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Theodor Steinbüchel's Great Figures of Christian Humanism
Modern 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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ŚCIEŻKI AKSJOLOGICZNYCH ROZSTRZYGNIĘĆ STEFANA MORAWSKIEGO (cz. I) [PDF]
The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, 2007 Stefan Morawski, one of the most prominent Polish esteticians, was exspecially interested in problems of axiology. He believed that proper axiology, based on empirical material and analysis, def ines the subject of estetic cognition.
Piotr J. Przybysz
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Aggregation and the Structure of Value
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Roughly, the view I call “Additivism” sums up value across time and people. Given some standard assumptions, I show that Additivism follows from two principles. The first says that how lives align in time cannot, in itself, matter. The second says, roughly, that a world cannot be better unless it is better within some period or another.
Weng Kin San
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Anselm's Temporal‐Ontological Proof
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In his Reply to Gaunilo, Anselm presented two additional arguments for the existence of God beyond those that appear in the Proslogion. In “The Logical Structure of Anselm's Argument,” Robert M. Adams isolates each. One, he develops into a modal ontological argument along the lines of other 20th century ontological arguments (e.g., those of ...
Daniel Rubio
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The Epistemic Axiology of Theism [PDF]
The axiology of theism concerns the question of whether God’s existence would be a good thing. Pro-theists say yes, and anti-theists say no. This paper extends the axiology of theism to the realm of epistemology: would God’s existence be an epistemically
Jackson, Elizabeth
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Teksty Drugie, 2016 This article focuses on the basic question of what axiological perspectives are found in Polish and German deportation narratives from the second half of the twentieth century.
Stefan Chwin
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Louis Lavelle and the problems of Postmodernity
Analecta Cracoviensia, 2018 The article presents and analyses the philosophical thought of Louis Lavelle, a representative of the French “Philosophy of Spirit” and a precursor of the philosophy of being. The ideas of Louis Lavelle are confronted and compared with the thought of M.
Władysław Zuziak
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Nature's Complexity Alive: Farewell to Several Unificatory Cosmological Arguments for Monism
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Throughout history, numerous thinkers have claimed that monism—in the form of priority monism, existence monism, monotheistic monism, or versions that posit an extra‐cosmic ultimate being—theoretically surpasses pluralism, above all by positing a unified universe.
Lok‐Chi Chan
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Evaluative adjectives are gradable. The standard for falling under a gradable adjective “F” is either context‐relative or absolute. Some philosophers have recently used general linguistic tests to argue that “rational” and (moral) “good” are maximum‐degree absolute gradable adjectives: Only what's perfectly morally good strictly counts as ...
Pekka Väyrynen
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The Axiology of Sustainable Development: An Attempt at Typologization
Problemy Ekorozwoju, 2013 The axiology of sustainable development has been addressed in many works, taking a wide variety of approaches. Differences concern the interpretation of sustainable development, the set of values considered and methods of constructing such a set.
Andrzej Papuziński
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