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Understanding Morality in the Religion-and-Science Context [PDF]
, 2012 Recent developments in biotechnology require re/definition of human \"being.\" In this paper, the author suggests that the term \"human being \" is substituted with \"human betweenness.\" This substitution emerges from a philosophical/theological reading
Park, Iljoon
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Transcendental wisdom: the nature of political action [PDF]
رهیافتهای سیاسی و بین المللیExtended Abstract Introduction: hikmaht-e mutaāliyah (Transcendent Philosophy) is a branch of Islamic philosophy where the foundational concept is "the primacy of existence" (Asālat al-Wujūd).
Mohammad Pezeshgi
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Kant's Metaphysics of Race, Its Distinctiveness, and Its Normativity
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Drawing on the contemporary taxonomy of the metaphysics of race, this paper shows that Kant's theory of race occupies a distinct metaphysical position on race. Second, it argues that Kant's metaphysics of race inherently produces racist claims.
Reza Mosayebi
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Nietzsche\u27s Recommendations for the Philosopher [PDF]
, 2007 Nietzsche’s philosophical endeavor can be broadly characterized by two complementary ambitions acting throughout his corpus: a relentless critique of traditional metaphysics, epistemology, and axiology; and an effort to confront the nihilistic ...
Boutelle, Anthony
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, 2011 Social work has a long and significant history in the use of the 'self'. The first part of this paper is a contextualising discussion around recent reforms to social work.
Barnard, A
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Automation and Augmentation in Theological Perspective
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract AI enables forms of automation that threaten unemployment and deskilling, eliminating important opportunities for the development of virtue. The concomitant loss of virtue and meaningful employment makes it a theological problem from the perspective of Catholic social teaching and theological anthropology.
Paul Scherz
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“CONSCIENCE AND THE ENDS OF HUMANITY: CHRISTIAN HUMANISM AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE”
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract The astonishing speed of the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has sparked reflections by theologians and philosophers on what distinctiveness, if any, human beings possess as individuals and as a species. This article addresses this question with respect to an ancient idea in Christian thought reaching back to St.
William Schweiker
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No First-Order Phase Transition in the Gross-Neveu Model?
, 2001 Within a variational calculation we investigate the role of baryons for the structure of dense matter in the Gross-Neveu model. We construct a trial ground state at finite baryon density which breaks translational invariance.
A. Barducci +20 more
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A Poet Builds a Nation: Hafez as a Catalyst in Emerson’s Process of Developing American Literature [PDF]
, 2014 Numerous studies have tried to elucidate the relationship between Emerson and Hafez. While most of these studies laid emphasis on influence of Hafez on Emerson and others on similarity and/or infatuation, they left untouched some vital historical aspects
Adineh Khojastehpour +1 more
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Theologies of Mind: Eriugena and Pratyabhijñā Śaivism
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Though Eriugena's affinities with several Hindu traditions are clear, this article offers to my knowledge the first detailed discussion of Eriugena's theology in relation to any Indic theological school, here, the nondualist Śaiva tradition known as the Pratyabhijñā (“Recognition”) lineage.
Matthew Z. Vale
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