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The Doctrine of Exemplarism: A Symbolic Attempt to Escape the Pelagian Heresy

open access: yesReligions, 2023
Heresies are intrinsically intertwined with the evolution and inner growth of the very religions that denounce them. They serve as theological junctures, challenging and thus refining the orthodoxy of religious beliefs. The Pelagian heresy touches on one
Liran Shia Gordon
exaly   +3 more sources

Deus atque id quod fieri potest

open access: yesTópicos, 2013
A-priori reasonings for God's existence by Leibniz are compared to a non-modal argument by G. Mavrodes and to recent modal reformulations of St. Anselm's ontological approach, Leibniz's principle that “if the necessary can be, then it is” and St ...
Gualterius Redmond
doaj   +3 more sources

Aquinas on the Being in God and in Proper Nature [PDF]

open access: yesBogoslovni Vestnik, 2023
Among the many debates concerning God’s relation to the world, the teaching of the existence of the idea of created beings in the eternal Word is noteworthy.
Piotr Roszak
doaj   +1 more source

Study of Linda Zagzebski's Theological Approach to Moral Saints [PDF]

open access: yesComparative Theology, 2022
Linda Zagzebski is one of the philosophers working on the emotions and motivating dispositions of the saints. By expanding her theory of divine motivation, she tried to fill in an important gap in previous accounts about saintly life and show why ...
Aliasghar Hashemzadeh
doaj   +1 more source

The Necessity of an Incarnate Prophet

open access: yesReligions, 2023
This article aims to provide an a priori argument—termed the Flourishment Argument, for the veracity of the Christian conception of the Abrahamic religion that centres on God’s action of sending a divine and atoning prophet into the world.
Joshua R. Sijuwade
doaj   +1 more source

Cultural-Symbolic World Picture of the Latin Christian Middle Ages: The Ontological Dimension

open access: yesНаукові записки НаУКМА: Філософія та релігієзнавство, 2020
The present paper is a continuation of the previous appearances by the author addressing the phenomenon of the cultural-symbolic world pictures as typologically founded in the “epoch-making” ontologies and culturally expressed versions of history.
Yurii Svatko
doaj   +1 more source

The virtue of compassion in medical professions

open access: yesJournal of Education, Health and Sport, 2018
Introduction: The ethics of treatment virtues is currently one of the major ethical trends that enjoys great interest, especially among representatives of medical professions. Medical education is mainly based on character training i.e.
Joanna Żołnierz   +2 more
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Existentialism and Exemplars

open access: yesEducational Theory, 2023
AbstractIn this paper, Kate Kirkpatrick argues that the recent return to moral exemplars in exemplarist moral theory might benefit from engaging with existentialists' use of exemplars in two ways: first, by considering the role of negative exemplars and the power of emotions other than admiration in moral formation; and second, by considering ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Metaphor and the Mind of God in Nevi’im

open access: yesTheoLogica, 2018
In The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture, Yoram Hazony contrasts the uses of metaphor in Nevi’im and the New Testament. According to Hazony, metaphor is employed by Jesus to obscure teachings, but the prophets of the Hebrew Scriptures use metaphor to make ...
S. N. Nordby
doaj   +1 more source

Explaining Sentiment Classification with Synthetic Exemplars and Counter-Exemplars [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
AbstractWe present xspells, a model-agnostic local approach for explaining the decisions of a black box model for sentiment classification of short texts. The explanations provided consist of a set of exemplar sentences and a set of counter-exemplar sentences.
Orestis Lampridis   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

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