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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"teleology"”.
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Teleology in the Law of International Organisations
This thesis considers the nature and use of purposive legal reasoning in international law, and the particular role it plays in the law of international organisations (IOs). I begin by examining the concept of purpose, the multiple levels of abstraction at which it is identifiable, and the …
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Against Natural Teleology and its Application in Ethical Theory
… theories depend on the existence of natural teleology as a source of normativity. Natural Teleology, the purposive goal-directedness of non-conscious biological processes, is also embraced to some degree by a majority of philosophers of biology who agree that the teleological concepts of …
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Poisoned Ground, The Roots of Eurocentrism: Teleology, Hierarchy, and Anthropocentrism
… focus on either his anthropocentric historical teleology, or else his more abstract and spacious metaphysics, which may undermine much of his historical theory. The thrust of these chapters is to show that anthropocentric metaphysics support beliefs in teleological history, which leads to …
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Narrative at Risk: Accident and Teleology in American Culture, 1963-2013
<p>Accident in fiction is always inevitable. When a character in a novel suffers a car accident, for example, the accident is the effect of the author's intentions, and therefore it is not accidental. The words and images that constitute the meanings and events of the text do not change. The …
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Natural teleology and Kant’s duties to oneself as an animal being
… as animal beings, that is based in the natural teleology of the natural appetites (self-love, the desire for sex, and the desire for food). Commentators, rightly puzzled by these claims, have said that any appeal to natural teleology would be inconsistent with Kant’s account of the ground of the …
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Interpretive Teleology Without Eschatology: A Study of the Hermeneutic Strategies of Nietzsche's Genealogical Project
<p>In contemporary philosophy, there exists a vigorous debate between those thinkers who advocate the need for a truth that exists outside of historical forces and those who hold that all understanding must be historical in its basis. My research is focused on deciphering this problem by providing …
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Out of the ashes emerged teleology: A psychological exploration of the problem of evil
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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A Multinational Study of the Etiology and Clinical Teleology of Moral Evaluations of Patient Behaviors
<p>This dissertation is a collection of four studies which collectively explore a hypothesized construct of ‘moral evaluation of patient behaviors’ (MEPB) as a driver of health professionals’ readiness to interact humanistically with their patients. In these studies, ‘humanistic interactions’ refer …
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Critical Post-Humanism as Problematic: Epistemological, Ethical, and Teleological Gestures for the Future of Post-Humanity
… of Kantian-Hegelian rationalism and teleology. The critique of rationalism is explored through the development of a post-humanist ‘ethics’ that would be both non-universal and non-rational. To do this, I highlight work focused on bodies and embodiment, asking what a physiological …
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Developing a Philosophical Profile of the Individual for Complex Problem-Solving Through Agent-Based Modeling
… (PPI) that uses epistemology, ontology and teleology as underlying dimensions of philosophical predispositions. The epistemology dimension considers whether an individual is an Empiricist or a Rationalist, the ontology dimension consists of the Substantive and Process predispositions, and …
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The possibility of judgement
… normative function designed for aesthetics and teleology would also allow us to create a schema missing from judgement, since aesthetics and teleology are subject, object of judgement. To pursue this task, one return's to the incomplete final work of Arendt, 'On Judgement' in The Life of the …
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Reflective judgment vs. investigation of things – a comparative study of Kant and Zhu Xi
… of his critical philosophy via Kantian moral teleology. Zhu Xi and his Neo-Confucian contemporaries confronted a transformed intellectual landscape resulting from the Neo-Daoist and Buddhist discourses of “what is beyond the form”. The revival of Confucianism required a method in order to …
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Mature in Christ: the contribution of Ephesians and Colossians to constructing Christian maturity in modernity
… in a fundamentally different manner. Human teleology referenced not only individual persons, but also a divine figure, social group, and the cosmos. Even though Ephesians and Colossians express their theology of Christian maturity in different ways, both letters present a remarkably similar …
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Platonic Modes of Explanation
… of Forms is completely separate from Platonic teleology by investigating Plato's enigmatic descriptions of the Form of the Good in The Republic. It is tempting to interpret the Form of the Good as some kind of force that directs the processes of nature in ways that maximizes the Good. This …
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Purpose and Design in Organisms and Artifacts: The Search for a Unified Philosophical Theory of Function
… turn on four different interpretations of teleology. Ultimately, the choice of function theory will be seen to rest on whether non-intentional teleology is a coherent metaphysical possibility. If it is, the properties approach offers important advantages. If it is not, the Assigned …
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Augustinian Interiority: The Teleological Deification of the Soul through Divine Grace
… in order to attain true happiness(i.e., teleology). Augustine approaches deification chiefly in terms of the ‘image of God’, from the perspectives of ontology and teleology. Ontologically, we are created inthe image of God and this image is indestructible as long as God sustains our life. …
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PERSONALITY AND ETHICAL DECISION: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF PERSONALITY TRAITS AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY
… of Deontology and the two subcategories of Teleology, namely Egoism and Utilitarianism. Chronological Age, the three personality traits of Allocentrism, Machiavellianism and Long-Term Orientation, and the moderating variable of Biological Sex were analyzed with multinomial logistic …
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The Rhetorical Marketplace: Interpreting the Rhetoric of Marketers and Consumers as Civil Public Discourse
… both concerns regarding the marketer's strategic teleology and the call for alternative communication processes to guide marketer to consumer discourse. Gerard Hauser's conceptual model of the actual discursive practices of ordinary people, on the other hand, bridges gaps in the work of Habermas …
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Salt Flats, Finger Islands, and Ponds: Reading the Landscape through Infrastructure in Tampa, Florida
… happenings. It looks at racial capitalism, the teleology of progress, the frontier, and ideas about nature; all of which people have used to create a material infrastructure of residential development in the landscape. Through a historical and cultural analysis, this thesis looks at how …
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