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“The glory of each generation is to set its own precedent”: Belva Lockwood and the rhetorical construction of female presidential plausibility
Get PDFThis study seeks to understand the rhetorical tactics of Belva Bennett Lockwood, the first woman to run a campaign for U.S. President. Lockwood attempted to make a female presidential candidacy seem plausible by framing her actions as culturally expected, befitting for a woman, and prototypical for future female politicians. Through her use of rhetorical eikos, she seemed to suggest that female political leadership was not just probable but needed in the political culture of the time. A close reading of her campaign speeches and writings reveals the potential of eikotic logos to present a female presidential candidacy as innate, and thus logical, legitimate, and part of an essential future. This essay will present a historical review of Lockwood’s unprecedented political campaigns, an analysis of the theoretical potential of eikos argument as seen through her rhetoric, and commentary on the state of women and cultural perceptions of presidentiality then and now
Love and Respect as Moral Attitudes and Practices of Recognition
Get PDFBeginning from the premise that moral deliberation and action have their roots in the recognition of persons, this paper argues that love deserves to stand on equal footing with respect as a mode of moral recognition. I argue first that as attitudes, respect and love are modes of moral recognition responding to specific others. They thus have similar epistemologies, but are distinguished by their positions along a concrete-abstract axis. In particular, I claim, respect is an attitude that recognizes another as a person, whereas love is an attitude that recognizes another as the person they are. Both attitudes check the ego as they encounter a particular other. And both attitudes are moral in the sense that they require certain kinds of behavior toward the others whom we respect or love.
The problem with casting both love and respect as attitudes directed toward particular others in relatively intimate encounters is that they seem to lose some of their moral leverage, because we do not (and cannot) regularly have such encounters with most people we interact with. This motivates a second argument: that both respect and love have practical counterparts in the normative practices of justice and care, respectively
Interpreting Tobit Two Ways: Inner-biblical Exegesis and Intertextuality
No full textChapter in Intertextual Explorations in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature, edited by Corley, Jeremy and Geoffrey David Miller
The Collegeville chant psalter : for Sundays, solemnities, and major feast days
No full textCollection of responsorial psalms, ordered by psalm number. Contains psalm tones with pointing, and antiphons, both with keyboard accompaniment.https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/sot_books/1113/thumbnail.jp
Beyond Respect: Complexities of Identity, Personhood, and Recognition
Get PDFMainstream analytic philosophy has long focused on a rationalistic conception of persons as the beings that matter morally. This has led to a heavy concentration on respect as a, if not the, core moral attitude. This paper aims to complicate the picture by arguing that personhood is more complex than this, because the identities in virtue of which persons matter are more complex. Persons matter not only as (abstract) persons, but as specific individuals and members of groups. As a result, they should be recognized in corresponding ways that go beyond respect, including love and esteem. Doing so expands our understanding of morality
Synthesis of Dipeptide Aldehyde Fragment of Janolusimide
Get PDFJanolusimide A, and its analogue Janolusimide B, are natural marine tripeptide toxins that act as cholinergic agents and are thus effective antifeedants. Their neurotoxic activity is shown to be antagonized by atropine suggesting an inhibition interaction with acetylcholine receptors and is consequently a potential pesticide. This research project consists of developing conditions for the synthesis of the dipeptide aldehyde fragment in Janolusimide using a Weinreb amide reduction approach. Previous syntheses of Janolusimide required an expensive organoborane catalyst and several synthetic steps. Our process via the Weinreb amide is likely to produce the desired compound in a shorter synthetic process. Progress on this project is still ongoing through optimizing reduction conditions for the Weinreb amide. Future use of the finished product can range from advancement of its enantiomers and their chemical effects to use as a pesticide