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The Inegalitarian God and the Ethics of Fortune: On Primo Levi's Atheism [PDF]
This essay examines Primo Levi’s atheism. First, I reconstruct Levi’s reflection on chance in "If This Is a Man" as the core of his universalist understanding of the concentrationary experience. In Levi, fortune – a moralizing resignification of chance -
Ghelli, Simone
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Disability, Vocation, and Prophetic Witness [PDF]
, 2020 Open Access offered under Sage AgreementPeer reviewedPublisher ...
Swinton, John
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Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 229-248, April 2025.Abstract The primary objective of this study is to offer an original interpretation in two fields of research: the first, of contemporary Jewish philosophy, and the second, to the continental and specifically deconstructionist method. I wish to achieve this by analysing a new deconstructionist text of the French, Jewish, post‐structuralist, feminist ...
Miriam Feldmann‐Kaye
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Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 106, Issue 1, Page 2-32, March 2025.Abstract This essay critically examines a widely held assumption in interpreting Leibniz's modal metaphysics: that whatever is necessarily actual is necessary. I argue that Leibniz rejected this axiom for principled reasons having to do with his views on the grounding of metaphysical modalities in divine power and intellect (but not divine will).
Alireza Fatollahi
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Night and days in Cassiciacum: The anti-Manichaean theodicy of Augustine’s De ordine
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2013 In his early dialogue ‘On order’ (De ordine) Augustine dramatises a discussion of theodicy in which the Manichaean solution is clearly rejected, even though the debate ends in aporia. It is argued in this paper that the dialogue’s dramatic setting at the
Therese Fuhrer
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RELIGIOUS AFTERLIVES OF A REVOLUTION
Cultural Anthropology, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 27-54, February 2025.ABSTRACT When do revolutions end? How do revolutions live on in embodied affects, relationships, and horizons of aspiration? This article describes the remaking of religion among upper‐middle‐class Egyptians who participated in the 2011 uprising.
AMIRA MITTERMAIER
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Metaphors of Sin and Disability in Augustine's Anti‐Pelagian Writings
Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 3-20, January 2025.Abstract This article examines Augustine's use of theological metaphor in his anti‐Pelagian writings. Drawing on disability studies in theology and literary theory, it explores how Augustine uses metaphors of disability to provide a material anchor for his concept of sin in Nature and Grace and The Grace of Christ and Original Sin. However, the article
Tanya Kundu
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How to lie to God: Kant's Thomistic turn
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 1086-1100, December 2024.Abstract For most of his career, Kant accepts Augustine's requirement that lying requires an intention to deceive. However, he eventually converts to Aquinas, following him in rejecting this requirement in favor of Aristotle's teleological conception of lying. This change of view amounts to an improvement, for it makes room for the possibility of lying
Roy Sorensen, Ian Proops
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Enfrentando a natureza finita da vida: Royce sobre “negatividade” e religião, e suas reflexões sobre o imanentismo de Feuerbach e Nietzsche [PDF]
, 2015 Josiah Royce’s “pragmaticist” philosophy of religion explores extensively human experiences of finitude, “negativity”, sorrow and evil. His religious hope postulates are inspired by Kant’s rejection of conventional modes of theodicy, and are—like Kant’s ...
Nagl, Ludwig
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