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Hanin, Mark Leonid. "A moral critique of theistic ethics." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610109.
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Sisman, Osman. "Ethics For Industrial Design: An Ethico-political Critique Of Sustainability In Industrial Design." Master's thesis, METU, 2005. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12606800/index.pdf.
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This thesis analyses the concept of sustainability as applied and reflected in industrial design practice in a theoretical way. The discourses on sustainability in general are explored in terms of ecology, economics and politics. The underlying motives resulting in unsustainable ways of production and consumption practices are attempted to be located in contemporary society.
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Podray, Brad Andrew. "An Ethical Critique of the AAO Principles of Ethics and Code of Professional Conduct." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2010. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/110206.
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Oral Biology<br>M.S.<br>The American Association of Orthodontists(AAO) adopted its Code of Ethics and Code of Professional Conduct in May of 1994. This document is meant to provide guidelines for ethical behavior amongst orthodontic professionals. Its main purpose is to protect the public from ethically unsound actions that could be committed by members of the AAO. All members of the AAO agree to abide by the Code, as stated within its preamble:
"By accepting membership, all members assume an obligation of self-discipline above and beyond the requirements of laws and regulations, in accordance with these Principles."
This study represents a critique of the AAO Code. As the field of medical ethics evolves, so must the documents that govern ethical behavior. The last revision took place in May of 2009 and the wording of the current document can be misinterpreted or abused. The current code leans heavily towards an Agent/Commercial model of practice, where the Orthodontist's role is influenced greatly by patient request and business ambitions. The purpose of this study was to utilize accepted schools of thought in ethical literature to do the following: (1) Point out ethical flaws and weak points in the AAO Code. (2) Present corrections for the Code in order to clarify potential points of contention. These corrections will articulate rules that promote a partnership between practitioner and patient.
To accomplish these goals, the Code will be analyzed, line by line, for redundancies, faults, or potential misinterpretations. Principles and Advisory Opinions which can be improved upon will be labeled as "weak." All weak statements will be reformed in a manner where the weak aspects no longer play a role in the Code. The reformed statements will promote the Partnership model of practice in favor of Agent and Commercial models.
The Conclusions of the study are as follows:
(1) Principle I can be improved by changing it to the following phrase:
Members shall be dedicated to providing the highest possible quality orthodontic care to his/her patients within standards commensurate with the accepted science and techniques of orthodontics, the clinical aspects of the patient's condition, and with due consideration being given to the needs and desires of the doctor and patient within a relationship based on partnership.
(2)Advisory Opinion IE. should be changed to the following:
A second opinion should include a diagnosis and treatment plan recommended to the patient. It must be honest and focus on the facts presented. It is unethical to propound a specific technique, philosophy, training or ability as superior without presenting scientific literature, at least summarized or simplified, to the patient to support claims made. A second opinion must disclose to the patient any conflict of interest of the member providing the opinion.
(3) The phrasing of Advisory Opinion IF. is made stronger with the following wording:
Patients should be informed of their oral health status without disparaging comments about the patient's prior treatment.(4) The phrasing of Advisory Opinion IG. is made stronger with the following wording: Members should inform their patients of their prognosis, any proposed treatment, and any reasonable alternatives, so that the patient understands their treatment decisions.<br>Temple University--Theses
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Clarke, Dean Hatherley. "Justifications : Marx, justice, ethics and punishment." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.390932.
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Pandya, Rupen P. "Critique, ethics and discourse in an age of unreason." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0007/MQ45338.pdf.
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Wegley, Andrew C. "The neighborhood and its discontents : Freud's critique of ethics /." Diss., Digital Dissertations Database. Restricted to UC campuses, 2007. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.
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Edgar, David Kimmett. "A pacifist critique of imprisonment." Thesis, Durham University, 1989. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/6690/.
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Ling, Yu-shih Grace, and 凌友詩. "To revive morality: a Kantian critique of Rawls's theory of justice." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31245754.
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Tweed, Laurel A. "Care ethics and cloning a speculative literary critique of human biotechnology /." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2008.
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Morrison, Iain Patrick Daniel. "The development of Nietzsche's critique of morality /." Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3008398.
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Patkauskas, Justas. "Critical ethics: transvaluation and critique of morality by Spinoza, Nietzsche and Badiou." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2011. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2011~D_20110606_114219-50951.
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This thesis argues the need for a critique of foundational values which are often taken to be unquestionable. Values and evaluations inform the decision-making of human individuals on a daily basis on all possible levels – the local, the national, the international, and the global. Yet for all the importance of values, their origin, functioning and effects are rarely brought to light.
This paper opposes critique as a creative and genealogical endeavour against shallow conformist analyses that serve the established status quo. With the aid of Nietzsche’s philosophy, in its first part this paper establishes an outline of how a proper critique would look.
The proposed method of critique – a transvaluation which seeks to determine the origin of values in order to interpret them in a novel and more affirmative fashion – is then applied via the philosophy of Spinoza in the second part of the thesis wherein the origin of values is questioned.
The third part employs the philosophy of Badiou both to bring back the critique to a more modern footing and to juxtapose Badiou to Spinozist and Nietzschean transvaluations. This part also paves the way for a concluding comparative section where the key features of the three philosophers are contrasted regarding the foundational values which where perpetually criticized throughout the thesis.
The overall purpose of the paper is to explore the possibility of an alternative method of critique to the seemingly dominant modern opposition... [to full text]<br>Šis darbas teigia, jog reikia užsiimti kritika pamatinių vertybių, kurios dažnai yra laikomos nekvestionuojamomis. Vertybės ir vertinimai veikia žmonių sprendimus kiekvieną dieną visais įmanomais lygmenimis – vietiniu, nacionaliniu, tarptautiniu ir globaliu. Tačiau nepaisant vertybių svarbos, jų kilmė, veikimas ir poveikiai yra retai nuodugniai svarstomi.
Šiame magistriniame darbe kritika kaip kūrybinė ir genealoginė veikla yra oponuojama paviršutiniškai ir konformistiškai analizei, kuri tarnauja dominuojančioms galioms. Su Nietzsche filosofijos pagalba, pirmoji šio darbo dalis apibrėžia kaip turėtų atrodyti tikra kritika.
