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Dowling, Christopher Michael. "The vindication of aesthetic empiricism." Thesis, University of York, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.485354.
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'This doctoral thesis is an examination, and vindication, of a position that has been identified with the expression 'aesthetic empiricism' and typically captured by the claim that 'what is aesthetically valuable in a painting can be detected merely by looking at it - features that cannot be so detected are not properly aesthetic ones' (Currie, 1989). Such a position continues to be a focus for contemporary discussion (e.g., Davies, 2004, 2006, and Graham, 2006), yet it is far from clear precisely what it entails or even who subscribes to it. All that seems to have been agreed is that aesthetic empiricism is false, demonstrably so in the light of Walton's claims in 'Categories of Art' (1970), and Danto's work on indiscernibles (1981). The lack of theoretical clarity would suffice to motivate a closer look at aesthetic empiricism; however, the more specific target of this thesis is· to show that the received treatment is mistaken - aesthetic empiricism, once clearly identified, can be seen to be both intuitive and beguiling. It earns our philosophical consideration by providing a formidable accoiint ofthe aesthetic and also a valuable contribution to our understanding of art criticism.
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Philie, Patrice. "A vindication of logical necessity against scepticism." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/12919.
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Some philosophers dispute the claim that there is a notion of logical necessity involved in the concept of logical consequence. They are sceptical about logical necessity. They argue that a proper characterisation of logical consequence - of what follows from what - need not and should not appeal to the notion of necessity at all. Quine is the most prominent philosopher holding such a view. In this doctoral dissertation, I argue that scepticism about logical necessity is not successful. Quine's scepticism takes three forms. Firstly, he is often interpreted as undermining, in his classic paper 'Two Dogmas of Empiricism', the very intelligibility of notions such as meaning, necessity, and analyticity. If the notion of necessity is meaningless, it is clear that ascriptions of logical necessity are also meaningless. In the thesis, I defend Quine's criticism of these notions by situating it in its historical context and emphasising that the real target in those writings is not the intelligibility of these notions as such, but only their Platonistic interpretation. I agree with Quine that a good theory about meaning, necessity, or analyticity must avoid such an ontological commitment. Secondly, Quine advocates, in the same paper, a holistic picture of knowledge and claims that in this picture, ascriptions of logical necessity are superfluous. I then show that holism a la Quine is committed to admit the necessity of statements of logical consequence. Thirdly, there is Quine's substitutional account of logical consequence (as exposed in his (1970)). He contends that this theory makes no use of logical necessity, thus showing its superfluousness. I show that any plausible account of logical consequence needs to appeal to logical necessity, thus undercutting Quine's claim - and, more generally, undercutting scepticism about logical necessity.
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Winroth, Vanja. "Upprättelse vid kränkande särbehandling i arbetslivet." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för ekonomistyrning och logistik (ELO), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-52015.
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Victimisation at work is a problem able to cause mental illness and the victims often search for vindication, where different regulations can be actualized. The purpose of this essay is to examine the legal framework to show the possibilities to vindication and financial compensation, for an individual exposed for victimisation. Also female-dominated professions possibilities to vindication and financial compensation are examined, especially how it will be affected by the regulation Organizational and social work environment (AFS 2015:4). The method that has been used to fulfil the purposes of the essay is the method of jurisprudence. To fulfil the second purpose the sociology of law was also applied. The result of the essay showed that the regulations hold different possibilities to vindication and financial compensation. However the individual often meet with obstacles. The result also showed that the possibilities to vindicaition and financial compensation for female-dominated professions are effected by the new regulation Organizational and social work environment. The final conclusion is thus, that the legal framework does not provide any distinct way for vindication or financial compensation for victimisation.
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Backlund, Sandra. "Ecuadorian indigenous youth and identities : cultural homogenization or indigenous vindication?" Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-29122.
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There exists a scholarly debate on the cultural impact of globalization and how and to what extent it is affecting indigenous people in particular. Three theoretical standpoints can be discerned from the debate; the homogenization-perspective which holds that globalization is making world cultures more similar, the hybridization-perspective which emphasizes that it is fragmenting cultural boundaries and the differentiation-perspective which implies that globalization is augmenting differences and making humanity as a whole more diverse. As regards the cultural impact of globalization on indigenous peoples, many question marks can be raised. The objective of this research is to contribute to the debate by bringing to light the perspective of the indigenous movement in Ecuador, CONAIE. An analysis is made on how they perceive globalization affecting the maintenance of indigenous identities and culture among today’s youth. That information is then used as a foundation to analyze CONAIE’s level of success regarding their main objective; to preserve Ecuador’s indigenous nationalities and peoples. The study, which has a qualitative ethnographic approach and is based on semi-structured interviews, was carried out during an eight weeks long field study in Quito and in San Pedro de Escaleras, Cuenca, Ecuador. The research has an abductive approach and the theoretical debate on globalization’s cultural impact on indigenous peoples sets the analytical frame of the study. The three theoretical standpoints; globalization as homogenization, globalization as differentiation and globalization as hybridization play central roles in the analysis of the empirical material. The findings show that there are many elements that obstruct the maintenance of indigenous culture and identity among youth in contemporary Ecuador. There is a connection between youth being exposed to cultural globalization and that they lose cultural characteristics for the indigenous identity. Hybridization of identities due to globalization is presented as a possible factor to play a role in this. Indigenous youth tend to drop characteristics for the indigenous identity as they adopt features from the mestizo culture, in case they see no benefit in maintaining the former. This indicates that what ultimately might be at stake is cultural homogenization. Light is also shed on that CONAIE lacks strategies and possibilities to reinforce the indigenous identity among the youth that is in a process of identity change. The findings thus point at that despite efforts for cultural revival by the indigenous movement in Ecuador, the maintenance of rigid frontiers between the ethnically diverse nationalities in the country is threatened. Seen to a larger picture, this implies that globalization’s impact on indigenous culture among youth is very difficult to counteract. It appears as if the move towards more cultural similarity in Ecuador cannot be hindered.
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Merriner, Sabrina Barnes. "The vindication of God's name by God's Spirit in Ezekiel." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.
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Smith, Daniel Alan. "The post-mortem vindication of Jesus in the Sayings Gospel Q." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ64784.pdf.
