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Good ideas Here: Good ideas Here. 1994.

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Superprinternotebook, Adam. Good Ideas Start Here. Blackpaper Sketchbook: Draw, Write, Paint, Sketch or Doodle Your Genius. Creative Gift for All Ages and Artists. Dot Grid and Blank 100 All Black Paper Pages Notebook Journal. Independently Published, 2020.

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Press, Brown-Eyed Naturals. Insert Words Here. : Lined Notebook: Simple, Cute, Lined Notebook, Matte Cover, Unisex, Good Quality, Perfect for Notes, As a Journal or Diary or Just to Record Your Ideas. Makes a Great Gift for Those with a Dry Sense of Humour. Independently Published, 2020.

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The Problem of Divine Personality. Cambridge University Press, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009269254.

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The main question of this Element is whether God has a personality. The authors show what the question means, why it matters, and that good sense can be made of an affirmative answer to it. A God with personality - complete with particular, sometimes peculiar, and even seemingly unexplainable druthers - is not at war with maximal perfection, nor is the idea irredeemably anthropomorphic. And the hypothesis of divine personality is fruitful, with substantive consequences that span philosophical theology. But problems arise here too, and new perspectives on inquiry itself. Our cosmos is blessed w

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Goodman, Lenn E. The Holy One of Israel. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190698478.001.0001.

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Holy, holy, holy! The Lord of hosts! The fill of all the earth is His glory. In these few ecstatic words the prophet Isaiah captured the core of Jewish thinking about God, humanity and nature. If the idea of holiness points toward God’s transcendence, Isaiah’s balancing half-line comes down to earth, recognizing God’s presence throughout the world. This book is a philosophical exploration of that remarkable and distinctively Jewish idea—that God is everywhere, yet not in space. Here the author, long recognized as one of Judaism’s foremost living philosophers, explores what can be meant by God’

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Russell, Daniel C. Putting Ideals in Their Place. Edited by Nancy E. Snow. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199385195.013.48.

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Ideal virtue theories posit what counts as good character and then ask how one gets there from here. This chapter defends a non-ideal theory, on two fronts. One, getting better is path-dependent: to understand moral development, one must first understand what psychological paths are available, and then determine what developments that are possible along those paths would count as genuine improvements. Ideals like “the virtuous person” help one understand in which direction “better” lies, and one cannot do that work without them. Second, that is all the work ideals do, because doing better is a

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Herman, Barbara. Kantian Commitments. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192844965.001.0001.

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The ten essays collected here represent a series of efforts to rethink many of the fundamentals of Kant’s ethics and to draw out some implications for moral theory and practice. The five essays of Part One revisit and revise several core pieces of Kant’s moral framework, offering a new understanding of the formulas of the categorical imperative, revisiting the idea of making exceptions, and deepening the contrast between Kant’s project and other deontologies (especially recent contractualisms). The key is to take seriously the idea that what Kant gives us is a theory of moral reasoning, with s

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Priarolo, Mariangela. Universals and Individuals in Malebranche’s Philosophy. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190608040.003.0007.

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In Malebranche’s work, universals are identified with God’s ideas, which are the same ideas by means of which human beings know the world. However, because Malebranche states, at least in his mature writings, that all ideas are universal, general, and infinite, the knowledge of particulars appears problematic. This chapter addresses this question by showing that a consideration of the medieval sources of Malebranche’s theory of knowledge—the vision in God—allows for not only a better understanding of the problem but also its solution. In fact, as with Aquinas’s God, whose definition of divine

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Nolan, Lawrence. Descartes on Universal Essences and Divine Knowledge. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190608040.003.0005.

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This chapter develops a new defense of the conceptualist interpretation of Descartes’s theory of universals, according to which universal essences are merely innate, intellectual ideas in the minds of human beings. The source of this conceptualism is to be found in Descartes’s view that all substances are simple. Given this simplicity, universals can exist neither in created things as shared properties nor in the mind of God as ideas or exemplars for creation. Descartes rejects the Neoplatonic doctrine of exemplary causation on the grounds that it anthropomorphizes God. He also rejects the rel

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Dudley, Heather Dutton. Free and the Virtuous. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978733985.