Siūlomas kritikos metodas – pervertinimas, kuris siekia nustatyti vertybių kilmę tam, kad interpretuotų jas nauju ir labiau teigiamu būdu – yra taikomas su Spinozos filosofija antrojoje dalyje, kurioje keliamas klausimas apie vertybių kilmę.
Trečioji dalis naudojasi Badiou filosofija tam, kad grąžintų kritiką į šių dienų laikus ir supriešintų pastarąjį su Spinozos ir Nietzsche pervertinimais. Ši dalis taipogi paruošia dirvą apibendrinamai lyginamajai daliai, kurioje apžvelgiamos pagrindinės trijų filosofų nuostatos apie pamatines vertybes, kurios kritikuojamos viso darbo metu.
Bendras šio darbo tikslas yra išbandyti alternatyvaus kritikos metodo galimybes: dabartinė situacija atrodo tokia, kur būtina rinktis tarp radikalaus nepasitenkinimo viskuo, arba tarp radikalaus konformizmo. Šių ekstremalumų alternatyva būtų pervertinanti kritika, užsiimanti... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]
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Kazarinov-Hawk, Kit. "Constructivism and the question of objectivity : Fichte's ethics as critique of Kant's." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2013. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/constructivism-and-the-question-of-objectivity(6ece2c4d-d1a3-4374-b3af-3ea4acc8ef3f).html.
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Central to Kant’s moral philosophy are the notions of autonomy and spontaneity, and their relation to reason and the understanding. Recent ‘constructivist’ readings of Kant’s ethics thus emphasise the role of the subject’s reflection in moral actions - reason is the only guarantor of the moral, and the right action must be worked out by the subject and consciously assented to. In contrast, for Fichte the moral is simply self-evident and immediately known to the subject. If Kant views the moral as requiring reflection and Fichte views the moral as immediate certainty, then it seems at first glance that the two are at loggerheads. Yet Fichte regarded himself as completing Kant’s Critical project by simply following through Kant’s thought to its fullest conclusions. Rather than dismissing Fichte’s claim to complete Kant’s philosophy, I suggest that paying close attention to Kant’s ethics reveals him to be closer to Fichte than is often recognized.
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Pollot, Elena Linda Maria. "Virtues of the self : ethics and the critique of feminist identity politics." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9874.
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This thesis is situated at the intersection of feminist political theory, identity politics and moral philosophy. Its broader aim is to show the positive consequences of returning the self and its inner activity to the ethical domain for feminist identity politics. To this end, it brings feminist identity politics into dialogue with contemporary developments in virtue ethics, in particular Christine Swanton’s pluralistic virtue ethics. As its starting point, it takes issue with the tendency to reduce the complexity of identity to issues of category. The first part of the thesis problematises this tendency and argues for a reconsideration of the question of identity politics by shifting the focus away from identity per se and towards a more complex picture of the self that is reflective of the constitutive relation between the self and identifications, commitments and values. The work of the post-modern feminists Wendy Brown and Judith Butlers are read as proposing just such a shift away from the identitarian engagement of identity politics of ‘who am I?’ towards a more ethically imbued engagement that centres a complex self with inner depths. Part Two of the thesis extends this reconceptualisation of the problematic of identity politics and elaborates on what it could mean to undertake such a shift and how such a project could be conceived. Drawing on both Michael Sandel’s and Michel Foucault’s formulations of the self, identity and its relation to the good, the thesis develops the argument that the problematic of identity politics, articulated in ethical language, enables the formulation of an argument for giving an account of the good life and that this entails developing a subject imbued with a full inner life. Part Three of the thesis argues that contemporary work in virtue ethics offers the best way to take this project forward, suggesting that it represents a positive development in conceptions of the self and that a complex picture of the person emerges that provides the basis for a richer approach to the ethical concerns raised in identity politics. The thesis concludes by illustrating the potential value of taking those feminist insights into the constructed nature of identity into dialogue with a pluralistic virtue ethical account of the self and suggests that this approach provides new opportunities for understanding and discussing the collective dimension of identity politics in situations of diversity and inequality.
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Steiger, Phillip H. "An analysis and critique of the philosophy and ethics of Richard Rorty." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 1999. http://www.tren.com.
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Rakotomena-Rajonson, Norosoa Auberthine. "Ethics in Mrs Gaskell's novels." Dijon, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995DIJOL009.
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L'étude de l'éthique, de la vision du monde, telle qu'elle est analysée à travers les romans de Mrs Gaskell, constitue la substance de ce travail. Les romans étudiés sont Mary Barton, Cranford, North and South, Ruth, Sylvia's lovers, Wives and daughters. C'est une étude qui est basée sur l'analyse des réactions des victoriens face aux différentes transformations qui avaient lieu à l'époque. La première partie présente la scène socio-économique de Manchester ou Mrs Gaskell a vécu de longues années. Il s'agit d'une analyse des répercussions des changements engendrés par le phénomène d'urbanisation et d'industrialisation sur l'aspect socio-économique de leur vie. La seconde partie décrit la scène intellectuelle en analysant les diverses réactions des personnages face à l'éducation et à la science, à l'industrie et au commerce. A la région, à la politique, et à d'autres sujets liés à des problèmes moraux. La troisième partie se veut être une synthèse, une espèce d'évaluation des deux parties précédentes. Elle définit certains moyens mis en œuvre par la romancière pour peser sur ses lecteurs, pour les influencer sur sa propre position vis-à-vis des problèmes moraux de son âge<br>The study of ethics, of world vision, as it is seen through Mrs Gaskell’s novels, is the gist of the present work. The corpus of the study is made up of Mary Barton, Cranford, North and South, Ruth, Sylvia's lovers wives and daughters. This study rests on the analysis of the victorians' reactions when faced with the ongoing transformations. The first part offers a picture of the socio-economic scene of Manchester where Mrs Gaskell spent most of her lifetime. It analyses the repercussions of the changes brought about by urbanization and industrialization on the socio-economic side of the nancunians' lives. The second part describes the intellectual scene through an analysis of the various reactions of the characters towards education and science, business and trade, religion, politics, and other questions linked to moral problems. The third part attempts a synthesis, a kind of evaluation of the previous two parts. It analyses some means implemented by the novelist to weigh on her readers, to influence them as regards her own stance towards the moral problems of the period
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Waltho, Simon. "A genealogical critique of Beauchamp and Childress' for principles approach to medical ethics." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2010. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/54192/.
