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Friendship in the New Political Theologies
Abstract As a distinct academic discipline, political theology rose and fell with Carl Schmitt. If there was any hope of redeeming it, the discipline would have to be entirely renewed. A deep‐seated and understudied feature of that renewal lies in the reconceptualisation of the political relation.
Andreas E. Masvie
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當代品德教育主要以Aristotle德行倫理學為學理基礎,首重受教者自小適當習慣的養成,卻未論及一旦錯失此發展關鍵期,以致養成惡行敗德者後,如何可能發生改邪歸正的情形。受到Plato理念之啟發,新亞里斯多德主義者Kristjánsson提出「道德頓悟」作為突破口,可望彌補理論上的闕如,並提供實務上可行之道。透過對不同類型頓悟事例的比較分析,本研究以道德頓悟為焦點。頓悟是一種「異乎尋常」的洞見時刻,主體發生認知觀點上的格式塔轉 換。在道德頓悟下,此一新的識見帶著穿透的清晰度,令個體看見倫理善 ...
陳伊琳 Yi-Lin Chen
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Abstract Newman's educational writings can present an apparent contradiction or rupture, with the ‘intellectualist’ Idea of a University opposed to the ‘commonsensical’ Grammar of Assent. An appeal to the imagination—to imaginative and implicit reasoning—has sometimes been made in order to reconcile these apparent contradictions. While Newman's thought
Austin Walker
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The Aristotelian Philosophy of the Martial Arts
Aristotle’s approach to ethics is proposed as a useful way to understand the role that the martial arts play in the life of the martial artist. Neo-Aristotelian philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, in his classic work After Virtue, introduces the concept of a
Charles H. Hackney
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In the Beginning was the Work: Donald MacKinnon’s Metaphysics after Lenin
Abstract Donald MacKinnon expressed a distinctly realist and actualist metaphysic. One aspect of his metaphysics that is less frequently commented upon, however, is his reception of Vladimir Lenin. While not an unqualified admirer of Bolshevism, it is readily apparent that MacKinnon incorporated elements of Lenin’s philosophy and theories regarding ...
Khegan M. Delport, Dritëro Demjaha
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Abstract A new argument is offered which proceeds through epistemic possibility (for all S knows, p), cutting a trail from modality to Millianism, the controversial thesis that the semantic content of a proper name is simply its bearer. New definitions are provided for various epistemic modal notions.
Nathan Salmón
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The Educational Value of Gratitude
Abstract This article offers a theoretical investigation of the educational value of gratitude. We make the case that it is possible to learn from and through gratitude experiences. More specifically, gratitude experiences include understandings regarding and a reflective awareness of the value, contingency and vulnerability of certain goods as well as
Nick Hebbink +2 more
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Alternatives to neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics [PDF]
Most contemporary variants of virtue ethics have a neo-Aristotelian timbre. However, standing alongside the neo-Aristotelians are a number of others playing similar tunes on different instruments. This chapter highlights the four most important virtue ethical alternatives to the dominant neo-Aristotelian chorus.
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Kant's nutshell argument for idealism
Abstract The significance or vacuity of the statement, “Everything has just doubled in size,” attracted considerable attention last century from scientists and philosophers. Presenting his conventionalism in geometry, Poincaré insisted on the emptiness of a hypothesis that all objects have doubled in size overnight.
Desmond Hogan
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Abstract Neo‐Aristotelian views of goodness hold that the goodness of something is strictly connected with its goal(s). In this article, I shall present a power‐based, Neo‐Aristotelian view of goodness. I shall claim that there are certain powers (i.e., Goodness‐Conferring Powers, or GC‐powers in short) that confer goodness upon their bearers and upon ...
Michele Paolini Paoletti
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