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Fraternity in the Workplace: An Alternative to Positive Leadership and Followership

open access: yesKyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper argues that organizations could be seen not as morally free zones, but as potential spaces for workplace fraternity. We critically assess the dominant leader–follower paradigm, including recent theories of positive leadership and followership, and contend that this framework is ill‐suited to capturing the cooperative, peer‐based ...
Luigino Bruni, Paolo Santori
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Why Aquinas Stopped Commenting on Boethius’s De Trinitate

open access: yesStudia Gilsoniana, 2020
The article is an attempt to answer the question of why Aquinas stops his commentary on Boethius’s De Trinitate at question six, article four, whereas this is before the point in the treatise where Boethius gets to the heart of the subject matter.
Faustinus Ik. Ugwuanyi
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THE FATHERS, COMPUTERS AND US

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
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On the limits, imperfections and evils of the human condition. Biological improvement from a thomistic perspective

open access: yesScientia et Fides, 2019
Transhumanism is a scientific and philosophical movement that proposes to overcome, through new technologies, the restrictions imposed on us by our biological condition.
Mariano Asla
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The Avicenna’s Contribution to the Natural Law Theory of Aquinas [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهش تطبیقی حقوق اسلام و غرب, 2015
As discussed by many writers, Natural Law Theory of Aquinas undoubtedly bears a striking affinity with that of Aristotle and also with the Christian theology. This affinity has been followed by neglecting the impact of Islamic philosophy upon Natural Law
Seyed Mohammad Ghari Seyed Fatemi   +1 more
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The Diremption of Meaning

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining work by Rowan Williams, this essay explores what he often refers to as the ‘difficulty’ of writing theology. The difficulty of theology lies in engaging the ruse of having ultimate answers to ultimate questions. The stakes are high: ‘God‐talk’ must concern itself with truth, with reality.
Graham Ward
wiley   +1 more source

The Aquinas 1931-10-16

open access: yes, 1931
Issue of the St. Thomas College student newspaper, The Aquinas. This issue was the first Aquinas in biweekly newspaper form; previously, the Aquinas was published as a monthly literary ...

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Theodor Steinbüchel's Great Figures of Christian Humanism

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Theodor Steinbüchel (1888–1949) offers a study of eight figures in Western history who may be regarded as gestalts of Christian Humanism. He argued that none of these eight figures will ever return in the same way, but since there was an eternal conception of Christianity to which their ethos gave human form, each of these gestalts can be ...
Tracey Rowland
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Jacques Maritain, Maurice Blondel, and the Ends of Art

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reconsiders Jacques Maritain's philosophical poetics by situating it within his longstanding debate with Maurice Blondel over the nature and unity of intellect. I argue that Maritain's influential defence of artistic autonomy, first articulated in Art et scolastique (1920), is ultimately unsound.
Steven Toussaint
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Is the ‘Human Action’ in Human Action Human Action? Mises, Hayek, and Aristotle on ‘Capitalism’ and Human Flourishing

open access: yesStudia Gilsoniana, 2019
Ludwig von Mises’s Human Action is a seminal work of Austrian economics. It sets forth Mises’s theory of the acting person and lays the groundwork for a liberal economic order.
Jason Morgan
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