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Ristic, Nevenka. "Food, philosophy and love." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007478.

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This thesis is a metaphilosophical investigation into how food can be handled philosophically. The first chapter considers the question of whether food can be the subject matter of philosophy, and concludes that there are three possible ways: Foodist Philosophy, Philosophy of Food, and Philosophy and Food. This thesis focuses on the category Foodist Philosophy. The second chapter develops an account of foodist philosophy: it is a style of philosophy that assumes that our food and eating practices are fundamental aspects of the human condition. The third chapter analyses Plato's concept of love

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Jones, Thomas Paul. "The phenomenology of love." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.484203.

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Pinson, Remy P. "What's Love Got to Do with It? An Exploration of the Symposium and Plato's Love." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/740.

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To many people love is special, sacred even. Love plays a countless number of roles for a countless number of people. Contemporary ideas about love, however, are more in alignment with the philosophies of Aristotle, and not of Plato. Aristotle held that love could exist as many people see it today – wishing well for others purely for their own sake. But Plato disagreed. Plato claimed that love was a way by which one could better themselves and become wiser. In this thesis, I explain Plato’s theory of love put forth in the Symposium. I also explore the textual evidence for the selfish nature of

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Torres, Jennifer M. "Virtuous Self-Love and Moral Competition." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/981.

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At the start of NE IX.8 Aristotle says that the virtuous man acts for his friend’s sake and neglect his own interests (1168a), but only a few paragraphs later says that the virtuous self-lover will also sacrifice money, honors, and even his life, for the sake of his friend, all while he obtains what is most noble—virtuous acts (1169 a, 176). This leads us to the question: Is this really a sacrifice if the virtuous self-lover is profiting in some way? Is it possible for the virtuous friend to sacrifice her life for her friend’s sake while knowing he is ‘procuring the most noble good’ for himsel

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Clausen, Ginger Tate, and Ginger Tate Clausen. "Love and Organic Unities." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/620833.

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Love is crucial to a good human life; it animates our most meaningful relationships, and it also reveals to us what we value and who we hope to become. My research focuses on the relationship between love and valuing, and defends a version of the quality theory of love. According to quality theories, love's fittingness is determined by properties of the beloved. Quality theories face many objections. In the first part of my dissertation, I argue that five prominent objections to quality theories miss the mark. In the second part, I argue that a less-appreciated objection to quality theories, t

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Scavone, Alexander. "Understanding the phenomenon of love." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/16237.

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The concept “love” can refer to different types of relationships. We use it when talking about our family, friends, romantic partners, pets, god(s), pieces of art, ideas, etc. and refer to love as if it happens to us, like a feeling, or as an action or behavior that we conduct, like an emotion or special deed, or even as a type of relationship that is had between two things. No matter what manifestation that love takes on or how it is described, the phenomenon that occurs is always the same. Of course we express love in different ways with different objects, like romantically with romantic par

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Luzardo, Jesus. "Upbuilding oppositions: Kierkegaard, Camus, and the philosophy of love." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/872.

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Despite the fact that they are both known as leading figures of existentialism, the relationship between 19th century Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard and 20th century French philosopher and novelist Albert Camus has largely gone unexplored in secondary scholarship. In the few times that their relationship is discussed, focus is heavily placed on the most obvious difference between the two thinkers: their religious orientations, which tends to prevent any further analysis or discussion. Furthermore, popular conceptions of each thinker-largely informed by their most popular works, arguably

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Krishek, Sharon. "The infinite love of the finite : faith, existence and romantic love in the philosophy of Kierkegaard." Thesis, University of Essex, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.423541.

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Lopez, Noelle Regina. "The art of Platonic love." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:5e9b2d70-49d9-4e75-b445-fcb0bfecdcef.

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This is a study of love (erōs) in Plato’s Symposium. It’s a study undertaken over three chapters, each of which serves as a stepping stone for the following and addresses one of three primary aims. First: to provide an interpretation of Plato’s favored theory of erōs in the Symposium, or as it’s referred to here, a theory of Platonic love. This theory is understood to be ultimately concerned with a practice of living which, if developed correctly, may come to constitute the life most worth living for a human being. On this interpretation, Platonic love is the desire for Beauty, ultimately for

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Evans, Christine. "The work of love : Slavoj Žižek, universality, and film philosophy." Thesis, University of Kent, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.604005.