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<bold>Part Three</bold> examines the development of Beauchamp and Childress 'four principles' approach to medical ethics from the 1<super> st</super> to the 6<super>th</super> Editions of <italic>Principles of Biomedical Ethics,</italic> arguing that it has, thanks to changes in the authors' conception of philosophical moral theory, been able to productively incorporate the views of many of its critics over this time; that it is also able to incorporate features of different ethical approaches such as virtue ethics, narrative ethics and ethics of care; and that, properly understood, it continues to provide a good framework both for moral reflection in medicine and the provision of concrete action-guides. The thesis concludes by considering this view of the four principles in the light of the earlier sections' approach, and attempting to demonstrate further demonstrate their value through two case-studies.
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Abbinnett, Ross. "The ethics of heterogeneity : a speculative critique of Jean-François Lyotard's "The differend"." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1993. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/36975/.
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The thesis is an attempt to develop a speculative (Hegelian) critique of the ethical and political questions raised by Jean-Francois Lyotard's book The Differend. I have argued that these questions are dependent upon the reading of Kant's three Critiques, and his political essays, which Lyotard develops in The Differend's four `notices' on Kant, and that it is this reading which opens up his concept of difference (`heterogeneity') to the possibility of a speculative critique. Chapter one comprises an examination of Lyotard's attempt to establish speculative thinking's dependence upon a metaphysical idea of the self as the possibility of ethical sublation. I have argued that Lyotard's appropriation of Adorno's idea of "Auschwitz" as blocking dialectical sublation, fails to recognize the speculative significance of the concrete conditions which produced the historical emergence of Nazism. The following three chapters are concerned to develop the argument that Lyotard's misrepresentation of the spirituality of Hegel's philosophy, conditions his reading of the critical philosophy as disclosing the possibility of a spontaneous (ethical) judgement of difference. Chapter two argues that Lyotard's claim to show critical subjectivity to be a `litigation' of self-conscious faculties, fails to recognize the actual lack of unity which characterizes Kant's `transcendental unity of apperception'. The exclusion of `otherness', which Lyotard claims is disclosed and suppressed in Kant's notion of cognitive experience, actually necessitates concrete selfrecognition. In chapter three, Lyotard's attempt to abstract an ethical `obligation without conditions' from Kant's critical morality is interrogated. I have argued that the aporias constituted through the spontaneity of practical reason, are reinforced through Lyotard's concept of `ethical time'. The final chapter develops a speculative approach to the notions of ethics and politics which Lyotard abstracts from the Third Critique. I have argued that the notion of an `unpredetermined' judgement which Lyotard articulates in the final sections of The Differend, constitutes a subjective `culture' which is ultimately non-ethical and apolitical.
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Stauffer, Andrew Ryan Douglas. "The Repugnant Conclusion: An Assessment and Critique of Utilitarianism as Applied to Future Populations." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1342623155.
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Lynch, Richard Anthony. "The art of governing: the critical ethics of Michel Foucault." Thesis, Boston College, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/2897.
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Thesis advisor: James Bernauer<br>Michel Foucault's account of power does not foreclose the possibility of ethics; on the contrary, it provides a inescapable framework within which ethics becomes possible. A clear elaboration of both the general features common to all kinds of power relations (Chapter One), as well as the evolution of particular modes of modern power (discipline and biopower, Chapters Two and Three) demonstrates how power relations both frame and require other, ethical relations. Foucault's articulation of these ethical possibilties (Chapter Four) follows several trajectories--some rooted in contemporary politics, others in ancient ethical practices--that begin with "bodies and pleasures," and move through the communal practice of friendship, to caring for oneself and others as a critical attitude. At the core of these interconected ethical trajectories are the interwoven concepts of critique and freedom, which give Foucault the resources to articulate a provisional but sufficient justification of ethical norms and values, thus answering his most incisive and significant critics. Foucault is thus a critical theorist whose work calls us not to despair but to hope in an ongoing struggle for the good and the just<br>Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2012<br>Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences<br>Discipline: Philosophy
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Sidwell, Robert W. "Self-contradictions and morality a natural law critique of deliberative democracy /." Ohio : Ohio University, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1180728105.
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Daly, Belinda Merle Joanne. "Direct action environmental protest in Britain : a critique of radical environmentalism and environmrntal ethics." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/11216.
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Zeghoudi, Anne-Céline. "Critique de la raison neurologique." Thesis, Paris Est, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PEST0060.