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Walker, Tara. "Each half a nothing, so disjoined, Mary Shelley's vindication of relational identity." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0023/MQ50584.pdf.
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Walker, Tara. ""Each half a nothing, so disjoined" : Mary Shelley's vindication of relational identity." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21276.
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The notion, which has persisted over many years, of Mary Shelley as the conservative daughter of a radical, proto-feminist mother can be traced to the views of Edward Trelawney, a contemporary and fair-weather friend of Shelley. This study, by exploring female identity, largely in terms of modern feminist psychoanalytic theory, in several of Shelley's lesser-known novels, attempts to contribute to the efforts of those who have challenged such notions and who have strived to render a more accurate portrait of Mary Shelley.Anne Mellor's discussion of female identity in Shelley's sentimental novels, Mathilda, Lodore and Falkner, (in her book Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters) does much to dispel the notion of Shelley's apathy with regard to gender politics. Mellor convincingly argues that these novels celebrate what she terms the "relational" identity of their heroines, and thus "support a feminist position which argues that female culture is morally superior to male culture." She further maintains, however, that these novels simultaneously reveal the damage that such an identity can do to a woman's personal development.
My paper challenges Mellor's assertion that Lodore and Falkner Shelley's last novels, portray relational identity with ambivalence. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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Sulkin, Gail E. Rogers. "A rhetorical analysis of Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1990. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/553.
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Moore, Jane. "Mary Wollstonecraft : a cultural history of a Vindication of the Rights of Women." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.292998.
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The thesis uses poststructuralist feminist theories in conjunction with cultural history to challenge the common feminist suspicion of Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman and propose instead a reading that is historically specific and sympathetic. To bring present-day theories to bear on past texts implicitly raises as an issue the question of reading the past. Part One of the thesis explicitly addresses this question. It examines debates that occurred in the lQ70s over the relationship between narrative an~ history alongside postmodernist interventions in the question of history and explores their implications for what a feminist cultural history might look like. The following~ three chapters silently but consistently allude to the questions of history raised in the opening chapter. These are: how do present-day knowledge's and theoretical projects shape the way we (re)read the past? What is the relationship between the past and the present? Where are past meanings, for example, of femininity produced? Each chapter examines how different editions of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman printed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries invite readers to understand what it means to be feminine, feminist and female and to show in consequence how the meaning of woman, and relatedly of a Vindication, is historically changing and perpetually in struggle. Part Two of the thesis comprises three chapters where feminist poststructuralist theories are used to reread a Vindication of the rights ~ Woman, ~ Wrongs of Woman: ~ Maria and Letters Written during ~ Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. The readings enter into a dialogue with each other on the central question of the relationship between gender, genre and style. They are not offered as definitive interpretations. Rather, their engagement with issues of language, meaning and gender ands to and puts into process the cultural history given in Part One.
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Jung, Darryl. "The problem of the external world : a fallibilist vindication of our claim to knowledge." Thesis, McGill University, 1989. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=59442.
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The celebrated 'veil-of-ideas' argument is a skeptical argument that moves from a certain epistemological doctrine about perception to a general negative conclusion concerning our thoughts about external material objects. Indeed, the argument concludes not only that we do not know, but that neither could we know nor even reasonably believe, any of the thoughts that we may possibly entertain concerning external material objects. The epistemological doctrine about perception referred to in the argument has been in fashion since Descartes and states that the nature of perceptual knowledge in general is inferential.In this thesis, we will attempt to defuse this argument by calling into question the epistemological doctrine upon which it relies. This method of defusing the argument appeals to some of the reasoning to be found in the writings of J. L. Austin and, more recently, John McDowell. The following is a rough outline of how we will proceed. First, we will briefly look at the skeptical argument in question. Second, we will examine the mainstay of the epistemological doctrine, the Argument from Illusion, and argue that without the appeal to a certain view about the nature of appearance, this argument is ineffective. Third, we will adduce reasons for rejecting this view of appearance and put forward an alternative. This alternative requires us to construe knowledge in fallibilist rather than infallibilist terms. Thus, finally, we will examine the fallibilist and infallibilist conceptions of knowledge.
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Snow, Robert S. "Conflict, judgement and vindication Jesus the Son of Man and Caiaphas the little horn /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.
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Sireci, Fioravanti. "Literary criticism as feminist argument in Mary Wollstonecraft's 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman'." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/29366.
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Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman makes its feminist argument primarily through literary criticism. Recent scholarship has generally considered the literary critical dimension of Rights of Woman as a minor component of Wollstonecraft’s explicit political argument and cultural critique. This thesis locates and analyses three literary critiques in Rights of Woman in order to illustrate the specificity of Wollstonecraft’s methods. Wollstonecraft’s critique of Milton utilises a practice of quotation and commentary, and interrogates his prominent role in literary and political canons. Her critique of Rousseau’s Emile is highly instructive because she both attacks its content and attempts to undercut the modes by which this paradigmatic statement of the submissive domestic female had become ‘a prevailing opinion of a sexual character’. Wollstonecraft’s critique of John Gregory, the author of the influential conduct book A Legacy to His Daughters, claims that this work perpetuates Rousseau’s repressive norms, even without the conscious knowledge of its apparently capable author. In doing so, Wollstonecraft theorizes the existence of a self-reproducing ‘male’ literary tradition, one which comprises a broad range of texts, whether by ‘great’ writers or less gifted men, a notion which challenges benevolent images of a purist canon of aesthetic value. In the development of her criticism, Wollstonecraft draws from two contemporary critical traditions. The first is that of the bluestocking women, whose public mastery of literary knowledge gives them the status to promulgate social agendas. The second is the literary periodical, which stands at the very centre of print culture in the eighteenth century. A specific analysis of the literary critical dimension of Rights of Woman illuminates new aspects of the organisation and rhetoric of this key work.
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Bayer, Hans Friedrich. "Jesus' predictions of vindication and resurrection : the provenance, meaning and correlation of the synoptic predictions /." Tübingen : J.C.B. Mohr, 1986. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36619232s.
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Langley, Andrew P. "'They shall know that I am Yahweh' : the vindication of Yahweh in Ezekiel's Oracles against the Nations." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a1b086c1-5305-455b-9c2e-45023f7c2c1d.
