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The Absolutes that Failed, Creativity and Human Procreation
A review essay of the book: Slavoj Žižek, Sex and the Failed Absolute (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020)
Hans Bakker
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Purpose. The study aims to define and comprehend the phenomenon of freedom as an anthropological problem in the Christian philosophical heritage of A. Augustine and H. Skovoroda.
M. M. Potsiurko
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Predestination and the Protestant Ethic [PDF]
This paper shows an equivalence result between the utility functions of secular agents who abide by a moral obligation to accumulate wealth and those of religious agents who believe that salvation is immutable and preordained by God. This result formalizes Weber’s renowned thesis on the connection between the worldly asceticism of Protestants and the ...
Larbi Alaoui, Alvaro Sandroni
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With the publication in France in 1636 of De praedestinatione et reprobatione auxiliis divinae gratiae, Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) comes back to the themes of divine grace and predestination, which had already engaged him, especially in youth ...
Tommaso Sgarro
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Milieu, spirit, flesh and fusion in Le Corbusier’s life and work
How can a study of Le Corbusier’s post-war work – the Poème de l’angle droit and Modulor 1 and 2 – throw light on his earlier preoccupations. These works are retrospective and confessional. They are obsessed with the question ‘By what right may I create?
Tim Benton
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Free will is a perennial theological and philosophical topic. As a central dogmatic locus, it has been implicated in debates about core Christian doctrines, such as grace, salvation, sin, providence, evil, and predestination.
Aku Visala
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Predestination in Dante’s Commedia in Light of Augustine
If Virgil’s damnation motivates Dante in the heaven of Jupiter to interrogate the inner workings of divine justice, the ultimate theological point in contention is the nature of predestination.
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Nature and Predestination in William Faulkner’s “Dry September”
William Faulkner’s Protestant culture, as well as his will to revitalize the Christian message, has a strong influence on his literary production.
Paparoni, Ginevra
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"Nunc antichristi multi facti sunt." - Idea společenství v Husově spisu "De ecclesia"
This study explores the relationship between the metaphysical conception of the Church that can be found in Jan Hus’ treatise De ecclesia, and its possible social realization. The influences of this approach (Wycliffe and Augustine) are looked at, as are
Šenovský, Jakub
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Khalifa Abdul Hakim on the Doctrine of Free Will and Predestination, Good and Evil in Islam
Dr. Khalīfah Abdul Hakim, (1896- 1959) has done his utmost effort to present the values of Islam and its various doctrines in the garb of Philosophy. This article is a comprehensive enunciation of Dr.
Hafiz Muhammad Saleem +1 more
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