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What did liberty mean to the American founding fathers? It was not just about limited government, protecting rights, and leaving people free to live their own definition of a good life. It was to be a movement toward the highest of human flourishing. A new genus of liberty had taken root here in the fresh American soil, and there was a special something—a moral discipline—that was inherent in the American character that would allow it to thrive. Above all, real liberty was dependent upon good character. The new nation had barely gotten any traction, however, when the founders’ ideal of a liber

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Adelstein, Richard. Property and Technology. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190694272.003.0005.

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In this chapter, the dependence of property rights on government’s policy choices and their vulnerability to theft are both illustrated in the theoretically rich and institutionally challenging case of intellectual goods, ideas rendered in some symbolic medium. The peculiar qualities of these goods make it especially hard for sellers to prevent thieves (“free riders”) from stealing their value and thus make voluntary exchange with willing buyers possible. This induces a continuous competition of technologies, in which free riders seek the technological means to steal the value of intellectual

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Comp, T. Allan. From Environmental Liability to Community Asset. Edited by Paula Hamilton and James B. Gardner. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199766024.013.11.

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This chapter explores linking economic redevelopment with a recognition of regional legacy. It provided an opportunity to apply public history to real-world needs and to do something with history on a larger scale and led to the work discussed here. “AMD&ART” is now both the name of a park in Vintondale, Pennsylvania, and the name of an idea, a commitment to interdisciplinary work in the service of community aspirations to address environmental challenges. As an idea, AMD&ART is a lasting antidote to the complex problems of coal country that is, and in fact must be, cultural and enviro

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Winterling, Aloys. Imperial Madness in Ancient Rome. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199394852.003.0005.

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The inherited stigma of Roman kingship and the legacy of noble faction form the backdrop to this chapter, which reinterprets the archetypical ‘tyrannical emperors’ Caligula, Nero, and Domitian. The chapter demonstrates that the psychological approach of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century scholarship was misguided, and instead analyzes the emperors in the context of, on the one hand, the paradoxical sociopolitical conditions of early imperial Rome and, on the other, Rome’s traditional aristocratic ideals. In this chapter’s treatment, supposed insanity becomes a strategy for unmasking (Cali

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Santos, Ana Silvia Pereira, Daniele Maia Bila, Emanuel Manfred Freire Brandt, Juacyara Carbonelli Campos, and Renata de Oliveira Pereira. Guia prático do artigo científico. Brazil Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31012/978-65-5861-375-6.

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Publishing a scientific article is not a simple task. You may ultimately have to publish a paper to either take scientific grants or take a Ph.D. or master's degree, so it is to your advantage to keep all the necessary steps in your hands. First and foremost, when you are asked to write such a paper, it is essential to organize your ideas in a way that is convenient for submitting a manuscript for consideration in an appropriate journal. Everyone who has submitted a manuscript in a scientific journal has had the frustrating experience of spending a long time writing the manuscript and waiting

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Sade, The Marquis de. Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue. Translated by John Phillips. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199572847.001.0001.

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‘I have become whore through goodwill and libertine through virtue.’ Orphaned and penniless at the age of twelve, the beautiful and devout Justine embarks upon her remarkable odyssey. Her steadfast faith and naive trust in trust in everyone she meets destine her from the outset for sexual exploitation and martyrdom. The unending catalogue of disasters that befall her, during which she is subject to any number of perverse practices, illustrate Sade’s belief in the primacy of Nature over civilization. Virtue is no match for vice, and as criminality and violence triumph, Justine is doomed to suff

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Yarrow, Simon. 6. The Blessed Virgin Mary. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199676514.003.0006.