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This study examines the theological purpose of the oracles against the nations in the book of Ezekiel (Ezek. 25-32). Through detailed exegesis, this thesis contends that the recognition formula, 'they shall know that I am Yahweh', is the vehicle for this theological purpose since it is fundamentally a statement of the vindication of Yahweh. Having specified in chapter 1 that the primary thesis is supported by two further theses, 'the recognition formula illuminates Yahweh's wrath and his mercy', and 'the recognition formula invites a human response', the work begins with a review of recent Ezekiel research in general that includes a background sketch delineating the context and authorship of the book. Possible original settings of oracles against nations are discussed, as well as a survey of topical scholarly output. A review of work undertaken on the recognition formula continues the preliminary discussion. In chapter 2, the basic form of the saying is defined and this allows the phrases that have expansions or are related by close resemblance to be categorised. The study proceeds with a consideration of the formula found elsewhere in the Hebrew Bible. Chapter 3 examines the formula as it appears in Ezekiel outside the oracles against the nations, paying particular attention to the formula's expansions. In chapter 4, detailed exegesis begins with the oracles against Israel's Palestinian neighbours. It is suggested that Ezekiel uses language for its potential to remind the people of their own culpability and the possibility is mooted that Ezekiel is projecting the guilt and punishment of Israel onto the nations. Chapter 5 contends that Ezekiel's illustrations are aimed at alleviating the exiles' concern about the future by helping them appreciate a bifurcated reality of the unseen present, and that the purpose of the oracles against the nations may be perceived when the relationship between divine wrath and divine mercy is understood to be elucidated by the above theses concerning the recognition formula.
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Berg, Mari. "Female Emancipation through Education : Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska, 2000. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-1444.
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Hearns, Charles Fred. "The Birth of a Nation: The Case for a Tri-Level Analysis of Forms of Racial Vindication." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5366.
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Early American film scholars often critique the relative ineffectiveness of a single literary work, protest movement or silent film to achieve racial vindication following the release of The Birth of a Nation in 1915. Thomas Cripps, for example, examines a relatively ineffective isolated attempt to counter the notions of White supremacy promoted in the film. This study makes the case for applying a non-traditional tri-level analysis when measuring the effectiveness of such attempts. The paper focuses on efforts to redeem the image and the potential of African Americans after 1915 in the Black public sphere in three concurrent vehicles: the written word, the activism of individuals and progressive organizations and the production of silent films. The study defines and distinguishes between racism, anti-racism and racial vindication. Racial vindication is the method used by the men and women that this study focuses on.
The paper begins by documenting how notions of White supremacy and Black inferiority were at the root of America's socio-cultural atmosphere during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. This set the stage for D. W. Griffith's movie. The study then looks at how contemporary scholars in the 1910s and 1920s -- writers, visual artists, civic and community leaders and film makers -- attempted to counter Griffith's propaganda through various means. I argue that there is considerable merit in analyzing the combined efforts of these outspoken men and women to attempt to rescue the humanity of African Americans from Griffith's clutches in three broad arenas. My argument does agree with many film scholars that no one single act of racial vindication sufficiently challenged the effectiveness of The Birth of a Nation. We use as a case study the silent film The Birth of a Race (1918). When this film is considered in isolation, it does have a minimal affect on stemming the tide of racism in America. This is precisely the point of this thesis.
No prominent Griffith scholar has published a comprehensive study that considers how literature, sociopolitical activism and silent film all worked in concert to combat the impact The Birth of a Nation had on America. This paper does so. It contributes to the historiography of early American silent film and the racial vindication movement by calling for a triangular analysis and validation of the cumulative impact varied forms of resistance had on representations of White supremacy in The Birth of a Nation. Chapter III and the study's conclusion comment on the benefits that such an analysis contributes to future studies of racial vindication in response to artistic expressions deemed to be racist.
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Jareño, Gila Claudia. "La revue Vindication Feminista (1976-1979) et le féminisme radical espagnol dans un contexte transnational : actrices, échanges et influences." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 8, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA080103.
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Cette thèse a pour objet l’étude d’une des publications phare de la transition espagnole, la revue Vindicación Feminista. Née quelques mois après la mort du dictateur Francisco Franco, la publication réunit quelques-unes des figures les plus importantes du milieu intellectuel catalan mais aussi des femmes aux trajectoires professionnelles prestigieuses et des militantes anti-franquistes de longue date. Elle se détache tant par la qualité et la diversité des sujets traités que par son esthétique soignée et son intérêt pour les combats des femmes dans le monde. Nous postulons que l’existence d’un objet culturel – la revue Vindicación Feminista –, support d’une pensée féministe radicale semblant déjà bien aboutie en 1976 et 1977, a été rendue possible grâce à un long travail préparatoire durant la dictature. La mise en lumière des biographies des collaboratrices de Vindicación ainsi que des liens unissant les rédactrices entre elles et avec d’autres collectifs et revues étrangères permet de faire ressortir l’existence d’une communauté féministe d’avant-garde et de replacer le mouvement féministe espagnol et notamment le courant radical dans le cadre d’un phénomène plus vaste, transnational, la dénommée « deuxième vague du féminisme ». Mais Vindicación Feminista prend aussi une part active dans les combats pour la restauration des libertés démocratiques de sorte qu’elle peut aussi être interprétée comme étant une revue anti-franquiste à proprement parler. C’est à la croisée de ces deux traditions : anti-franquisme et féminisme de la deuxième vague, que s’élabore le discours de la revueThis thesis aims to study one of the flagship publications of the Spanish transition, the magazine Vindicación Feminista. Established a few months after the death of the dictator Francisco Franco, the publication brings together some of the most important figures of the Catalan intellectual community as well as women with prestigious careers and long-standing anti-Franco activists. The magazine stands out both for the quality and diversity of the subjects discussed, as well as its refined aesthetic and focus on women’s struggles around the world. We submit that the existence of such cultural artefact, which was already consolidated in 1976 and 1977 and supported a radical feminist school of thought, emerged thanks to extensive groundwork laid by feminists during the dictatorship. An examination of the biographies of Vindicación collaborators, and the ties among its editors, other collectives and foreign magazines make it possible to identify the existence of a feminist avant-garde community and to place the Spanish feminist movement, and in particular its radical stream, within the framework of a larger, transnational phenomenon, the so-called “second-wave feminism”. Because Vindicación Feminista also takes an active part in the fight for the restoration of democratic liberties, it can also be interpreted as an anti-Francoist magazine strictly speaking. Indeed, the magazine’s central narrative lies at the cross-roads of these two traditions: second-wave feminism and anti-Franco resistance
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Bosserman, Brant A. "The Trinity and the vindication of Christian paradox : an interpretation and refinement of the theological apologetic of cornelius van Til." Thesis, Bangor University, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.556082.
