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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Vindication"”.
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A vindication of politics : political association and human flourishing
Precipitated by important work in recent natural law political theory, this research revisits the relationship between political association and human flourishing. Does the political community itself realize some aspect of human sociability intrinsic to our full flourishing or is it simply an …
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A vindication of fallen women : Victorian women writers reconceiving gender.
In my dissertation, “A Vindication of Fallen Women: Victorian Women Writers Reconceiving Gender,” I argue that nineteenth-century women writers rework Mary Wollstonecraft’s pioneering feminist text A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) to generate a new ideology of gender. Using feminist and …
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<em>A Vindication of the Rights of Woman:</em> A Reflection of the Tension Between Conformity and Rebellion in the Life and Times of Mary Wollstonecraft
In this thesis I examine A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) by Mary Wollstonecraft and how it reflects the tension between conformity and rebellion that is an inherent component in the life of its author and therefore is a fundamental element of this treatise. In this paper I discuss how …
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The Eschatological Judgment in Job 19:21-29 : an Exegetical Study
… In contrast, Job is seen to affirm a belief in vindication in a future life.</p> <p>Chapter 2 examines the vocabulary of Job 19:21-29. OT usage suggests that numerous words are technical terms from both the juridical and eschatological 'associated fields'. Comparison with other OT texts, whose …
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Workplace alternative dispute resolution: usage proclivity and outcomes
… very specific condition, known as the ‘effective vindication test of arbitration’ that indicated that arbitration should be able to effectively vindicate statutory claims for its usage to be warranted.. The paper contributes to determining whether arbitration meets the ‘effective vindication’ …
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Martyrdom as an impetus for divine retribution in the book of Revelation
… identification of Christ with his witnesses. The vindication of the martyrs is also the vindication of their witness to Christ. This dissertation contends that Revelation's theology of martyrdom should not be conformed to Paul's theology of suffering, but should be understood as a complement to …
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The Resurrection of Andrew Johnson: His Return to Tennessee Politics
… achieving success in 1874. His motivation lay in vindication for his impeachment, which destroyed and ruined his Presidency. However, other issues emerged as well, particularly that of the ex-Confederate military leaders who dominated the state's political scene from during the 1870s. Johnson …
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A Pence-ive narration of a gendered vice-presidency
… use strategies of celebration, confrontation, vindication, and submission to fulfill a gendered role in service to a highly masculine presidency. Suggests that the realities of the 2016 election allowed for these strategies, although in a different form given the nature of the campaign and a …
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Ignorance and Marital Bliss: Women's Education in the English Novel, 1796-1895
… in Behalf of Women (1798) and Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). In Belinda (1801), Maria Edgeworth fictionalizes her Letters for Literary Ladies (1795) and Practical Education (1798), rejects educational parity, and combines autodidacticism with experiential learning. …
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Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres' Jupiter and Thetis
… painting of Jupiter and Thetis was to be Ingres' vindication against previously hostile critics and the ultimate proof of his stature as a history painter. A definitive work in his oeuvre, it synthesizes all the intellectual, stylistic and visual influences to which he had so far been exposed. …
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Virtue: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
… work in his Memoir of the Author of the Vindication of the Rights of Woman; by the idea that her beliefs about virtue and freedom drove her forward through her own life; by the needs of narrative structure and the challenges and opportunities of the film form; by her works, her letters, …
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The New Feminine Rhetoric: Wollstonecraft, Austen, and the Forms of Romantic-Era Feminism
… establish a distinctive feminist rhetoric in her Vindication of the Rights of Woman. This feminist rhetoric had traits that equipped it to continue developing into the nineteenth century, particularly in the works of women novelists such as Jane Austen. My final chapter shows how Austen analyzes …
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Atheism and Analogy: Aquinas Against the Atheists
… argument, articulated by Anthony Collins (Vindication of Divine Attributes), George Berkeley (chapter IV of Alciphron), and David Hume (chapter XII of Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion) can be restructured into an argument for the position that the analogy of proportionality makes the …
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Color of Music: An Investigation of Musical Timbre and Color Association
… Based on the results obtained, the scientific vindication and perceptual basis for the continued use of the metaphor "the color of music" was tentatively upheld based on individual experience, but also signified a need for much more in depth research in timbre processing.
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Denotation: a literate institution for a small southern town
… of the denotative positioning, is not meant as a vindication of the architectural object; rather, it is meant as a critique of the autonomy of the object and the foreground that it inhabits. This use of denotative background (not as a dialectical or teleological response to the connotative object) …
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A Historical-Contextual Analysis of the Final-Generation Theology of M. L. Andreasen
… the end-time overcoming of the saints and the vindication of God in His controversy with evil, much less correspondence was observed.</p> <p>While antecedents for this part of Andreasen’s theology seem implied in several passages from Ellen White, they become quite explicit in the writings of …
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The Identity of the Spirit (rûªh) in Eliphaz’s Vision (Job 4:12-21) and Its Significance for Understanding the Book of Job
… on the other hand, finds consolation (42:6) and vindication in God (42:7), and finally enters God’s restoration and bliss (42:10-17). The book thus is organically connected as a literary whole with a coherent message about the righteous sufferer and the apocalyptic resolution to the problem of …
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