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An Account of Luck, Fortune, and Fate

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Luck is one of our most important concepts. In this article, I first argue that extant accounts of luck are deeply flawed. I then argue for a hybrid account of luck that is based around the difference between skill‐based and non‐skill‐based events.
Jesse Hill
wiley   +1 more source

Symmetry lost: A modal ontological argument for atheism?

Noûs, Volume 60, Issue 2, Page 313-327, June 2026.
Abstract The modal ontological argument for God's existence faces a symmetry problem: a seemingly equally plausible reverse modal ontological argument can be given for God's nonexistence. Here, we argue that there are significant asymmetries between the modal ontological argument and its reverse that render the latter more compelling than the former ...
Peter Fritz, Tien‐Chun Lo, Joseph C. Schmid   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction

Asian Studies
This special issue of Asian Studies is dedicated to a relocation of Chinese thought outside of closed definitions and disciplines so as to return to this rich and varied tradition to its authentic, inclusive power. The introduction of Western systems of
Selusi Ambrogio
doaj   +1 more source

Reconstructing Advaita in John Thatamanil\u27s The Immanent Divine : Some Questions [PDF]

, 2009
The publication of John Thatamanil\u27s The Immanent Divine allows us to ask many questions about projects in comparative theology and where they could lead us. I hope that my response to this interesting work will have the value of probing a little more
McLaughlin, Michael
core   +2 more sources

Narrating Entanglement Without Dehumanisation in Contemporary Eco‐Fiction

Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.
ABSTRACT This essay presents a comparative analysis of two contemporary works of eco‐fiction, Richard Powers's The Overstory (2018) and Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood (2023). Both novels use multiperspective narration in the service of entanglement narratives, forms of storytelling that emphasise the interconnection of human and nonhuman life.
Diana Rose Newby
wiley   +1 more source

The Beauty of Emptiness—The Foundational Root of Chinese Aesthetics

Asian Studies
The article explores how the concept of “emptiness” (xu 虛) emerged as the defining aesthetic principle in the tradition of Chinese “literati painting” (wenrenhua 文人畫).
Téa Sernelj
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ALL OR NOTHING? NATURE IN CHINESE THOUGHT AND THE APOPHATIC OCCIDENT [PDF]

, 2014
This paper develops an interpretation of nature in classical Chinese culture through dialogue with the work of François Jullien. I understand nature negatively as precisely what never appears as such nor ever can be exactly apprehended and defined.
FRANKE, WILLIAM
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Is Yogācāra Phenomenology? Some Evidence from the Cheng weishi lun [PDF]

, 2015
There have been several attempts of late to read Yogācāra through the lens of Western phenomenology. I approach the issue through a reading of the Cheng weishi lun (Treatise on the Perfection of Consciousness Only), a seventh-century Chinese compilation ...
Sharf, RH
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Technology of integration of expressive means in the chinese musical drama kunqu in its parallels to the liturgical mystery drama of europe

Освітній вимір, 2009
The Chinese music drama Kuncyuy in her parallel to liturgical drama - of Europe. The Article illuminates the questions history metaphysicians on example of the parallelismartistic event 15-16 ages upon their urgency for modem listeners.
Lyu Bintsyan
doaj  

Descriptive Metaphysics, Natural Language Metaphysics, Sapir-Whorf, and All That Stuff: Evidence from the Mass-Count Distinction

The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, 2010
Strawson (1959) described ‘descriptive metaphysics’, Bach (1986a) described ‘natural language metaphysics’, Sapir (1929) and Whorf (1940a,b, 1941) describe, well, Sapir-Whorfianism.
Francis Jeffry Pelletier
doaj   +1 more source