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"The Trinity and the Vindication of Christian Paradox" grapples with the question of how to honor theological system, apologetic proof, and genuine Christian paradox by building on the. in sights of Dr. Cornelius Van Til. Van Til developed an apologetic where one presupposes that the Triune God exists and has spoken authoritatively in Scripture, and then proves this Christian presupposition by demonstrating that the anti-Christian alternative is self-defeating in the specific sense that it betrays reliance on principles that only the Triune God, as a perfect harmony between unity and diversity, can furnish. Van Til deflects the criticism that theological paradoxes render Christianity self-defeating by arguing that although they cannot be resolved, they can be vindicated as true. Vindication involves showing that the opposing features of a paradox discernibly necessitate one another, and together perform an indispensable function to the Christian system. Yet, Van Til fails to thoroughly vindicate the Trinity by showing that the self-sufficient unity of God requires that he should be specifically tri-personal rather than generically multi-personal. Likewise, subsequent Van Tillians have failed to develop systematic vindications of Christian paradoxes according to the method so described. In an effort to overcome these shortcomings, this thesis supplies a demonstration that God's status as (a) his own source of self-distinction, and (b) his own personal context necessitates that he must be three, and only three persons, in order to be a self-sufficient unity. Our conclusion about the Trinity is necessitated by the covenantal perspective that permeates Scripture. And the Trinity in return is proven to be foundational for a covenantal worldview. This initial vindication of the Trinity supplies a refined vision of the Christian worldview in light of which other prominent Christian paradoxes are vindicated in systematic Succession, and variations on the anti-Christian perspective are dispelled as genuine contradictions.
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Armistead, David Brent. "The "Day of the Lord" in Paul's writings as a motivation for Christian living and as the occasion for God's self-vindication." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 1993. http://www.tren.com.
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Sofia-Rothschild, Ann. "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: A Reflection of the Tension Between Conformity and Rebellion in the Life and Times of Mary Wollstonecraft." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002828.
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Shumate, David R. "The vindication of God's leadership the divine probation of the theocratic order in Numbers 10:11-25:18 and its contribution to the structure and message of the book as a whole /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.
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Vincent, Leah C. "La división del mundos entre los que se rehúsan a ser comprendidos y los que buscan darse a entender sin que esto les aporte privilegio alguno vindication of land and reason in Saraguro, Ecuador /." Ohio : Ohio University, 2010. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1268859422.
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Vincent, Leah C. ""La división del mundo entre los que se rehúsan a ser comprendidos y los que buscan darse a entender sin que esto les aporte privilegio alguno": Vindication of Land and Reason in Saraguro, Ecuador." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1268859422.
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Reed, Amanda Lynn. "Mary Wollstonecraft and the Maternal Body in The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton149278043398332.
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Harris, Cassondra Fay. "Vice or Virtue? American Interpretations of Elizabeth Whitman and Mary Wollstonecraft in the Late Eighteenth Century." Ohio Dominican University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=odu1556907844923407.
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Viklund, Johan. "Hjältar och förebilder : en studie av äventyraren och hans inspirationskällor." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-2507.
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The purpose of this essay is to examine how the adventure is accomplished as a project, and how this is vindicated, through science or by other means. The scientists of today are not seen as adventurers or heroes, at least not as they used to, but this image lives on as a sort of role or social institution, that can be used by anyone and in any purpose. These roles could be seen as a type of rules for the modern adventurer, and act both as a limit or a possibility. This essay compares two North Pole travelers, Ola Skinnarmo and Salomon August Andrée.
Denna uppsats syfte är att undersöka hur man genomför äventyret som ett projekt och hur detta legitimeras, genom vetenskap eller på annat sätt. Vetenskapsmännen ses idag inte som äventyrare eller hjältar, i alla fall inte på samma sätt som förr, men den bilden lever kvar i form av en "rollbeskrivning" eller en sorts "social institution" som kan användas av vem som helst och i alla möjliga syften. Dessa"rollbeskrivningar"skulle kunna ses som en sorts "spelregler" för dagens moderna äventyrare och verka både begränsande och möjliggörande. I uppsatsen jämförs två polarfarare, Ola Skinnarmo och Salomon August Andrée, och deras respektive expeditioner.
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PORETTI, DARIO. "Profili della legittimazione passiva all'azione di rivendica." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/170825.
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La tesi tratta della protezione giuridica della proprietà nel diritto romano. Ci si è concentrati sugli elementi basilari della rei vindicatio per formulam petitoriam.
Dopo una presentazione della legittimazione passiva segue l’esegesi di D. 6.1.9. Si discute del contrasto trai quidam e ulpiano, della sussidiarietà tra le azioni contrattuali e la rei vindicatio. Infine si tratta della facultas restituendi menzionata dal giurista severiano in chiusura del passo.The work deals with the judicial protection of ownership in Roman law. The focus is on the basic elements of the rei vindicatio per formulam petitoriam. After a presentation of the passive legitimation, it follows the exegesis of D. 6.1.9. It is discussed the contrast between the quidam and Ulpiano, of the subsidiarity between the contractual actions and the rei vindication. It finally deals with the facultas restituendi mentioned by the severian jurist in the closing of the step
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Wachira, George Mukundi. "Vindicating indigenous peoples' land rights in Kenya." Thesis, Pretoria : [s.n.], 2008. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-01212009-162305/.
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Lanctot, Denis R. "La révolution féministe contemporaine d'après Alison Jaggar." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ56758.pdf.
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Zrihen, Yorel. "Beyond bad faith : vindicating the quest for being." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0001/MQ39941.pdf.
