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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"human will"”.
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Pets' Position within the Family Structure from the Owners' Perspective: Sources and Consequences of Owners' Views
Advances in the study of human relationships abound, but one area is lacking. It is still uncommon to include people's relationships with their pets in these studies. With secondary survey data and regression analysis, the understanding of a pet as a person by its' owner is established. This thesis …
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"Don Quijote" y "La vida es sueno": La voluntad y la realizacion del protagonista. (Spanish text);
… awareness, understanding and maturation of the human will in its quest to find meaning and freedom in life. Though one is replete with theological implications, both are essentially philosophical. Both protagonists begin with disadvantages: Don Quijote has a distorted view of reality while …
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HEARING/s: Will in the Carceral Archive
<p>This long-form poetry project follows the human will — in this case the “criminal,” or captive will — as it is manhandled through an archive of reverends, wardens and superintendents narrating the future of prison reform. Drawing primarily from National Prison Association Conference archives …
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Reasons, Agency, and Responsibility: A Defence of Soft Compatibilism
… First, I argue that libertarian free will is incompatible with causal determinism and indeterminism because the human will is subject to antecedent conditions. If causal determinism is true, then these antecedent conditions are sufficient for the will to be a certain way. If …
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The Beginning of the End: The Cultivation of Transchronological Perceptuality in <em>Arcadia</em> and “Story of Your Life”
… sensory rhetorics, centralizing the politics of human perception as dually illuminating and obfuscating reality. This project employs an interdisciplinary approach, adopting elements of literary, thermodynamic, and astrophysical theory as avenues for interpreting the structure and content of both …
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Adaptive Communication Interfaces for Human-Robot Collaboration
… or haptic interfaces to convey information to human collaborators. The way these interfaces select signals typically depends on the task that the human is trying to complete: for instance, a haptic wristband may vibrate when the human is moving quickly and stop when the user is stationary. But …
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Salvation and the Will: Human and Divine Cooperation in the Theologies of Martin Luther and Maximus the Confessor
… of salvation can be reconciled. This thesis will argue that while distinct, justification and theosis find a point of contact in certain commitments, namely a distinctive attention to the human will and a profoundly Christological account of redemption. To this end, this thesis will bring …
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The Unassumed Is The Unhealed The Humanity Of Christ In The Theology Of T.F. Torrance
… the doctrine that Christ assumes our fallen humanity as explicated in the theology of T.F. Torrance. This is done by expounding the theological structures of Torrance’s Christology. In addition to analysis of dogmatic concepts, it examines the narrative of Israel’s history and the life of …
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Eloquent Wisdom: The Role of Rhetoric and Delight in the Theology of Saint Augustine of Hippo
… goods, both of which exert their power over the human will through suggestion, delight and persuasion and result in a bondage to sin and death. By contrast, God ‘utters’ creation as a delightful song and opposes death’s nihilistic rhetoric by pouring his own delight into the hearts of the …
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The Theme of Free Will in Milton's Major Poems
… John Milton is the concept of the freedom of the will, a concept that is one of the more obvious themes in his four most important poems. In Paradise Lost, free will functions as a destructive impulse motivating the tragedy. In Paradise Regained, it is the constructive force responsible for the …
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An analysis of transtheoretical stages of change in the formation of a spiritual discipline
… the degree to which spiritual growth depends on human will-power, but there is consensus that will-power does play a role. To the degree that will-power does play a roll in spiritual growth, the social sciences may offer an explanation of human motivation and the dynamics of behavior …
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Quantum Regimes: Genealogies of Virtual Matter and Healing the New Age Body
… them, especially as it pertains to healing the human body using metaphysical tools. As such, it uses archival research, film analysis, and ethnography in the San Francisco Bay Area to uncover the development, not of the New Age religiosity or spirituality per se, but of its material ontology. …
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Architectures of Microbiality: From Diatoms to Diatom Houses
… the world was not some grand narrative of human will but the disorienting, puzzling, and even frightful everywhere-ness of microbiality. The intersection of diatoms with architecture changed from aesthetics and form to a deeper engagement with sites and land, following the transformative …
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Playwright and Man of God: Religion and Convention in the Comic Plays of John Marston
… shadows of his great contemporaries William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. In the last two centuries, his works were hardly taken on their own terms but were perceived instead in overt or implicit comparison to Shakespeare’s or Jonson’s. As a result, Marston’s plays acquired the lasting …
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The politics of bargaining and negotiations in political conflicts with special reference to political settlements in Southern Africa
… does not come about on moral grounds or through human will, it is brought about by circumstances created by the pull and push relationship between political elements in their struggle for dominance. It appeared that political development in South Africa had reached a stage where change was …
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Matron, Ruin and New Mineral: A Thesis of Iconic Materiality
… that reveal the material as an imprint for the human desire, the human will, and the human wish, for the material as a tool of representation and interpretation, thus the human thoughts, the human purpose and the human work. Explained in terms of space or environment, in terms of form or …
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Diagnosis of Cognitive Impairment using Multiple Data Modalities
… ageing for sometime. It is understood that every human will go through this process, but some will go through it faster, and for some this process starts earlier. Differentiating between cognitive decline due to a pathological process and normal ageing is an ongoing research challenge. According …
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