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La discipline neurologique met en présence des soignants sains et des patients frappés de handicaps extrêmes auxquels le progrès médico-technique, fondé au XVIIe sur la mathématisation de la nature et le modèle du « corps-machine », n’a pas mis de terme. Comment se représenter l’aphasie, l’anosognosie, les altérations motrices et sensorielles chez autrui ? On se réfèrera aux travaux de Husserl et aux phénoménologues du corps pour approcher le mystère du vécu de la chair dans la maladie neurologique autrement que la sémiologie conventionnelle l’enseigne. Ce contact bouleversant avec les grands cérébrolésés n’est pas exempt d’intérêt, voire de jouissance : le spectacle du dépouillement humain par la perte du langage, du mouvement ou d’autres attributs, pourrait, dans un effet de miroir, et par une « association accouplante », permettre au témoin ici neurologue de se démonter lui-même et tendre vers l’élucidation de sa propre chair. Mais le système nerveux, par quoi la douleur ou le plaisir se manifestent à la conscience et au corps, qui afflige en même tant qu’il est affligé, est condamné à la forclusion du fait de son rôle nécessaire de médiateur physiologique. L’exclusivité d’une visée intentionnelle, dénoncée par Michel Henry, soutenue et entretenue par l’essor hégémonique de l’imagerie médicale, semble manquer ici la souffrance insoluble dans la donation extatique. Ce travail qui proposait, dans une démarche critique, de revisiter les soubassements du savoir neurologique, nous conduit vers une aporie : quelle est la phénoménologie du handicap neurologique s’il ne s’écrit ni ne se lit en termes positifs ? Devant l’insuffisance du logos à dire les altérations du monde et des vécus de la chair, s’invitent la réserve puis la métaphore artistique. C’est spécifiquement le travail du peintre Simon Hantaï qui ouvrira une voie entre phénomène mondain et incarnation. Il s’agira avec lui, dans un renoncement au savoir totalisant, d’apprendre à mettre en perspective les données des neurosciences et, ce que ni la science ni l’empathie pour autrui ne peuvent expliciter. Nous suggèrerons d’intégrer à la pratique médicale neurologique une démarche éthique autrement appelée « sagesse des limites » ; limites entre les savoirs, dont la figure toujours complexe, instable et miroitante, n’est pas sans évoquer une dimension baroque de la neurologie<br>[Summary made by Reverso] The neurological discipline puts in the presence of nursing healthy and patients struck by extreme handicaps in which the medical technical progress, based(established) in the XVIIth on the mathématisation of the nature and the model of the "body-machine", did not put term. How to represent itself the aphasia, the anosognosie, the driving and sensory changes to others? We shall refer to the works of Husserl and to the phénoménologues of the body to approach the mystery of the real-life experience of the flesh in the neurological disease otherwise than the conventional semiology teaches him(it). This contact upsetting with the cérébrolésés big is not exempt from interest, even from enjoyment: the show(entertainment) of the human perusal by the loss of the language, the movement or the other attributes, could, in an effect of mirror, and by an accouplante " association ", allow the witness(baton) here neurologist to get confused itself and to aim towards the clarification of its own flesh. But the nervous system, by which the pain or the pleasure show themselves in the consciousness and in the body, which saddens even so much that it is saddened, is condemned to the debarment because of its necessary role of physiological mediator. The exclusivity of a deliberate aim, denounced(cancelled) by Michel Henry, supported and maintained by the hegemonic development of the medical imaging, seems to miss here the insoluble suffering in the ecstatic donation. This work which suggested, in a critical approach(initiative), revisiting the bases of the neurological knowledge, leads(drives) us towards an aporia: what is the phenomenology of the neurological handicap if he does not spell nor is read in positive terms? In front of the insufficiency of logos to say the changes of the world and the real-life experiences of the flesh, invite each other the reserve then the artistic metaphor. It is specifically the work of the painter Simon Hantaï that will open a way between worldly phenomenon and embodiment. It will be a question with him, in a renunciation of the adding up knowledge, of learning to put in perspective the data of the neurosciences and, what neither the science nor the empathy for others can clarify. We shall suggest to integrate(join) into the neurological medical practice an ethical otherwise called approach(initiative) " wisdom of the limits "; limits between the knowledges, the face(figure) of which always complex, unstable and gleaming, is not without evoking a baroque dimension(size) of the neurology
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Jones, Carwyn Rhys. "A philosophical critique of selected social scientific research into values and moral development in sport." Thesis, Open University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.284377.
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Wilson, Keith A. "God and morality an analysis and critique of the secular ethic of Kai Nielsen /." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2000. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.
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Logan, Benjamin A. "SELF-RESPECT AND OBJECTIVITY: A CRITIQUE OF RAWLS." UKnowledge, 2016. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/philosophy_etds/10.
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In A Theory of Justice, John Rawls names two conditions as necessary and sufficient for an agent to have self-respect. I argue that Rawls’s two conditions constitute an inadequate understanding of self-respect. Contrary to Rawls, I argue that self-respect requires moral desert, and that self-respect is a distinct concept from self-esteem.
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Shapiro, Ivor. "The ethics of homicide : a contextual critique of the sanctity-of-life principle with particular reference to abortion and revolutionary violence." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15879.
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Bibliography: pages 299-306.<br>Society never absolutely prohibits homicide: there are "grey areas" in which it is sometimes tolerated or even encouraged. Moral discussion of each area is usually carried on in isolation from the others, and perhaps for this reason, frequently ignores or underestimates the complexities of the morality of killing. This thesis attempts to identify a general method for analysing such issues, so that they can enrich one another. A contemporary theological survey indicates that there should be a balance in Christian ethical method between the polar values of obedience in respect of general standards, and freedom to exercise individual responsibility. This implies recognising a place for intuitions, and specifying a way in which these can be subjected to criticism. In contrast, the Sanctity-of-Life Principle seeks to impose a universal prohibition on the killing of "innocent" human beings. While the Principle provides a useful general guideline, it is deficient as a moral norm - partly because of fatal difficulties associated with the concept of innocence. The method adopted in this thesis is that suggested by Philip Wagaman: methodological presumptions are identified and then tested in a utilitarian way. For the ethics of homicide, I propose a primary presumption favouring the preservation of life, and various secondary and linguistic presumptions. The contextual framework of the thesis is limited to two specific issues - abortion and revolutionary violence.
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Pavlischek, Keith J. "In critique of theonomy a Reformational case for pluralism /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 1986. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p036-0010.
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Agrawal, Devika. "The Impulse to Punish: A Critique of Retributive Justice." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/635.
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This thesis explores the strength of the two major theories of punishment, consequentialism and retributivism. It also explores the two most critiqued systems of punishment in the world: The U.S and Norway. By presenting the idea that retributivism is the only plausible theory that can morally justify the U.S. penal practises, I argue against the theory by incorporating various objections delivered by Antony Duff, Michael Zimmerman, and Jeffrie Murphy. I then explore the question of what could possibly ground the Norwegian justice system, for the answer to this is crucial, if we hope to demand prison reform and tailor our systems to resemble the Norwegian ideal. To answer this question, I present a theory that incorporates the ‘capabilities approach’ as developed by Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen, arguing that the Norwegian prison system is grounded in a hybrid theory of consequentialism that aims to enhance our human rights.
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O'Leary, John A. "A theological critique of the development of the New Jersey Catholic advance healthcare directive." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.
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Troy, Brenda. "Elementary school assistant principals' decision making analyzed through four ethical frameworks of justice, critique, care, and the profession." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0003155.
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Wheatley, Anthony Paul. "In defence of Neo-Scholastic ethics : a critique of Finnis and Grisez's new natural law theory." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2015. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/in-defence-of-neoscholastic-ethics-a-critique-of-finnis-and-grisezs-new-natural-law-theory(39d1e91b-7eb9-4b52-8041-8582a89f0f7d).html.
