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Al-Kindi and Mu'tazila: Divine Attributes, Creation and Freedom [PDF]

, 2003
The paper discusses al-Kindi's response to doctrines held by contemporary theologians of the Mu‘tazilite school: divine attributes, creation, and freedom.
Adamson, Peter
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Are Potency and Actuality Compatible in Aristotle? [PDF]

, 2018
The belief that Aristotle opposes potency (dunamis) to actuality (energeia or entelecheia) has gone untested. This essay defines and distinguishes forms of the Opposition Hypothesis—the Actualization, Privation, and Modal—examining the texts and ...
Sentesy, Mark
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Frantz Fanon’s prayer : o my body, make of me always a man who questions! [PDF]

, 2016
Baseado nas contribuições de Frantz Fanon, este artigo demonstra que o colonialismo, mediante o racismo, produz uma divisão maniqueísta do mundo entre a zona do ser e a zona do não-ser.
Costa, Joaze Bernardino
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Typology of negativity in the history of ancient philosophy: the analysis of the concepts of Democritus, Plotinus and Damascus

Вестник Мининского университета, 2019
Introduction: the article is devoted to the problem of apophatic tradition formation in the history of ancient philosophy. The research focuses on the issue of the source of negativity in Neoplatonism, analyzes the teachings of Plotinus and Damascus.
A. V. Bogomolov
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Being Nonreligious in Croatia: Managing Belonging and Non-Belonging

Religions, 2022
Catholicism in the Croatian context has been one of the most powerful sources of collective belonging for centuries. Since the fall of socialism, desecularization tendencies have manifested as homogenization, collectivization, and deprivatization of ...
Nikolina Hazdovac Bajić
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Something, nothing and Leibniz’s question. negation in logic and metaphysics

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2018
This paper discusses the concept of nothing (nothingness) from the point of logic and ontology (metaphysics). It is argued that the category of nothing as a denial of being is subjected to various interpretations.
Woleński Jan
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Parmenides, being and non-being

Praxis Filosófica, 1999
If it is true that philosophers do not speak independently of language, if it is true – especially in the case of Parmenides – that thought and speech cannot be dissociated, then, thanks to the tools provided by philology, linguistics and semiotics, we ...
Jorge Páramo P.
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Plato's patricide in the sophist [PDF]

Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2012
In this paper, the author attempts to elucidate validity of Plato's criticism of Parmenides' simplified monistic ontology, as well as his concept of non-being.
Deretić Irina J.
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Rola negacji w opisie świata według arystotelesowskiej Metafizyki [PDF]

Argument, 2012
The notions of „being” and „non-being” have entered philosophical language, forming thebasis of ontology and meontology, as the counterparts of the Greek expressions to o]n and tomh o]n (nominalised forms, affirmative and negative, of the participle of ...
Jan BIGAJ
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Type of Employment as a Determinant of Subjective Well-Being: Problems of Comparability of Research Results

Социологическая наука и социальная практика, 2021
The review of empirical studies of the relationship between subjective well-being and the employment type reveals: unlike workers under an open-ended contract, workers with temporary or informal employment show a lower or the same level of subjective ...
Anna V. Kuchenkova
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