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Wheeler, Ramona Dee. "Blogging in Defense of Themselves: Social Media Implications for Rhetorical Criticism and the Genre of Apologia." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2013. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3940.
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The advent of social media has provided an arena where barriers to entry are low. Individuals may persuade, question others and defend both their philosophies and their actions. This study examines the classic role of rhetorical criticism as it may apply in new media venues. A blog written by a public figure was examined through a synthesis of rhetorical criticism analyses derived from Ware and Linkugel, Vartabedian, and Downey. Four strategies and associated positioning in the practice of apologia were identified in selected blog posts, indicating the genre of apologia applies to social media apologies and extends the genre of apologia. Rhetorical criticism was found to be an effective tool in identifying rhetorical postures and strategies used in social media.
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Tessier, Marie-Hélène. "A comparative study of feminisms in the writings of Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/24138.
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Les romans de Jane Austen sont souvent perçus comme étant une narration parfaite de la vie domestique au dix-neuvième siècle. La plupart des intrigues sont centrées autour de quelques familles et d'une héroïne qui, à la fin du roman, est récompensée à travers son mariage avec l'homme de son choix (qui s'avère souvent riche et muni d'une bonne position sociale). Puisque les romans d'Austen se terminent généralement par un mariage conventionnel et apparaissent d'une envergure limitée, les analyses des thèmes féministes sous-jacents ne sont pas apparues avant le vingtième siècle. Plusieurs études ont révélé qu'au dessous de ces romans à caractère domestique se cache des arguments féministes en faveur de l'éducation des femmes et une critique des inégalités entre les sexes et des codes de conduite. L'étude qui suit comparera le féminisme d'Austen à celui de Mary Wollstonecraft, à partir de ses essais A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, A Vindication of the Rights of Men, ainsi que ses romans Mary et The Wrongs of Woman. Cette analyse portera aussi sur trois des romans d'Austen : Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility et Mansfield Park. Ces romans reflètent clairement la situation des femmes de l'époque et s'attardent sur l'importance de l'éducation des femmes, les stéréotypes socialement définis, les relations homme-femme et les situations de violence dans le mariage et la famille. En comparant son engagement avec cette problématique aux oeuvres de Wollstonecraft, cette étude démontre que, au travers de ses romans, Austen était beaucoup plus consciente et engagée avec la société dans laquelle elle vivait qu'on ne l'imaginait
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Walter, Martin. "Vindicating the right? : populism and the origins of the Tea Party Movement." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2016. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34177/.
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Vindicating the Right? Populism and the Origins of the Tea Party Movement analyses the founding process of the Tea Party movement using the framework of populism theory. At the centre of populism theory stands the claim that populist movements frame politics as confrontation between the virtuous ‘people’ and powerful elites. The work of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe further argues that populism is used to articulate hegemonic projects. As scholars have found, in contemporary liberal democracies populism articulates hegemonic projects that claim to represent ‘the people’ against unresponsive governments often in response to widespread dissatisfaction with democratic processes. Tea Party populism is no exception. This thesis argues that the foundation of the Tea Party took place in the context of a multi-layered crisis related to the economic downturn, the crisis of contemporary conservatism, rising party polarisation, growing inequality and declining faith in government and democratic institutions. I contend that the initial appeal of the Tea Party was due to the movement’s capacity to respond to this crisis and channelled a deep seated distrust of government into populist anti-elite resentment. With the help of a wide range of sources, including Tea Party literature, blogs, websites, videos and accounts from periodicals this thesis demonstrates how the movement constructed a collective identity of ‘the people’ as defenders of constitutional right, national values and free market capitalism. The Tea Party’s reliance on the themes of conservative Americanism also relates it to the hegemonic project of American conservatism and this thesis demonstrates that the Tea Party movement is as much an outcome as it is a part of the conservative movement’s attempt to use populism to rearticulate its hegemonic claims in the aftermaths of the defeat of the Republican Party in the elections of 2008.
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Calloway, TaLeiza J. "Framing the Black Community: A Content Analysis of The Plain Dealer, Akron Beacon Journal and The Vindicator." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1217269787.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Kent State University, 2008.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Oct. 26, 2009). Advisor: Max Grubb. Keywords: African-Americans; framing; media; newspapers; representation; agenda setting. Includes bibliographical references (p. 72-77).
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Bradley, Conleth. "The judicial interpretation of sovereignty in the asylum code in Ireland : vindicating human rights and/or securing national boundaries." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.680499.
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The central finding of this thesis adopts a positivist and 'orthodox' perspective (in contrast to what has been described as the 'heresy' of, for example, the Critical Legal Studies movement) in suggesting that the view each judge has of his or her interpretive function is dispositive of a differential judicial approach to the application of the principle of sovereignty in the asylum and immigration code in Ireland and that this perspective is further informed by a series of identifiable factors which, to date, have been the subject of a largely normative assessment from either a human rights approach or the protection of the state in effective immigration control and the securing of national boundaries. The variables or factors which inform this varied judicial approach can be grouped as firstly, the competing rights (including, in particular, constitutional rights) which arise in various aspects of the asylum and immigration process including, for example, detention, direct provision, family re-unification and the position of Irish citizen children and secondly, the (arguably differential) application of the law of the European Union (in referring matters of European law to the Court of Justice of the European Union for advisory opinions) and the application of the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights by Irish Superior Courts. The chronological overview adopted covers the period from 2000 to 2014 (2000-2004; 2005-2009; 2010-2014) and the decisions reviewed comprise the judgments of the High Court and the Supreme Court as the process for challenging decisions in an asylum, immigration and citizenship context is' a statutory judicial review procedure which can only be brought in the Superior Courts, i.e. initiated in the High Court and appealed to the Court of Appeal (from October 2014) and the Supreme Court
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Fogell, Marion. "Vindicating the fads : a study of the contribution of some late 20th century business management methods to the growth of intellectual capital in the organisation." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/1024.
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Nouwade, Gamèli. "La vindicte populaire et le droit pénal." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université Clermont Auvergne (2021-...), 2021. http://www.theses.fr/2021UCFAD036.