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This thesis investigates Slavoj Zizek's methodology and his radical theories on love and universality , and explores their philosophical and linguistic reverberations within film analysis. In interrogating Zizek's methodological interest in parallax - a mode in which one grasps both the thing and its opposite simultaneously - as well as his philosophical and psychoanalytic focus on love, I argue that Zizek's work has changed the way that we think about both universality and film. Like Zizek's project of destabilizing traditional attitudes towards 'higher' and 'lower-order' culture and its anal

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Douglas, Helen L. (Helen Lillian). "Love and arms : on violence and justification after Levinas." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52920.

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Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2002.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: What does it mean that the violence of aggression could justify the violence of resistance? What does such justification accomplish, and when, and how? What underlies the conditions and limitations of justified violence, as, for example, these have been formulated in western doctrines of "just war"? Most critically, how could one think about the possibility of a resistance to evil that would be effective without itself instituting further violence? The theoretical ground of this investigation is found in a close reading

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Merino, Noël. "Rationality and moral responsibility in romantic love /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/5722.

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Griffin-EL, Nosakhere Abubaker Jumanne. "The dialectics of the blueberry muffin: Towards a philosophy of love." UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, 2012. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3485865.

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Seymour, Melissa M. "Duties of love and Kant's doctrine of obligatory ends." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3277970.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Philosophy, 2007.<br>Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-09, Section: A, page: 3894. Adviser: Marcia Baron. Title from dissertation home page (viewed Apr. 30, 2008).

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Uhde, Bernhard. "Religions of Love? Reflections on religion and violence in the great monotheistic religions." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú - Departamento de Humanidades, 2012. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/113086.

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The great monotheistic religions –Judaism, Christianity, and Islam– agree in announcing God’s love for men, while demanding men’s love for God and for their neighbors. However, a brief look at these religions’ praxis leads to doubt whether this love is not a mere statement, while in history and at present were and are still imposed exclusive truth claims exercising violence against the adepts of the own religion (internally”) and, in especial, against the followers of other religions (externally”) in order to attain political power. Now, a distinction between the just sovereign power of God an

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Uhde, Bernhard. "Religions of Love? Reflections on Religion and Violence in the Great Monotheistic Religions." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú - Departamento de Humanidades, 2013. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/113277.

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The great monotheistic religions -Judaism, Christianity, and Islam- agree in announcing God's love for men, while demanding men's love for God and for their neighbors. However, a brief look at these religions' praxis leads to doubt whether this love is not a mere statement, while in history and at present were and are still imposed exclusive truth claims exercising violence against the adepts of the own religion (internally) and, in especial, against the followers of other religions (externally) in order to attain political power. Now, a distinction between the just sovereign power of God and

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Regeczkey, Agnes M. "Love, hate, and institutional reparation| Inception of psychoanalitic theories." Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3701781.

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<p> The purpose of this research is to better understand the birth of psychoanalytic theories in the context of collaborative and adversarial relationships. From the 1920s, there were seminal papers revealing theoretical variances which impacted collegial relationships and vice versa. Melanie Klein’s theoretical identity attracted attention as she transformed her observations of child play into a theory of the internal world. This study explores how in a milieu, where theoretical identities shifted, collaborators turned into adversaries and agreements became disagreements. </p><p> In

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George, Bobby. "I love Arakawa & Gins : forever, always, now." Thesis, Kingston University, 2014. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/28384/.

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Arakawa and Gins, radical philosophers of the future, desire to construct life beyond the human condition. Their unique and original contribution to philosophy can be discerned most evidently in their concept of reversible destiny, an innovative response to our mortal condition. ‘We have decided not to die’, their ultimate declaration, is a testament not only to their architecture – an architecture predicated on the notion that death must be combated – but also, and perhaps most importantly, to its ability to teach us to think differently about the future. Even, and perhaps especially, the mos

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Stillman, Johanna. "Love Song." Thesis, Konstfack, Institutionen för Konst (K), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-5791.

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Love Song is an essay about romance, passion, obsession, attraction, Eros, intoxication, infatuation, to fall in love and love. Love songs, as artworks, are almost always directed towards a nameless “you” and this essay wants to talk to you. The text might be seen as a way to create and rewrite something, a performance to understand other performances, a dwelling on past relationships, a love letter, or just a text for me to vent you with others that have been thinking about you. I would love to hear Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Chris Kraus, Beyoncé, Bell Hooks, Anaïs Nin and Taylor Swift tal

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Fan, Li. "Love and madness in Plato's Phaedrus." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/8424.

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The central thesis of the dissertation is that in the Phaedrus philosophy is presented as a kind of madness in a strict sense, that is to say, the claim is not that philosophy is necessarily unappreciated by the many, hence considered by their standards as insane, but that the philosophical soul is in a way not in rational control, but in a state of mind that can fairly be defined as madness, and that the philosophical life is arranged in order to visit or revisit this state of mind. Socrates' account of eros and madness is based on his account of the soul, thus the first chapter shall give a

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Carmichael, Elizabeth Dorothea Harriet. "Friendship : a way of interpreting Christian love - a study of the Western Christian tradition." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.306694.

