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The psychological origins of Sartre's conception of freedom /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1968)
The role of metaphysics, common-sense, and interpretations of classical Greek philosophy in Sidgwick's utilitarianism and Whitehead's virtue ethics.
(2000)
Whitehead's metaphysical and ethical arguments accomplish two related goals. The first is a criticism of modern ethical theory---the Utilitarian views of Sidgwick and Mill and the Theistic Intuitionism of the Cambridge ...
Civic education and self-knowledge in higher education.
(2006)
In this age of multiculturalism, global travel and terrorism, it is vital that citizens be inculcated with the fundamental values of democracy (equality, liberty and self-government) and equipped with the cognitive skills ...
Democratic virtues: Solidarity, tolerance, and reflective obedience.
(2002)
To defend itself, a liberal democracy should promote three virtues: solidarity, tolerance, and reflective obedience. Each helps avoid the conditions Plato fears. Solidarity builds a sense of community to overcome factionalism. ...
Liberation and liberal freedom: A critique of Rawls's "Law of Peoples" in light of positive freedom.
(2006)
1T.H. Green, Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986), 2000.
Self-governance in Aquinas and pre-modern moral philosophy.
(2003)
I conclude the dissertation by offering an account of why Schneewind may have misunderstood Aquinas in the way he did. I contend that Schneewind fails to see the full extent of the rise of divine command theory after ...
Minds, causes and the exclusion argument.
(2000)
The premise that leads to the problem for Nonreductive Physicalism is the Exclusion Principle itself. The Exclusion Principle, naively conceived, is false. The naive Exclusion Principle excludes as causally irrelevant ...
The emergence of objects: A study in constitution.
(2004)
In this dissertation I first motivate the need for the constitution relation by raising what Michael C. Rea has called the problem of material constitution and arguing that many of the so-called solutions of the problem ...
Horizons of the self: An essay in the socio-semiological and psychological boundaries of practical autonomy.
(1998)
The practice of personal autonomy is a dynamic event that consists of a vital interplay between the self, socio-cultural reality, meaning, and being epistemically responsible. Autonomy is not static, something that we ...