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The Blessed Virgin Mary is pre-eminent among Christian saints. Her giving birth to Jesus the God-man distinguishes her from other women, even as it draws attention to that experience uniquely distinguishing women from men: childbirth. ‘The Blessed Virgin Mary’ shows how this delicate partitioning of empathetic possibilities in the veneration of Mary, intimately grounded in biology and played out through ideas of gender difference, has stimulated profound and sometimes conflicted religious emotions in men and women. St Mary presents a conundrum to Christian theology: a virgin mother, a Jew who

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Ebels-Duggan, Kyla. Freedom and Influence in Formative Education. Edited by David Schmidtz and Carmen E. Pavel. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199989423.013.21.

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The principle that children’s freedom should be preserved in their upbringing is sometimes viewed as an alternative to imposing a particular conception of the good on them. But to sustain the alternative we must distinguish between those desires and proclivities that are educated into a person and those that are his own. Several philosophers appeal to innate or presocial tendencies to ground this distinction, but that approach fails. The ability to exercise first personal authority provides a better conception of what it is for a desire or commitment to be one’s own. However, states educated i

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Hayk, Kupelyants. 7 A Taxonomy of Challenges to Sovereign Debt Restructurings. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198807230.003.0008.

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Chapter 7 presents a taxonomy of challenges to the outcomes of sovereign debt restructuring, i.e. in what cases private creditors may argue that the restructurings was abusive, oppressive or otherwise invalid and has to be eviscerated accordingly. The starting point here is that the afflicted minority bondholder may challenge the abusive application of collective action clauses, at least in actions couched against the majority of bondholders that put the collective action clauses to use. The source of that power is the obligation of the majority to exercise its broad powers in good faith for t

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Kupelyants, Hayk. A Taxonomy of Challenges to Sovereign Debt Restructurings. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198807230.003.0008.

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Chapter 7 presents a taxonomy of challenges to the outcomes of sovereign debt restructuring, i.e. in what cases private creditors may argue that the restructurings was abusive, oppressive or otherwise invalid and has to be eviscerated accordingly. The starting point here is that the afflicted minority bondholder may challenge the abusive application of collective action clauses, at least in actions couched against the majority of bondholders that put the collective action clauses to use. The source of that power is the obligation of the majority to exercise its broad powers in good faith for t

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Allchin, Douglas. Sacred Bovines. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190490362.001.0001.

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Some assumptions about biology are so deeply rooted in our thinking that they seem beyond question. These concepts - expressed in playful jargon - are our sacred bovines. With a light-hearted spirit, Douglas Allchin sets out to challenge many of these common beliefs about science and life. Allchin draws on fascinating insights from science to illustrate the ironies in many widespread beliefs. Be prepared to challenge the notion that male and female are fixed natural categories. Or that evolution implies cutthroat competition in human society. Or that we struggle against a fundamental immoral n

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Wolterstorff, Nicholas. God’s liturgical activity. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805380.003.0011.

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It is typical of Christian liturgical enactments for the people to pray and take for granted that God will act in the course of the enactment. This chapter first identifies and analyzes a number of ways in which God might act liturgically and then discusses at some length what might be meant when the people say, in response to the reading of Scripture, “This is the word of the Lord.” After suggesting that what might be meant is either that the reading presented what God said in ancient times or that, by way of the reading, God speaks anew here and now, the chapter suggests a third possibility

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Marshall, Colin. The Scope of Compassion and Impartiality. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198809685.003.0009.

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This chapter considers the ultimate ideal range of compassion as well as the issue of whether partiality can be part of being morally good. An infinite moral ideal being is considered, who would be proportionately moved by all creatures’ pains, pleasures, and desires. This ideal being’s moral goodness would coincide with her being proportionately in touch with all creatures’ affective states. Turning to finite agents, two limitations that generate partiality are identified: limitations of representational capacities and limitations of abilities to act. While those forms of partiality seem only

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de Gay, Jane. Virginia Woolf and Christian Culture. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474415637.001.0001.