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Stansmore, S. William. "Being and kenosis : the concept of sacrificial love in the theology of Paul Tillich." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.295092.

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McCurdy, Leslie Charles. "Attributes and atonement : the holy love of God in the theology of P.T. Forsyth." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1994. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk/R?func=search-advanced-go&find_code1=WSN&request1=AAIU059948.

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The noted British theologian P.T. Forsyth (1848-1921) used the distinctive expression 'holy love' to refer to God's nature, and found the words especially useful in delineating a doctrine of the atonement that stressed the harmony of the love and holiness of God. An introductory chapter provides the historical context for what follows. It outlines the history of this expression in nineteenth-century theology, traces its emergence in Forsyth's writings, and notes a significant parallel with his own theological conversion. A survey of the literature related to the thesis topic is provided in a s

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Sayers, Bonnie Blue Love. "The ecology of love| A transdisciplinary inquiry into the heart of matter." Thesis, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3743743.

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<p> This dissertation presents an original contribution by defining love as an eco-systemic process with the potential to heal Earth’s ecological crisis. Something is considered systemic when it is spread throughout and affects a system as a whole. Considering the view that Earth is an interconnected system, I began to question the role of systemic processes in response to Earth’s greater problems, like climate change. A review of the literature revealed that love has not yet been explored as an eco-systemic process in relation to Earth’s complex crisis. I chose to address th

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McAnally, Elizabeth Ann. "Contributions to an Integral Water Ethic| Cultivating Love and Compassion for Water." Thesis, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10279472.

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<p> Water is one of the most precious elements on Earth. Yet we find ourselves in a global water crisis, struggling to address freshwater scarcity, pollution, climate change, and the need for safe drinking water and sanitation. Given the urgency of the global water crisis, it is imperative that we reinvent our relationship to water and cultivate an integral water ethic.</p><p> This dissertation, and the ethic it explores, is grounded in an integral approach to ecology that studies phenomena across multiple perspectives (e.g., natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities). Relating t

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Kourie, Mark. "The status of love in philosophy : an examination of the role of love (eros) in the work (or works) of selected French thinkers." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29508.

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This dissertation exposes the status of eros in the works of Levinas, Irigaray, and, Nancy. I begin by evaluating Levinas’s phenomenological analyses of eros in Time and the Other and Totality and Infinity. In order to fully appreciate this, however, I must necessarily also provide a summary overview of the central theme which guides Levinas’s work: ‘the Other.’ This leads Levinas to develop ethics as first philosophy, which in turn implies that the reduction of the Other to the same is the unethical gesture par excellence. Levinas formulates eros as the ‘equivocal par excellence’; a profane r

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Schwartz, Ron. "'That reconciling and mediatory power' : love, will, and imagination in the theology of Samuel Taylor Coleridge." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.286181.

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DeRuff, Henry. "Learning to Live and Love Virtuously." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1880.

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John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant authored two of the most famous pieces of work in ethical theory (Utilitarianism and Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, respectively), yet both fail for various reasons to give us direction by way of living good lives. This thesis begins by outlining those shortcomings, before offering Aristotelian virtue ethics as the solution. Virtue ethics, as conceived by Aristotle, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Julia Annas, delineates a process – grounded in our real lives – by which we may improve as people and therefore flourish, or live good, moral lives: the habituat

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Swisher, Sarah. "As Yourself: A Guide to Self-Love in a Selfless World." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2013. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/34.

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Rogobete, Siviu Eugen. "Subject and supreme personal reality in the theological thought of Fr. Dumitru Staniloae : an ontology of love." Thesis, Middlesex University, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.388493.

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ANDRADE, PEDRO DUARTE DE. "TIME OF QUIETNESS: THE LOVE BETWEEN ART AND PHILOSOPHY IN THE ORIGIN OF GERMAN ROMANTICISM." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2009. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=15112@1.

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CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO<br>Esta tese estuda a tensão que caracteriza o pensamento dos primeiros autores do romantismo alemão, situados entre a consciência crítica (kantiana), que proibia nosso acesso à verdade absoluta, e o desejo de síntese (hegeliano) que pretendia alcançá-la. Nesse contexto, a arte apareceu como forma de dizer o absoluto justamente pela oposição à clareza objetiva pretendida pelo sujeito do conhecimento. Fora do quadro tradicional do classicismo, e trazendo consigo o traço moderno da reflexão, a arte seria genial: sua criação não depend

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Mackey, Matthew C. "When Bird and Fish Fall in Love." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2012. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1596.