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En dépit des atteintes graves qu’il porte à l’ordre social, la vindicte populaire n’a jamais fait l’objet d’une étude juridique approfondie pour recevoir la réponse pénale adéquate. En effet, si le phénomène mobilise les chercheurs au-delà des sciences juridiques, il n’y a pas d’études juridiques spécifiques sur la question. Pourtant, le phénomène vindicatif persiste, évoluant d’ailleurs de la forme physique vers la forme numérique, avec pour conséquence une augmentation considérable du nombre de victimes, signe d’une délinquance de plus en plus importante. Toutefois, en l’état du droit positif, les contours, les manifestations, les modes d’expression et les motivations de cette forme de délinquance sont jusque-là indéterminées. Or, les pouvoirs publics ne peuvent combattre efficacement un phénomène criminel dont ils n’ont pas la maitrise. Notre recherche s’est donc évertuée à étudier les rapports que le droit pénal entretient avec la délinquance vindicative. Elle propose un diagnostic puis des pistes de réflexion en vue d’un traitement pénal de la vindicte populaire. Il a été constaté que l’épreuve entre la vindicte populaire et le droit pénal est sulfureuse et rude, très riche mais très intrigante : c’est une liaison dangereuse. Plus concrètement la vindicte populaire s’exprime face au droit pénal et le droit pénal la réprime à son tour. Dans son expression, il ressort de notre étude, qu’à l’instar de la covid 19, le virus de la vindicte dont souffre le corps social renferme de multiples variants, ce qui rend sa compréhension et son appréhension difficile. Les modes d’expression de la vindicte populaire ont été donc identifiés, une définition proposée et des moyens de prévention identifiés. Dans son élan de répression, face au phénomène vindicatif, le droit pénal peine à trouver ses repères. Il a essayé non sans difficulté d’endiguer le phénomène en procédant autant par adaptation que par innovation. Mais les outils utilisés en l’état son peu efficaces. C’est donc un droit pénal timide qui subit les assauts d’une vindicte dynamique, protéiforme et mutante. Il a été suggéré de repenser la réponse pénale en érigeant la vindicte populaire en incrimination spéciale avec un régime spéciale de responsabilitéIn spite of the serious attacks on the social order, mob justice has never been the subject of an in-depth legal study in order to receive the appropriate penal response. Indeed, although the phenomenon mobilizes researchers beyond the legal sciences, there are no specific legal studies on the issue. However, the vindictive phenomenon persists, evolving moreover from the physical form to the digital form, with as a consequence a considerable increase in the number of victims, a sign of a more and more important delinquency. However, as far as positive law is concerned, the contours, manifestations, modes of expression and motivations of this form of delinquency are still undetermined. However, the public authorities cannot effectively combat a criminal phenomenon that they do not control. Our research has therefore endeavored to study the relationship that criminal law has with vindictive delinquency. It proposes a diagnosis and then lines of thought for a penal treatment of popular vindictiveness. It has been noted that the test between popular vindictiveness and criminal law is sulphurous and rough, very rich but very intriguing: it is a dangerous connection. More concretely, popular vindictiveness expresses itself in the face of criminal law and criminal law represses it in its turn. In its expression, it emerges from our study that, like covid 19, the virus of vindictiveness from which the social body suffers contains multiple variants, which makes its understanding and apprehension difficult. The modes of expression of popular vindictiveness have therefore been identified, a definition proposed and means of prevention identified. In its drive to repress the phenomenon of vindictiveness, criminal law is struggling to find its bearings. It has tried, not without difficulty, to curb the phenomenon by adapting as much as by innovating. But the tools used at present are not very effective. It is thus a timid criminal law that is undergoing the assaults of a dynamic, protean and mutant vindictiveness. It has been suggested to rethink the penal response by making mob justice a special incrimination with a special regime of responsibility
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Houedjissin, Mededode. "Les victimes devant les juridictions pénales internationales." Phd thesis, Université de Grenoble, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00628543.
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La position des victimes sur la scène pénale internationale a considérablement évolué depuis la mise en place des tous premiers tribunaux militaires internationaux en 1945. Même si les victimes n'ont pas, à proprement parler, le statut de " partie " au procès pénal international, leur participation au procès est désormais une garantie, avec des droits substantiels. L'étendue de ces droits, aux différentes phases de la procédure, clarifie la manière dont les dispositions correspondantes du droit positif international sont interprétées par le juge pénal international. La fonction des victimes tient, dans un premier temps, davantage à " corroborer l'action publique " internationale qu'à pouvoir déclencher par elles-mêmes cette action destinée à établir la culpabilité ou non des personnes, objets du procès pénal international. Leur rôle se renforce finalement au moment de la présentation, par la voie subsidiaire d'intervention, des réclamations civiles, et plus largement de la recherche d'une pleine satisfaction ; moment au cours duquel les victimes deviennent de véritables " parties civiles " disposant pleinement de la capacité juridique internationale pour faire valoir leur droit. Ainsi, fort de leur action, les victimes paraissent dans une posture " double ", vindicative (répression) et réparatrice (indemnisation). L'objectif, visé et atteint, était donc de montrer quelle était aujourd'hui la place des victimes devant les juridictions pénales internationales.
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Wright, Matthew Davidson. "A vindication of politics : political association and human flourishing." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-12-4499.
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Precipitated by important work in recent natural law political theory, this research revisits the relationship between political association and human flourishing. Does the political community itself realize some aspect of human sociability intrinsic to our full flourishing or is it simply an instrumental good? The inquiry begins with a thorough examination of the merits of John Finnis’s influential argument for an instrumental political common good, pointing to a significant lacuna in his inattention to the value of political activity, as opposed to the operation of government and law. In building an alternative positive account the argument relies upon both formal and substantive considerations, generally employing an Aristotelian methodology of understanding the whole via a consideration of its constitutive parts. First, drawing from Aquinas’s Aristotelian commentaries to unpack the basic structure of part/whole relationships within the “body politic,” I argue that political community is partially defined by the nature of its basic constitutive parts. The next chapter considers the substantive good of familial association, particularly in light of longstanding concerns with the family’s particularity and inequality. I argue that the intrinsically liberal and educative character of parental love rightly orients children to virtuous activity and invests familial association with an intrinsic rationality. The final two chapters bring direct focus onto the political common good: First, I argue that a normatively compelling account of the political common good must be both inclusivist, i.e., including within its purpose the irreducibly diverse goods of every individual and basic association within the community, and distinctive, i.e., including within the calculus of practical reason the good of the political association as such. Lastly, I argue that the political common good is intrinsically—though only partially—constitutive of the human social good. Aquinas makes a crucial shift away from Aristotle’s political primacy in his more pluralistic account of human sociability and emphasis on the extensiveness of the political good over the superiority of political activity per se. Nevertheless, there are essential human virtues—justice, love, generosity—that are uniquely, if not exclusively, fostered in political community and potentially realized in civic friendship.text
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Zylberman, Ariel. "The Relationship of Right: A Constitutive Vindication of Human Rights." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/43766.
