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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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, 2008 Since the nineteenth-century, it is almost a philosophical commonplace to maintain that the notion of “teleology” is a useless tool, a legacy of the past to be delivered into the dustbin of history.
Costa, Paolo
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Spinoza´s rejection of teleology [PDF]
, 2009 The extent of Spinoza’s rejection of teleology is highly contested. I argue, contra Martin Lin, that Spinoza rejects all forms of teleology, and contra Jonathan Bennett, that Spinoza is consistent in his rejection of teleology by showing that his concept
Greetis, Edward Andrew
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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Walter Benjamin and teleology [PDF]
, 2018 Se suele afirmar, y con razón, que la representación de la historia en el pensamiento de Walter Benjamin es esencialmente antiteleológica. Pese a esto, en sus escritos se encuentran dos importantes menciones del término “teleología” que permiten pensar ...
Pérez López, Carlos Alberto
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THE RATIONALITY OF BEAUTY: AESTHETICS AND THE RENAISSANCE OF TELEOLOGY
Zygon, 2022 As is well‐known, the mechanistic ontology associated with the work of Descartes and Newton also challenged the irreducibility of final causes. This challenge undercut objective justifications of goodness and beauty.
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THE THEOLOGICAL FOUNDATION OF ADAM SMITH'S WORK [PDF]
The paper will discuss the theological foundation to Smith's writings. Teleology, final causes and divine design were initially seen as central to understanding Smith's writings. Over time, this view fell out of fashion. In the period after World War II,
Alvey, James E.
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australian women were among the first in the world to receive electoral suffrage, yet it took until 1997 before they had full equality of jury suffrage. This article examines the debate around female jurors by focusing less on discourses of citizenship than on the subterranean spatial arrangements upon which equality depended.
Alecia Simmonds
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Undergraduate Biology Students’ Teleological and Essentialist Misconceptions
Education Sciences, 2018 Research in developmental psychology has shown that deeply-rooted, intuitive ways of thinking, such as design teleology and psychological essentialism, impact children’s scientific explanations about natural phenomena.
Florian Stern +4 more
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RESPONSE: THE COMPATIBILITY OF EVOLUTION AND DESIGN
Zygon, 2022 Denis Alexander, David Glass, Peter Jeavons, Meghan Page, Bethany Sollereder, and Mats Wahlberg have offered interpretations, critique, and defenses of E. V. R. Kojonen's book The Compatibility of Evolution and Design.
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