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“At the end of the days”: Francis Bacon, Daniel 12: 4, and the possibility of science
Cahiers François Viète, 2019 Francis Bacon took his inspiration from the Bible. Specifically, from the vision of the apocalypse in the book of Daniel. This Bacon interprets via the circumnavigations of the 15th and 16th centuries.
James D. Fleming
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, 2014 Quantity is the first category that Aristotle lists after substance. It has extraordinary epistemological clarity: "2+2=4" is the model of a self-evident and universally known truth. Continuous quantities such as the ratio of circumference to diameter of
Franklin, James
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Education and the Human Good [PDF]
, 2011 What kind of reasons can be given for believing education is valuable? One can regard education as initiation into practices and refer to the goods internal to practices, but this does not objectively anchor claims about the goodness of education.
Curren, Randall
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It’s All About Me (Or Is It Us?): The Narrative Antecedents of the Locus of Celebrity
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract For two decades, research on individual and organizational celebrity has flourished. However, the literature remains limited in several ways. First, despite recent gains regarding the antecedents of celebrity, current theory does not fully explain why celebrity resides at a specific locus (i.e., at the individual‐ and/or organizational level).
Laura D’Oria +3 more
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Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Humanity – the virtue enabling meaningful human connection – is vital to the leadership we need to survive our polycrisis context. As a prerequisite to sustainable human community, the virtue of humanity is considered universal. It has been claimed as a ‘higher‐order virtue’, comprised of and enacted by – but irreducible to – a suite of ‘lower‐
Toby Newstead +3 more
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Journal of Personality, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Does virtue benefit its possessor, or is it beneficial for others but not the self? We tested two highly influential theories that offer contradictory answers. In particular, we focused on three “hard cases” for the theory that virtue promotes well‐being—that is, three virtues that aren't obviously enjoyable (compassion, patience,
Michael M. Prinzing +3 more
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Logic Teaching at the University of Oxford from the Sixteenth to Early Eighteenth Century
Noctua, 2015 This paper considers the nature of the changes that took place in logic teaching at the University of Oxford from the beginning of the sixteenth century, when students attended university lectures on Aristotle’s texts as well as studying short works ...
E. Jennifer Ashworth
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Journal of Religious Ethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent years, Orthodox Christianity has gained increasing visibility in global discussions on social ethics, encompassing issues such as climate change, environmental protection, peace, and human rights. The following paper examines the underlying metaethical framework of the Ecumenical Patriarchate's Social Ethos Document, analyzing how it
Alexander Kriebitz, Stefanos Athanasiou
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The Western origins of mindfulness therapy in ancient Rome. [PDF]
Neurol Sci, 2023 Cavanna AE +4 more
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Injecting Observers into Computational Complexity
PhilosophiesWe characterize computer science as an interplay between two modes of reasoning: the Aristotelian (procedural) method and the Platonic (declarative) approach.
Edgar Graham Daylight
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