The Coherence of Buddhism: Relativism, Ethics, and Psychology
ABSTRACT This essay defends a Buddhist answer to the question of how a skeptical tradition might account for its moral position. Two domains in Buddhist thought and practice are often considered to be dissimilar, perhaps contradictory. On the one hand, there is an aspiration to nirvana and a philosophy that describes everything as “emptiness” and ...
Jonathan C. Gold
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Motives of Home and Homelessness in the Novel by F.M. Dostoevsky “The Brothers Karamazov”
The article is devoted to the study of the complex motive home-antidome in the work of F. Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov. Studying the motive as a key unit of narratology, the author comes to the conclusion that in Dostoevskys poetry a special role is
Meruert B. Yeleussizova
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THE MANY WORRIES OF MANY WORLDS
Abstract Theological engagement with quantum mechanics has been dominated by the Copenhagen interpretation, failing to reflect the fact that philosophers and physicists alike are increasingly moving away from the Copenhagen interpretation in favor of other approaches.
Emily Qureshi‐Hurst
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RESPONSE TO THE COMPATIBILITY OF EVOLUTION AND DESIGN
Abstract The first half of this article offers two possibilities of how the argument Kojonen makes might be vulnerable to other new developments in evolutionary science and psychology—potential broadsides that might threaten to sink the salvaged ship of design once again.
Bethany N. Sollereder
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Le citazioni di Dostoevskij negli studi danteschi del simbolismo russo: il caso di Dmitrij Merežkovskij [PDF]
In the Russian literary and philosophical milieu of the Early Twentieth Century, interest in the works of Dante and Dostoevsky acquires a new metaphysical dimension compared to their nineteenth-century reception.
Kristina Landa
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Abstract A number of thorny issues, such as the nature of time, free will, the clash of the manifest image and the scientific image, the possibility of a naturalistic foundation of morality, and perhaps even the possibility of accounting for consciousness in naturalistic terms, seem to be plagued by the conceptual confusion nourished by a single ...
Carlo Rovelli
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The First Production of The Brothers Karamazov on the Russian stage in the Mirror of the Press (Based on the Collections of the Vladimir Dahl State Museum of the History of Russian Literature) [PDF]
The first Russian theatrical production of Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov premiered on the eve of Dostoevsky’s 20th death anniversary on January 26 (February 7) 1901 at the Theater of the Literary and Artistic Society (Maly Theater) in St ...
Pavel E. Fokin, Ilya O. Boretsky
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Mental health, resilience and existential literature
Abstract In this paper, I will begin by charting some of the conceptions of mental health in young people today, paying particular attention to recent mental health education policies in England. I will focus on the concept of ‘resilience’ as central to these policies, and how this represents an impoverished understanding of mental health, what it ...
Alison M. Brady
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The Enduring Pertinence of the Basic Principle of Retribution☆
Abstract Many philosophers and legal scholars believe that the principle of retribution can be employed as a basis for respecting the offender as a person and for imposing relatively soft sentences. This belief is inspired, at least to a certain extent, by the penal philosophy of Kant and Hegel.
Vincent Geeraets
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Epic Reversal of the Plot of Guilt from Prokharchin’s Dream to Dmitry Karamazov’s Dream
The article examines the plot of guilt in refraction to the event of a dream from the early story of Fedor Dostoevsky “Mister Prokharchin” to “Brothers Karamazov”.
N. G. Mikhnovets
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