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This wide-ranging study demonstrates that Woolf, despite her agnostic upbringing, was profoundly interested in, and knowledgeable about, Christianity as a faith and a socio-political movement. Jane de Gay provides a strongly contextual approach, first revealing the extent of the Christian influences on Woolf’s upbringing, including an analysis of the far-reaching influence of the Clapham Sect, and then drawing attention to the importance of Christianity among Woolf’s friends and associates. It shows that Woolf’s awareness of the ongoing influence of Christian ideas and institutions informed he

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Crabtree, Sarah. In the Light and on the Road. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198814221.003.0008.

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Patience Brayton (1734–94), a Quaker itinerant minister from Rhode Island, completed two extended journeys: one year-long trip covering the American seaboard and a four-year trek through Ireland and Britain. These journeys required her to leave her husband and young children, navigate hazardous travel conditions, endure incapacitating illnesses (often alone), and contend with those hostile to women’s ministry. This chapter contrasts these feats with post-Revolutionary ideas about the weakness of women’s bodies and minds, arguing Brayton’s narrative resolved this conflict by reiterating her own

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Vogel, Jonathan. Accident, Evidence, and Knowledge. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198724551.003.0007.

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I explore and develop the idea, due to Peter Unger, that knowledge is non-accidentally true belief. Non-accidental truth is different from the absence of epistemic luck, as discussed by Pritchard. The original analysis faces two counterexamples, the Meson Case and the Light Switch Case. The former concerns knowledge of nomological necessities; the latter turns on the direction-of-fit between a belief and the facts. I propose: (ENA) S knows that P when S’s belief that P is non-accidentally true because (i) it is based on good evidence, and (ii) in and of themselves, beliefs based on good eviden

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Atkinson, Juliette. George Eliot. Oxford University PressOxford, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191896408.001.0001.

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Abstract George Eliot: A Very Short Introduction examines how Eliot pushed the boundaries of English fiction. An extraordinary woman whose unconventional life meant that she was often judged harshly, Eliot wanted to capture the feelings and motivations of ordinary people leading ordinary lives, and hoped that this might expand her readers’ powers of compassion and generosity. She believed her work might do good, but she was also clear-eyed about the limits of human sympathy and fiction. To convey the complexity of human behaviour, Eliot drew on an astonishing range of philosophical and scienti

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Knightsmith, Pooky. Things I Got Wrong So You Don’t have To. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781805016816.

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An internationally respected campaigner, Pooky Knightsmith has worked tirelessly to promote good child and adolescent mental health. Her knowledge, ideas and advice come not just from years of research and study, but from hard earned experience with PTSD, anorexia, self-harm and depression. Part mental health guide, part memoir, this book contains 48 life lessons learned from everyday victories to life-changing events. Pooky shares tips on how to avoid burnout, how small acts of self-care can make a big difference, steps you can take to live with anxiety, and how to nurture key friendships and

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Fontinell, Eugene. Self, God and Immortality. Fordham University Press, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823220700.001.0001.

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Can we, who have been touched by the scientific, intellectual, and experimental revolutions of modern and contemporary times, still believe that we as individual persons are immortal? Indeed, is there even good cause to hope that we are? In examining the present relationship of reason to faith, can we find justifying reasons for faith? These are the central questions in this book, a compelling exercise in philosophical theology. Drawing upon the works of William James and the principles of American Pragmatism, the book extrapolates carefully from “data given in experience” to a model of the co

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Bratman, Michael E. Consistency and Coherence in Plan. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190867850.003.0009.

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This essay focuses on the reflections of a planning agent on her distinctive synchronic norms of practical thinking. It develops the idea of planning agency that is self-reinforcing by way of considerations of self-governance: given that one is a planning agent whose practical thinking is guided by basic planning norms—something for which there is good reason—one’s self-governance will be such that conforming to those norms is partly constitutive of that self-governance. This helps articulate a framework within which (a) pragmatic grounds for planning agency quite generally, combine with (b) n

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Green, Karen, ed. The Correspondence of Catharine Macaulay. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190934453.001.0001.

