Poverty: A Philosophical Approach (Rodopi Philosophical Studies 6)Dieterlen Struck, PauletteNew York: Rodopi NY, 2005.In Poverty: A Philosophical Approach, the author studies various philosophical issues concerning poverty in the Program for Education, Health and Food (Progresa) that was in effect in ... View Record
Note actually that I CANNOT REQUEST THIS THROUGH RACER BECAUSE I AM NOT A MEMBER
anyway - the thing concerned the Progresa (which the mexican land reform also looked at - it is somewhat particularized in that sense then)
Monday, December 21, 2009
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Boudon's European Diagnosis of and Prophylactic Against RelativismJarvie, IanPhilosophy of the Social Sciences, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 279-292, June 2008... the doyen of French sociology. His 2004 book The Poverty of Relativism counters the relativist plague with philosophical, historical, and comparative deconstruction and proposes an alternative: a cognitive notion of values ... View Record
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Descriptors:Morality Reason Relativism Science Social Sciences Sociology More...
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The Choice of Duty and the Duty of ChoiceOliver, DanielDialogue: Journal of Phi Sigma Tau, vol. 50, no. 2-3, pp. 79-83, April 2008... that Kierkegaard used this perspective to show the philosophical poverty of such a lifestyle and that Kierkegaard's true ethical views are a precursor to the existentialism of the 20th century. I compare a Kierkegaardian perspective on what ... View Record
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Why Should We Help the Poor? Philosophy and PovertyIllies, ChristianBoylan, Michael.(2008). International Public Health Policy and Ethics, Boylan, Michael (ed). (pp. 143-156). New York: Springer Verlag.Empirical poverty-research without specified ends is blind; it requires the prior identification and rational justification of particular ends. This, however, is the task of ethics because no empirical science can lead to normative insights. ... View Record
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Descriptors:Ethics Freedom Poverty Sen, Amartya
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The Impact of Dirty Money on Global CapitalismDunfee, Thomas W; Baker, ColleenBusiness Ethics Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 729-742, October 2007... countries around the world. Baker terms "illegality, poverty, and distorted philosophy" to be the crux of this Achilles heel and analyzes the real-world impact of these pervasive financial practices. This review examines the core themes and ... View Record
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Descriptors:Business Ethics Capitalism Ethics Free Market Baker, Raymond
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¿Qué es la justicia global?Pogge, ThomasRevista Latinoamericana de Filosofia, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 181-203, Spring 2007... significance of this shift in terminology. Distinctive of the philosophical framework associated with the increasingly prominent expression "global justice" is the focus on the causal and moral analysis of the global institutional order against the ... View Record
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Descriptors:Ethics Global Justice Language Poverty Social Philosophy
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Discourse on the Foundations of Solidarity in the Social Encyclicals of John Paul IINjoku, Uzochukwu JudeEthical Perspectives: Journal of the European Ethics Network, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 79-97, March 2007This essay elucidates the theological and philosophical backgrounds of the ethics of solidarity in the thoughts of Pope John Paul II and expounds the basic hermeneutical conditions for its reappraisal in social ethics and contemporary debates. ... View Record
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Descriptors:Catholicism Ethics Solidarity John Paul Ii Ricoeur, Paul
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Infancy and History: The Destruction of ExperienceAgamben, Giorgio; Heron, Liz (trans)New York: Verso, 2007.... charismatic Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, articulates philosophical and linguistic oppositions between nature and culture, language and speech. It builds on Walter Benjamin's diagnosis that the modern age suffers from a "poverty ... View Record
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Descriptors:Experience Fable History Infancy Knowledge Play More...
