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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"subjectivism"”.
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Saving reason : Jurgen Habermas's synthesis of western philosophy.
… from Descartes through Hegel entails aporias of subjectivism. The hermeneutic turn in philosophy reduced subjectivism by de-reifying the division of the objective and subjective worlds, and by including interpersonal learning within its paradigm. The Linguistic Turn in philosophy highlighted the …
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Galatians 2:20 as a Corrective to Selected Contemporary Views of Christian Spirituality
… errors caused by the elevation of personal subjectivism and the misinterpretation of Scripture. The purpose is to demonstrate the continual necessity of the Scriptures as the normative grounds for evaluating and correcting the theological and practical expressions of Christian spirituality. …
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Distances
… the objectivism of modern science to the subjectivism of creative writing. The four short stories in my thesis range from a semi-autobiographical story, to two short stories that stem out further and further from the subjective origin of the first story. The story of greatest distance is …
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Culture and the modern self: a comparative analysis of the cultural theories of Pierre Bourdieu and Fredric Jameson
… to traditionally dichotomous modes of thinking: subjectivism vs. objectivism, agency vs. structure, micro vs. macro analysis. His model aims to subsume these divisions, by accounting for the generative ability of both mental and structural forces. Jameson on the other hand, as "America's leading …
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The Proposal for Darwinian Morality Offered by Michael Ruse: A Critical Assessment
… in morality, but he also rejects traditional subjectivism. Ruse describes himself as a subjectivist of a distinct kind. Chapter 3 examines the central and most controversial tenet of Ruse's moral proposal: the illusion of objectivity. Analysis and critique is offered of Ruse's proposal that …
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Nothing to disagree about: Aristotle, Newton, and the existence of void as seen through a Kuhnian lens
… form of scientific relativism (i.e., scientific subjectivism). Nonetheless, enough conceptual freedom is left to substantiate the incommensurability thesis. Once I have shown that Kuhn's conception is sustainable, I put the theory into action. First, I present the views of both Aristotle and …
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Voluntarism, values and community : an intersubjective reading of Bas C. van Fraassen's The empirical stance
… a subjective expression of personal preference (subjectivism) and, moreover, reduces philosophical debate to an irresolvable value-based dispute (relativism). In this dissertation, I offer an intersubjective reading of van Fraassen. In doing so, I seek to extend what I think is an underdeveloped …
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Dança autobiográfica – multivocalidade do self encenado a partir e além da carne negra
… of a shared self, and not of a radical subjectivism; c) this favors shared collective actions, discarding the need for strategies of identity self affirmation, common, above all, in minorities’ collectives; from this perspective d) the auto-biographic dance contributes for a recognition …
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Possible Relationships between Realism and Comprehension in Elementary School Age Children
… Of the sample, 64% showed considerable amount of subjectivism. 50% had listening comprehension skills 5 or more months above their age level. The remaining 50% were found to be at or below their age level. Only 1 student showed below average score in the drawing test. All others performed at their …
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Judgement as play: revealing analogies between aesthetics and ethics
… these are important because they save from subjectivism a moral theory, particularism, which relies on individual judgement rather than moral rules. Seeing the activity of judgement as play suggests a conception of the outcome of judgement as picturing. This conception helps to make sense of …
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The Priesthood of All Believers in Ecclesiological Development
… fostered ecclesial fragmentation, interpretive subjectivism, and the erosion of congregational authority within the Southern Baptist Convention. In response, the dissertation’s constructive proposal argues for an ontological ordering of ecclesiology that proceeds strictly from identity to …
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Between God and Man: Community's Place in Virtue, Practical Reason, and Transcendent Good
… a firm grounding outside the individual to avoid subjectivism. My solution is to push the two theories together with a dialectical criterion for Adams and a notion of the transcendent community for Brewer.
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Hartbeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO) Pioneering Advantage: Exploring Scientific Instrumentation Co-Location Benefits in Ensuring African Research Facility Sustainability
… and has been framed through the perspective of subjectivism and interpretivism, in order to do justice to the regional contexts and unique realities and circumstances in the development narrative. Research and data collection is pursued through the heterodox avenue of archival research; the …
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A questão da subjetividade na virada antropológica de Ludwing Feuerbach: Um díálogo com Martinho Lutero
… itself in its illusory character and in the subjectivism provided by the scission of the man from its own essence and by the accentuated elevation of the individual man, of the subject as absolute. Feuerbach, towards his principle of sensibility, intends to reestablish the unity of the human …
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Revisioning transformation : towards a systematic proto-evangelical paradigm of the Christian life.
… relativism, individualism, pragmatism and subjectivism. Although evangelicalism is seen by some as a restorationist movement that seeks to draw the church back towards a prototypal faith, self-identified “evangelicals” clearly exhibit differences in their beliefs and practices. Both the …
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Looking with Narcissus: Oscar Wilde’s Reception of the Dying God
… contribute to an atmosphere of narcissistic subjectivism and projectionism that meet with the full condemnation of official authority.
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Tense, aspect and text : processes of grammaticalization in the history of the English auxiliary.
… are Lyons' (1977; 1982) theory of locutionary subjectivism, and Traugott's (1982) model of semantic- pragmatic shifts in the grarrmaticalization process. Thus the description depends on the r ole of text in characterizing and shaping the meaning and use of auxiliary elements. Accordingly, I use …
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Factors influencing user adherence towards privacy standards in the usage of Internet of Things devices in South Africa
… Theory. The ontological stance adopted is subjectivism. The interview questions were derived from the Activity Theory model and themes identified in the literature reviewed. The qualitative data collected from the semistructured interviews was analysed using deductive thematic analysis by …
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Bayesian Linear Modeling in High Dimensions: Advances in Hierarchical Modeling, Inference, and Evaluation
… of a Bayesian estimate without requiring this subjectivism.
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