Browsing by Subject "Philosophy"
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(2021-07-26)The history of philosophy has been characterized by a suspicion of technology. Discourses surrounding technology—from the pre-Socratics to the present—often position technology as an external other and as something that ...
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(2013-02-04)Due to vast changes in religious thinking, an attempt to rethink, and ultimately explode and recreate, religious typology in architecture as it exists becomes necessary. An intense review on existential and pragmatic ...
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Thomas Aquinas has written on the topic of mercy and justice as virtues. I use his theories to outline an idea of how forgiveness is an act of mercy. I build off Glen Pettigrove’s Forgiveness and Love to define forgiveness. ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1977)In 1797 Coleridge's main philosophical concern involved the "causae causarum": the fundamental causes of evil and suffering. The immediate physical causes of evil that had earlier held his attention, such as Property, ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)The sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson form a narrative which tells the story of a protagonist who would become a "genuine man." Tracing Emerson's personal and philosophical development for the years 1826-1832, the sermons ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1979)Melville's "Mardi" contains a largely unexplicated body of philosophical discussions and discourses which depict his extensive intellectual development during the two years in which the book was written (Spring 1847 to ...
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This thesis addresses the fact that we often obey our perceived authorities to the point of immorality. Why do we obey? How does education affect obedience in either a good or bad way? Ought we always obey? If not, when ...
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(2019-07-17)This thesis provides an original analysis of the writings of American poet Theodore Roethke (1908-1963). Specifically, this thesis argues that in order to be more fully understood Roethke’s writings ought to be examined ...
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(2020-05-27)After decades of relative obscurity, Herman Melville’s 1876 poem, Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land, has been gaining much more critical attention in the last twenty years as a work of great literary significance. ...
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(2017-05-10)This dissertation belongs to the territory of the undefinition: the essay, as a literary gender with no limits, is the core of the analysis though their sub-gender “periodical essay”, a theoretical complex literary form ...
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(2012-02-14)In my personal experience, I have discovered notable aesthetic problems that face many contemporary evangelical churches. In spite of these churches’ best efforts, they fail to bridge the culture gap and foster a meaningful ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)A study of current reading instruction and research reveals a dichotomy in philosophy and practice. This study examined factors contributing to the development of theoretical orientation to reading in 57 preservice teachers. ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)Ever since Hempel and Oppenheim's development of the Deductive Nomological model of scientific explanation in 1948, a great deal of philosophical energy has been dedicated to constructing a viable model of explanation that ...
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A People's History of Philosophy: The Development and Ideological Segregation of Black Nationalism (2012-10-19)The primary objective of this thesis is to advocate for Black Nationalism's full inclusion in the academic field of political philosophy. By bringing the thinkers in the Black Nationalist tradition into this discourse, the ...
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(2018-04-23)Education has played a primary role in the development of democracy, beginning with its inception in Ancient Greece. It would be a mistake to examine the modern relationship between education and democracy without using ...
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(2018-04-12)This dissertation re-examines the relationship between Machiavellian and Platonic political philosophies. Machiavelli scholars have argued for years that Machiavelli is so completely hostile and dismissive of Plato that ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)Rhetoric, as defined by Aristotle, is persuasion, "the art of finding the arguments." Aristotle described three appeals, methods of persuasion: logos (logic), pathos (emotion), and ethos (ethical persuasion through character). ...
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(2016-03-24)This thesis is proposing an alternative way to view the notions of sacred and profane that better facilitates conversation in public discourse. Currently, public conversation tends to not acknowledge that there can be ...
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(2009-05-15)My thesis is a collection of my own original poetry and short fiction written as a kind of response to Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself." Instead of having Whitman continue to represent me through his poem, I wish to represent ...
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(2011-10-21)This dissertation confirms war as the zenith of aesthetic experience and demonstrates the pragmatic nature of war through explication of John Dewey’s aesthetic philosophy. Likewise, the coherency of Carl von Clausewitz’s ...