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A critical comparison of William James and Søren Kierkegaard on religious belief
No full textThis thesis is a critical comparison of the accounts of religious belief proposed byWilliam James and Søren Kierkegaard. Both James and Kierkegaard greatly emphasizethe subjective aspects of religious belief. In view of this fact, surprisingly littlecomparative work has been done in this area. I contribute to this literature in two ways.Firstly, I make a brief assessment of what James knew of Kierkegaard’s work.Secondly, I draw four comparisons between Kierkegaard and James. In Chapter One Iexamine the claim that Kierkegaard proposes a pragmatist account of faith of the kindthat James sets out in his essay The Will To Believe. I argue that this claim rests on amisunderstanding of Kierkegaard’s argument that to have faith is to take a risk. In thefollowing chapter I discuss James’s and Kierkegaard’s views on formal proofs for theexistence of God. Both philosophers reject the notion that faith can be based on suchproofs. I distinguish between their positions, and argue in favour of Kierkegaard’s. Inthe third chapter I compare Kierkegaard’s and James’s accounts of religious experience.James views religious experiences as a special kind of evidence for the existence ofGod. For Kierkegaard it is a mistake to view religious experiences as evidence. Suchexperiences should be understood in relation to the concept of religious authority. In thefinal chapter I examine Kierkegaard’s conception of faith as a life-view. I argue that forKierkegaard a life-view is a fundamental perspective on one’s existence. I compare thisconception with James’s concept of philosophical temperament and in relation to hisdiscussion of the sick soul
<i>Progress in bioethics: Science, policy, and politics</i>, edited by Jonathan D. Moreno and Sam Berger
No full text Jonathan D. Moreno and Sam Berger, Progress in bioethics: Science, policy, and politics, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2010, reviewed by James Lindemann Nelson </jats:p
A panegyric on the Reverend D--n S----t. [electronic resource] : In answer to the libel on Dr. D--y, and a certain great L--d.
No full textAttributed to James Arbuckle. Sometimes also attributed to Jonathan Swift.D--n S----t = Jonathan Swift.Dr. D--y = Patrick Delany.A certain great L--d = John Carteret.Attribution from Contemporary studies of Swift's poetry, 1981, pp.178-209Foxon,Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from British Library
Control and reliability of optical networks in multiprocessors
Get PDFThesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1993.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 138-142).by James Jonathan Olsen.Ph.D
'Giving honour to the Spirit' : a critical analysis and evaluation of the doctrine of pneumatological union in the Trinitarian theology of Jonathan Edwards in dialogue with Karl Barth
No full textThe extent to which the 'honour' of the Spirit influenced the theology of
Jonathan Edwards is a hitherto underdeveloped theme. Against a backdrop of
Patristic thought and in dialogue with the theology of Karl Barth, evaluation is
made of pneumatological union in Edwards' Trinitarian theology as this centres
on the nature and inter-relatedness of the 'three unions' that characterize his
theology: the union of the three Persons of the Trinity, the union of the saints
with God, and the union of the divine and human natures of Christ.
Edwards' seeks to honour the Spirit as the mutual love of the Father for the Son
within his Augustinian, Lockean model of the immanent Trinity, and as 'Person'
in the economy. The challenges of doing so within the limits of this
psychological model of the Trinity are evaluated in dialogue with the
Cappadocian Fathers and Barth.
In a manner patterned after union in the Trinity, Edwards gave prominence to the
concept of the pneumatological union of the saints with God in Christ, in
fulfilment of the self-glorifying purpose of God in creation and redemption.
Edwards' experiential theology of conversion, and his elevation of subjective
sanctification by the Spirit over objective justification in Christ, for assurance, is
contrasted with Barth's greater emphases on the Christological union of God
with humanity and objective justification in Christ. Barth's more contemplative
approach is contrasted with the overly introspective spirituality of Edwards.
Edwards' view of the role of the Spirit in the hypostatic union of God with
humanity in Christ, which is reflective of the other unions, is also evaluated in
light of Patristic, Reformed-Puritan and Barthian thought on the nature of the
humanity Christ assumed, and the doctrine of the vicarious humanity of Christ. A
more emphatic incarnational emphasis may have saved Edwards' Spirit-
honouring spirituality from an anthropocentricity which is ironical given that the
glory of God is his ontic doxological concern
Citizen participation in news
Get PDFThe process of producing news has changed significantly due to the advent of the Web, which has enabled the increasing involvement of citizens in news production. This trend has been given many names, including participatory journalism, produsage, and crowd-sourced journalism, but these terms are ambiguous and have been applied inconsistently, making comparison of news systems difficult. In particular, it is problematic to distinguish the levels of citizen involvement, and therefore the extent to which news production has genuinely been opened up. In this paper we perform an analysis of 32 online news systems, comparing them in terms of how much power they give to citizens at each stage of the news production process. Our analysis reveals a diverse landscape of news systems and shows that they defy simplistic categorisation, but it also provides the means to compare different approaches in a systematic and meaningful way. We combine this with four case studies of individual stories to explore the ways that news stories can move and evolve across this landscape. Our conclusions are that online news systems are complex and interdependent, and that most do not involve citizens to the extent that the terms used to describe them imply
Supplemental Material - Prevalence, severity and risk factors of psychiatric disorders amongst sexual and gender diverse young people during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review
No full textSupplemental Material for Prevalence, severity and risk factors of psychiatric disorders amongst sexual and gender diverse young people during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review by Jonathan O’Shea, Rachel James, Dasha Nicholls, James Downs and Lee D Hudson in Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry.</p
Playing "America" on Nineteenth-Century Stages; Or, Jonathan in England and Jonathan at Home