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Crisis, Terror, and Tyranny: On the Anti-Democratic Logic of EmpireAmato, PeterPresbey, Gail M.(2007). Philosophical Perspectives on the War on Terrorism, Presbey, Gail M (ed). (pp. 113-128). New York: Rodopi NY.... reference to Plato's Republic. Taking active steps to promote something like authentic democracy in the U.S. and elsewhere would be the only way to mitigate the crises of poverty and chaos that fuel desperate futile acts of terrorism. View Record
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Descriptors:Democracy Empire Terrorism
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The Benumbing Moral Indifference of the Wealthy: What Does It Take to Motivate the Fulfillment of a Minimal Norm of Economic Justice?Rottschaefer, William AVilarroya, Oscar.(2007). Social Brain Matters: Stances on the Neurobiology of Social Cognition, Vilarroya, Oscar (ed). (pp. 131-138). New York: Rodopi NY.... this world are morally obligated to alleviate the poverty of the vast majority. Fulfilling this obligation would cost a trivial one percent of their incomes. But the relatively wealthy appear be numbingly indifferent. Why? Current findings ... View Record
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Descriptors:Economics Justice Morality Wealth
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The Colour of AIDSCloete, MichaelSouth African Journal of Philosophy, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 388-402, 2007... viewed as a structural effect of capitalist-induced poverty. This article aims at providing a philosophical basis for understanding the African debate on HIV/AIDS. Its primary contention is that, in order to understand the African ... View Record
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Descriptors:African Aids Bioethics Ethics Hiv Postcolonialism More...
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Rousseau's 'Philosophical Chemistry' and the Foundations of Adam Smith's ThoughtRasmussen, Dennis CHistory of Political Thought, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 620-641, Winter 2006... as a lamentable departure from a happy and peaceful state of nature, Smith sees it as a definite improvement over the poverty, dependence and insecurity that characterized most previous ages, its very real imperfections notwithstanding. View Record
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Descriptors:Commerce Human Nature Political Philosophy Society Rousseau, Jean Jacques Smith, Adam
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The Axiological Dimension of Freedom at Sartre (in Romanian)Aiftinca, MarinRevista de Filosofie (Romania), vol. 53, no. 1-2, pp. 277-288, January-April 2006... person, freedom, against all that would bring about touching it. It seems to me that this is the most important message that Sartre confers to us today -- when the human being is gravely hungover by poverty, violence and is humbled. (edited) View Record
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Descriptors:Axiology Freedom Human Being Philosophical Anthropology Sartre, Jean Paul
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The Poverty of the Linnaean Hierarchy: A Philosophical Study of Biological TaxonomyEreshefsky, MarcPhilosophy of Science, vol. 72, no. 3, pp. 491-494, July 2005View Record
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Poverty: A Philosophical Approach (Rodopi Philosophical Studies 6)Dieterlen Struck, PauletteNew York: Rodopi NY, 2005.In Poverty: A Philosophical Approach, the author studies various philosophical issues concerning poverty in the Program for Education, Health and Food (Progresa) that was in effect in ... View Record
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Descriptors:Equality Ethics Mexican Political Philosophy Poverty Rights More...
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Who Responds to Global Poverty?Lavin, ChadSocial Theory and Practice: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal of Social Philosophy, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 143-152, January 2005The author examines philosophical approaches to international economic aid, and argues that the established alternatives are hampered by their unspoken commitments to deficient understandings of responsibility. Examining the contributions ... View Record
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Descriptors:Assistance Ethics Global Needy Poverty Chatterjee, Deen K
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Cosmopolitanism and Global JusticeBeitz, Charles RJournal of Ethics: An International Philosophical Review, vol. 9, no. 1-2, pp. 11-27, 2005Philosophical attention to problems about global justice is flourishing in a way it has not in any time in memory. This paper considers some reasons for the rise of interest in the subject and reflects on some dilemmas about the meaning ... View Record
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Descriptors:Cosmopolitanism Democracy Ethics Global Justice Poverty
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Saving Amina: Global Justice for Women and Intercultural DialogueJaggar, Alison MEthics and International Affairs, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 55-75, 2005... philosophers' comprehension of our moral relationship to women elsewhere in the world and so of our philosophical task. It also impoverishes our assumptions about the intercultural dialogue necessary to promote global justice for women. View Record
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Descriptors:Global Interculturalism Justice Political Philosophy Poverty Women
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Reflections on a Critical Genealogy of the Experience of PovertyMcgushin, EdwardProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, vol. 79, pp. 117-130, 2005The persistence of poverty is one of the great problems of our times. In this paper I want to show how we can use Michel Foucault's work to recast this problem through a genealogy of the political rationality within which it appears. Foucault's ... View Record
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Descriptors:Charity Genealogy Political Philosophy Poverty Self Foucault, Michel
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Investigar la pazMartínez Guzmán, VicentDialogo Filosofico, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 412-442, September-December 2004... analysis of the state of the art of peace research from a philosophical perspective. After considering the role of violence and reviewing some concepts of war, it will revise the rise of what has been called peace research, at the end of the 1950s, ... View Record
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Descriptors:Ethics Marginalization Peace Poverty Violence War
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Philosophical Anthropology As Presupposition of Understanding Social Ethics (in Czech)Dolista, JosefFilozofia, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 141-147, 2004The author of the article presents philosophical anthropology as the basis of social morality and social proceedings. It is the intellectual case of ethics which could become a motivating power for a social worker. The proper understanding ... View Record
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Descriptors:Human Being Personalism Philosophical Anthropology Social Ethics
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Poverty, Patriotism, and National Covenant: Jonathan Edwards and Public LifeMcdermott, Gerald RJournal of Religious Ethics, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 229-251, Summer 2003First I show how Edwards provides both philosophical and theological rationales for social engagement and thereby resists the separation of religion from public life, and use his consideration of poverty as an illustration. ... View Record
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Descriptors:American Ethics Nation Patriotism Poverty Religion More...