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A work of poetry that offers a new method of poetics. By examining translation as a means of understanding relationships, this work offers a nuanced manner for the writing and experience of poetry. When Bird and Fish Fall in Love is a close examination of language, relationships, translation, and the intimacy of conflation.

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Chen, Xiaosheng. "A Neo-Confucian approach to a puzzle concerning Spinoza's doctrine of the intellectual love of God." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2018. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8341/.

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In the last part of Ethics Spinoza introduces the doctrine of the intellectual love of God: God loves himself with an infinite intellectual love. This doctrine has raised one of the most discussed puzzles in Spinoza scholarship: How can God have intellectual love if, as Spinoza says, God is Nature itself? After examining existing.approaches to the puzzle and revealing their failures, I will propose a Neo- Confucian approach to the puzzle. I will compare Spinoza's philosophy with Neo-Confucian (especially Wan Yang-Ming's) philosophy and argue that we can develop a new approach to the puzzle by

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Cassidy, Pierre. "Will to Power: The Philosophical Expression of Nietzsche's Love of Life." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/19945.

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Any adequate interpretation of the concept of the will to power, given the radical break with the history of philosophy it presupposes, requires a preceding analysis of Nietzsche’s critique of the history of philosophy as a critique of metaphysics. Only once Nietzsche’s critique of metaphysics is properly understood as a critique of, in the broadest sense, any correspondence conception of truth, can the philosophical concept of the will to power, as a product of that critique, be understood as well. Each of the three typical types of interpretative approaches to the will to power (i.e. as a

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Bautista, Ramon Maria Luza. "Ignatian prayer and Ignatian discernment : a critical evaluation of exercise of Ignatius Loyola as a school of love." Thesis, Heythrop College (University of London), 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.267870.

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Wheeler, Andrea Susan. "With place love begins : the philosophy of Luce Irigaray, the issue of dwelling, feminism and architecure." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2005. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11386/.

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The question of dwelling, how, where, in what way and in what manner describes a crisis in many professional women's lives especially when living in pursuit of equality becomes dissatisfying and the demands of traditional stereotypes unappealing. Books such as Desiring Practices (1995) demonstrate the need for some sort of shared expression and community to resolve the career frustrations of working academics in traditionally male dominated environments. Documents such as Why Women Leave Practice? (2003) record what is seen as a very real difficulty for the Institution. The important aspect of

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Morrison, Todd. "Light in the heavens insight into love and the logos of God /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.

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Rognlie, Dana. "The Love of Nike: On the Denials of Racialized Patriarchy and the Philosophy of Courageous Overcoming." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23778.

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Motivated by student survivors of sexual violence at the ‘University of Nike,’ this dissertation claims the denial of trauma is a central motor to the temporal operation of racialized patriarchy and its philonikian, or ‘victory-loving,’ notions of masculinity. I bear witness to this ‘temporality of denial’ in the institutional responses of the University of Oregon and UO-alum Phil Knight’s Nike corporation to the group sexual assault of Jane Doe by three university men’s basketball players. I also think through philosophies of overcoming this ancient operation of patriarchy in contemporary tim

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Sabol, Jeffrey Stephen. "Jesus and the Ethic of Love: A Critical Examination of a New Covenant." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2011. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/145.

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Meszaros, Julia T. "Selfless love and human flourishing : a theological and a secular perspective in dialogue." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ed84f996-fa62-4514-bdd7-0ddb2896b0a8.

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The point of departure of this thesis is derived from a modern tendency to create a dichotomy between selfless love and human flourishing. Modern attempts to liberate the human being from heteronomous oppression and the moral norms promoting this have sometimes led to the conclusion that selfless love is harmful to human flourishing. Such a conclusion has gained momentum also through modernist re-conceptualisations of the self as an autonomous but empty consciousness which must guard itself against determination by the other. In effect, significant thinkers have replaced the notion of selfless

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Hamilton, Richard Paul. "What we talk about when we talk about love : an essay in the philosophy of social science." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.408394.

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This thesis is a discussion of erotic love considered as a problem in the explanation of social action. Its primary focus is on attempts to create a general social scientific theory of love. I detect a tendency in theoretical discussions of love that see their task as one of providing an account of what love really means. I argue that such projects persistently misconstrue the nature of our talk about love by failing to see that love is a contested nonnative concept and that saying what love really means itself forms part of our moral disagreements. I discuss several current philosophical atte

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Morton, Matthew Travis. ""Improvisation without Accompaniment" and "What Passes Here for Mountains"." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2020. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1703355/.