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In a major contribution to Neo-Aristotelian ethics, John Finnis and Germain Grisez have argued that foundational moral principles – or ‘the first principles of practical reason’ – are self-evident and cannot be derived from facts about human nature. This claim sets Finnis and Grisez against the older, Neo-Scholastic interpretation of natural law theory, which states that fundamental moral truths can be derived from an Aristotelian philosophy of nature. More significantly, Finnis and Grisez have claimed that Aquinas accepted a version of the fact-value distinction and the impossibility of deriving normative conclusions from theoretical or factual premises later defended by Hume. In this thesis, I argue to the contrary that the first principles of practical reason are grounded in truths of natural philosophy. Furthermore, I argue that, for Aquinas, morally significant truths can indeed be derived from a consideration of man’s faculties and their proper functioning. I also argue that, pace Finnis and Grisez, a Neo-Scholastic hierarchy of the basic goods is not incompatible with their incommensurability. It is my contention, then, that Finnis and Grisez’s new natural law theory constitutes a misinterpretation of Aquinas’s moral philosophy and the relationship between theoretical and practical reason in Aristotelian philosophy. I argue that the first principles of practical reason are self-evident, but show that such self-evident truths are, for Aquinas, more akin to a posteriori necessary truths. Our grasp of a self-evident truth, then, will depend upon our prior grasp of the nature to which the self-evident truth refers. I then argue that, according to Aquinas, metaphysics and natural philosophy provide explanatory justifications for the first principles of practical reason. The Aristotelian will ground these first principles by reference to an Aristotelian philosophy of nature. I argue that, pace Finnis and Grisez, Aquinas holds that we can derive significant moral truths from facts about our faculties and about human nature in general. I argue that Hume’s no-is-from-ought principle is not a general law of logic, which is applicable to any attempt to derive a normative conclusion from factual premises. Instead, I argue that it is licit to derive a normative conclusion from truths employing functional concepts. However, I also argue that functional concepts and Aristotelian categoricals can tell us only what an instance of its kind must do if it is to count as a good instance. They cannot tell us whether we have reason to be a good instance of our kind. To answer that question, we must grasp that being a good human being is a means to acquiring the basic goods. Finally, I argue that the concept of a function has normative and evaluative dimensions. This view of functions is incompatible with Finnis and Grisez’s understanding of theoretical reason, according to which, theoretical reason is concerned with ‘bare facts’, where ‘bare facts’ are taken to exclude all normative and evaluative elements. I contend, then, that Finnis and Grisez err by assuming that all facts must, by their nature, exclude normative and evaluative elements.
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Long, Michael John Adrian. "Theological reflection on international debt : a critique of the Jubilee 2000 debt cancellation campaign." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2010. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/1245/.
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The theologically-inspired Jubilee 2000 campaign was highly successful but much theological reflection on the sovereign debt owed by the poorest nations has been overly polemical. Our study indicates that nonetheless a post-liberal, dialogical approach to the issue of international debt can be realised, and traces some of its key observations and themes. The origins and development of Jubilee 2000 are traced both in Britain and internationally, with particular reference to the campaign in Zambia. Key arguments and factors critical to the success of Jubilee 2000 are discussed and analysed. In performing this analysis we draw on the work of Atherton, whose approach offers criteria for establishing the adequacy of theological engagement in a plural and globalised context. Analysis of the themes of jubilee, grace and forgiveness, and usury reveal that despite their limitations, they offer valuable and distinctive contributions on issues of power and money, in their insights into the human condition, and into obligations across generations. Future theological engagement on debt will also require greater attention to the role that money performs, and a new synthesis of visionary and realistic elements.
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Keyser, Jean. "A critique of compliance : towards implementing a critical self-reflective perspective." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/4279.
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Thesis (MA (Philosophy))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis entails a critical analysis of the concept of compliance. The latter can briefly
be defined as rules and policies developed with regard to employee behaviour with the
goal of controlling and monitoring unethical behaviour. This thesis presents a critical
explication of compliance based on various levels of analysis. Firstly, this will be done by
discussing the context of the historical development of compliance, stemming from and
starting with the bureaucratization of the economy and the practical implementation
thereof in business. The historical overview entails a discussion of the development of
management models.
This provides the context for explicating the problem that these management models are
geared towards the restriction of the autonomous individual for the purpose of control.
This is achieved through the removal of the individual agent’s responsibility over his/her
work. The latter, however, elicits resistance from the employee which I discuss in terms
of the implicit contract (between the employer and the employee). Initially, this problem
of resistance was addressed by mechanization, but with the global shift towards a servicedriven
economy such methods were no longer applicable. Moreover, this shift brought
about the development and implementation of post-Fordist models of management,
focused on human capital. It is then within this management model that compliance was
developed as the most commonly used method of control.
According to my argument then, compliance was initially implemented as a method of
instilling ethical behaviour in business; however its practical application failed in
achieving such promises. I argue that the reason for the failure of compliance pertains to
the very definition thereof which does not make allowance for the individual moral agent.
This is demonstrated by explicating the manner in which compliance is implemented, with specific reference to culture lag. This refers to the exponential growth of information
and communication technology in which ethical measures to address the problems causes
by the latter, could not develop with parallel speed.
Compliance finds culture lag especially difficult to address, since the creativity of the
individual moral agent that is cardinal to resolving the problem of culture lag, is not made
allowance for in the structures of compliance. This is exacerbated by the importance
given in the structures of compliance to controlling tacit knowledge, since the latter is
increasingly considered as a form of capital within the service-driven economy.
In the final instance, I argue that compliance stands directly opposed to the principles of
ethics and as such fails to address the problem of unethical behaviour. A possible solution
to this is considered when looking at ideas with reference to trust, self-respect and
responsibility. The latter, in turn, yields a possible solution to the original problem,
namely that the individual moral agent is not acknowledged in the structures of
compliance, and in some cases even totally discarded.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis behels ‘n kritiese analise van die konsep van ‘compliance.’ Compliance kan
in Afrikaans vertaal word as ‘inskiklikheid’ – maar word in ‘n besigheidskonteks gebruik
om te verwys na die implementering van ‘n stel reëls, of ‘n spesifieke beleid, wat daarop
gemik is om onetiese gedrag van werknemers te monitor en te beheer. Hierdie tesis bied
‘n kritiese ondersoek van ‘inskiklikheid,’ gegrond op verskillende vlakke van analise, wat
insluit die historiese ontwikkeling van ‘inskiklikheid’, die burokratisering van die
ekonomie, en die praktiese implikasies daarvan vir besigheid. In die historiese oorsig val
die klem op die ontwikkeling van bestuursmodelle.
