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Beauvoir’s ethics, meaning, and competition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This paper discusses Simone de Beauvoir’s views on the meaning of life as presented in The Ethics of Ambiguity. I argue that Beauvoir’s view matches contemporary hybrid views on the meaning of life, incorporating both subjective and objective elements ...
Popa, Elena
core  

Why do Public Debates Escalate? Trigger Points and the Moral Dynamics of “Hot Politics”

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Escalating, emotionally charged, and moralized forms of controversy are a central feature of contemporary politics. Our study develops a framework for understanding how political debates between ordinary citizens become heated; why certain issues provoke particularly strong emotions; and how this affective potential is weaponized by ...
Linus Westheuser   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Deformations of M-theory Killing superalgebras

open access: yes, 2007
We classify the Lie superalgebra deformations of the Killing superalgebras of some M-theory backgrounds. We show that the Killing superalgebras of the Minkowski, Freund--Rubin and M5-brane backgrounds are rigid, whereas the ones for the M-wave, the ...
Figueroa-O'Farrill, José
core   +1 more source

Universities as the Next Counterintelligence Battleground in Geopolitical Contests

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Globally, universities are increasingly becoming the target of foreign national security actors, engaging in espionage, sabotage, foreign interference and intellectual property theft. Despite that, there has been no examination of the utilisation of counterintelligence approaches by universities to the threats they face from the subordination ...
Brendan Walker‐Munro   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

KIERKEGAARD’IN FELSEFESİNDE VAROLUŞUN AŞAMALARI VE İNANAN BİR VARLIK OLARAK İNSAN

open access: yesFelsefe Dünyası, 2019
Bu makalede Kierkegaard’ın insan anlayışı incelenmektedir. Onun felsefesi, genel itibariyle modern felsefenin zirve noktası kabul edilen aydınlanma felsefesinin ve onun akılcılığının bir eleştirisi niteliğindedir.
Ferhat Akdemir
doaj  

The paradox of death and the Theatre of the Absurd

open access: yesAnnales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Historicolitteraria, 2019
The aim of the article is the presentation of some interesting and stimulating questions connected with the problem of eschatological codes in the Theatre of the Absurd.
Dariusz Piotr Klimczak
doaj   +1 more source

Optical tests of Bell's inequalities not resting upon the absurd fair sampling assumption

open access: yes, 2004
A simple local hidden-variables model is exhibited which reproduces the results of all performed tests of Bell\'{}s inequalities involving optical photon pairs.
Adenier   +10 more
core   +1 more source

When First Nations Don't Count: H.V. Evatt and the Erasure of Palestinian Rights

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
As Minister for External Affairs in the Chifley Government, Herbert Vere Evatt played a pivotal role at the United Nations in securing the partition of Palestine and recognition of the State of Israel. These endeavours were represented by Evatt and in subsequent commentary as exemplifying Evatt's commitment to justice.
Jeff Rickertt
wiley   +1 more source

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