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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”
The Muslim World, EarlyView.Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
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Tao, Virtue, Benevolence, Righteousness and Propriety:On the Core Values of Shu School
Contemporary Social Sciences, 2017 The core concepts of Confucianism were developed over the change of the times by Confucian scholars after Zi Si and Mencius, and have formed their respective structures: The three great principles of "benevolence, wisdom and bravery," and the self ...
Shu Dagang, Shen Shengchao
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An Emergentist Approach to Phenomenal Causality
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Philosophers have long debated whether phenomenal properties can play genuine causal roles. In this article, I aim to develop an emergentist approach to phenomenal causality, an approach that attributes novel causal powers to phenomenal properties and rejects the causal closure of physics.
Lei Zhong
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Metaphysical Foundations of Knowledge and Ethics in Chinese and European Philosophy [PDF]
, 2013 In the history of Chinese and European philosophy, metaphysics has played an outstanding role: it is a theoretical framework which provides the basis for a philosophical understanding of the world and the self. A theory of the self is well integrated in a metaphysical understanding of the totality of nature as a dynamic process of continuous changes ...
Yi, Guo +11 more
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The metaphysical symbolism of the chinese tortoise [PDF]
, 2020 The objective of the thesis is two-fold: 1) to examine the metaphysical symbolism of the Chinese tortoise and establish the visual grammar of the tortoise symbolism. As the topic will be approached in a visual communication point of view, infographics such as diagrams will be illustrated to demonstrate how Chinese cosmogony and cosmology are reflected ...
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DHARMAKIRTI, DAVIDSON, AND KNOWING REALITY [PDF]
, 2012 If we distinguish phenomenal effects from their noumenal causes, the former being our conceptual(ized) experiences, the latter their grounds or causes in reality as it is independent of our experience, then two contradictory positions with regards to ...
Brons, Lajos
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AI Alignment Versus AI Ethical Treatment: 10 Challenges
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A morally acceptable course of AI development should avoid two dangers: creating unaligned AI systems that pose a threat to humanity and mistreating AI systems that merit moral consideration in their own right. This paper argues these two dangers interact and that if we create AI systems that merit moral consideration, simultaneously avoiding ...
Adam Bradley, Bradford Saad
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王弼《老子注》的詮釋辨證/ Interpretative Dialectics of Wang Bi’s Exegesis of Lao-Tzu
Asian Studies, 2012 王弼是魏晉玄學最重要的思想家，也是中國哲學史上不世出的天才，他以二十四 歲英年早逝，卻無礙於他的哲學成就：《周易注》被收入十三經注疏，《老子注》 則成為通行本，影響後世深遠。歷來詮釋王弼思想的成果豐碩，精彩論點令人目 不暇給，對於王弼思想的關注不限於華人社會，近期在中國出版，德國當代著名 漢學家瓦格納 (Rudolf G.
Jung-Tao TSAI
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ANALYTIC AND CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE, AND GLOBAL PHILOSOPHY [PDF]
, 2011 Although there is no consensus on what distinguishes analytic from Continental philosophy, I focus in this paper on one source of disagreement that seems to run fairly deep in dividing these traditions in recent times, namely, disagreement about the ...
Tieszen, Richard
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Behind, Between, and Beyond Anthropomorphic Models [PDF]
, 2007 The plurality of models of ultimate reality is a central problem for religious philosophy. This essay sketches what is involved in mounting comparative inquiries across the plurality of models.
Wildman, Wesley J.
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