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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"human freedom"”.
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Primary and Secondary Causality in the Thought of St. Anselm: A Speculation on Divine Omniscience, Predestination and Grace in the Context of Human Freedom and Spirituality
… faith, hope and grace affirm the authenticity of human freedom, and serve as an intermediate connection between primary causality (eternal, divine omniscience) and secondary causality (temporal, human experience). This dissertation places specific emphasis on Anselm's De concordia, a treatise in …
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DA PHILOSOPHIE UND RELIGION ALLA FREIHEITSSCHRIFT. IL FINITO, IL MALE, LA LIBERTA' UMANA NEL PENSIERO DI SCHELLING (1804-1809).
… discusses the problem of finitude, evil and human freedom in the wider context of Schelling’s system of identity, while stressing some theoretical as well as ethical issues, provoked by the doctrine of a metaphysical prohibition of a transition from the infinite realm (the Absolute) to the …
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Does implicit bias threaten the semicompatibilist position on free will and responsibility?
The nature and limitations of human freedom have been discussed for millennia and continue to be widely and enthusiastically debated today. This is not surprising, as our sense of freedom is felt to be an essential part of what it is to be human and many fundamental issues, such as responsibility, …
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Fifty three poems
… theme in the writing: love for life, love for humanity, love for beauty, love as an expression of the need to oppose injustice and to strive for human freedom. Love at an intimate and personal level is also given a place of honour in the writing. Issues of political intrigue and concerns about …
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Towards a Synthetic Account of Sin that Merges Magisterial Teaching and Theological Reflection on Sin with the Philosophical Insights of Bernard J.F. Lonergan
… the possibility of sin, ethical knowledge, and human freedom.
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Hegel and politics
… of politics as a distinctive type of human action which is inseparable from human freedom. Freedom is reached through the dialectical conversation of politics, based on speech and recognition, and realized through history in the state. Hegel's concept of politics bears the mark of a …
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Legitimacy and diversity : an examination of the problem pluralism presents to the legitimacy of democratic regimes
… lie in respect for the intrinsic value of human freedom. This respect is usually expressed through the defence of the twin values of autonomy and equality. It was during the Enlightenment that liberal values acquired concrete philosophical foundations in the writing of political …
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Freedom and nature in Schelling's philosophy of Art
… the real. Thus artistic activity is the highest human vocation (Bestimmung ) because practical philosophy can only approximate its object, which is the moral law. (2) While both the natural organism and the artwork embody the same identity of real and ideal, of necessity and freedom, the work of …
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Human dignity and intellectual disability: Thinking with Beauvoir over the influence of the Kantian view
… of a framework for our concepts and treatment of human dignity which contributes to the discrimination of people with intellectual disabilities. I will argue that we need to conceptualize human dignity outside of a framework of autonomous agency because it becomes exclusive of some people with …
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Aesthetic Pedagogy: Kierkegaard and Adorno on the Communication of Possibility
… of communicating awareness of the possibility of human freedom.
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The Mythic Conquest of Time in Faulkner's Fiction
… philosophy of time, a philosophy that emphasizes human freedom and action precisely as they relate to time. However, many of Faulkner's characters are defined by their stagnant and lethargic personalities which cannot change; these characters are held immobile by an over – identification with the …
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Freedom Through the Cultivation of Humanness: Philosophy, Psychology and the Authentic Self
… is essential for a complete view of human nature within psychology. Authenticity arises out of an honest and active relationship to one’s freedom and inauthenticity arises out of a dishonest and passive relationship to one’s freedom. Behaviorists and Humanistic psychologists disagree …
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International Refugee Law and Legal Theory: Developing a New Global Ethic for the Contemporary Protection of Refugees
… is a legal instrument of value that protects human autonomy. That is why it is necessary to use a different framework. It will use a rational one and argue that while the Convention, as a legal document, required contracting states to protect the rational …
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The Logical Analysis Of Key Arguments In Leibniz And Kant
… it seems that there may be no room for divine freedom, much less the human freedom Leibniz wished to prove. I conclude the first part of the paper by arguing that Leibniz’s defenses cannot withstand a contemporary logical analysis, and his project is doomed to fail. In the second half of the …
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