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Human as the infinite end: Elaborating on the theoretical and practical end in itself formula and the consequential interpretation of David Cummiskey [PDF]

حکمت و فلسفه, 2017
Human is an end in itself; this is Kant’s second formulation of categorical imperative, which has proved to be the most practical one for him. What is meant by "end in itself" as opposed to being "merely as a means"?
Ali Akbar Ahmadi Aframjani, Hamze Hojjat Hatampouri   +1 more
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Smuggling Sovereignty: Trade, Transgression, and State Authority

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Global supply chains are saturated with transgressions—corruption, smuggling, document forgery, and other practices that blur the line between legality and illegality. States do not merely endure these practices; they actively shape the conditions for them, producing the very illegal systems they then claim to police.
Dejana Kostić
wiley   +1 more source

Teleological thinking is driven by aberrant associations

, 2023
Teleological thought — the tendency to ascribe purpose to objects and events — is useful in some cases (encouraging explanation-seeking), but harmful in others (fueling delusions and conspiracy theories).
Philip R. Corlett
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Temporal grammars of novelty: How carbon removal entrepreneurs frame new technologies

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary This paper assesses the ways in which carbon dioxide removal ventures frame their work. Drawing on George Herbert Mead's philosophy of the present, it conceptualizes temporal grammars of novelty as a framing strategy that involves connecting two points in time, namely present and future, to elaborate novelty.
Ioana Sendroiu
wiley   +1 more source

Fractured Narratives in Novel and Film

Interlitteraria, 2013
Our contribution points to the strategic split operated by Ian McEwan’s narrative and, comparatively, by Joe Wright’s film Atonement. This split allows them to craft two diverging narrative discourses which overtly compete to dominate the interpretation ...
Monica Spiridon
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‘Why didn't you bring us a pumpkin?’ Relational recognition of caste, class, and tribe in rural Andhra Pradesh, India « Pourquoi ne nous as‐tu pas apporté de citrouille ? » Reconnaissance relationnelle de la caste, de la classe et de la tribu dans les zones rurales de l'Andhra Pradesh (Inde)

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses the ways characteristics associated with the ‘Schedule Tribe’ (‘ST’) category in India shape situated acts of relating to others with either deference or assumed superiority. Ethnography shows how within an indigenous Adivasi community the traits that determine identification within the group generate feelings of entitlement and ...
Thomas Herzmark
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The role of judicial acts in promoting the legitimacy of legal policy and authority of power [PDF]

Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: Серия «Экономика. Управление. Право»
Introduction. The judiciary plays an important role in the formation and promotion of legal policy and its legitimate vector of development. This is manifested not only in the educational potential of judicial acts and the disciplinary impact of justice ...
Toguzaeva, Ekaterina Nikolaevna
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On the Need to Revise Approaches to the Interpretation of Teleology

Logos et Praxis, 2019
Modern philosophy pays much attention to complex self-evolving systems that cannot be satisfactorily described solely by causal explanation ignoring the potential of a teleological approach that emphasizes the expediency of phenomena. The tendencies to interdisciplinarity and closer interaction of natural Sciences and Humanities being characteristics ...
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Introduction: On the fickleness of friendship Introduction : de l'inconstance en amitié

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In this Introduction to the special section, I provide a brief overview of the anthropology of friendship, particularly from the 1960s to the present, before focusing on the four articles that form the main body of the section. I argue that anthropologists who do not regard themselves as specialists in friendship will still find much to gain from ...
Simon Coleman
wiley   +1 more source

Hegel’s Non-Metaphysical Idea of Freedom

Revista de Filosofia, 2016
the article explores the putatively non-metaphysical – non-voluntarist, and even non-causal – concept of freedom outlined in Hegel’s work and discusses its influential interpretation by robert Pippin as an ‘essentially practical’ concept.
Edgar Maraguat
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