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This edition of all of Catharine Macaulay’s known correspondence includes an introduction to the life, works, and influence of this celebrated, eighteenth-century, republican historian. Through her letters and those of her correspondents it offers a unique glimpse of the connections between radical republicanism and dissent in London, and throws light on the origins of parliamentary reform in Great Britain. Macaulay’s correspondents include many individuals who were active in the lead-up to the American and French Revolutions, others who became involved in the antislavery movement, and yet oth

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Morrissey, Clair. Virtue of Wit. Lexington Books, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978747050.

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In The Virtue of Wit: Humor, Social Connection, and Flourishing, Clair Morrissey argues that wit is a form of social ingenuity, an aptitude for building and maintaining human connection. Her novel account of wit understands it as the capacity for joining people in feeling through playful, amusing creativity with words and behaviors. In animating and enlivening our everyday shared social landscape, exercising wit is partially constitutive of living a good human life. Through analysis of the history of philosophical treatments of wit and related concepts, contemporary empirical and theoretical r

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Pateman, Carole. 19. Wollstonecraft. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780198708926.003.0019.

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This chapter examines Mary Wollstonecraft's political thought. Wollstonecraft advances the argument that the private and public are interrelated and that God has given reason to both sexes. Among her ideas: ‘natural’ qualities, including masculinity and femininity, are socially constructed; reason and virtue require cultivation; private and public virtue demands non-sexually differentiated principles and standards, and freedom, equal rights, and political representation for women and men; tyranny in private, especially in marriage, undermines political virtue and active citizenship; education

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Evener, Vincent. Enemies of the Cross. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190073183.001.0001.

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The present book argues that Martin Luther and his first allies and intra-Reformation critics (Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt and Thomas Müntzer) appealed to suffering to teach Christians to distinguish between true and false doctrine, teachers, and experiences. In so doing, they developed and deployed categories of false suffering, in which suffering was received or simply feigned in ways that hardened rather than demolished self-assertion. These ideas were nourished by the reception of teachings about annihilation of the self and union with God received from post-Eckhartian mysticism. Luth

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Schellenberg, Susanna. Perceptual Capacities, Knowledge, and Gettier Cases. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198724551.003.0005.

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I will exploit the basic commitments of capacitivism to develop a distinctive externalist view of perceptual knowledge. The basic idea of capacitivism is that perception is constitutively a matter of employing perceptual capacities that function to discriminate and single out particulars in our environment. It is because a given subject is employing perceptual capacities with a certain function that her mental states have epistemic force. Employing such perceptual capacities constitutes a mental state that provides us with phenomenal evidence, and employing such capacities in the good case als

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Raposa, Michael L. Theosemiotic. Fordham University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823289516.001.0001.

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This book is an attempt to adapt some of Peirce’s ideas, particularly his theory of semiotic, for the purpose of re-thinking certain issues in contemporary philosophical theology and the philosophy of religion. It begins with an historical sketch that links Peirce’s thought to that of earlier figures, certain contemporaries, and later thinkers and developments. Drawing on Peirce’s thought, the book then develops a semiotic conception of persons/selves and of community. It analyzes in some detail the role that acts of attention play in shaping human inferences and perception, while also explori

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Broad, Jacqueline, ed. Women Philosophers of Eighteenth-Century England. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197506981.001.0001.

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This volume is an edited collection of the philosophical correspondences of three English women of the eighteenth century: Mary Astell, Elizabeth Thomas, and Catharine Trotter Cockburn. The selected correspondence includes letters to and/or from John Norris, George Hickes, Mary Chudleigh, Richard Hemington, John Locke, Ann Hepburn Arbuthnot, and Edmund Law. Their epistolary exchanges range over a wide variety of philosophical subjects, from questions about the love of God and other people to the causes of sensation in the mind, the metaphysical foundations of moral obligation, and the importan

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Lutz, Amy S. F. We Walk. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501751394.001.0001.

