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Pandemic and the Nature-Alienated Self

open access: yesReligions, 2022
This consideration of COVID-19 places the pandemic in the larger context of our present-day ontology and the environmentally destructive human–nature relationship that characterizes it, exploring it in three parts.
Alexander J. B. Hampton
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Forms of Teleology

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Philosophy
The research addresses a relevant and controversial topic - teleology. Final causality is the keystone without which the construction and consolidation of the paradigm of global evolutionism in the modern scientific community is unthinkable.
Dmitry V. Mamchenkov   +1 more
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Why is the Teleological Argument so Popular?

open access: yesStudia Humana, 2023
Why are teleological arguments based on biological phenomena so popular? My explanation is that teleological properties are presented in our experiences of biological phenomena.
Hunt Marcus W.
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Aristotle on natural slavery [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Aristotle's claim that natural slaves do not possess autonomous rationality (Pol. 1.5, 1254b20-23) cannot plausibly be interpreted in an unrestricted sense, since this would conflict with what Aristotle knew about non-Greek societies.
Heath, M.
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Husserl and the Theological Question

open access: yesEidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 2018
Defending the ancient thesis, that being and the true, or being and manifestation, are necessarily inseparable, is at the heart of transcendental phenomenology.
James G. Hart
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Critical discourse analysis, description, explanation, causes: Foucault's inspiration versus Weber's perspiration [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The FOUCAULTian governmentality approach, in relying on a teleology - the ultimate purpose of human endeavour is the quest for ever-growing human reason, a reason that is the universal basis of moral judgements, especially moral judgements about ...
Kendall, G., Wickham, G.
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Hylomorphic Teleology in Aristotle’s Physics II

open access: yesStudia Gilsoniana, 2019
This study draws attention to the ordering of matter and form argued for in Aristotle’s Physics II, 8 (199a30–32). This argument for hylomorphic teleology relies on the presentation of nature earlier in Physics II, 1.
Catherine Peters
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TELEOLOGY OF THE PRACTICAL IN ARISTOTLE: THE MEANING OF “ΠΡAΞΙΣ”

open access: yesManuscrito, 2019
I show that in his De motu animalium Aristoteles proposes a teleology of the practical on the most general zoological level, i.e. on the level common to humans and self-moving animals. A teleology of the practical is a teleological account of the highest
Klaus Corcilius
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From Extrinsic Design to Intrinsic Teleology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In this paper I offer a distinction between design and teleology, referring mostly to thehistory of these two terms, in order to suggest an alternative strategy for arguments thatintend to demonstrate the existence of the divine.
Silva, Ignacio
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Functional anatomy, jaw mechanisms, and feeding behavior of Dunkleosteus terrelli (Placodermi, Arthrodira)

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
A new musculoskeletal reconstruction and revision of the cranio‐mandibular anatomy of the Devonian arthrodire placoderm Dunkleosteus terrelli from a comparative and functional anatomical perspective. Dunkleosteus is a specialized arthrodire with many specializations for feeding on large vertebrates, and many of its features are part of broader ...
Russell K. Engelman   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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