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The Law of Reason and the Law of LoveNubiola, JaimeDebrock, Guy.(2003). Process Pragmatism: Essays on a Quiet Philosophical Revolution, Debrock, Guy (ed). (pp. 39-49 ). New York: Rodopi NY.... encouraged, both as a remedy against the conceptual poverty of the scientific reductionism inherited from the Vienna Circle, and at the same time as a way of efficiently tackling the most stubborn and unresolved problems which our society ... View Record
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Descriptors:Law Love Reason
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The Poverty of the Linnaean Hierarchy: A Philosophical Study of Biological TaxonomyEreshefsky, MarcMetascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 355-358, November 2002View Record
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Some Philosophical Considerations on Mexico's Education, Health, and Food ProgramDieterlen, Paulette; Bazdresch, Ana (trans); Tazzer, Maurizio (trans)Salles, Arleen L F.(2002). Bioethics: Latin American Perspectives, Salles, Arleen L F (ed). (pp. 85-106). Atlanta: Rodopi.... resources, so the purpose of the paper is to study the main philosophical problems raised by Mexico's Education, Health, and Food Program (PROGRESA). The program tries to benefit the poorest families, but in order to know who they are, it is necessary ... View Record
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Descriptors:Education Food Health Mexican
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The Poverty of the Stimulus ArgumentLaurence, Stephen; Margolis, EricBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol. 52, no. 2, pp. 217-276, June 2001Noam Chomsky's poverty of the stimulus argument is one of the most famous and controversial arguments in the study of language and the mind. Though widely endorsed by linguists, the argument has met with much resistance in philosophy. ... View Record
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Descriptors:Argument Empiricism Language Linguistics Mind Nativism More...
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The Poverty of Linnaean Hierarchy: A Philosophical Study of Biological TaxonomyEreshefsky, MarcHistory and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 303-304, 2001View Record
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The Poverty of the Linnaean Hierarchy: A Philosophical Study of Biological TaxonomyEreshefsky, MarcCambridge: Cambridge Univ Pr, 2000.The question of whether biologists should continue to use the Linnaean hierarchy is a hotly debated issue. Invented before the introduction of evolutionary theory, Linnaeus's system of classifying organisms is based on outdated theoretical ... View Record
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Descriptors:Biology Classification Evolution Science Taxonomy Linnaeus, Carl
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Institutional ViolenceCurtin, Deane (eds.); Litke, Robert (eds.)Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999.... are institutionalized forms of violence, including poverty, parenting, sexism, and racism. Since violence is as complex as the human beings who resort to it, its institutionalized forms pervade our relational lives. These philosophical ... View Record
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Descriptors:Ethics Feminism Genocide Institution Social Philosophy Violence
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Autonomy, Independence, and Poverty-Related Welfare PoliciesChristman, JohnPublic Affairs Quarterly, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 383-405, October 1998This paper undertakes a philosophical analysis of poverty-related welfare programs and proposals for welfare reform of the sort recently instituted in the U.S. I argue that behind the rhetoric of providing recipients a measure ... View Record
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Descriptors:Autonomy Policy Poverty Social Philosophy Welfare
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Hegel: libération formelle et inégalité dans la société civile bourgeoiseVernes, Paule-moniqueDialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 693-702, Fall 1998... analysis of Bourgeois Civil Society, Hegel formulates a philosophical theory of British society as it had been already described by A. Smith and, thereby, anticipates our present "dual" societies which can be characterized by luxury and poverty. ... View Record
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Descriptors:Economics Inequality Poverty Social Philosophy Hegel
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The Urban Context of Schools and Education: Community, Commitment, and ChangeParker, Laurence; Kelly, Michelle; Sanford, JayminEducational Theory, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 123-137, Winter 1998... Stephen Nathan Haymes; Teaching for Meaning in High Poverty Classrooms, by Michael Knapp & Associates; Chartering Urban School Reform: Reflections on Public High Schools in the Midst of Change, edited by Michelle Fine; and Class, Culture ... View Record
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Descriptors:Change Commitment Education School Urban
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On Economic InequalitySen, AmartyaNew York: Clarendon Press, 1997.... Alternative approaches are evaluated in terms of their philosophical assumptions, economic content, and statistical requirements. In a new annex, Amartya Sen, jointly with James Foster, critically surveys the literature that followed the publication ... View Record
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Descriptors:Economics Equity Inequality Logic Need Utilitarianism More...