Dit verleen ‘n konteks aan die probleem dat al die betrokke bestuursmodelle daarop
gemik was om die outonomie van die individu te beperk, en daardeur beter beheer oor
sy/haar aksies te verkry. Dit is gedoen deur die individu in die werksopset van sy/haar
verantwoordelikheid te ontneem. Dit het egter die teenreaksie van weerstand by
werknemers ontlok, wat bespreek word in die konteks van die implisiete kontrak (tussen
werkgewer en werknemer). Hierdie probleem van weerstand, is aanvanklik deur
toenemende meganisasie aangespreek. Maar in die konteks van die globale oorgang na 'n
meer diens-gedrewe ekonomie, was meganisasie nie meer 'n volhoubare oplossing nie.
Verder, binne 'n diens-gedrewe ekonomie word idees van menslike kapitaal op prys
gestel, soos in die bestuursmodel wat hierdie fase kenmerk, naamlik ‘post-Fordism’. Dit
is binne hierdie konteks dat inskiklikheid ontwikkel het as die algemeenste manier
waarop beheer oor werkers uitgeoefen word.
Volgens my argument is inskiklikheid aanvanklik ge-implementeer as ‘n metode om
etiese gedrag binne ‘n besigheidskonteks te handhaaf. Inskiklikheid het egter nie aan hierdie verwagting voldoen nie. Die rede hiervoor is dat inskiklikheid teenstrydig is met
die konsep van die individuele morele agent. Dit word duidelik as die wyse waarop dit
ge-implementeer word, ondersoek word, spesifiek aan die hand van die voorbeeld van die
‘kultuurgaping’ [‘culture lag’]. Laasgenoemde verwys na die gaping tussen nuwe
tegnologie en etiese respos wat ontstaan as gevolge van die eksponensiële groei in
kommunikasie- en informasietegnologie en die oënskynlike onvermoë van besighede om
dit in hul etiese beleid aan te spreek. Bydraend tot die probleem is dat die kreatiwiteit van
die individuele morele agent wat voortdurend benodig benodig word om hierdie gaping te
oorkom, nie in die strukture van inskiklikheid erken word nie. Dit is veral belangrik,
inaggenome die toenemende belangrikheid wat in die strukture van inskiklikheid verleen
word aan die beheer van implisiete kennis [‘tacit knowledge’], omdat dit in binne die
diensgedrewe eknomie toenemend as kapitaal beskou kan word.
In die laaste instansie argumenteer ek dat ‘inskiklikheid’ direk teenstrydig is met die
beginsels van etiek, en misluk dit as ’n metode om die probleem van ‘culture lag’ sowel
as ander kwessies op te los. ’n Mootlike oplossing word ondersoek waneer idees rondom
vertroue, self-respek en verantwoordelikheid verken word. Met verwysing na
laasgenoemde is dit moontlik om die oospronklike rede vir weerstand aan te spreek,
naamlik dat die individuele morele agent deur ‘inskiklikheid’ oor die hoof gesien word,
en dit selfs in sekere opsigte heeltemal agterweë gelaat word.
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Kuehne, Jan (Jan Cavan). "The impact of materialistic monism and suffering on medical students :a critique of the biomedical and biopsychosocial model of medical schools." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/18209.
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Thesis (MPhil)--University of Stellenbosch, 2007.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: On entry to medical school, students are confronted with a worldview that can be typified as materialistic monism. The student progressively becomes a materialistic monist, not only because of the teaching, but also because medical schools fail to address the question of suffering. One would expect the biopsychosocial model to surmount the limitations of the biomedical model, but it in itself has to deal with both suffering and materialistic monism. Suffering cements the collapse into materialistic monism in the way the student practises medicine. What life strategies would transcend this materialistic monism? This thesis examines potential educational interventions that might help the student to analyse the philosophy of medical school and find ways of dealing with the question of suffering.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Met toelating tot mediese skool word studente gekonfronteer met ’n wêreldsiening wat as materialistiese monisme beskryf kan word. Die student verander progressief in ’n materialistiese monis, nie slegs as gevolg van die onderrig nie, maar ook omdat mediese skole nie daarin slaag om die kwessie van lyding aan te spreek nie. ’n Mens sou verwag dat die biopsigies-sosiale model die beperkinge van die biomediese model sou oorkom, maar instede moet dit self beide lyding en materialistiese monisme aanspreek. Lyding moedig die verval in materialistiese monisme in die wyse waarop die student geneeskunde beoefen aan. Watter soort lewensstrategieë is nodig om hierdie materialistiese monisme te transendeer? Hierdie tesis ondersoek die opvoedkundige intervensies wat die student kan help om die mediese skool se filosofie te analiseer en wyses te vind om die kwessie van lyding te hanteer.
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Sellers, Jeff M. "New age or kingdom come? description and critique of the "new business spirituality" in light of a biblical spirituality of work /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2000. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p048-0244.
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Mckenzie, Judith, and Catriona Macleod. "Rights discourses in relation to people with intellectual disability: towards an ethics of relations, critique and care." Routledge, Taylor & Francis Online, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1014123.
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In this paper we argue that human rights approaches for intellectually disabled people have failed to recognise the complexity of rights claims made by and on behalf of this group. Drawing on a research project into discourses of education for intellectually disabled people in the Eastern Cape, South Africa we discern three rights discourses; namely, rights to full participation, rights to special services and rights to protection. These draw off a social model, a medical model and a protective model, respectively. We note that these discourses may be set up in contestation with each other. However, we argue that they can be seen as complementary if viewed within an ethics of care that enables participation. Within this conceptualisation, participation is viewed within relations of care but is subject to a critique that examines the role of context and disciplinary power in constructing dependency.
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Price, Leigh. "A transdisciplinary explanatory critique of environmental education." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2007. http://eprints.ru.ac.za/909/.
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Terrill, John R. "A critique of ethics training in the secular graduate business academy and a pedagogical approach for character formation in the lives of Christian MBA students." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.
