Browsing by Subject "Philosophy"
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DAS LICHT DER KÜNSTE: HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHALS DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN MIT BLICK AUF WALTER PATERS THE RENAISSANCE
(2011-09-07)Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s literary relation to Walter Pater has already been established in the secondary literature; nevertheless, the Frau ohne Schatten has not been analysed with respect to this relation. This project ... -
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Limits of the Liberal Utopia: Žižek as a Critic of Rorty
(2014-12-12)This essay takes as its starting point the belief that Richard Rorty and Slavoj Žižek are two of the most popular, accessible and important recent philosophers writing on the Left. Its aim is to bring their texts into ... -
Nova Scotia Medical Bulletin 37(1), 1958
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RESPECT AND HEALTH CARE ETHICS: RESPECT, SOCIAL POWER AND HEALTH POLICY
(2011-12-16)In this dissertation I argue in favour of a communicative view of respect for human dignity. This view of respect builds on recent interpretations of Kantian respect as second-personal, but adds an analysis of the ways in ... -
The Root of All Dimensions
(2014-08-21)This thesis aims to resolve the disjunction of ontology and epistemology in Platonist mathematical philosophy. This disharmony results from the assumption of the non-spatiotemporal existence of abstract mathematical entities, ... -
Royal Institution Notes
(2009-07-28)This notebook kept by James Dinwiddie between April 21, 1810 and May 26, 1811 contains notes on lectures at the Royal Institution. The lectures focus on a range of topics including natural history, astronomy, and physics. ... -
VERGIL THE HESITANT HORTICULTURALIST: READING EMOTIONS FROM THE EPICUREAN GARDEN IN THE 'AENEID'
(2023-08-15)The passions of love and anger are at the root of character motivation in Vergil’s Aeneid, and often act as an essential narrative device for developing the poem’s more cosmic themes. This thesis endeavours to apply the ...