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Nietzsche as Optimistic Nutritionist: Reading Ecce Homo as a Practical Guide to a Spinozistic Ethics of Self‐Preservation

open access: yesTheoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In his From Bondage to Freedom, Michael LeBuffe argues that Spinoza's theory of ethics hinges on a figure that he calls the optimistic nutritionist. LeBuffe sets up the optimistic nutritionist as a thought experiment useful for illustrating how Spinoza's ethical theory can be put into practice.
Johan Dahlbeck
wiley   +1 more source

PSR, Modal Collapse, and Open Future in Ibn Sīnā's Philosophy

open access: yesTheoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It has been contended that the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) implies necessitarianism—that is, the view that everything occurs out of necessity. Discussing a well‐known argument for this claim developed by contemporary metaphysicians, I show that Ibn Sīnā has anticipated a counterpart of this argument, and that is precisely why he is ...
Mohammad Saleh Zarepour
wiley   +1 more source

Places as refrains: A non‐constructive alternative to assemblage thinking

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Abstract Over the past 20 to 30 years, relational, post‐humanist, processual, and non‐representational approaches to space and place have gained an increasing purchase within anglophone human geography, whether underpinned by academic engagements with Western philosophy, anthropology, or indigenous thinking and praxis.
Peter Merriman
wiley   +1 more source

Mining an Anthropocene in Japan: On the making and work of geological imaginaries

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This article addresses how the lithic and the drift might be reworked as an Anthropocene material outside of a chronostratigraphy. Revisiting the finding of a floating fern fossil at the Hashima mine, we delve into a complex array of Geological imaginaries, and undertake our own speculative work.
Deborah P. Dixon   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ought the level of sedation to be reduced during deep palliative sedation? A clinical and ethical analysis. [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ Support Palliat Care
Fredheim OM   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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