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What is the fundamental justification of the idea of human rights? In this dissertation I argue that human rights are justified in virtue of the special role they play in practical thought: they function as the constitutive conditions of the relationship of right. This answer has two distinctive features: it justifies human rights non-instrumentally and relationally, as those claim rights universally necessary for relating to each other as juridical equals, as lacking authority over one another. This constitutive argument for human rights contrasts with the predominant theories of human rights, which tend to justify human rights instrumentally as means for the protection of an independently intelligible (and non-relational) purpose (e.g., basic needs, urgent interests, autonomy, capacity-development). A strong reason for endorsing the account proposed here is that it explains better than its instrumentalist competitors the universal validity of human rights while offering a more robust response against the human rights skeptic. Furthermore, this constitutive argument gives us the resources for seeing how human rights form an indivisible whole comprising civil, political, social, economic and cultural rights and how human rights structure an international order of peace. My account thus promises to offer a much-needed defense of the ideals enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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Poriazis, Komnas. "A critique of the market and a vindication of self-determination." Thesis, 2014.
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Burgess, Michael Martyn. "The vindication of Christ : a critique of Gustavo Guitierrez, James Cone and Jurgen Moltmann." 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16213.
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The problem of universal oppression has caused Gutierrez, Cone and Moltmann to advocate that God is orchestrating an historical programme of liberation from socio-economic, racial and political suffering. They feel that God's liberating actions can be seen in the Abrahamic promise, the exodus and the Christ-event.
Moltmann, especially, has emphasized both the trinitarian identification with human pain and the influence of the freedom of the future upon the suffering of the present. According to our theologians, Jesus Christ identified with us, and died the death of a substitutionary victim. Through the resurrection, Jesus Christ overcame the problem of suffering and death, and inaugurated the New Age. The cross and resurrection were the focal point of God's liberating activity. Liberation, or freedom, from sin and suffering is now possible, at least proleptically. We are to understand the atonement as having been liberative rather than forensic or legal, although judgement is
not ignored. Both the perpetrators of injustice and their victims are called upon to identify with, and struggle for,
freedom, with the help of the liberating Christ.
We agree with our theologians that God has historically indicated his desire for justice and freedom. The magnitude of evil and suffering still existing, however, forces us to abandon the idea that God is progressively liberating history. Nevertheless, we affirm the idea that the Trinity has absorbed human suffering into its own story through the incarnate Son. Jesus identified with suffering in a four-fold way, namely: its existence, the judgement of it, the overcoming of it, and the need to oppose it. This comprehensive identification gives Christ the right to demand the doing of justice, because the greatest injustice in history has happened to him. The atonement
was forensic, rendering all people accountable to Christ; but it was also liberative, validating the struggle against oppression. Furthermore, at his second coming, Christ will be vindicated in whatever judgement he will exact upon the perpetrators of injustice or oppression. For today the resurrection still gives hope and faith to those who suffer and to those who identify with themPhilosophy, Practical & Systematic Theology
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GAUR, NIKHIL. "RESPONCE VINDICATION OF EFFECTS OF CORNER CONFIGURATION AND INTERFERENCE ON TALL BUILDINGS UNDER WIND LOADS USING CFD MODELLING." Thesis, 2020. http://dspace.dtu.ac.in:8080/jspui/handle/repository/18365.
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This study explores a recent application of the computational fluid
dynamics technique “CFD” for wind analysis and its comparisons with the
conventional wind tunnel experimentations. This study is centered on the wind
response of square and corner cut-shaped building models and its optimization
caused by the variation of the wind incidence angle. Extensive rigid model
experiments of two building models of length scale 1:100 have been performed in the
boundary layer wind tunnel. The numerical analysis has been carried out with the
standard k-ε turbulence model to evaluate the force coefficients, base moments,
power spectra, external surface pressure coefficients, and flow field characteristics of
the models with variable wind angles of incidence. The comparisons between
experimental results and CFD analysis suggest the computational approach’s
viability in wind analysis of tall structures efficiently and accurately. A case study of
aerodynamic mitigation by corner cut suggests minor modification techniques
performance, efficiency, and limitations. Wind induced interference plays a vital role
in the design of tall structures. However, the complex features of structure design and
shape require a detailed wind tunnel/CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) study as
codal provisions don’t suffice for such scattered parameters. iv
The current study focuses on the effects of height ratio, orientation, and
blockage configuration of interfering structure on interference effects. Interference
factor (IF), transient pressure, and force spectra are used to account for the
interference effects at major probe points to understand the dynamic wind response.
To study these effects among complex arrangements, a numerical simulation for a
CFD analysis on a corner configured principal building model and a single upstream
interfering building model having identical geometry has been performed. The
configuration included six kinds of heights ratio (Hr=Hprincipal/Hinterfering).
Furthermore, force coefficients, base moments, and external surface pressure
coefficients both in the along and across wind direction are determined and listed for
wind incidence angle of attack of 0° to 90° at an interval of 15°. Interference effects
among full, half, and no blockage conditions were investigated. The data is presented
in terms of the interference factor relating wind load responses of the isolated
principal building to interference configuration. The results indicate that in close
proximity of structure, the shielding effect suppresses the interference effects on the
principal building, but across wind responses have been investigated in close vicinity
configurations too. This study also suggests the interfering model’s orientation
contributes to great measures to the wind response under interference.
