Browsing by Subject "Philosophy"
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Authenticity, Faith and Love
"The term 'religion' I am using in its broadest sense, meaning thereby self-realization or knowledge of self." Gandhi's simple view of the word 'religion' reveals an important insight about its meaning: religion in its ... -
Axiological Analysis
Axiology or the general theory of value, although becoming a separate philosophic study only recently, has been a prime problem for as long as philosophy, as a field of inquiry, has existed. As soon as the term 'ought' is ... -
"Charlantanerie", Humbug and the Evolution of Evolution: Charles Darwin and Louis Agassiz in Brazil (thesis)
The purpose of the current study is to challenge the Euro-centric stereotype that during the nineteenth century science spread outwards from the center (Europe, Canada, the United States - collectively "the West") to the ... -
A Defense of Utilitarianism (thesis)
I will attempt to defend utilitarianism from the demandingness objection. The sort of utilitarianism that I refer to throughout is the consequentialist moral theory that obligates us to maximize well-being. The form of ... -
Enlightened Anthropocentrism and its Environmental Policy Implications (thesis)
. . . I will now provide a quick roadmap of my thesis. In the first section, I will begin by explaining the notion of anthropocentrism and noting why environmentalists have felt the need to respond by proposing increasingly ... -
The Essential Poverty of the Face: A Case for Levinasian Responsibility and Justice in Poverty Studies
The moral deliberative theories that ethicists and justice advocates use to address poverty issues all stem from the analytic philosophical tradition, and, while no doubt helpful, they are not fully adequate. Emmanuel ... -
Of Human Identity: Deconstruction and its Discontents
Why would Jacques Derrida and deconstruction so often evoke baseless and sweeping objections like those in the epigraph? Many students and academics find Derrida's works incomprehensible and even contradictory at times. ... -
Our Moral Obligation to the Poor: Freedom, Justice, and Duty
My research draws upon varying philosophies and moral systems that have significant implications for our duties to both the domestic and the global poor. This methodology resembles that of Thomas Pogge in World Poverty and ... -
Person' as a Family Resemblance Concept
For the purposes of this paper, the question of the concept 'person' is directed toward the use of 'person' that concerns "having or not having rights." I do not intend to pursue personality, identity, or any of the many ... -
Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychonalysis
The problem remains: how is the essential nature of man to be dealt with without falsifying that essential nature in the process. "Man" as defined by the transcendental nature of thought versus a finite, individual , human ... -
Rawls Under the Scrutiny of Nozick
In 1971 John Rawls published A Theory of Justice (TJ) in which he expounds what is today one of the most debated theories of social justice. Just three years later, partially in response to Rawls' work, Robert Nozick ... -
Redefining Jihad in Local Context: From the Rise of Islam to the Islamic State (thesis)
While I have focused primarily on literature produced by the leadership figures within al-Qaeda and the Islamic State and have analyzed how such leaders interpret the historical sources, I would like to suggest that the ... -
To Live Gratefully: The Grateful Response to the Gift of Life (thesis)
To evaluate the proper response to receiving the gift of life, we must ask what constitutes proper gratitude. I claim that there are two fundamental parts to gratitude: the mental state and the return. While this return ...