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How to lie to God: Kant's Thomistic turn
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 1086-1100, December 2024.Abstract For most of his career, Kant accepts Augustine's requirement that lying requires an intention to deceive. However, he eventually converts to Aquinas, following him in rejecting this requirement in favor of Aristotle's teleological conception of lying. This change of view amounts to an improvement, for it makes room for the possibility of lying
Roy Sorensen, Ian Proops
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The dramatising of theology : humanity’s participation in God’s drama with particular reference to the theologies of Hans Urs von Balthasar and Karl Barth [PDF]
, 2011 The aim of this project is to investigate the proper response of theology to the Christian God who, as revealed through revelation, is Being-in-act. This project takes seriously the idea posited by Shakespeare, that totus mundus agit histrionem, and ...
Farlow, Matthew S.
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REGIONAL NATURAL HISTORY IN ENGLAND: PHYSICO-THEOLOGY AND THE EXPLORATION OF NATURE [PDF]
Societate şi Politică, 2012 First the article offers a contextual discussion of more widespread Latitudinarian views of nature and the relationship between the landscape and God.
David BECK
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Prime matter emergentism: Unity without reduction
Ratio, Volume 37, Issue 4, Page 272-282, December 2024.Abstract I am persuaded that the anti‐reductionist stance of the Mistake‐Making Theoretical Framework is fundamentally sound and will prove heuristically fruitful. But the very success of this framework generates a challenge. Many biologically informed metaphysicians have drawn striking conclusions from the fact that biology cannot be reduced to ...
Stephen Boulter
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MEditsiinitopograafia Tartu linna kohta aastast 1631 [PDF]
Mäetagused, 2010 The present article deals mainly with the works of Johannes Raicus, the scientist in the field of medicine from the 17th century, focusing on his treatise Disputatio physicomedica votiva e„j ƒšrwa surgenti jam Dorpati novo collegio region, debated at the
Kaarina Rein
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Nature in Seclusion. The Monastic Republic of Letters in Southern Germany**
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 47, Issue 3, Page 215-241, September 2024.Abstract Monasteries were famous for their extensive libraries and richly decorated churches. Less well known are their observatories and their mathematical‐physical collections with telescopes, air pumps, and friction machines. But how did the way of life in the monastery and scientific practices influence each other?
Julia Bloemer
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Henry More's Antidote against Atheism and the Origins of the Physico-Theology Genre
, 2010 International audienceIn this paper I suggest that some of the argumentative strategies of the early architects of English physico-theology resemble some of those used by their pre-Restoration predecessors.
Leech, David
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EARLY MODERN PROTESTANT VIRTUOSOS AND SCIENTISTS: SOME COMMENTS
Zygon, 2016 The following essay is divided in three parts. First, while sharing in principle Harrison's hypothesis of an affinity between the sixteenth‐century Reformation and early modern science, it questions the connection between the latter and the Weberian ...
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Anna Letitia Barbauld's Insect Poetics
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 47, Issue 2, Page 185-203, June 2024.Abstract This article reads Anna Letitia Barbauld's affective encounter in ‘The Caterpillar’ (1825) in the light of her broader entomological writing for both adults and children. It investigates the recommendations for attention to the small and the particular in her didactic work alongside the narratives of insect subjectivity and insect ...
Rosalind Powell
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