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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"philosophical inquiry"”.
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Schopenhauer's Buddhism: A Historical-Philosophical Inquiry
My thesis is about Schopenhauer’s conception of Buddhism and the impact of Buddhism on his thought. It closely considers the Buddhist texts Schopenhauer read, with the aim of showing that Schopenhauer adopted a particular reading of Buddhism and that this reading partly influenced his philosophy, …
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A legal and philosophical inquiry into affirmative action
This thesis explores the controversial question of affirmative action in higher education. The United States Supreme Court's recent ruling in Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S.---(2003) and Gratz v. Bollinger, 529 U.S.---(2003) is sparking a resurgence of debate over the issue. Both Grutter and Gratz …
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Personal name and immortality among Shona people : an African philosophical inquiry
… Western and (2) the African tradition, and the philosophical thought perspective from two geographical locations: (1) the North and (2) the South. Thusly, this research work argues that personal names, particularly when they are transformed into name-sakes, can deliver immortality directly or …
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Reclaiming the image. Béla Tarr's world of 'inhuman' becoming: an artistic and philosophical inquiry
… 'Reclaiming the Image' is an artistic and philosophical enquiry. It aims at a radical re-thinking of the concept of the image outside the accepted notions of realism and representation by opening up the photographic real in the process of bringing together photography and cinema, stillness …
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The scientific theory of evolution and christian beliefs : A philosophical inquiry with special reference to Zambia
… is rooted in an unacknowledged metaphysical philosophical position (i.e. evolutionism) rather than a scientific one. From an explanatory point of view, therefore, theism rather than evolutionism is found to be a far more tenable, reasonable and comprehensive account of the order and purpose …
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Exploring multiple language learning from an existential perspective: an applied philosophical inquiry of self-cultivation and aspiration in language learning
… LLers into categories, while few whole-person philosophical approaches have been used. Furthermore, studies are sparse which concern learners learning multiple additional languages far from any community of speakers. This study attends to all of these research lacunae through providing an …
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Socrates café: an effective mechanism for realising a more participatory democracy?
… strives to establish democratic communities of philosophical inquiry – has successfully embodied the stated goals of the non-profit Society for Philosophical Inquiry, or SPI, as enumerated on the website www.philosopher.org. These goals are to support “philosophical inquirers of all ages and …
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Tessituras Abertas : pessimistic, yet persistent in other possible imaginaries
… of aesthetics and politics, motivated by the philosophical inquiry on the political potency of art. By doing so, this thesis also offers an investigation on the enrooted practice of authoritarianism in Brasil, by focusing on the recent institutionalized political events that contributed to the …
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WE KNOW, NOW WHAT? TEACHING, LEARNING, (UN)KNOWING AND EDUCATING TOWARD EPISTEMIC JUSTICE
… epistemic justice. This analysis combines philosophical inquiry and document analysis to describe the ways in which practices of learning are related to social identifications. Finally, this dissertation offers applications of this theoretical analysis of epistemic justice for education …
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Get Ready for Future Education: A Phenomenological Study on Artificial Intelligence
… coming high-tech society. Fundamental to this philosophical inquiry was Heideggerian interpretive phenomenology. The findings from eight intellectuals participating in this study elucidated five themes of the investigated phenomenon. Together these empirical indicators, and an outline of …
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Releasing Our Technological Imaginations: A Translation of Maxine Greene's Aesthetic Educational Theory into the Language of Instructional Technology
… personal experience and theory into a practical philosophical guide for teachers who desire to utilize the rich palette of technology in broad, meaningful ways. It begins with a reflection upon the impact that aesthetic educational theory has had on my teaching practices with technology. The …
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Partnership in education : an academic support program for Cree students in CEGEP
… must be clarified. Through the processes of philosophical inquiry and modelling the program as a complex system, this study found that the program has influenced not only the academic success and persistence of the Cree students but also some of the institution's approaches to teaching and …
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Religions of Doubt: Religion, Critique, and Modernity in Jalal Al-e Ahmad and Walter Benjamin
… to move beyond the worlds of traditional philosophical inquiry or political action, into questions and practices of art, literature, science, technology, and ritual. I argue that reading these thinkers together allows a glimpse at ideas and modes in philosophical thought that were largely …
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From the Trashcan to the Chicken Bucket: towards an ideology of composting
… of wasting through embodied storytelling, philosophical inquiry, and sociopolitical history. In particular, I take the trashcan as a material representation of an "edge of externalization" --a concept I explore throughout this thesis to describe the edges beyond which waste management …
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Putting the Ghost Back in the Machine: A Defense of Common Sense Dualism
… a presumption toward naturalism has dominated philosophical inquiry. Here, I offer an unapologetic defense this unfashionable view of the self. To do so, I first explain why philosophy should endorse a shift in method away from naturalism and toward common sense philosophy. I then show how, …
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Emancipating critical thinking through aesthetics
… The application of this enriched model to philosophical inquiry, with a particular focus on the concept of beauty as it applies to philosophy, provides an illustration of the application of the model. Finally, the thesis introduces improvisation as a synthesis of reason, emotion, and …
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"Her organs were a question of the state" reading Adriana Cavarero from the Latin American post-colony
… in order to properly think the body, a mode of philosophical inquiry that does not aim for universality and instead values singularity is necessary. The work of Adriana Cavarero is at the center of the project whose ouvre has argued for the need for a philosophy of singularity as well as for a …
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American Transcendentalism Contra Contemporary Political Philosophy: Applications of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson to Liberal Democratic Capitalism, Platonism, Islamism, Technology, and the "end of History"
… context that Carlyle is also relevant in the philosophical inquiry of the "end of history," or the ascertaining of the last stage of human political development. I argue that this is because Carlyle's philosophical account of transcendentalism in Sartor Resartus can be constructed as …
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History, Nonviolence, and the Experience of Values
… the question: what are values? To carry out this inquiry in a manner which will provide new insights into the complexity, difficulty, and importance of this question, I propose to look to actual historical events, specifically the event known as the Children's Movement that took place in …
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Philosophy in Prisons: An Exploration of Personal Development
Delivered through the medium of a Community of Philosophical Inquiry, this thesis outlines the experience of engaging prisoners in philosophical conversation, thereby articulat-ing the relevance of this type of education for those in long-term confinement. The research, which took place in two …
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