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Meaning, anti‐alienation, and fulfillment
Abstract One intuition that motivates subjectivist theories about meaning in life is the anti‐alienation intuition, that is, for a life to be meaningful it must engage with the person whose life it is. This article contends that the anti‐alienation and subjectivist theories it motivates are best understood as tracking fulfillment in life; this is an ...
Chad Mason Stevenson
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Freedom of Scientific Inquiry and Democracy. A Systems‐Theoretical Approach
ABSTRACT The article examines the relationship between democracy and one of its inherent features: freedom of scientific inquiry—a multi‐layered concept closely intertwined with the broader notion of academic freedom—both of which are increasingly under threat worldwide. The paper advocates for the use of Luhmann's theoretical framework to analyse this
Krešimir Žažar, Steffen Roth
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The Rhetoric of Disenchantment: Ghost Belief and Secular Critique in Early Twentieth‐Century China
Abstract This study presents the first large‐scale empirical analysis of how ghosts and spirits were debated during China's early twentieth‐century secular transformation. Using a novel dataset of over 2000 digitized texts—including newspapers, periodicals, and essays from 1890 to 1949—we combine close reading, AI‐assisted annotation, and statistical ...
Ze Hong, Yuqi Chen
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The article examines the contestation of absolute power in the political articles written by Diderot and his collaborators in the Encyclopédie. The analysis reveals that the critique of absolute power, although coded and subtle in the early volumes to ...
Eszter Kovács
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The plenitudo potestatis Papae according to Egidio Romano / La plenitudo potestatis Papae según Egidio Romano [PDF]
This article analyzes the relationship, according to Aegidius Romanus, between spiritual power and temporal power. From the point of view of the Augustinian author, the autonomy of the world or that of second causes, following St. Thomas Aquinas, must be
Mario Di Giacomo
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The current piece of research has evidenced that the concept of the Kingdom of God / Kingdom of Heaven is not new in the biblical theology of the human writers of the Scripture.
Gallusz László
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S. N. Bulgakov`s religio-political quest (1905–1917): from «the autocracy of antichrist» to «the theocracy of white tsar» [PDF]
The article is based on the thesis of the Russian thinker, social and religious figure, S. N. Bulgakov, that the religious aspect of life is inextricably linked to all aspects of human activity and defines their essential content.
Paromov Kirill
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’n Etiese perspektief op godsdiensvryheid
An ethical perspective on religious freedom This article investigates the concept of religious freedom from a Christian-ethical perspective. In view of the current reality of religious fundamentalism in a growing heterogeneous world community, the ...
J.M. Vorster
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Die rol van die Ou Testament in die ordening van die samelewing by A A van Ruler
The role of the Old Testament in the arrangement of society as applied by A A van Ruler. This study considers A A van Ruler's position with regard to theological themes like eschatology, theocracy, torah and volkskerk.
Collins Hertzog, Andries Breytenbach
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Inside the grief of Iranians: the continued fight for human (women's) rights. [PDF]
eClinicalMedicine.
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