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Newham, Roger Alan. "The good health care professional : a critique of Edmund Pellergrino's approach to essentialist medical ethics and the virtues." Thesis, Keele University, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.540622.
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In England, medical, nursing and other healthcare professions are required by their codes of professional ethics to have a working knowledge of moral principles and to be able to apply them in practice. Little, if anything, is said explicitly by these professions about the virtues. However, much is said about the character of the doctor or the nurse, and their supposed ability to recognise moral issues in their professional work and make morally good decisions. Edmund Pellegrino has questioned the appropriateness of applying moral principles to medical practice in contemporary times without a firm foundation. He attempts to restore the moral foundation of the profession of medicine, by restricting an account of the good to the profession which he claims, unlike ethics in general, there can be agreement on norms. From this position, moral principles in medical ethics can be justified, agreed upon, and provide firm action guidance in practice, as well as provide an independent ground for medical virtues. I will claim that Pellegrino's concern about disagreement and a loss of norms in ethics in general is not resolved in the restricted field of professional medical ethics and that his understanding of principles and the link with virtue is confused. Then, using virtue terms Pellegrino himself thinks necessary for making good decisions in practice, I will show how a certain account of the virtues can provide a plausible account of how we can become good healthcare workers and so support Pellegrino's goal; though it will not support his confidence in supplying both clear, moral, and normative constraints in a code of professional medical ethics and firm decision-making in practice.
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Nittel, Gisela. ""Es ist ein unglaublicher Betrug" Ingeborg Bachmann's literary critique of the journalistic media /." Connect to full text, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5471.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2009.<br>Title from title screen (viewed October 28, 2009) Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Dept. of Germanic Studies, Faculty of Arts. Degree awarded 2009; thesis submitted 2008. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.
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Dye, Charles Eugene. "Now and all are important a post-structural critique of humanism, Aldo Leopold's "The Land Ethic," and Disney/Pixar's "Wall-E" /." Thesis, Montana State University, 2008. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2008/dye/DyeC1208.pdf.
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Feelings of hopelessness and meaninglessness have become hallmarks of American society. As a filmmaker and film educator it is clear I share a responsibility to address these defining issues. Using some of the ideas of Zygmunt Bauman, Jacques Derrida, Neil Evernden, Claude Levi-Strauss, Bill Nichols, Nell Noddings, JoseÌ Ortega y Gasset, Edward Said, and Erwin Straus, I observe this problem to be a result of dispassionate humanism-a machineworld story considered appropriate in the current social construction. From this critical perspective, I then analyze Aldo Leopold's The Land Ethic and the Disney/Pixar film WALL-E. The former I show to be written in such a way as to leave its audience confused. The latter I demonstrate fosters unnecessary and immoral assumptions about the "imminent" collapse of our civilization. In conclusion, I make clear that it is how we relate to our current existence that is important. While the power of our ideas is truly humankind's greatest creation, that power is naught outside of time and the realities of our being Earth-bound. What we must learn to value in America alongside the power of ideas, are the responsibilities inherent in simply being.
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Atkins, Zohar. "Unframing existence : an ethical and theological appropriation of Heidegger's critique of modernity." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:4ddc46cd-b7be-46ad-beb4-5b51db89aaa1.
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This thesis argues that Heidegger’s thought offers crucial insights into the structural challenges that modernity poses to being an ethical and religious person. I argue that these difficulties come down to an instrumentalist conception of truth, a denial or repression of finitude as the condition of meaningfulness, and a philosophical anthropology that is both too subjectivistic and too objectivistic. Yet while Heidegger was good on the diagnosis, he was reluctant to give more than digressive and opaque prescriptions to these problems. My thesis seeks to respond to this lacuna by putting Heidegger’s critical observations in the service of articulating a positive religious ethics. To that end, it seeks to locate—as well as redefine from an ontological perspective—the human dispositions and practices that expose truth in a non-instrumental light, that show finitude as a positive condition of meaningfulness, and that reveal the essence of the human being in non-subjectivist and non- objectivist terms. I argue that these include listening and gratitude—dispositions and practices I claim should form the backbone of any religious ethics, and yet which I also claim should not be limited to those who believe in a personal, theistic God. My thesis contributes to the fields of modern theology and Heidegger Studies in four ways. First, it shows that Heidegger’s critics (such as Levinas and Adorno) are wrong to oppose ontology to ethics. Second, it shows that Heidegger’s critics (such as Marion and Jonas) are wrong to oppose ontology to theology. Third, it shows that Heidegger’s own ambivalence about the ethical and theological relevance of his thought allows for the development of a deeply ethical and theological posture. And fourth, it offers a unique, post-Heideggerian interpretation of gratitude, one in which it is understood as a structure of Dasein that is both “always already” and “not yet” operative.
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Hartt, Samuel T. "A biblical critique of the Haitian peasant's mindset on moral responsibility as it relates to the conversion experience." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com.
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Ku, Hay Lin Helen. "Where does morality come from? aspects of Nietzsche's genealogical critique of morality and his idea of the Ubermensch /." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2003. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10292004-074620/.
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Ghaffari, Sara. "Finding Obligations Within Second-Personal Engagement: A Critique of Christine Korsgaard's Normative Theory." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1282072689.
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Madden, Kelly Alvin. "The flourishing life and the good life : a critique of Alasdair MacIntyre's virtue ethics from the perspective of theological voluntarism." Thesis, University of York, 2006. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/9895/.
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Díaz, Arévalo Juan Mario. "Orlando Fals-Borda, or, The ethics of subversion : towards a critique of ideology of political violence in Colombia, 1948-1974." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2017. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/orlando-fals-borda-or-the-ethics-of-subversion(9fcea442-b4b6-4c23-ab9a-3738573e7ebb).html.