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"Improvisation without Accompaniment" is a lyric investigation into the ways that an awareness of mutability and death can clarify or distort our experience of the world. The poems in this collection draw upon the speaker's small-town Texas upbringing to explore broader questions that arise as a consequence of his burgeoning awareness of mortality: What are the moral imperatives for an individual citizen in a larger political community? What are the bidirectional effects of our relationship with place and the environment? Given the painful transience of human experience, what does it mean to l

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James, Michael William. "Unity and diversity, love and conflict: an exploration of the philosophy of life in C.S. Lewis’s Cosmic Trilogy." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/7345.

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The subject of this thesis is to explore the philosophy of life that informs C.S. Lewis’s Cosmic Trilogy (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra and That Hideous Strength). These texts are “spiritual adventures” which exemplify Lewis’s phenomenology of spiritual progress - the movement from self-centredness to Other-centredness. I perform a close reading of the trilogy and attempt to understand the way(s) in which the three major thematic threads - Conflict, Love, and the relationship between Unity and Diversity - all contribute to the proposed phenomenology of the spirit. In the final chapter,

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White, Christopher H. "Hannah Arendt and her Augustinian inheritance : love, temporality, and judgement." Title page, abstract and contents only, 2001. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phw583.pdf.

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Spooner, Holly S. "Agape: Love as the Foundation of Pedagogy and Curriculum." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1524236286626882.

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Maldonado, Dylan. "The Universal Law of Nature Formulation of the Categorical Imperative." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/292682.

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In the <italic>Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals</italic>, Kant gives several formulations of the categorical imperative, one being the universal law of nature formulation. One question that can be raised is why Kant formulates the categorical imperative in terms of universal laws of nature at all. In this paper, I will argue that it is necessary for Kant to formulate the categorical imperative in terms of universal laws of nature in order to demonstrate the applicability of the moral law to our maxims and hence the possibility of the moral law as a functional practical principle.

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Skarlinsky, Solsiree Lynn. "Turn Me On or Off: A Study On Epigenetics and Merleau-Ponty in Angela Carter’s “The Lady of the House of Love”." FIU Digital Commons, 2016. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2465.

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This study aims to trace points of intersection between the too often divorced disciplines of literature, continental philosophy, and the hard sciences in Angela Carter’s “The Lady of the House of Love.” In short, this thesis will not only explore how such conversations surface within the short story, but will also serve as an explication of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy of body and space, and the theory of epigenetics. Through these explications, the thesis itself will also gear one discipline towards the other as both theories intimately bind the environment with the body, and the body

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Allison, Anthony. "Love, law, and reason in the thought of Al-Ghazali and Aquinas." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2013. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4258/.

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The present work is an exploration of the relationship between love and law in Islam and Christianity through the works of al-Ghazālī (c.1056-7-1111 C.E.) and Thomas Aquinas (c.1224/5-1274 C.E). In doing so, it aims to provide the historical theological perspective of two thinkers, each pivotal to their respective tradition, with a view to contributing to contemporary Christian-Muslim discourse, which, since the 2007 Common Word initiative, has had a strongly scholarly focus on love. Notably, however, this discourse has tended to avoid discussion pertaining to how we ‘act out’ such love, parti

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Ahlin, Jael. "Just Love The Other? : An examination of the narrative of “the other” in Hauerwas’ and Bonhoeffer’s theologies." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-445275.

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The processes of “othering” often create coarse images of “the other”, therefore there is a need to rethink the narrative of “the other”. A fruitful narrative of “the other” could be helpful in the interaction in multi-religious and multicultural social settings. The aim is to scrutinize the narrative of “the other” in Christian thought, in order to see if there is a Christian particular and fruitful narrative of “the other”, and if so, if this representation is useful in peace-processes. This study investigates how the representation of “the other” from a Christian context may be helpful in s

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Bosanquet, Agnes Mary. "Carnal transcendence as difference the poetics of Luce Irigaray /." Phd thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/70411.

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Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Media, Music, and Cultural Studies, 2009.<br>Bibliography: p. 303-332.<br>Carnal transcendence and sexual difference -- An amorous exchange -- Angels playing with placentas -- Fluid subjects -- Poetics -- Oneiric spaces -- Conclusion.<br>Carnal transcendence imagines a world in which the carnal has the weight and value of transcendence, and the divine is as liveable and readily evoked as the carnal. Carnal transcendence offers a means of thinking through difference in the work of Luce Irigaray, who asks: "why and how long ago d

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