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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"telos"”.
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Achieving the Telos of Living Well Together
<p>Mental health promotion involves fostering living conditions and environments that enable people to realize and maintain healthy lifestyles (WHO, 2010). It is well established that integration into community life is important to well-being among individuals with mental disorders (Davidson et …
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The Meaning of Telos in Romans 10:4
… the ambiguity surrounding the meaning of ‘telos’ in Rom 10:4 and to provide philological criteria for the understanding of this term.</p> <p>Chapter I indicates clearly that a considerable shift has occurred in the history of the interpretation of ‘telos’ in Rom 10:4. The early church and …
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Glory Through Suffering: The Telos of Humanity in the Humanity of Christ
… of suffering in the actualization of the telos of the image of God? I argue that suffering as an instrumental context is the connecting link between the intended glory-function of the imago Dei and the actualized telos of humanity in Christ. Suffering is contextual based on the two-age …
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Writing that W/rights Politics? -- An Examination of the Re-viewing Practices of Telos, The Public Interest, and the Journal as an Institution of Criticism
… the modern examples of The Public Interest and Telos, I analyze how critical journals write politics. As a scholar, I am interested in writing practices and how they shape epistemologies, ontologies, and Weltanschauungen; in essence, how they act as narratives of power. The practice I have …
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Validating the Vroom-Yetton normative model of leader behavior in field sales force management and measuring the training effect of Telos on the leader behavior of district managers
… area and upon measuring the training effect of Telos which is a leadership training program built around this model. Methodology A purposive sample of forty district managers was taken from two companies. The validation process used to validate the Normative Model was a replication of the …
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Platonic Modes of Explanation
… I examine Plato's treatment of Form, matter, and telos in his theory of explanation. To focus my investigation of Plato's theory, I adopt an unorthodox approach: that of using Aristotle's critical discussions as a touchstone for developing an interpretation of Plato's doctrines. Ultimately, I …
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The South African township funeral : a 'site of resistance' of HIV and AIDS that promotes leading causes of life
… communities with a means for achieving a telos of health? Could the funeral embody the leading causes of life (a theory used to develop the analysis) needed to create and sustain life in the midst of illness and death? This study will seek to answer these questions through a close look at …
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Inexorable Burden: Rhetoric and Togetherness
… I use diachronic analyses of the terms telos, symbouleutikon, and sympheron (from Aristotle to present) as a theoretical springboard to reassess more contemporary issues in rhetoric and technical communication. The technical communication topics this dissertation covers include …
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Self-powered wireless sensor system using MEMS piezoelectric micro power generator (PMPG)
… with a commercial wireless sensor node (Telos), to demonstrate a self-powered RF temperature sensor module. PMPG and a power management module are designed to satisfy sensor node's power requirement. An electro-mechanical model of PMPG has been developed to maximize power output. The 2nd …
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Lucretius's moral philosophy as it appears in the formal similarities between Milton and Lucretius.
… between Milton and Lucretius is that Milton's telos is farther-reaching: Lucretius wishes to maximize the amount of pleasure readers experience in their earthly lives, but Milton aims at readers' subjection of earthly pursuits to service of the Christian God.
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Theological Foundations for an Ethics of Cosmocentric Transfiguration: Navigating the Eco-Theological Poles of Conservation, Transfiguration, Anthropocentrism, and Cosmocentrism with Regard to the Relationship Between Humans and Individual Nonhuman Animals
… an essentially unique dignity and eschatological telos that renders the nonhuman creation resources for human use in via toward that telos. The second is cosmocentric conservation, represented by Thomas Berry. It maintains that humanity is part of a cosmic community of intrinsic worth that demands …
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Montessori Goes to Seminary: Establishing a Framework for Redemptive Formation in Theological Higher Education
… that her approach aligns quite well with the telos of theological education, the formation of man. Based on Montessori’s educational approach, this study proposes the following conceptual framework: Theological higher education that encourages redemptive formation prioritizes the student’s …
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Motivationale Unterschiede beim Ess- und Diätverhalten - Eine empirische Studie über die Zusammenhänge metatelischer Orientierungen beim Ess- und Diätverhalten mit Neurotizismus, Gewissenhaftigkeit, emotionalem Selbstwert, privater Selbstaufmerksamkeit, gezügeltem Essverhalten und Wahrnehmung des Körperbildes bei Personen, die sich in einem Ernährungsumstellungsprogramm befinden.
… Motivation wird dabei aus teleologischer (grich. telos = Ziel) Perspektive betrachtet. Das motivationale Ziel stellt hier einen erwünschten emotionalen Zustand dar, der durch eine bestimmte Handlung hergestellt werden soll. Aufbauend auf dem Modell der metatelischen Orientierungen von Mees und …
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Fulfilling the Image of God: A Biblical Framework for a Christocentric Natural Law Theory and Human Flourishing
… relationship, as both are grounded in humanity’s telos and reinforce each person’s call to holiness in Christ. Because humanity was uniquely created to reflect God, we are fashioned with a particular kind of structure, set of relations, and vocational calling. The natural law reaffirms God’s …
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Liberty, Post-Colonialism, and RuneQuest: the discourse of Imperialism in tabletop RPGs
… clear. In combination with the indeterminate telos of the Hero Wars, and the deconstructive properties of mysticism that drive the Hero Wars, RuneQuest demonstrates resistance to the idea of a transcendental signified, and thereby engenders decolonization through instability of meaning.</p>
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The zone of "becoming": game, text and technicity in videogame narratives
… illustrate more clearly the inherent nature of telos in all narrative media.
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Hollywood's Other America: Neoliberalism, US Hegemony, and the Construction of an Imaginative Geography of the Americas in Contemporary US Film
… this linear temporality, creating the US as the telos of historical development and Latin America as existing in a state of stunted development in a pre-modern historical era.
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Ο ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΝΟΣ ΘΕΣΜΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΠΡΟΝΟΙΑΣ. ΣΥΜΒΟΛΗ ΣΤΗ ΜΕΛΕΤΗ ΤΟΥ ΧΑΡΑΚΤΗΡΑ ΤΟΥ
… 13TH CENTURY) OR BASIC TAX OF LAND AND "HOMES" ("TELOS"- "OIKOUMENON") FROM PEASANTS OWNERS OF ESTATE (FROM THE 14TH MOSTLY CENTURY) OR BOTH. NEVERTHELESS, PRONOIARS HAVE NO FURTHER RIGHTS ON CONCESSED PEOPLEAND LAND. (SHORTENED)
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A Visual Studies Approach To Critical Historiography
… approaches neglected its written or inscribed telos. Rather than the study of tropes, which remains largely indifferent to writing's supplemental status, I look to written operations within historiography, drawing on Greimassian semiotics. I conduct an investigation of the effects of two …
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