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This thesis is an inter-disciplinary project incorporating history, philosophy, sociology, theology and political analysis. It looks at highly significant, yet little researched, aspects of the intellectual history of Colombian sociologist and political leader Orlando Fals-Borda, 1925–2008. The thesis reconstructs the early period of Fals-Borda’s career, 1948–1974, and reveals first-hand information about his original thinking gathered from his works, published and unpublished, and vast correspondence (much previously unknown) scattered in five different archives in Colombia, the USA and Switzerland. It establishes the foundations for comprehending one of the central themes of Fals-Borda’s intellectual and political career: his critique of ideology of political violence in Colombia. A basic tenet of this research is that intellectual history, rather than the objective presentation of somebody’s intellectual work within his/her historical context, implies a philosophical understanding of his/her main concerns. Thus, this interplay between intellectual history and critique makes this research far more than a historiography of Fals-Borda’s ideas since it explores his original insight into the complexities of the long-running violence in Colombia. The framework which supports this interplay between intellectual history and critique is Walter Benjamin’s ‘Critique of the Violence’ and ‘Theses on Philosophy of History’. Through the lens of Benjamin’s philosophy about violence and history, this thesis examines Fals-Borda’s ethics of subversion in a new light. Another central tenet of this research is that understanding the past is crucial for understanding the present, and vice versa. Thus, it highlights the importance of the ethical-theological, historical and epistemological bases leading to Fals-Borda’s development of Participatory Action Research (PAR). This approach is especially relevant to the current political situation and debate on democratic participation and socio-economic and human rights in Colombia, in the light of peace negotiations between the government, guerrilla groups and civil society.
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Petitclerc, Adèle. "Le postulat critique au coeur de l'analyse de discours. Introduction critique aux bases méthodologiques et épistémologiques des Critical Discourse Studies." Thesis, Besançon, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014BESA1017/document.
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Ce travail de thèse a pour enjeux de rendre accessible à la communauté scientifique francophone en analyse dudiscours la manière dont le postulat critique s’est mis en place dans les sciences du langage européennes delangue anglaise à partir des années 1970 avec la Critical Linguistics jusqu’à son évolution actuelle donnant formeet programme à un courant de recherche connu sous les noms de Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) et de CriticalDiscourse Studies (CDS). Au moyen de nombreuses traductions réalisées dans le but de donner accès aux textes dece courant, nous faisons émerger, à travers leurs publications marquantes, comment sont nés ces courants, etcomment ils se sont établis scientifiquement et institutionnellement dans le paysage des sciences du langageanglophones en tant que disciplines désormais pleinement reconnues et disposant d'une reconnaissanceimportante dans les institutions universitaires. Malgré l’éclectisme de ces disciplines, qui pourrait à première vues’apparenter à un éclatement, nous identifions dans une exploration épistémologique ce qui fait leur unité et leurcohésion interne : principe critique appliquée à l’analyse du discours, posture définie du chercheur comme partieprenante de la société, focalisation sur des problématiques sociales construites comme objets de recherche,interdisciplinarité théorique pour ne jamais se limiter dans l’analyse, et pragmatisme dans le choix desméthodologies de recherche, toujours envisagées comme étant au service d’une analyse la plus complète possibledes aspects sémiotiques et discursifs des problèmes sociaux. Dans notre dernière partie, nous donnonsprécisément à voir des manières de faire de l’analyse du discours en CDS. À travers la présentation et l’analysedes grandes approches et tendances méthodologiques des CDS, nous montrons comment les chercheurss’emparent de problèmes sociaux concrets pour proposer des analyses répondant à une visée d’émancipation,démêlant ce qu'il en est des rapports entre langage et pouvoir. Nous montrons que ces analyses sont basées à lafois sur une théorisation critique du discours, de l’idéologie et de la société dans une visée interdisciplinaire(mêlant librement aux théories linguistiques des concepts issus des sciences sociales, de l’homme ou de lacognition), et sur des méthodologies qui empruntent sans restriction à toutes les branches des sciences dulangage pour appréhender le discours de manière complète, tant sous l’angle de son contenu que de samatérialité, analysant par exemple conjointement les macropropositions sémantiques, les stratégies rhétoriques,la représentation des acteurs sociaux ou les microphénomènes syntaxiques<br>With this thesis, we are aiming at presenting how critique was incorporated into linguistics and discourseanalysis, first in the United-Kingdom in the 1970s and later spread to all European Anglophone discourseanalysis where it became its own discipline, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) or alternatively, Critical DiscourseStudies (CDS). With a francophone audience in mind, we have translated excerpts of the major publications ofthe field to French in order to present first how CDA and CDS came into being as established disciplines, startingfrom Critical Linguistics. Then, we explore the main tenets of CDA and CDS and what constitutes them ascoherent scientific fields despite what appears at first sight to be a very eclectic body of works gathered underthese labels. We show that it has to do with critique as a governing principle for discourse analysis; how theresearcher’s position in society is defined; social problems as starting points for research; and a very pragmaticapproach when choosing methodological tools. Our last part presents the major approaches to “doing CDA”,from the founders’ approaches (Wodak’s Discourse Historical Approach, Fairclough’s Dialectical-RelationalApproach, Van Dijk’s Socio-Cognitive Approach, Van Leeuwen’s Representation of Social Actors) to largercurrent trends (CDA with a Cognitive Linguistics or Gender Studies input, Social Semiotics, Forensic Linguistics)
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Clines, Jeremy Mark Sebastian. "Earthing common worship : an ecotheological critique of the Common Worship texts of the Church of England." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2011. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/2838/.
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This thesis undertakes an interdisciplinary analysis of new Church of England liturgies (Common Worship) from an ecotheological point of view: making use of reader response theory, literary analysis, a social scientific survey, liberation theology, environmental and political ethics and liturgical theology. Chapter 1 considers the theological, political and sociological influences on liturgical reform, which include, inculturation, the expression of ethics in the prayer of the Church, liberation theologies, technology, and agrarianism. Chapter 2 considers methods of liturgical change and the scope for making creation visible in liturgy. Chapter 3 finds justification in reader response theory for determining ecotheological priorities for critiquing liturgy. Analysis of Common Worship texts occurs: in Chapter 4, using literary analysis; in Chapter 5 via social scientific survey of clergy using Common Worship; Chapter 6 looks in details at Collects and Post Communions and undertakes an ecotheological rewriting of 9 sample texts. Chapter 7 identifies lessons for liturgical revision in general and for eco-liturgical reform in particular, paying particular attention to the dissonant creation theologies unearthed in Common Worship, the necessity for future revisions, and the importance and implication of technological change for liturgical writers and commentators.
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Lariviere, Robert Dean. "A critique of the Instruction on respect for human life in its origin and on the dignity of procreation, in relation to Catholic revisionist moral theology." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.
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