Get PDF"Playing America," prepared towards the completion of a Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, examines "Yankee Theatre" in America and London through a post-colonial lens from 1787 to 1855. Actors under consideration include: Charles Mathews, James Hackett, George Hill, Danforth Marble and Joshua Silsbee. These actors were selected due to their status as iconic performers in "Yankee Theatre."The Post-Revolutionary period in America was filled with questions of national identity. Much of American culture came directly from England. American citizens read English books, studied English texts in school, and watched English theatre. They were inundated with English culture and unsure of what their own civilization might look like. A post-colonial crisis, in other words, gripped the new nation. This dissertation attempts to explain "Yankee Theatre," a performance tradition popular from the mid-1820s to the mid-1850s, within this complex, transatlantic, sociopolitical situation. It begins with a discussion of early Yankee plays and explains how they were written against the "empire," distinguishing the new citizen from the English subject. It examines ways early Yankee Theatre actors expressed their American identity and discusses the pressures these actors faced in fighting for international success. "Yankee Theatre" was not only popular in America. Several American actors also traveled across the Atlantic to perform it on London stages. Thus, this dissertation also encompasses how the English understood the Yankee, how an imperial standard was established overseas, why English audiences were unhappy with the first American Yankee actors they witnessed, and how future Yankee actors were caught in this web of criterion and taste for years to come. "Playing America" asserts that "Yankee Theatre" addressed specific problems, issues, and questions arising from America's post-colonial status. When the post-colonial crisis passed, Yankee Theatre also ended. By the mid-to late-1850s, the minstrel replaced Jonathan as the symbol of the nation. An examination of "Yankee Theatre" allows for a greater understanding of circum-Atlantic performance as well as issues of nationalism and national identity in the theatre. Research methodologies include historical and textual analysis as well as post-colonial, literary, and dramatic theory
Tar sandstone investigation in southwestern Uinta Basin
No full textreportDuring the month of July 1972, the author assisted by Jonathan Mann studied the oil impregnated sandstone (hereafter OISS) deposits in the Lower Unit of the Parachute Creek Member of the Green River Formation on the southwestern edge of the Uinta Basin, along the Roan Cliffs and within the Roan Plateau. Careful mapping was conducted to determine the extent of the Sunnyside OISS deposit and to relate it to other deposits in the general vicinity. In addition to this mapping, which was restricted to the Flat Canyon and Sunnyside 15 min. quadrangles, (correlation investigations? ) were carried out in Nine Mile Canyon, Argyle Canyon, Indian Canyon, and at the headwaters of Avintaquin Canyon near Reservation Ridge (see USGS 7 1/2 min. quadrangles Gray Head Peak, 1969, and Flat Ridge, Utah, 1969). These areas, in this report, are further subdivided into smaller regions (often ridges or canyons) for further expansion of the results of the investigation. A number of the canyons could only be studied by hiking them through, others because of the size of the area studied and time requirements were studied by numerous stops from a four-wheel-drive truck. A field method to categorize the estimated richness of the OISS was used in the mapping: A numeral from I-V was assigned to a deposit, I being void of tar and progressing with each number until very rich OISS would be classed as V
'Pure and undefiled religion': the function of purity language in the Epistle of James
No full textWhereas commentators frequently restrict the categories for purity language in James
to either ritual or metaphorical (and uniformly conclude the language is a metaphor
for personal morality) this is overly restrictive and ignores how purity language was
used in the first-century. Current research of purity language in ancient Israel calls
into question the rigid either/or categorization of purity language in James. Such
descriptions are not only unjustifiably restrictive, but they also fail to account for the
function or meaning of the purity language within the rhetorical goals of the
composition.
The central argument of this investigation is that purity language both articulates and
constructs the composition's worldview and thus serves as an important theme in the
text. Chapter two discusses the different methods of analysis of purity and offers a
taxonomy of purity language. This taxonomy provides a more precise approach to
understanding the function of purity language. Chapter three argues for several
important aspects of the structure and strategy of the text. Specifically the three
interdependent characteristics of 1) an epistolary structure; 2) a coherent rhetorical
argument based on polar oppositions; 3) and the special function of James 1: 2-27 as
an introduction are suggested.
While attuned to the textual issues argued in chapter three, the categories developed in
the taxonomy were applied as a heuristic guide to understand the function of purity
and pollution in chapter four. This analysis demonstrated four specific things: 1)
though purity language occurs relatively infrequently, it is used at crucial points of the
composition (1: 26-27; 3: 6,17; 4: 8); 2) that the use of purity and pollution specifically
functions within the overall strategy of contrasts which leads readers to a decision; 3)
that the majority of the time purity language labeled the world (and by extension those
associated with it) as set against the implicit purity of God; and therefore, 4) the
readers of James must be separate from the impure world ("pure") in order to be
wholehearted in devotion to God ("perfect").
Because the purity of the audience is directly related to their proximity to the world,
chapter five asks what kind of separation is envisioned by the use of purity language.
While purity is indeed boundary language, the cultural stance of James is complex.
The author shows signs of acculturation, yet this acculturation is employed to call the
audience to specific points of separation from surrounding culture, namely separation
from patron-client relationships with the "rich" and use of inappropriate and deceitful
speech. Thus the composition is not calling for sectarian separation from the
surrounding culture, but rather is a complex document demonstrating cultural
accommodation while calling forth specific socio-cultural boundaries between the
readers and the world
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