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The Absolutes that Failed, Creativity and Human Procreation

open access: yesNordicum-Mediterraneum, 2020
A review essay of the book: Slavoj Žižek, Sex and the Failed Absolute (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020)
Hans Bakker
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Freedom as an Anthropological Problem in the Christian Philosophy of Aurelius Augustine and Hryhorii Skovoroda

open access: yesAntropologìčnì Vimìri Fìlosofsʹkih Doslìdžen', 2022
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]

open access: yesJournal of the European Economic Association, 2018
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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Il De Praedestinatione di Tommaso Campanella e la questione dell’odium Dei nella tarda Scolastica spagnola [Tommaso Campanella's De Praedestinatione and the question of Otium Dei in late Spanish Scholasticism]

open access: yesOpen Journal of Humanities, 2020
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

open access: yesZarch, 2022
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

open access: yesSt Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, 2022
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

open access: yes, 2023
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”

open access: yes, 2016
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"

open access: yesFilosofický časopis, 2021
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

open access: yesبازیافت, 2019
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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