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Showing 1 to 20 of 118 for “"particularity"”.
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EARLY CONFUCIAN ETHICAL REASONING BETWEEN GENERALITY AND PARTICULARITY
… concern with generality and also a concern with particularity in its conception of ethical reasoning. This reconstruction is done by bringing to bear certain questions regarding the nature of ethical reasoning discussed in the contemporary debate on moral particularism upon the ethical thinking …
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The Dignity of Difference: Christian Particularity and the Possibility of Interreligious Dialogue
… dialogue. Hence, a strong view of the particularity of the religions is often criticised as incompatible with a commitment to, and willingness to engage in, interreligious dialogue. This thesis argues against this apparent incompatibility by making a case for the possibility of …
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Personhood, Particularity, and Perichoresis: The Doctrine of the Trinity in Identity and Faith Formation
This thesis argues for the importance of doctrine in faith formation and retention among emerging adults in contemporary Canadian Christianity. Advocating a holistic approach to faith which blends mindful doctrinal engagement with the practical and emotional aspects of faith, the thesis maintains …
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Values and democracy: postmaterialist shift versus cultural particularity in Russia, the USA, Britain and Japan
… main themes: (1) values shift versus cultural particularity and (2) values and democracy. The Postmaterialist thesis and related theories of values shift presented by Ronald Inglehart and others assume that, as a consequence of industrialisation and post-industrialisation, people's values …
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In Particularity We Trust:richard Dutcher's Mormon Quartet And A Latter-Day Saint Spiritual Film Style
… Clive Marsh's call for an embrace of religious particularity in film criticism and scholarship and reject the idea of some "universal" filmic style that evokes the Transcendent for all viewers. Rather than ignore the doctrinal, cultural, and historical specifics of a particular religion, I mine …
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Growing a building particularity as a strategy for upliftment of agriculture towns in South Africa
… greatest positive effect. The scheme relies on a particularity approach which identifies a local kit of parts. The kit of parts is used to create a spatial connectivity across the town and formulate an urban upliftment scheme. The proposed building serves as supporting infrastructure to the …
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Questioning the Promotion of Friendship in Interfaith Dialogue: Interfaith Friendship in Light of the Emphasis on Particularity in Scriptural Reasoning
‘Friendship’ is among the buzzwords such as ‘peace’, ‘tolerance’, and ‘understanding’, that are part of a shared vocabulary in the interfaith world. In discussions of the goals and benefits of interfaith dialogue, buzzwords such as ‘friendship’ are often implicitly presented as a common currency, …
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Four Phases of Subjectivity: A Rhetorical and Phenomenological Analysis of Aimé Césaire And Cahier D’un Retour Au Pays Natal
… to create space for a future that is rich in its particularity—in this case the particularity of human subjectivity. Césaire did not call for a reparation of the past nor a reclamation of the present, but rather offered a proclamation for a future wherein any conceptualization of the universal …
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Observation and control of PDE with disturbances
… distributed parameter systems is addressed. The particularity of this work is to consider partial differential equations (PDE) under the effect of external unknown disturbances. We consider generalized forms of two popular parabolic and hyperbolic infinite dimensional dynamics, the heat and wave …
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Formalism and Contextualism in Moral Education: An Analysis of Two Exemplars
… resolving the conflict between impartiality and particularity is a complex one to which no obvious and easy answer corresponds. While there are important conflicts and tensions between a formalist and a contextualist moral theory, these two points of view also serve to complement one another.
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Religion, Culture, and Modernity : Some Missiological Implications of the Process of Secularization in East Asia
… vis-à-vis the themes, hierarchy, antiquity, particularity, harmony, and practicality is presented in chapter 3. In chapter 4 the impact of modernization and secularization on these Chinese societies end the emergence of a new hybrid worldview in which elements of both the traditional and …
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Speaking of Right and Wrong: Black Girls and Moral Development
… appear to be consistent across contexts, the particularity of Black community and middle childhood culminate in a theory of moral development that revises concepts of autonomy, cooperation and adult constraint.</p>
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Thinking for yourself: A more personal and particular approach to Kantian ethics
… that if Kantian ethics tries to make room for particularity in our moral judgments, it may also make room for so many exceptions to the principles of morality that it will lead to the sort of moral relativism that can justify anything. The key, then, is to develop a method for applying the …
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RELEVANCE, SELF-DETERMINATION, AND UNIVERSALITY THROUGH ST. AUGUSTINE CATHOLIC CHURCH'S GOSPEL CHOIR
… to the “Universal Church” through their particularity. St. Augustine Catholic Church in Washington, D.C. formed a gospel choir in light of this newfound freedom. Based on about one year of participant observation, this thesis analyzes the Gospel Choir’s role in making the Mass more …
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Augustine's Analogy between the Spirit in the Church and the Soul in the Body and Its Implications for Communion Ecclesiology
… Churches' communion, and the African church's particularity.</p><p> On account of the divine persons' consubstantiality and relationship, Augustine was able to defend their unity, equality, and distinction while affirming their inseparable operations. The Spirit is not, therefore, subordinate …
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O olhar dos professores da educação infantil com relação ao desenho
… subjects do not address in detail the subject of particularity.
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ΟΙΚΟΛΟΓΙΑ ΤΩΝ ΔΙΠΛΟΠΟΔΩΝ ΣΕ ΜΕΣΟΓΕΙΑΚΟΥΣ ΒΙΟΤΟΠΟΥΣ ΚΩΝΟΦΟΡΩΝ ΤΗΣ ΝΟΤΙΑΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΑΣ
… MILLIPEDES OF GREECE, B. THE ORGANIZATION AND PARTICULARITY OF THE ANIMAL COMMUNICATION SUCH AS MILLIPEDE COMMUNITIES OF GREEK MEDITERRANEANECOSYSTEMS AND C. THE ECOLOGY OF MILLIPEDES IN MEDITERRANEAN ECOSYSTEMS. THE CONCLUSIONS DERIVED ARE THE FOLLOWING: 1. THE ABUNDANCE AND SPECIES RICHNESS …
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The Creative Feud of Andy Warhol: A Philosophy of Communication Ethics
… as consumption and commodity culture, elicits particularity of embedded responsiveness situated within history. Ronald C. Arnett and Pat Arneson contend that communication ethics are “value-laden philosophies of communication” uniting background narratives with foreground communicative …
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The Liberalism-Communitarianism Debate: A Neo-Hegelian Aufhebung
… political value; hence I combine communitarian particularity with the liberal emphasis on freedom. At the same time, I combine substantive policies for social unity with individual rights under a revised Hegelian account of the concept of freedom.
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