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Motivação moral e senso de justiça em David Hume [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia, Florianópolis, 2011Ao considerar-se um sistema juspolítico de leis obrigatórias pode-se perguntar pelos ...
Forteski, Joel
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When stereotypical inferences prevail in polysemy processing: Explaining fallacies of equivocation

open access: yesMind &Language, EarlyView.
This paper develops and examines the first psycholinguistic explanation of fallacies of equivocation. On this basis, it addresses questions about polysemy processing. The paper proceeds from a case study on fallacies involving polysemous appearance verbs.
Eugen Fischer   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ethel Hume standing in rowboat, c1890

open access: yes, 1890
Papers of Walter Cunningham Hume (1840 – 1921), surveyor and Chief Commissioner for Lands for Queensland; his wife Katie, daughter Ethel, brother Washington Hume, and members of both their families in England.
Hume Family
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THE FATHERS, COMPUTERS AND US

open access: yesModern 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
wiley   +1 more source

Can Hume be Read as a Virtue Ethicist?

open access: yes, 2007
It is not unusual now for Hume to be read as part of a virtue ethical tradition. However there are a number of obstacles in the way of such a reading: subjectivist, irrationalist, hedonistic, and consequentialist interpretations of Hume.
Swanton, CH
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Christian Humanism in the Black Atlantic: The Case of Olaudah Equiano

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores Olaudah Equiano as a pivotal figure in the emergence of a Christian humanism forged within the Black Atlantic. Building on the analyses of Sylvia Wynter and Paul Gilroy, it examines how Equiano's The Interesting Narrative contests the racial figuration of the human that underwrote the development of racial capitalism and ...
Luke Bretherton
wiley   +1 more source

Black Humanism: Sameness and Difference in Being Human and Being Black in the United Kingdom

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay outlines a variety of responses to a central question pertaining to Black humanism: namely, what does it mean to be a Black human, given the existence of systemic racism within the Body of Christ and in many White majority societies in the African Diaspora, in this case, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain?
Anthony G. Reddie
wiley   +1 more source

Nature's Complexity Alive: Farewell to Several Unificatory Cosmological Arguments for Monism

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Throughout history, numerous thinkers have claimed that monism—in the form of priority monism, existence monism, monotheistic monism, or versions that posit an extra‐cosmic ultimate being—theoretically surpasses pluralism, above all by positing a unified universe.
Lok‐Chi Chan
wiley   +1 more source

Speaking for Dionysus: Empathy and choral advocacy in Aristotle and Nietzsche

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay argues for an abiding connection between empathy and advocacy by revealing their unrecognized parallels in Aristotle and Nietzsche. The argument makes three new claims. First, I identify an ancient form of sharing emotions, unnamed in but fundamental to Aristotle's Rhetoric, that I call “empathy by analogy.” Next, I show that the ...
Ellwood Wiggins
wiley   +1 more source

Possibilities for Social Equity Budgeting: Critical Insights From Bentham?

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Considering prior ways of seeing and practical mobilisations of Social Equity Budgeting (SEB), we suggest that prior conceptualisation, research and practice can be advanced by reflecting on insights from the philosophical and political literature on equity and justice.
Laurence Ferry   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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