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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"disputations"”.
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Traditions of Learning in Fāṭimid Ifrīqiya (296-362/909-973): Networks, Practices, and Institutions
… and with other competing narratives. Taking disputations (munāẓarāt) as a case study, two chapters of the thesis look at the culture of disputation and its proponents in Ifrīqiya, namely the scholarly community and the Fāṭimid caliphs and agents of their daʿwa, and the narratives of …
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1954, Addio Trieste ... the Triestine community of Melbourne
… Australia is the direct consequence of numerous disputations over the city's political boundaries in the immediate post-World War II period. As such the triestini themselves are not simply part of an overall migratory movement of Italians who took advantage of Australia's post-war immigration …
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Pious Critique: Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī and the 11th Century Practice of Juristic Disputation (Munāẓara)
… the shaping of the law. Transcripts of Shīrāzī’s disputations reflect the impact of the disputation on the development of Shāfi‘ī legal doctrine. The jurists’ acknowledgement of the epistemic uncertainty of legal proofs led them to posit the need and sometimes even the obligation to have their …
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Defoe, Dissent, and Typology
… abstract theology. The aversion to "doubtfull disputations" that Defoe inherits from this discourse informs not only the modes of argument Defoe employs, but also the genres through which he engages with theological questions. Throughout his writing, however, his attachment to Biblical …
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A translation of Roger Ascham’s Apologia pro Caena Dominica and contextual analysis.
… as a direct response to a series of theological disputations which were held in the University of Cambridge on the issue of the Mass, the Apologia provides new evidence for the vital role the University played in the advancement of religious reform. Protestant in outlook, yet at the same time …
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The dynamics of invariant object and action recognition in the human visual system
… is very robust to manipulations and visual disputations that happen during development (Chapter 2). I next show that object recognition occurs very quickly, with invariance to size and position developing in stages beginning around 100ms after stimulus onset (Chapter 3), and that action …
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The self-sufficiency of the good man against the need for friendship. A discussion concerning the importance of friendship for the good man in Cicero.
… he askes in Book Five of the Tusculan Disputations. Is virtue on its own, self-sufficient for happiness? Or is happiness the sum total of external goods when joined together? Friendship was a factor in this discussion, as for Cicero, friendship is closely tied to human nature and is an …
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The Stoics and the practical: a Roman reply to Aristotle
… I conclude that the Stoicism of the Tusculan Disputations places no emphasis upon gaining advance knowledge of one’s end in life or deducing from it the means by which it may be reached; instead, it places emphasis upon freeing oneself from the external causes of internal conflict which lead …
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The nature, role and formation of cnscience in the thoughts of John Henry Newman, Germain Grisez and Linda Hogan: an assessment of their thoughts in relation to Church teaching
… concept has raised bitter, divisive and damaging disputations in history between individual conscience and perceived objective truth that is subjective/objective dilemma. For instance, Martin Luther unapologetically asserted that: I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is …
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Clerics, Courts, and Legal Culture in Early Medieval Italy, c. 650 - c. 900
This dissertation examines how clerics in the Lombard and Carolingian Kingdom of Italy prosecuted disputes with each other. It argues for and explores two core features of the clerical legal culture of the kingdom. The first regards the judicial institutions that clerics exploited. While the late …