Des esclaves et des bêtes : fables de la sauvagerie en Amérique dans Letters from an American Farmer, de St John de Crèvecoeur by Agnès Derail-Imbert

“…In the sequel to this philosophical essay, the narrator resumes his naturalist account with the description of local reptiles, whose murderous behavior hardly fails to evoke slavery, as if servitude and the violence it entails were merely a law of nature. …”
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Burial customs, the afterlife and the pollution of death in ancient Greece by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…The sources consulted include Homer's epic poems, archaeological data and vase paintings, as well as the writings of later historians, philosophers and other prominent people. …”
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“RAIN was planting the seeds”: An Interview with Tom Bender, co-editor of RAIN: Journal of Appropriate Technology by Meredith Gaglio

“…During that period, the Rainmakers, led by Steve Johnson, Lee Johnson, Land de Moll, and Tom Bender, constructed a visionary ecotopia on the pages of their journal, supplying readers with the philosophical grounding, real-world advice, and political conviction to pursue AT projects within their own communities. …”
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From Blank Canvas to Masterwork: Creating a Professional Practice Model at a Magnet Hospital by Lynda J. Dimitroff, Donna M. Tydings, Sue Nickoley, Lynn W. Nichols, Maureen E. Krenzer

“…PPMs are essential as the philosophical underpinnings for nursing practice. The study institution created a new PPM utilizing the voice of their RNs. …”
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An Evaluation of Theorizing in Islamic Economy in Critical Realism Perspective with an Emphasis on the Ideas of Roy Bhaskar by Seyed Mohammad Taghi Movahed Abtahi

“…Some experts have attempted to theorize by suggesting philosophical and methodological subjects. The book  “Theorizing in Islamic Economy, Analyzing the Possibility of scientific Theorizing in Islamic Economy and its Methodology” is written by Hassan Agha Nazari for active students and researchers in Islamic Economy. …”
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La réception des Noces Chymiques d’Andreae chez Novalis by Véronique Liard

“…Novalis was much influenced by the mysticism of Romantic nature philosophy as well as by Jakob Böhme and he sought the philosophical stone in all its manifestations, as he told his brother in a letter of 1793. …”
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A New Edition Which Is Not So New:A Critique on the Most Recent “Edition” of Avicenna’s Dānešnāmeh-ye ʿAlāyī by Hanif Amin Beidokhti

“…Identifying certain systematic flaws in the editorial techniques that inform Mawlā’s edition, on the one hand, and a structural mistake that has entirely ruined one of the main philosophical innovations of the Dānešnāmeh, on the other hand, I detected that Mawlā’s “edition” is an unprofessional reprint of the previous editions done by Moʿīn, Meškāt and Bīneš. …”
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SOEKARNO DAN ARGUMEN TEOLOGIS-FILOSOFIS DALAM PEMIKIRAN ISLAM by Imam Sukardi

“…This paper wants to see how Soekarno’s philosophical views of Islamic teachings and their application are ideal for the Indonesian Muslim community. …”
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Psychological Anthropology: A Critical Review of the Book Culture and Identity by Asghar Izadi-Jeiran

“…Culture and Identity has many strengths including a good and concise review of philosophical approaches, extensive use of data of anthropological fieldworks, grounding the discussions of psychological anthropology in the broader contexts of some events in the scientific community, comprehensiveness of bibliography, and combining theory with experimental examples.…”
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Time-Images in Don DeLillo’s Writing: A Reading of The Body Artist, Point Omega and Zero K by Andrea Pitozzi

“…Reading DeLillo’s recent novels according to this philosophical framework enables one to consider the implications his writing draws between time and images in configuring the perception of time as an almost physical, substantial and non-subjective whole to be sensed and described through narrative and figurative strategies.…”
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HUMANITIES IN A REGIONAL UNIVERSITY by Robert H. Kochesokov, Zukhra A. Kuchukova

“…The most fruitful can be considered scientific research in the framework of collective projects and within the paradigm of interdisciplinary approach (with participation of philosophers, historians, cultural scientists, philologists, psychologists); cooperation with the leading Universities and scientific institutes; preparation and publication of special thematic issues of the leading Russian scientific journals as well as organization and holding of thematic conferences jointly with the leading scientific institutions.…”
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RETHINKING PHILIP KITCHER’S SCIENCE POLICY IN TIMES OF A GLOBAL PANDEMIC by Merve Kaptan

“…The renowned British philosopher Philip Kitcher’s Science, Truth and Democracy is still relevant today, some twenty years after its first publication, as the heated debates concerning the role of science and its social consequences rages on. …”
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Locke on Freedom, Moral Agency, and the Space of Reasons by Valtteri Viljanen

“…Locke’s ambitious theory aims to incorporate two strong philosophical intuitions widely held incompatible: that our will is free and that impulses affect our choices. …”
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MU’TEZİLE EKOLÜ VE AKLIN BELİRLEYİCİLİĞİ by Osman Aydınlı

“…The distinctive feature of the Mu‘tazilite school is to have laid down its fundamental principles as al-usfil al-khamsa (five fundamentals) and concentrated on theological and philosophical issues. Within the Mutazila, due to their different approaches to the imamate and politics, there emerged two main streams, the schools of Baghdad and Basra. …”
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Bricolage and Social Entrepreneurship to Address Emergent Social Needs: A “Deconstructionist” Perspective by Lamberto Zollo, Riccardo Rialti, Cristiano Ciappei, Andrea Boccardi

“…Building on a postmodernist philosophical perspectve, namely Jacques Derrida’s “deconstructonism,” we atempt to unpack the bricolage phenomenon within the social entrepreneurship feld. …”
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Die klassieke retoriek as basis vir hedendaagse openbare spraakkommunikasieleerinhoude by Frederick Terblanche

“…What has changed considerably, is the human concept of the fundamental nature and scope of communication principles and contexts, the perspectives from which it is approached and its ontological and philosophical basis. The ordering and systemisation of these are naturally expressed in a more comprehensive and scientific conceptual system than was the case in the classical era. …”
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Credibility and the Critique of the Theory of the Veritable Nature of Human Sciences with Emphasis on Jurisprudence and Law by Mohammad Reza Asadi, Seyed Saieed Lavasani

“…The theory of conventions is the basis of Islamic humanities, if it is viewed from a philosophical and holistic perspective and taken as part of existential discussions. …”
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G. P. FEDOTOV ON THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE RUSSIAN GOVERNING ELITE by E. M. Amelina

“…The article analyses the transformation of the Russian management elite from the point of view of the famous Russian historian, sociologist and philosopher G. P. Fedotov (1886–1951). The paper discloses the civilizational features and stages of the evolution of the elite. …”
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Reassembling and remembering - the politics of reconciliation in South Africa by J. Kruger

“…The latter notion is understood in a Platonic-Augustinian fashion – following the interpretation of the contemporary philosophical-theological movement of Radical Orthodoxy – as a diffuse recognition of the other within the self, whereby the politics of reconciliation is, in an important sense, broadened to encompass the interior, psychic and, ultimately, spiritual aspects of the relation between the self and the other. …”
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Resources within Spiritual and Mystical Christian Traditions for the Care of Earth – our Common Home by Ryszard F. Sadowski

“…It is not surprising, therefore, that for several decades the study of the ecological crisis has been undertaken by philosophers and religologists who seek inspirations for ways to shape an environmentally friendly lifestyle in various religious traditions. …”
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