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An attempt to determine a basis for affective democratic fields
| dc.creator | Veselka, Van Kenneth | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-06-07T22:57:55Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-06-07T22:57:55Z | |
| dc.date.created | 1999 | |
| dc.date.issued | 1999 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1999-THESIS-V48 | |
| dc.description | Due to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality control issues may be present in this document. Please report any quality issues you encounter to digital@library.tamu.edu, referencing the URI of the item. | en |
| dc.description | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 97-99). | en |
| dc.description | Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis pursues an understanding of the meaning of democracy when democracy is taken as a meaningful term by virtue of being a proper word in our language, the notion of meaning involves both ''what does x mean'' and ''what do we mean by x", and (3) we must include and account for the tension between "x is a democracy'' and ''x is being democratic''. The thesis treats as an assumption that the meaning of democracy cannot be satisfied without satisfying and above. It is the task of the thesis to show that these conditions require the introduction of a general notion of affecting or affective relations, and that a path to these kinds of relations is available through (a) the understanding and rejection of atomism, (b) the notion of separate things as things in fields, and (c) a rejection of physicalist reductionism that permits real meanings for each field. | en |
| dc.format.medium | electronic | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Texas A&M University | |
| dc.rights | This thesis was part of a retrospective digitization project authorized by the Texas A&M University Libraries in 2008. Copyright remains vested with the author(s). It is the user's responsibility to secure permission from the copyright holder(s) for re-use of the work beyond the provision of Fair Use. | en |
| dc.subject | philosophy. | en |
| dc.subject | Major philosophy. | en |
| dc.title | An attempt to determine a basis for affective democratic fields | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |
| thesis.degree.discipline | philosophy | en |
| thesis.degree.name | M.A. | en |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | en |
| dc.type.genre | thesis | en |
| dc.type.material | text | en |
| dc.format.digitalOrigin | reformatted digital | en |
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