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The Associative Imagination and Divine Passions in Mark Akenside’s The Pleasures of the Imagination (1744) [PDF]

open access: yesUniversity of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series, 2015
Mark Akenside’s The Pleasures of the Imagination (1744) demands the attention of intellectual and cultural historians, if only on account of its eclectic reconceptualization of the “creative” imagination.
Alexandra Bacalu
doaj  

Playing God With Animals? The Meaning of Animals in a More Than Human World

open access: yesDialog, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Unprecedented human power over the lives and welfare of trillions of animals calls for existential, ethical, and theological reflection. This article examines and discusses how the relationship between humans and non‐human animals can be understood in a Christian context.
Emil Børty Nielsen
wiley   +1 more source

Room for God? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This essay begins with a review of several different approaches to the problem of divine action in the world, in light of the findings of science. Specifically, the speculation of Arthur Peacocke, John Polkinghorne and Nancey Murphy are elucidated and ...
Bersky, Ann
core   +2 more sources

Peasants into Muslims: Poverty and conversions to Islam in Ottoman Bosnia

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Whilst economic historians have invested substantial effort into understanding the economic consequences of religion, they have invested less effort into understanding the determinants of religious affiliation. The lack of knowledge about determinants of religious affiliation seems particularly striking in the case of Southeastern Europe ...
Leonard Kukić, Yasin Arslantas
wiley   +1 more source

Political Epistemology without Apologies

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Political epistemology has become a popular field of research in recent years. It sets itself the ambitious task to intertwine epistemology with social and political theory in order to do justice to the relationships between truth and politics, or reason and power.
Frieder Vogelmann
wiley   +1 more source

Ideas as the ‘Divinity of Our Soul’: Kant's Theocentric and Platonic Model of Human Cognition

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract I pursue Kant's characterization of the ideas of reason as the ‘divinity of our soul’ with the aim of correcting a highly influential reading of his philosophy as rejecting the theocentric cognitive model, one measuring human cognition against the norm of the divine intuitive intellect.
Kimberly Brewer
wiley   +1 more source

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