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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"humanist philosophy"”.
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“You Must Be an Android”: The Persistence of Humanist Hierarchies in Posthumanist Science Fiction
… fiction dystopias in which the vestiges of humanist philosophy taint the construction of posthuman subjects. With a grounding in the tenets of both humanist and posthumanist philosophy, I analyze eight works of science fiction that depict artificial intelligence, cyborgs, and body swapping …
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Philosophies of adult education as practiced by agricultural education teachers in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Virginia
… secondary school agriculture teachers.;A Philosophy of Adult Education Inventory (PAEI) and researcher-created demographic sheet was sent to a sample of agriculture teachers in the tri-state area (n = 314). Descriptive data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences …
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Ubuntu : development and validation of a scale to measure African humanism
Ubuntu is an African humanist philosophy described by the Nguni aphorism “umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu” which translates as a person is a person through other people. While Ubuntu has been a domain of extensive scholarly research, to date almost all of this work has been philosophical or conceptual; by …
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Aaron Copland's In the Beginning: context and creative process
… creative process and his Jewish heritage and humanist philosophy. Commissioned for Harvard University’s Symposium on Music Criticism, this setting of Genesis 1–2:7 was Copland’s reluctant response to Harvard’s request for an a cappella choral work on a text drawn from Hebrew literature. …
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Critical Post-Humanism as Problematic: Epistemological, Ethical, and Teleological Gestures for the Future of Post-Humanity
… are sufficient in the pursuit of a post-humanist philosophy. Focusing on the realm of political ontology, I argue that the promotion of connection, relation, and situatedness can already be found in the ethico-political commitments of Hegel, a thinker many align with the problems of …
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Monstret & människan : Paré, Deleuze och teratologiska traditioner i fransk filosofi, från renässanshumanism till posthumanism
… of the inhuman in relation to human nature in philosophy from antiquity to the present, highlighting the interrelationship between science and philosophy in the development of concepts of monstrosity in France from mid-sixteenth century to late twentieth century thought. By means of constraint, …