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Crisis and philosophy: Aeschylus and Euripides on Orestes' crimes [PDF]

, 2012
Since the XIX century, a pleiad of philosophers and historians support the idea that Greek philosophy, usually reported to have started with the presocratics, lays its basis in a previous moment: the Greek myths – systematized by Homer and Hesiod – and ...
Lago de Sousa Barroso, Gabriel, Magalhães Bambirra, Felipe   +1 more
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Nothing Lasts Forever: Environmental Discourses on the Collapse of Past Societies [PDF]

, 2012
The study of the collapse of past societies raises many questions for the theory and practice of archaeology. Interest in collapse extends as well into the natural sciences and environmental and sustainability policy.
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Book Symposium Introduction: John Behr, Gregory of Nyssa: On the Human Image of God

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article introduces a series of response essays to John Behr’s Gregory of Nyssa: On the Human Image of God, which includes contributions from Rowan Williams, Morwenna Ludlow, Paul Blowers, Gabrielle Thomas and Martin Laird – with a final response from John Behr.
Thomas Breedlove, Alex Fogleman
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Thinking the World: Gregory of Nyssa on the Definitive Calling of Humanity

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract In this response essay to John Behr’s Gregory of Nyssa: On the Human Image of God, Rowan Williams highlights Gregory’s exposition of the complex account of nous and its meaning in relation to sensory embodiment. Nous, in Gregory’s treatise, is the presence of unified divine activity in the diversity of creation.
Rowan Williams
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Granadan reflections [PDF]

, 2016
This paper explores a practice of historical reflection grounded in the city of Granada’s aesthetic and architectural heritage. From the publication of Washington Irving’s Tales of Alhambra, in 1823, up through today, Granada has been a highly celebrated
Hirschkind, C
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Ancestral Irrigation and Women's Political Empowerment

Kyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the adoption of irrigation agriculture during the preindustrial period is a predictor of contemporary cross‐country variation in women's political empowerment. Countries whose populations historically relied on irrigation agriculture as their primary subsistence mode tend to ...
Roberto Ezcurra
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THE FATHERS, COMPUTERS AND US

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
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“CONSCIENCE AND THE ENDS OF HUMANITY: CHRISTIAN HUMANISM AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE”

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The astonishing speed of the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has sparked reflections by theologians and philosophers on what distinctiveness, if any, human beings possess as individuals and as a species. This article addresses this question with respect to an ancient idea in Christian thought reaching back to St.
William Schweiker
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Framing Irredentism: Ancient Statehood, Sacred Lands and Causes and the National Family

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although irredentism—the attempt by states to retrieve ‘lost’ lands and peoples—rarely occurs, it has highly destabilizing effects on international security and is difficult to resolve given the number of actors drawn into these conflicts.
John Nagle
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Observations of red-giant variable stars by Aboriginal Australians

, 2017
Aboriginal Australians carefully observe the properties and positions of stars, including both overt and subtle changes in their brightness, for subsistence and social application. These observations are encoded in oral tradition.
Allen R. H., Anonymous, Aristotle 350 BCE, Bailey J., Bailey J., Bates D., Battiste M., Berndt R. M., Berndt R. M., Bhathal R., Cairns H. C., Clarke P. A., Clarke P. A., Clarke P. A., Clarke P. A., Clunies Ross M., Frew D. J., Hamacher D. W., Hamacher D. W., Hamacher D. W., Hamacher D. W., Hamacher D. W., Hamacher D. W., Hamacher D. W., Hamacher D. W., Harmanec P., Haynes R. D., Herschel J. F. W., Hoffleit D., Howitt A., Isles J., Jetsu L., Johnson D. D., Johnson D. D., Leaman T. M., Maegraith B., McNight D., Meyer H. A. E., Mountford C. P., North G., Parker K. L., Prober S. M., Taplin G., Tindale N. B., Tindale N. B., Tindale N. B., White I. M., Wilk S. R., Wilk S. R.   +48 more
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