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In this collection of essays, the author writes openly about her experience as a mother of a now twenty-one-year-old son with severe autism. The author's human emotion drives through each page and challenges commonly held ideas that define autism either as a disease or as neurodiversity. The book is inspired by the author's own questions: What is the place of intellectually and developmentally disabled people in society? What responsibilities do we, as citizens and human beings, have to one another? Who should decide for those who cannot decide for themselves? What is the meaning of religion t

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Miano, Daniele. Fortuna. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198786566.001.0001.

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This book focuses on the Latin goddess Fortuna, one of the better known deities in ancient Italy. The earliest forms of her worship can be traced back to archaic Latium, and she was still a widely recognized allegorical figure during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The main reason for her longevity is that she was a conceptual deity, and had strong associations with chance and good fortune. When they were interacting with the goddess, communities, individuals, and gender and age groups were inevitably also interacting with the concept. These relations were not neutral: they allowed people

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Benson, Bruce Ellis. In the Beginning, There Was Improvisation. Edited by Benjamin Piekut and George E. Lewis. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199892921.013.004.

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The theological doctrine ofcreatio ex nihiloattempts to safeguard both the power and freedom of God. If creation is understood as God’s work of art, thencreatio ex nihilois the strongest artistic account of creation possible. The Kantian artist possesses something like this power and freedom, since his or her original and exemplary ideas arise inexplicably. The modern and romantic artistic traditions have perpetuated this myth of the lone artist whose creation is a kind of godlike activity. This chapter claims that “improvisation,” or the fabrication out of what is already on hand, constitutes

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Meis, Morgan, and J. M. Tyree. Wonder, Horror, Mystery: Letters on Cinema and Religion in Malick, Von Trier, and Kieślowski. punctum books, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.53288/0359.1.00.

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Wonder, Horror, Mystery is a dialogue between two friends, both notable arts critics, that takes the form of a series of letters about movies and religion. One of the friends, J.M. Tyree, is a film critic, creative writer, and agnostic, while the other, Morgan Meis, is a philosophy PhD, art critic, and practicing Catholic. The question of cinema is raised here in a spirit of friendly friction that binds the personal with the critical and the spiritual. What is film? What’s it for? What does it do? Why do we so intensely love or hate films that dare to broach the subjects of the divine and the

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Nagarajan, Vijaya. Beginnings. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195170825.003.0001.

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Before dawn each day, millions of Hindu women in Tamil Nadu, India, create a kōlam, a sacred ritual art form, on the thresholds of homes, temples, and businesses. It is usually made of rice flour and therefore is ephemeral. Drawing on her extensive ethnographic research, the author seeks to understand the wide range of meanings attributed to the kōlam, such as beauty; auspiciousness; the god Ganesha; the goddesses Lakshmi, Mūdevi, and Bhūdevi; the evil eye; competition; designs; mathematics; ecology; and the idea of “feeding a thousand souls.” This chapter (along with Chapters 2 and 3) lays th

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Ludlow, Morwenna. Christian Formation and the Body–Soul Relationship in Gregory of Nyssa. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198826422.003.0009.

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This chapter examines Gregory of Nyssa’s anthropology as it is evident in three of his ascetic works: De Professione Christiana, De Perfectione, and De Instituto Christiano. Previous research has tended to use these as evidence for Gregory’s spirituality or his instructions concerning the truly Christian life, while his anthropology has been studied from his De Anima et Resurrectione and De Hominis Opificio. However, his concept of the truly Christian life seems to rely on some basic anthropological ideas which one can see in the ascetic treatises—especially in Gregory’s use of the language of

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Gold, Janet N. Culture and Customs of Honduras. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400635403.

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This comprehensive look at contemporary life in the small Latin American nation allows high school students and general readers to explore the many facets of Honduran life and culture. More and more Hondurans and scholars today are becoming aware of the diversity in the nation, and are realizing that rather than a single, homogeneous culture, Honduras is made up of many different cultures. Gold incorporates this contemporary cultural consciousness in her treatment of Honduras's regional and linguistic diversity as well as in her descriptions of Honduras's indigenous communities. Key elements o

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Eliot, George, and David Russell. Middlemarch. Edited by David Carroll. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780198815518.001.0001.

