direction for disciplinary Africana Studies. It assembles much of …
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Between Communist Internationalism and a ‘New Humanism’: Episodes in the Intellectual History of Twentieth Century Anticolonialism
… “humanism” has been engaged by different radical thinkers, and encompasses critical examinations of the works of Karl Marx, the Indian communist turned “radical humanist,” M.N. Roy, and the Martinican revolutionary, Frantz Fanon. This project examines how these thinkers understood the relationship …
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Population growth as a problem in the public sphere: current state of play and future prospects
Eight contemporary population growth (PG) thinkers serve as a representative sampling of the cross-section of current PG ideas. Using the philosophical models of problems provided by Laudan (1977) and Nickles (1978, 1980a, 1981), these eight PG spokespersons are shown to have different conceptions …
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Continuity and Change: A study of Shia Islam and modernisation in Iran
… of Shia Islam historically to explain Shia thinkers' perception of and response to the modern world. In making this assessment, elements of the history of Shia Islam are examined. This is to illustrate its relationship with modernity, not as a historical treatment of Islam. In explaining its …
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Integrating the language arts into the history-social science curriculum to develop critical thinking in children
… that encourages children to become critical thinkers.
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Integrating the language arts into the history-social science curriculum to develop critical thinking in children
… that encourages children to become critical thinkers.
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Derrida and a Theory of Irony: Parabasis and Parataxis
… irony theorised and performed in the texts of thinkers whose works operate on the border of the (non)propositional: Plato, Friedrich Schlegel, Maurice Blanchot, Paul de Man, Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida. While focusing on the irony performed in the texts of Jacques Derrida, and using …
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The utility of analogy in systems sciences
… the derivation of a model of analogy for systems thinkers and the description of a framework for practice. In the first section we are concerned with establishing an appreciation and understanding of the potential utility in the concept of analogy for systems thinkers. Having briefly surveyed the …
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The Good Old Days: The Concept of the Golden Age in Greek Political Thought
… been employed so frequently by political thinkers and movements throughout history. By examining how ancient political thinkers utilized the concept of the golden age, I identify the unique power and attraction of the idealized past. First, I analyze Hesiod’s myth of the metals to define …
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Religions of Doubt: Religion, Critique, and Modernity in Jalal Al-e Ahmad and Walter Benjamin
… Marxism, led each of these twentieth century thinkers to re-engage with religious questions and concerns in a simultaneous critique of the corrosive, reductive, and catastrophic nature of the modern condition and the idea of traditional religion - static, irrational, regressive - that …
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Amazônia azul: o patrimônio da geopolítica brasileira no mar?.
… leading intellectuals, specifically geopolitical thinkers. Therefore, it seeks to situate the theoretical support of the Sea's National Defense Policy, through the review about the strategic concept of "Amazônia Azul", in the Brazilian Geopolitical tradition about the sea, with the analysis of the …
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The biosemiotic imagination in the Victorian frames of mind : Newman, Eliot and Welby
… and other writings of three nineteenth-century thinkers, whose work exemplifies that century’s attempts to think beyond the divisions of culture from nature and to reconcile empirical science with metaphysical truth. Drawing on nineteenth-century debates on the origin of language and …
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