Nietzsche’s polychrome exemplarism [PDF]
, 2018 In this paper, I develop an account of Nietzschean exemplarism. Drawing on my previous work, I argue that an agent’s instincts and other drives constitute her psychological type. In this framework, a drive counts as a virtue to the extent that it is well-
Alfano, Mark
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Should we admire the shrewd steward (Luke 16:1-9)? Moral exemplarism and Christian ethics [PDF]
, 2022 The parable of the shrewd steward (Luke 16.1–9) is notoriously difficult to interpret. We encounter a figure who, when threatened with dismissal, dishonestly erases the debts of his master’s debtors. Yet, surprisingly, the master commends the steward. So,
Edward A. David
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Epistemic Vice Rehabilitation: Saints and Sinners Zetetic Exemplarism [PDF]
This paper proposes a novel educational approach to epistemic vice rehabilitation. Its authors Gerry Dunne and Alkis Kotsonis note that, like Quassim Cassam, they remain optimistic about the possibility of improvement with regard to epistemic vice ...
Dunne, Gerry
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The aesthetics of ethics: exemplarism, beauty, and the psychology of morality [PDF]
, 2021 Linda Zagzebski recently defended moral exemplarism, a new moral theory on which key moral terms are defined by direct reference to exemplars.Footnote1 The theory is meant as an alternative to theories like consequentialism and deontology and promises ...
Paris, Panos, Panos Paris
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Ambassadors of the game: do famous athletes have special obligations to act virtuously? [PDF]
, 2020 Do famous athletes have special obligations to act virtuously? A number of philosophers have investigated this question by examining whether famous athletes are subject to special role model obligations (Wellman 2003; Feezel 2005; Spurgin 2012).
Archer, Alfred, Yorke, Christopher C.
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Metaphor and the Mind of God in Nevi’im
TheoLogica, 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
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A Comparative Study of Beauty and its Relation to Pleasure and Goodness in the Philosophy of Plotinus and Avicenna [PDF]
آموزههای فلسفه اسلاميThe truth and nature of beauty, as a secondary intelligible (Arabic: مَعْقولُ الْثَّانی, romanized: maʿqūl al-thānī), have become a topic of discussion among philosophers.
Muḥammūd Ṣeydiī +1 more
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Luz, iluminación y verdad en el De triplici via de San Buenaventura = Light, enlightenment and truth in De triplici via of Saint Bonaventure [PDF]
Acta Scientiarum. Education, 2012 La perspectiva jerárquica bonaventuriana sobre teología trinitaria es determinante para la comprensión de su orientación metafísica, porque permite subrayar los elementos de unidad y diversidad que forman parte constitutiva de toda explicación de las ...
Gerald Cresta
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Moral exemplarism and atonement
, 2020 In recent work on the doctrine of atonement there has been little positive said about the view that Christ's work is principally a moral example. This article addresses that lacuna.
Crisp, Oliver D. +1 more
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Fictionalism : The Art of Teaching Truth Disguised as Lies
, 2023 Fictionalism confronts the dual epistemological nature of education. In this book, Johan Dahlbeck argues that all education, at bottom, concerns a striving for truth initiated through fictions. This foundational aporia is then interrogated and made sense
Dahlbeck, Johan,
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