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‘The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts.’ The greatest ‘state of the nation’ novel in English, Middlemarch addresses ordinary life at a moment of great social change, in the years leading to the Reform Act of 1832. Through her portrait of a Midlands town, George Eliot addresses gender relations and class, self-knowledge and self-delusion, community and individualism. Eliot follows the fortunes of the town's central characters as they find, lose, and rediscover ideals and vocations in the world. Through its psychologically rich portraits, the novel contains some of

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Bain, William. Political Theology of International Order. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198859901.001.0001.

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This book investigates presuppositions of international order that originate in medieval theology. Part I examines rival conceptions of order that emerged out of a medieval dispute about the nature of God and the extent of his power. The theory of immanent order refers to an interconnected whole that imparts a rationally intelligible pattern of right order. The theory of imposed order refers to a contingent arrangement, established by will and artifice or the operation of an impersonal mechanism, which accommodates numerous patterns that can be made and unmade. Part II investigates the assimil

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Olfert, Christiana. Aristotle on Practical Truth. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190281007.001.0001.

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Aristotle’s theories of truth, practical reasoning, and action are some of the most influential theories in the history of philosophy. It is surprising, then, that so little attention has been given to his notion of practical truth. In Aristotle on Practical Truth, C. M. M. Olfert gives the first book-length treatment of this notion and the role of truth in our practical lives overall. She offers a novel account of practical truth: it is the truth, in the technical Aristotelian sense of “truth,” about what is good simpliciter (haplôs) for a particular person in her particular situation. Olfert

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Johnson, Claudia Durst. Understanding The Call of the Wild. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216029830.

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London's adventure tale The Call of the Wild explores the complex relationships between man and nature, and animals' struggle with their own nature in man's world. In this interdisciplinary study, a rich collection of primary documents point out the many issues that make this story as poignant and pertinent today as when it was written nearly a century ago. Compiled here for the first time is documentation from sources as varied as century-old newspaper accounts, legislative materials, advertisements, poetry, journals, and other startling firsthand accounts. The story's historical setting, the

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Newton, Hannah. ‘Nature Concocts and Expels’. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198779025.003.0002.

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This chapter investigates the first stage of recovery in early modern perceptions, the removal of disease. It shows that three agents were responsible for ousting illness: God, Nature, and the physician. While scholars are familiar with the first and last of these forces, the vital agency of ‘Nature’, the divinely endowed ‘intrinsic agent’ of the body, has been largely overlooked. Personified both as a hardworking housewife and a warrior queen, Nature removed disease through processes that resembled cooking/cleaning and fighting, the ‘concoction’ and ‘expulsion’ of the humours. Particular atte

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Streete, Gail P. Performing Christian Martyrdoms. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190656485.003.0003.

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Christian martyrdom is a performance that employs the body as both an instrument and an arena in which to portray a message about ideal Christian behavior in opposition to “the world,” enacting a sacrificial death imitating that of Jesus. Drawing upon Greco-Roman traditions of the hero myth and the Stoic noble death, as well as Hellenistic, Jewish narratives of death in obedience to God’s law, Christian martyrologists constructed the propaganda of martyrdom. Their rhetoric of resistance, both spoken and enacted, transformed elite concepts of Roman imperial virtue by applying them to a despised

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Epton, Nancy. The Sound of Silence. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798765108062.

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The Sound of Silence, provides an in-depth analysis of the sensory elements that are integral to cinematic narratives, asserting that silence is a fruitful enigma which encourages activity in a contemporary audience that is often all too passive. The German Expressionist era may have been brief, but the shadows cast since its end nonetheless loom large. The silhouetted, cigar-wielding men of film noir and their respectively dark, doom-laden haunts mirror the angst-inducing atmospheres of their forebearers, while also introducing the now-familiar figure of the silent hero. Considering the numer

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