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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Does Plato Make Room for Negative Forms in His Ontology? [PDF]
, 2017 Plato seems to countenance both positive and negative Forms, that is to say, both good and bad ones. He may not say so outright, but he invokes both and rejects neither.
Alican, Necip Fikri
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Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The literature on the relationship between leader behaviours and effectiveness is a jungle of complementary yet often conflicting leadership theories that perplexes researchers and practitioners alike, as indicated by various theories of bright and dark side leadership (i.e., leader behaviours reflecting widely considered positive and negative
Jianyun Tang, Mary Crossan
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Journal of Personality, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Does virtue benefit its possessor, or is it beneficial for others but not the self? We tested two highly influential theories that offer contradictory answers. In particular, we focused on three “hard cases” for the theory that virtue promotes well‐being—that is, three virtues that aren't obviously enjoyable (compassion, patience,
Michael M. Prinzing +3 more
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The Unity of the Soul in Plato's Republic [PDF]
, 2012 This essay argues that Plato in the Republic needs an account of why and how the three distinct parts of the soul are parts of one soul, and it draws on the Phaedrus and Gorgias to develop an account of compositional unity that fits what is said in the ...
Brown, Eric
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Parmenides, Plato, and Μίμησις. [PDF]
Evidence for a Parmenidean influence on Plato’s Republic typically focuses on content from Bks. V-VI, and the development of Plato’s Theory of Forms. This essay aims to suggest that Plato’s censorship of poetic content in Bks.
DeLong, Jeremy
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Reading Nietzsche in an Age of Conspiracy Theories
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This essay considers Friedrich Nietzsche's critique of Christian morality as a template for interpreting the epistemology of modern conspiracy theorists. The first section elucidates Nietzsche's notion of ressentiment as it can be applied to contemporary conspiracism. The effectiveness of this comparative assessment thus raises the question of
J.W. Olson
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Beauty (Essay 8 of Seeing: When Art and Faith Intersect)
, 2002 Excerpt: Beauty as a concept has given twentieth century writers, especially art critics and art historians, a great deal of difficulty. Why is this so?Answering would take several volumes--! will settle for less.
Campbell, Douglas G.
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Philosophy of Intellect and Vision in the De anima of Themistius [PDF]
, 2010 Themistius (317–c. 387) was born into an aristocratic family and ran a paripatetic school of philosophy in Constantinople in the mid-fourth century, between 345 and 355.
Hendrix, John S
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Photometry's bright future: Detecting Solar System analogues with future space telescopes
, 2015 Time-series transit photometry from the Kepler space telescope has allowed for the discovery of thousands of exoplanets. We explore the potential of yet improved future missions such as PLATO 2.0 in detecting solar system analogues.
Angerhausen, Daniel, Hippke, Michael
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Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
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