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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"middle way"”.
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John Cotton's Middle Way
Historians are divided concerning the ecclesiological thought of seventeenth-century minister John Cotton. Some argue that he supported a church structure based on suppression of lay rights in favor of the clergy, strengthening of synods above the authority of congregations, and increasingly narrow …
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No middle way: Franklin D. Roosevelt and limited war, 1940-1942
From March, 1941, until the attack on Pearl Harbor, Franklin D. Roosevelt pursued a policy of de facto undeclared war on Germany--a policy clearly designed to contain German expansion by limited means--while fully expecting that this essentially defensive policy could persist indefinitely. But …
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Searching for a Musical Middle Way: A Composition for Multi-traditional Percussion
… Buddhist philosophical treatise, Treatise of the Middle Way (Mulamadhyamakakarika) by Nagarjuna, as a thematic link that connects the compositions. The Mulamadhyamakakarika is a seminal Buddhist work that sets forth a penetrating view on the Buddhist concept of emptiness, and the realization of …
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The ethics of care or the ethics of justice? : a middle way
… in moral decision-making as a framework for a middle way. After arguing for its sufficiency in theory, it is tested in practice by application to the Child B case. The thesis argues a middle way model is more adequate than either the ethics of care or justice alone for critically examining the …
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Choose the middle way: supporting coding experiments according to their particular context characteristics
Experiments play an essential role in evaluating solutions in software engineering. A field of software engineering where experiments are frequently used is software development. In this field, many solutions are proposed to foster coding activities, such as different programming languages, …
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Causal efficacy and externalist mental content
… that extrinsic properties abound. A popular "Middle Way" between externalism and internalism holds that although ordinary, "folk-psychological" contents of prepositional attitudes are extrinsic, there exists some other non-folk-psychological kind of content that is intrinsic. Chapter three …
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Fusion of Musical Processes and Spirituality in Jonathan Harvey's Music: A Structure Analysis of Jonathan Harvey's Cello Concerto
… [of] dichotomies"". An examination of the Middle Way (Madhyamaka) School of Mahayana Buddhism reveals this concept as well. First, the overall form of the piece corresponds to the process of Harvey's meditation practice, which leads to the co-existence of stillness and vividness, and the …
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Adapting to western norms of academic argumentation and debate.
… debate'. Instead, many of them opt for a `Middle Way', which synthesises those elements of Western academic norms that are perceived to be culturally acceptable, with the traditional cultural academic values held by many East Asian students. The Middle Way emphasises a more holistic, …
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The gospel of justice : community, faith, and the integration of St. Andrew's Episcopal School
… the school towards desegregation, forging a “middle way” through Civil Rights that achieved the goal of integration without damaging white interests in the community. Following St. Andrew’s through the 1970’s and 1980’s, this study moves beyond the implementation of official integration …
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The gospel of justice : community, faith, and the integration of St. Andrew's Episcopal School
… the school towards desegregation, forging a “middle way” through Civil Rights that achieved the goal of integration without damaging white interests in the community. Following St. Andrew’s through the 1970’s and 1980’s, this study moves beyond the implementation of official integration …
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Reclaiming Monergism: The Case for Sovereign Grace in Effectual Calling and Regeneration
… to examine recent modified attempts to pave a middle way between Calvinism and Arminianism. Chapter 7 shows specifically that attempts at a middle way borrow from Arminianism and consequently fall prey to an erroneous interpretation of Scripture. Chapter 7 shows that a middle way is biblically …
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Faith living understanding: towards a theatrical model for oral theologizing
… and oral theodramatic theology provides a middle way between the fixedness of the biblical text and the perceived ephemerality of orality. Thus, oral theology is faith living understanding – faithfully, contextually, creatively, and communally.
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Managing configuration options for build-to-order highly customized products with application to specialty vehicles
… and tries to answer the question: Is there a middle way? A compromise that will balance variety and complexity with the need for efficient production processes. A large data set containing more than 27,000 records was obtained from a software product configuration tool in use by a specialty …
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Communicating Global Climate Change: Framing Patterns in the US 24-Hour News Cycle, 2007-2009
… and 4) scientific / technical (un)certainty, 5) middle way / alternative path, 6) economic development / competitiveness, and 7) social progress. Six of the seven frames were found frequent in both headlines and bodies, although their order of frequency varied. Economic development / …
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Whose development? A cultural analysis of an AusAID English language project in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic
… subversion is in the form of a Buddhist-infused ‘middle way solution’ to the culturally problematic values underpinning the competency-based curriculum, which effectively restructures the approach to fit within acceptable, albeit modified, socio-cultural boundaries. The solution provides a tool …
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The willful wild : nature and survival in early nineteenth-century American literature.
… Brown, Cooper, Sedgwick, and Black Hawk carve a middle way between the two dominant understandings of the American wilderness. They avoid both the dominating attitudes that led to environmental degradation as well as the romantic notions that elided the grisly and brutal aspects of the natural …
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Karol Wojtyła’s Interpersonalist Ethics: A Critical Sartrean Appraisal and Confucian Adaptation
… stage for an interpersonal ethics that is the middle way between individualistic and collectivistic forms of ethics. The trajectory of Wojtyła’s ethics bends toward the interpersonal dimension of the human condition, but, perhaps held back by his metaphysics and soteriology, he never fully or …
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Democracy after deliberation: Bridging the constitutional economicsdeliberative democracy divide
… economists model political agents in the same way that neoclassical economists model economic agents, that is, as self-regarding, rational maximizers; so that evaluations of democratic legitimacy and stability depend on the extent to which the design of institutional rules and practices …
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Japan's Missile Defense
… realism, including MDE arms control, as a middle way that may eventually open a pacifist route to disarmament. With the world's most sophisticated technology and a tradition of pacifism, Japan is in a unique and advantageous position to promote arms control.</p> <p>In pursuit of JMD, the …
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