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Theodor Steinbüchel's Great Figures of Christian Humanism
Abstract Theodor Steinbüchel (1888–1949) offers a study of eight figures in Western history who may be regarded as gestalts of Christian Humanism. He argued that none of these eight figures will ever return in the same way, but since there was an eternal conception of Christianity to which their ethos gave human form, each of these gestalts can be ...
Tracey Rowland
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Zusammenfassung Die consolatio als Gattung verschwindet nach derzeitigem Forschungsstand gegen Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts, doch auch im 18. Jahrhundert finden sich Ausläufer dieser bedeutsamen philosophisch‐rhetorischen Tradition. Voltaire widmet dem Trost, mit seiner Kurzerzählung Les deux consolés, noch zur Jahrhundertmitte eine literarische Parodie ...
Konstanze Baron
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Didascálias no Oedipus de Sêneca
Esta dissertação visa demonstrar que as didascálias caracterizam-se como um dos recursos cênicos presentes na poesia dramática antiga, tendo como objeto de análise a Obra Oedipus de Sêneca.
Tereza Pereira do Carmo
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A CONTRADIÇÃO DA MORALIDADE DO SUICÍDIO EM SÊNECA [PDF]
Nesta comunicação aponto as contradições presentes na obra Cartas a Lucílio, de Sêneca, quando é trabalhado, na Carta 70, argumentos que favorecem uma noção de moralidade para o suicídio.
Marques, Bruno Fonseca
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O foco do presente trabalho é compreender a felicidade como fruto de práticas virtuosas, como sugere Sêneca, empregando pensamentos dispostos em quatro obras do filósofo romano. O primeiro aparece em Sobre a clemência, escrita com a finalidade de tornar
Daniel Carvalho da Silva
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From Sentencing Hearings to Sentencing Conferences
Abstract This article presents a theoretical case for partial deformalisation of sentencing hearings, whereby the offender and the victim would be invited to add their particularistic perspectives on crime and punishment in unmediated nonhierarchical settings.
Liat Levanon
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The objective of this work is to present the notion of happy life in Seneca the Younger. To achieve this objective will be considered the reflections of Seneca encountered in the follow books: The Happy Life (De Vita Beata), Moral Epistles (Epistulae ...
Nort, Albertina Eleane
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Disasters, Dictators, and Donors: The Impact of Foreign Aid on Economic Activity (Mis)Reporting
ABSTRACT This paper examines how governments manipulate economic data to secure more foreign disaster aid. By using nighttime lighting as a reliable measure of economic activity, we make two key findings: (1) foreign disaster aid is positively linked to a country's understatement of its gross domestic product, indicating a deliberate strategy to ...
M. Martin Boyer +2 more
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Elizabeth C. Stanton and the Seneca Falls Convention 1848: An Examination of the “Birth” of the American Women’s Movement This paper takes a critical look at the birth of the American women's movement, focusing on the significance of the Seneca Falls ...
Verena Kaiser
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Nathaniel Culverwell's stoic theory of common notions
Abstract This article takes a closer look at the theory of knowledge developed by Nathaniel Culverwell in his 1652 Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature. Based on Culverwell's endorsement of Edward Herbert of Cherbury against Plato and Aristotle, his critical reception of René Descartes, and his contributions to a controversy between ...
Mogens Lærke
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