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Chang, Mei-fang, and 張美芳. "A Study of Mary Wollstonecraft''s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman with Reference to Charlotte Bront''s Jane Eyre." Thesis, 1997. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/85550735189465099120.
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This thesis attempts to study the four major themes:gender, education,marriage and work opportunity in Mary Wollstonecraft'' s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in order to discuss women''s condition and status from the late eighteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century. Charlotte Bronte''s Jane Eyre is exemplified and showed as the fictional counterpart to The Rights of Woman through the heroine''s struggle, her development of self-awareness and maturity between love and marriage, reason and feeling.
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Scholzová, Alena. "Motiv ospravedlnění ve staroegyptském náboženství." Master's thesis, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-310378.
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This thesis focuses on the motive of justification in the ancient Egyptian religion. It explores its meaning and history of occurrence. It does so in the context of death, afterlife and Judgment of the Dead. The aim was to provide an overview of the development of justified title achievement, especially in the Pyramid Texts, Coffin Texts and Book of the Dead. The conclusion is that the motive of justification in ancient Egyptian religion evolved along with the concept of Judgment of the Dead with whom he was associated.
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Moses, Nalini. "Pauline thought on suffering : a historical-religious investigation." Diss., 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17515.
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This research conducted according to the phenomenological method investigated the Pauline concept of suffering. It traces the historical development in Paul's thinking on suffering. The two lines of Paul's suffering are his personal
suffering - his struggle with the thorn in the flesh; and his suffering through persecution for Christ's sake. It is
through his personal suffering that Paul endears himself to his readers. 2 Cor.12:1-10 reveals the function of the thorn - it brings vindication. Paul's personal suffering merges with his suffering for Christ, and the note of joy, hope, glory and vindication is emphasized. Just as Paul shares in Christ's suffering, he will share in the victory and glory too. Paul sees his suffering in the light of Christ's suffering and the suffering of his readers in the light of
his suffering.Religious Studies and Arabic
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Lazarou, Michael. "Vindicating Vague Objects." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/123625.
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Until recently, vagueness has been seen as a product of representation alone; a byproduct of the limitations of our language or our ability to know the truth. To endorse the contrasting idea that vagueness can come from the world – and to endorse the existence of vague objects – has often been a maligned enterprise. Indeed, proponents of the view have been charged with mistaking features of the world for features of our language or minds, mistaking a question of language and epistemology for a question of metaphysics. Further, even granting the plausibility of such a view, the thesis that vague objects can exist has been laden with commitment to problematic notions such as vague identity and vague existence. This thesis examines the prospects of defending the idea that vague objects exist, vindicating the cogency of such a view and decoupling it from these problematic notions. Chapter 1 begins by examining Gareth Evans’ seminal reductio against vague objects, in which the existence of vague objects is tied to the fate of vague identity. Engaging with the literature that Evans’ paper generated, we show that vague objects need not be committed to a contradictory notion of vague identity; rather, one can defend an account of vague objects without the need for revisionary logics or gerrymandered notions of identity. Chapter 2 extends the investigation of vague objects by considering the Problem of the Many, a powerful paradox which appears to undermine seemingly well-founded mereological principles and intuitions. After evaluating existing solutions to the problem, we show how vague objects can be used to develop a novel solution that is couched within the logical apparatus defended in Chapter 1. We then demonstrate how the novel solution offers a fruitful means of responding to the problem while retaining desired mereological principles. Chapter 3 draws on the discussion in the preceding chapters to defend the cogency of vague objects in the context of contemporary views of metaphysical vagueness. Specifically, we show that defending the existence of vague objects has genuine utility for supporting a defence of the intelligibility of metaphysical vagueness. We end with a brief examination of the prospects of extending the novel account of vague objects developed, and consider how this view may be applied to future investigations in metaphysics.Thesis (MPhil) -- University of Adelaide, School of Humanities, 2019
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Janeček, Václav. "Sankční aspekty náhrady škody (právně-komparativní analýza)." Master's thesis, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-329335.
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Czech courts regularly deal with a question of so-called just satisfaction; particularly, when, on what basis, and how much should be awarded. Just satisfaction, as a form of damages, is primarily compensatory. However, there are some indications that it is perfectly legitimate for law of damages to pursue also another aims than compensation such as prevention or punishment. This view was recently upheld by the Czech Constitutional Court and the Highest Court of the Czech Republic. According to doctrinal approach, it is the domain of punitive or exemplary damages as a specific Anglo-American instrument that covers these two principles (prevention and punishment). Still, the Czech Civil courts consistently refuse to award exemplary damages albeit they do not provide us any sound argumentation. The author of this article suggests it is inaccurate and only partial understanding of exemplary damages that causes the current judicial refusal of them. While focusing on current English and Czech law, the author in his article describes exemplary damages in great detail with respect to their theoretical, conceptual and systematic position. Subsequently, he shows that the negative attitude of the Czech courts is not always appropriate. First, looking at relevant case law, the article characterises what the...
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Tkweme, W. S. "Vindicating karma: Jazz and the Black Arts movement." 2007. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3275741.
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This dissertation examines certain dimensions of jazz rhetoric, performance, and organizational activity that occurred during the period of the Black Arts movement, the thrust of which corresponded to the larger goals and modes of expression of that phenomenon. The first chapter interrogates definitions of the Black Arts movement, and contextualizes the emergence of black consciousness themes arising in jazz in the 1960s and 1970s by considering the history of racial appeals and identity assertions in the music prior to this period. The second chapter documents the musical activities of the Black Arts era, identifying major tropes and analyzing and historicizing specific modes of carrying this Afrocentric message. The third chapter examines the rise of a generation of African American jazz critics, who sought to define the meaning of the music, and its relationship to black communities and the social and political movements engendering fundamental changes in the perception and practice of race in America. The fourth chapter engages the theme of African American community sponsorship of jazz. The relationship of jazz, and especially experimental jazz, to black communities has been considered largely a nil one. Focusing on the Black Experience in Sound concert series of The East, this chapter challenges the notion and presents evidence that many African Americans were quite invested in the music and its use as a nation-building tool. The conclusion briefly addresses organizational manifestations of self-determination in jazz, and makes an argument for a more expansive view of the Black Arts movement in assessing its achievements and lasting masterworks.