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How Theists Can Answer the “Why be Moral?” Question: An Indirect Reason‐Generation Account

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, I give a new type of theistic answer to the “Why be moral?” question. After briefly clarifying the version of the question I'm concerned with, as well as extant theistic answers to the question, I argue for a new kind of answer. Roughly, while on standard answers, future (post death) benefits directly generate present reason to ...
Justin Morton
wiley   +1 more source

Restoring the Deformed Administrative State? Bureaucratic Repair After Illiberal Rule

open access: yesPublic Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While scholarship has documented how populist and authoritarian‐leaning executives deform bureaucratic institutions, post‐illiberal reconstruction has only begun to receive attention. This paper develops an exploratory framework distinguishing four repair strategies (neutralizing, rectifying, balancing, and democratic hardening) and two repair
Michael W. Bauer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Purgatory XXX, XXXI, XXXIII [Dante in translation]

open access: yes, 2016
Presents a lecture of Professor Giuseppe Mazzota that analyzes Purgatory XXX, XXXI, XXXIII. Dante reaches the summit of Mount Purgatory and sees the representation of the Earthly Paradise.
Mazzotta, Giuseppe
core   +2 more sources

Purgatory XXX, XXXI, XXXIII [Dante in translation]

open access: yes, 2011
Educação Superior::Linguística, Letras e Artes::LetrasPresents a lecture of Professor Giuseppe Mazzota that analyzes Purgatory XXX, XXXI, XXXIII. Dante reaches the summit of Mount Purgatory and sees the representation of the Earthly Paradise.
Mazzotta, Giuseppe
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Matelda, personaggio narrativo

open access: yesCahiers d’Études Italiennes, 2021
This article analyzes Matelda’s narrative function, first of all noting the variety of her roles in the last Cantos of Purgatory. It is emphasized that Dante could hardly have thought of a historical figure, while it is probable that this character also ...
Alberto Casadei
doaj   +1 more source

Who Is Smuggler? Contradictory Positions and Unsettled Roles in Smuggling Assemblage on the Balkan Route

open access: yesGlobal Networks, Volume 26, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article reconceptualizes migrant smuggling along the Balkan Route through the lens of the smuggling assemblage, which captures the fluid, relational and context‐dependent nature of clandestine mobility. Based on multi‐sited ethnographic fieldwork between 2020 and 2023 across six countries, including 85 semi‐structured interviews and ...
Muhammed Yasir Bodur   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Can Purgatory Help? Reflections from Dramatic Theology in the Context of the Abuse Crisis

open access: yesJournal of Moral Theology, 2023
In the search for justice, many survivors of sexual abuse encounter the difficulty that their tormentors have already died. In such cases legal justice cannot work and a personal confrontation is impossible.
Nikolaus Wandinger
doaj   +1 more source

Release of Andean abiotic‐resilient common bean germplasm

open access: yesJournal of Plant Registrations, Volume 20, Issue 2, May/August 2026.
Abstract Andean abiotic‐resilient (AAR) common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) germplasm lines AAR1 to AAR7 were developed through an international bulk breeding effort to improve abiotic stress tolerance and combine it with disease resistance by increasing genetic richness.
Timothy G. Porch   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Go and Sin No More: The Afterlife as Moral Teaching in Italian Catholic Educational Theatre

open access: yesReligions, 2019
Catholic religious orders that have education as part of their mission have often used visions of the afterlife in theatre productions as vehicles to transmit a message of conversion, especially to those who, because of age or illiteracy, would not ...
Daniela Cavallaro
doaj   +1 more source

One Life/Many Lives: An Internal Hindu-Christian Dialogue

open access: yesReligions, 2018
This essay consists of philosophical and comparative theological reflections on the topic of rebirth, or reincarnation. Informed by the work of William James, John Hick, and Francis X.
Jeffery D. Long
doaj   +1 more source

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