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Freedom and its Capacity to Shape Morality: How Kant’s understanding of freedom leads to being obliged to act morally
Get PDFIn our everyday life we face a multitude of moral questions. Often these are not posed explicitly but, still, there are many delicate choices to be made: for example, whether or not we ought to be truthful to a friend knowing this will make her unhappy or whether we ought to scan all shopping goods at the self-service counter in the supermarket although we know that nobody would notice our leaving one out. Most of us have a clear opinion on what we think is right and what we think is wrong, but what is the ground for that? Questions as those posed in the examples above call for principles which guide us to right actions. What kind of principle for morality could there be? And if there is one, do we have the freedom to choose to act in accordance to it or is there an obligation which confines freedom in this sense? How can we be obliged to act morally? How does this relate to our freedom
A Priori Entailment is not Worth the Costs
Get PDFIs metaphysics essentially an investigation from the armchair? An exercise characteristic of armchair philosophy is analysis. The philosopher takes a term \u27F\u27 she is interested in and enquires into the necessary and sufficient conditions for something being an F. In a series of articles Frank Jackson argues that such analysis does play an essential role in metaphysics.
This essay evaluates his argument. In the first section, I reconstruct Jackson\u27s inference from what constitutes serious metaphysics to the essential role of analysis. Section 2 presents obvious objections to this argument which cause Jackson to elaborate a two-dimensional descriptivism of natural kind terms.
This, however, leads straight into a dilemma, or so I argue (3). The final section bolsters my refusal of Jackson\u27s argument by identifying a valid and less controversial alternative
Mallory O’Meara, The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
Get PDFThe Colour Fantastic: Chromatic Worlds of Silent Cinema / Sarah Street and Joshua Yumibe, Chromatic Modernity: Color, Cinema, and Media of the 1920s
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“Love, Divine and Human: Contemporary Essays in Systematic and Philosophical Theology” edited by Oliver D. Crisp, James M. Arcadi and Jordan Wessling
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Oliver D. Crisp, James M. Arcadi and Jordan Wessling, eds., Love, Divine and Human: Contemporary Essays in Systematic and Philosophical Theology (London: T&T Clark, 2020), pp. viii + 260, ISBN 978-0567687739. £95.0
When Mind and Memory Flee …: Hymns and ministry to people with dementia
Get PDFDrawing on his experience as a part-time hospital Chaplain, Graham Deans reflects on how in worship services for geriatric patients, the singing of familiar hymns very often had the effect of restoring lucidity and comprehension to the minds of dementia sufferers affected by memory loss and confusion. His paper considers therapeutic value of hymn singing and looks in some detail at particular examples of hymns focussed on ageing and dementia
"Human Nature from Calvin to Edwards" by Paul Helm
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Paul Helm, Human Nature from Calvin to Edwards (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Reformation Heritage Books, 2018), pp. ix + 282, ISBN 978-1601786104. £23.9
