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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"western philosophy"”.
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Saving reason : Jurgen Habermas's synthesis of western philosophy.
This dissertation argues that Jürgen Habermas’s philosophy of communicative reason successfully defends the Enlightenment notion of Reason as the vehicle of truth and progress, while integrating Postmodern insights into the illusory nature of metaphysical foundations. Habermas discards the …
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Egoism: Arguments for and against it from western philosophy
Egoism is the doctrine that one ought to act only for self-interested reasons. I shall be concerned with the presupposition of egoism: acting only for self-interested reasons is in one's long-term interest. I shall be concerned with this presupposition's truth with respect only to cases in which …
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Paradox East and West: some parallels between Zen Buddhism and western philosophy.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Humanities. Thesis. 1973. B.S.
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Symbiosis
… begins in the late 1700's, a moment at which Western philosophy had decided that: Direct access to reality is impossible. Thinking can only talk about the way the human and the world correlate together. There is a crack in reality. Facts are given to us but their conditions of possibility …
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Afrikan contribution to international relations theory: an Afrocentric philosophical enquiry
The academic field of IR has been haunted by its Westerncentric philosophical founding masters. This has consequently led almost the overall (if not the entire) literature, of this particular academic discipline, to have become a typical platform wherein the Eurocentric driven masternarratives have …
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The Later Heidegger and Contemporary Theology of God
… Heidegger was a central figure in 20th century Western philosophy. In evaluating his work from the perspective of the early 21st century it is clear that his influence crossed disciplinary lines. This work aims to address one area where Heidegger's thinking has had tremendous impact -- theology. …
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Who do I say that I am? : identity as a construct and its implications for Christian anthropology
… alia directly challenges the dualisms upon which western philosophy is founded. Having outline some approaches to the question of identity, the study concludes by examining some of the consequences and possibilities for Christian anthropology in its understanding of what it means to be human and …
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Presencing Absence
… thesis is a 'big-picture' look at the course of Western philosophy and its eventual arrival at ideas that look remarkably similar to the revelations of Guatama Buddha 2500 years ago. I look at the roots of how the West has understood itself and understood "being" through the centuries and at the …
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A discourse of the non-discursive in Plato and pseudo-Dionysius
… thought has been assumed to be at the core of Western philosophical thought originating in pre-Socratic thought until Nietzsche, my project will point to specific moments in the history of Western philosophy where thinkers have pushed against the boundaries of logocentrism from within. These …
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"Her organs were a question of the state" reading Adriana Cavarero from the Latin American post-colony
… explores the place of the body in the history of philosophy to argue that despite the fact that the history of Western philosophy is well known for repudiating the body, in philosophy, the body nevertheless does a lot of work. Yet, the body of which philosophy speaks of is a universal body that …
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Older than language : comics as philosophical praxis and heuristic for philosophical canon
… and its connections to both popular culture and philosophy as a practice conceived in the Western tradition. Comics (at times referred to as both 'graphic literature' and 'sequential art' during this dissertation) constitutes a wholly new object. One that is qualitatively distinct from prose, …
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Regarding Descartes' meditations as meditational
Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy is often hailed as one of the great classics of western philosophy. First-time readers of the Meditations are often struck by Descartes' clear and accessible writing style. Within recent scholarship (e.g., most notably, Amelie Osksenberg Rorty's collection …
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Inside is Outside: Nishida's Dialectic of Alterity and Identity
… (1870–1945) Buddhist-inspired synthesis of Western philosophy into a mature and sophisticated non-dualism has been studied from a variety of angles. As the main focus of his works tends to be on the expansion of true self-awareness, less attention has been paid to his account of human …
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Reconsidering The Theoretical/Practical Divide: The Philosophy Of Nishida Kitarō
Over the years professional philosophy has undergone a number of significant changes. One of these changes corresponds to an increased emphasis on objectivity among philosophers. In light of new discoveries in logic and science, contemporary analytic philosophy seeks to establish the most objective …
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Authentic Dasein as Pathway to Heideggerianism as a Political Philosophy - a Political Vibration of Being and Time
In the history of Western philosophy, Martin Heidegger is the only philosopher after Plato and Aristotle to have seriously investigated the question of being. Instead of dwelling on particulars as previous philosophers did, Heidegger probes the question of being by investigating the being of the …
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Kierkegaardian intersubjectivity and the question of ethics and responsibility
… By Kevin Krumrei. Kierkegaard's contributions to philosophy are generally admitted and recognized as valuable in the history of Western philosophy, both as one of the great anti-Hegelians, as the founder (arguably) of existentialism, and as a religious thinker. However valid this may be, there is …
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On laughter
Much of Western Philosophy has overlooked the central importance which human beings attribute to the Aesthetic experiences. The phenomena of laughter and comedy have largely been passed over as “too subjective” or highly emotive and therefore resistant to philosophical analysis, because they do not …
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Othas and environment in animal ethics and environmental philosophy : ontology and ethical motivation beyond the dichotomies of anthropocentrism.
… There is a particular focus on how mainstream western philosophy and science suffer from a failure to recognize and overcome two particularly insidious founding dichotomies of western thought and culture: those that oppose humans to (other-than-human) animals, and animals to the environment. …
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Roots and Role of the Imagination in Kant: Imagination at the Core
Kant's critical philosophy promises to overturn both Empiricism and Rationalism by arguing for the necessity of a passive faculty, sensibility, and an active faculty, understanding, in order for cognition to obtain. Kant argues in favor of sense impression found in standard empirical philosophies …
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A Christian Ontology of the Flesh: Word, Symbol, Performance
… responded to the loss of the body in the wake of Western philosophy after Rene Descartes by constructing a phenomenology of perception and an ontology of the flesh. His voice, although decidedly removed from the religious, is constantly brought into theological debate whether it be Judith Butler’s …
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