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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"moral discourse"”.
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The Universal Grammar of the Laws of War: A Theory of Moral Discourse and International Norms
… important puzzle: how do we explain why similar moral ideas emerge in very different cultural and material contexts? Extant theories of international norms are not well suited to answer this question because they assume that the initial development of norms is a random process that depends upon …
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A Critical Analysis of Mary Warnock's Argument for the Exclusion of Religious Arguments from Public Moral Discourse
… THE EXCLUSION OF RELIGIOUS ARGUMENTS FROM PUBLIC MORAL DISCOURSE Mark Wayne Warnock, Ph.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2017 Chair: Dr. Theodore J. Cabal Mary Warnock, in her 2010 book Dishonest to God: On Keeping Religion out of Politics, argues for the exclusion of religious …
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The Role of Christian Faith in Public Moral Discourse: A Comparison of Selected Works from H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Stanley Hauerwas, and Richard A. McCormick
… Christian ethics functioning in the public moral discourse.</p><p> To examine the issue of the role of religiously "informed" ethical judgments within a religiously pluralistic society, this dissertation examines: the ethical methodology of the three ethicists, their view of Christian …
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Exploring the Moral Dimension of Professors' Folk Pedagogy
… professors' folk pedagogies and teaching's moral dimension. Folk pedagogy is the accumulated set of beliefs, conceptions and assumptions that professors personally hold about the practice of teaching (Bruner, 1996). When these beliefs and conceptions are enacted as a teaching practice, they …
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Pleasure and pedagogic discourse in school mathematics : a case study of a problem-centred pedagogic modality
… reproduction of specialised knowledge and the moral discourse within pedagogic practice. The internal mechanism that knots together knowledge and moral discourse is elaborated by way of an analysis of texts produced by the originators of a pedagogic modality they refer to as the …
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Pleasure and pedagogic discourse in school mathematics: a case study of a problem-centred pedagogic modality
… reproduction of specialised knowledge and the moral discourse within pedagogic practice. The internal mechanism that knots together knowledge and moral discourse is elaborated by way of an analysis of texts produced by the originators of a pedagogic modality they refer to as the …
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Limited Revisionism and Error Theory
In Joyce's Myth of Morality, Joyce proposes an error theory about morality. He then argues that, once we accept an error theory, we have three options: we can be abolitionists and jettison moral discourse, be conservationists and maintain our false moral beliefs, or be revolutionary fictionalists …
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A poietic for leaders : engaging the moral imagination in educational leadership
… elements were engaged, and (c) the nature of the moral discourse created by the poietic process. The conceptual framework informing the research proposed that four imaginative elements--stereoscopic vision, metaphor, narrative, and irony--were employed by leaders to create a "room" within which …
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A critical systematic-ethical appraisal of the ethical design by Miroslav Volf within the South African context
… grounded, Volf’s theology offers a compelling moral imagination capable of addressing deep-rooted ethical fractures while resisting reduction to abstract reconciliation or moral idealism. The study ultimately proposes a contextually responsive ethical framework that contributes to contemporary …
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Romance Motifs and Ethics in Malory's 'Book of Sir Tristram'
… texts’ differences in characterisation, style, moral emphasis, structural arrangements, and so on, but no study has sufficiently demonstrated the overall strategy and the moral purposes behind Malory’s changes. This thesis offers an evaluation of both texts’ approaches to some ethical questions, …
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Whatever Is Done in Secret: A Christian Moral Analysis of a Right to Privacy for a Digital Age
… the human rights discussion within the Christian moral tradition and outlines the project, including the intricate relationship of ethics to theology and philosophy. Chapter 2 is a critical survey of the nature of privacy in moral discourse and the various paradigms often employed to navigate the …
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"We must be responsible for our children" : the makings of motherhood in Ocean View
… framing of Ocean View and its residents within a discourse of deficiency, the responsibilization of the mother, and the demanding nature of care in the face of resource scarcity. Notions of the ideal mother represent a moral discourse around what it means to bring a new life into the world, and …
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Gay families in the media in the age of HIV and AIDS
This thesis investigates print media discourse on gay families in the context of HIV/AIDS and the gay rights movement. Comparing and contrasting reports from the mainstream heterosexual press, the mainstream gay press, and the gay community press, revealed a moral discourse on AIDS that implicated …
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‘It’s a problem with the brain’: A discursive analysis of parents’ constructions of ADHD
… The thesis adopts a synthetic approach to discourse and draws on the analytic concepts associated with both conversation analysis and with discursive approaches more concerned with the wider social context. The concepts of interpretative repertoires and subject positions are used to argue …
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The Epistemic Limits of Evolutionary Debunking: An Evaluation of Evolutionary Arguments Against Moral Realism
… contend that the evolutionary origins of moral belief undermine the epistemic standing of moral realism. Sharon Street's Darwinian Dilemma and Richard Joyce's genealogical undercutting argument represent the two most influential formulations of this challenge. This project subjects both to …
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Trauma, Borderline Personality Disorder, and Self-Harm: A Counselling Psychology Perspective
… in contemporary western society. A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis was conducted on a sample of professional documents on self-harm and interview transcripts: these included 6 interviews with people who self-harm (or have self-harmed in the past), and a focus group with 5 health professionals …
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The Potential of Metaethics for Moral Education
… problem for this study originates with present moral education programs in schools and the attitudes toward them held by teachers and administrators. The kinds of claims made about moral value are interpreted to indicate an implicit radical subjectivism or an unwarranted faith in an alleged …
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Casting Bread Upon the Waters: American Farming and the International Wheat Market, 1880-1920
… little to show for their labor. They mounted a moral critique of the marketing system, arguing that merchants and middlemen had organized the market in such a way as to control it through unethical and damaging means such as pools and price agreements. These efforts having largely failed, …
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The Benevolent Ideal Observer Theory
… an answer to what I call the central question of moral philosophy: what, if anything, is moral value? The answer, I argue, is that moral value is the relational property of eliciting a suitable response from a properly informed, rational, benevolent and otherwise minimal spectator. I call this …