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On recognizing the real: Beauty and affliction in Simone Weil
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 464-477, September 2025.Abstract If the guiding question of ethics is “how should I live?,” then the guiding question of aesthetics might be “what is beauty?” For Simone Weil, these two questions have intertwined answers that turn on a like conceptual apparatus. Focussing on Weil's foremost ethical problem, the plight of the afflicted (malheur), this article offers an account
Christopher Thomas
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The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Volume 127, Issue 3, Page 511-575, July 2025.Abstract The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity”.
Elias Papaioannou
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Does Nature Have Rights? Ethical Implications in Ecology [PDF]
, 2012 In this essay, the author approaches the question \"Does Nature Have Rights ? \" from an ecofeminist perspective, using Aeschylus\' The Eumenides as emblematic of resignifying woman/nature as nonsubject, and working primarily from Val Plumwood\'s ...
Bitney, Kate
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Patient autonomy in the context of digital health
Bioethics, Volume 39, Issue 5, Page 404-413, June 2025.Abstract Digital health opens the door to a promising horizon where the combination of several sciences and the application of new technologies can improve health, hope and quality of life. However, it is essential to ensure that such advances are compatible with and respectful of the right to privacy, data protection, right to information and freedom ...
Salvador Tarodo Soria
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The democratical ideal and the Oresteia between 'Back to Basics' and cultural studies, between old and new historicism [PDF]
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Decreus, Freddy
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European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 424-437, June 2025.Abstract Two theories dominate the current debate over the nature of verbal irony: the pretence theory and the echoic theory. It is common ground in this debate that irony is sometimes both echoic and enacted through pretence; my concern here is with such cases.
Gregory Currie
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Hippolytus\u2019 Songs and Musical Innovations in the Attic Tragedy. [PDF]
, 2017 Hippolytus’ songs show that, even when taking from Aeschylus or Sophocles, Euripides is always attempting innovative solutions. This play belongs to an initial stage of the Euripidean work, but it probably marks the starting point in the evolution of his
DE POLI, Mattia
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American Journal of Political Science, Volume 69, Issue 1, Page 330-340, January 2025.Abstract Are demands for equality motivated by envy? Nietzsche, Freud, Hayek, and Nozick all thought so. Call this the Envy Objection. For egalitarians, the Envy Objection is meant to sting. Many egalitarians have tried to evade the Envy Objection. But should egalitarians be worried about envy?
Jordan David Thomas Walters
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Reconsidering Martin Heidegger on the modern university
Philosophical Investigations, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 49-72, January 2025.Abstract Martin Heidegger's 1933 Freiburg University Rector's Address is normally considered in terms of the horrors of its association with National Socialism. This study re‐frames the debate about the Address by situating it in the context of the tradition of philosophical reflection upon the political and historical significance of the modern ...
Lee Ward
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