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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"neo-Aristotelian"”.
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Nicomachean and Neo-Aristotelian Ethics and Shakespeare's Tragedies
"Nicomachean and Neo-Aristotelian Ethics in Shakespeare's Tragedies" examines two of Shakespeare's most compelling tragedies--Othello and King Lear--through the lens of contemporary virtue ethics theory, thereby offering new conceptions of how morality operates in these plays. Although …
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What's the Matter? Toward a Neo-Aristotelian Ontology of Nature
This thesis contributes to the development of a ‘neo-Aristotelian’ ontology of powers that accommodates quantum phenomena. It offers a number of philosophical objections to ‘Super-Humean’ metaphysics, and constructs a sequence of models that aim to improve upon it, using the metaphysical toolbox …
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The unity of action: reviving a neo-Aristotelian case for hylomorphism
… of material constitution. According to these neo-Aristotelian accounts, material objects serve as the paradigm cases for analysing the concept of action. As composites of matter and form, material objects—and, in particular, biological organisms—possess a kind of constitutive unity: they are …
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Scientific laws and causality in the philosophy of second language acquisition: A neo-Aristotelian approach
… and accepts the early modern denunciation of Aristotelianism without reservation. The recent neo-Aristotelian revival in philosophy, however, indicates that such an approach is problematic. Particularly in metaphysics and philosophy of science, neo-Aristotelian researchers have shown that key …
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The Historical And Contemporary Significance of Anscombe and Foot's Metaethical Thought
… the development of a family of views called “Neo- Aristotelian Naturalism”, according to which it is possible to explain objective normative truths in terms of natural facts about what human beings are like. I argue that Neo- Aristotelian Naturalism is a promising, yet underdeveloped, position …
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A review of the history and structure of public speaking at Nevada Power Company: A case study
… the corporations studied utilize most aspects of Neo-Aristotelian model. Much of the training deals with delivery, style, motivation and arrangement, with some attention to language. However, heavy emphasis is also placed on evidence and reasoning, with relatively little attention to speaker …
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Against Natural Teleology and its Application in Ethical Theory
… target, but I focus on the most overt example: neo-Aristotelian ethics. The project is in two sections, one in ethical theory and the other in philosophy of biology. In the first section of the dissertation, primarily using Philippa Foot and Judith Jarvis Thomson as models, I illustrate how …
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Human goodness and natural goodness
… is perhaps best known for her contribution to neo-Aristotelian ‘virtue ethics’, including her influential work on the meanings of moral concepts and the rationality of moral action. While Taylor is better known as a social and political theorist, I am more interested in his studies of language …
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Deleuze, Femininity and the Specter of Poststructural Politics: Variations on the Materiality of Rhetoric
… that enlivens the "thinness" of rhetoric's (neo)Aristotelian conceptual design (cf. Gaonkar, 1997a, 1997b). I offer Monster (2003) as a case study, analyzing the discursive expression of nondiscursive abstract machines to draw out the reterritorializations of the latter. Recognizing the …
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Rhetoric in the Vernacular: Identification, Symbolic Convergence, and Robert Kenner's Food, Inc.
… documentary film frequently rely upon neo-Aristotelian methodologies. However, this researcher argues that neo-Aristotelianism cannot account for the interpretive and culturally situated nature of socio-political documentary film. In moving forward, this researcher presents a new vision …
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The conscious mind unified.
… by sketching the details of an underexplored neo-Aristotelian form of substance dualism. I conclude that each of us, indeed every subject of phenomenally unified consciousness, is not made up of distinct parts. Not a brain. Not a body. Every embodied subject of phenomenally unified …
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The Virtues-Based Leadership Model: Assessing Consistency Across Three Spheres-of-Life
… a problem-driven content analysis based within a neo-Aristotelian ethics framework focusing on Ronald Reagan’s presidency as the single case study and exploring whether his personally embraced writings, publicly espoused speeches, and executively enacted orders contain concepts related to the …
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The nature of temptation and its role in the development of moral virtue: an exploration in analytic moral theology
… weakness of will, and finally interfaced with a neo- Aristotelian conception of virtue development. In the end, Thomas Aquinas’s understanding of infused virtue is employed as a theological test of the thesis and conditions the scope of the thesis. In light of this constructive analysis of the …
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W.E.B. Du Bois and the Rhetoric of Social Change, 1897-1907: Attitude as Incipient Action
… </p><p> The study relies heavily on a strict neo-Aristotelian analysis with Burkeian undertones to explicate widely read and significant Du Boisian speeches, written publications, and rhetorical artifacts such as the 1897 speech and later converted pamphlet "The Conservation of the Races," the …
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The Corporate Character of Eudaimonist Virtue Ethics Cautioning the Invisible Environment of Harmful EMFs Resulting from 5G Technology
… is that a normative person-based theory of neo-Aristotelian eudaimonistic virtue ethics provides an ethical framework that gives strong support for the conclusion that it is morally impermissible for a telecommunications corporate person with good character, to allow harmful EMFs associated …
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An exploration of virtue ethics and its relational value: A comparative study in the Light of Romanus Cessario, James F. Keenan, and Joseph J. Kotva.
… … In particular, it focuses on Joseph Kotva, a neo-Aristotelian with a Thomist nuance, who, as a result, is marked by an ecumenical tone. The perspective of his schematization is very theological as he explains the dynamic interplay between, Christology, grace and the virtues. The chapter will …