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Power and Poverty: The Prospects for World PeaceBoxill, Bernard RKaplan, Laura D.(1997). Philosophical Perspectives on Power and Domination, Kaplan, Laura D (ed). (pp. 137-157). Amsterdam: Rodopi.View Record
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Descriptors:Peace Poverty Power
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The Roots of Economic Disparity and PovertyPanthanmackel, GeorgeJournal of Dharma, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 89-93, January-March 1995The purpose of the work is to make a philosophical response to the problems of "Economic Disparity and Poverty" in India. In the work the author is of the opinion that the phenomenal situation of economic disparity and poverty ... View Record
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Descriptors:Capitalism Disparity Economics Poverty Social Philosophy
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El franciscanismo de Guillermo de Ockham: una aproximación biográfica-contextual a su filosofíaFrancisco González, MarcosRevista Espanola de Filosofia Medieval, vol. 2, pp. 127-144, 1995... firm believer in Franciscan spirituality: humility, poverty and social harmony. At the same time, Ockham defended the idea that intellectual humility did not impede the construction of a rationality that would help in the religious transformation ... View Record
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Descriptors:Humility Rationality Religion Society William Of Ockham
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Recognizing Rationalizations Among Responses to HungerDandekar, NatalieAgriculture and Human Values, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 28-37, Fall 1994... undertake to discover the extent to which five distinct philosophical arguments for "hardhearted" responses to hunger are rationalizations. In each case, I consider the prima facie appeal and then consider the extent to which these appeals can ... View Record
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Descriptors:Equality Ethics Food Hunger Poverty
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Liberals' Opposition to Workfare: A Misunderstanding of Their Philosophic TraditionLevin-waldman, Oren MPublic Affairs Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 341-357, October 1994... arbitrary; not policy that at a minimum might be demanding and at a maximum harsh. Upon exploring liberalism's philosophical antecedents, this paper concludes workfare to be as acceptable to liberalism as traditional income maintenance policies. View Record
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Descriptors:Class Liberalism Poverty Social Philosophy Work
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What Is the Philosophy of Nationalism?Weiler, GershonStudies in East European Thought, vol. 46, no. 1-2, pp. 119-128, June 1994It is a strange fact that the poverty of the philosophy of nationalism stands in inverse ratio to its political success. While its basic concepts are far from clear, it dominates world politics. The thesis of this paper is that nationalism ... View Record
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Descriptors:European History Justice Nationalism Social Philosophy
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Preparing for the 21st Century: A Philosophy for New ThinkingParsons, Howard LDarshana International, vol. 32, no. 1/125, pp. 8-14, January 1992... state today indicates and requires a formulation of philosophical beliefs about it and certain imperatives for action, such as: Consider our common estate and its implications; discover the meaning of individual mortality; take time seriously; ... View Record
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Descriptors:Earth Future Global Philosophy World
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Wittgenstein and Marx--Some Methodological Remarks (in German).Raatzsch, RichardDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, pp. 931-939, 1990... more resemblances between Wittgenstein's and Marx's philosophical and methodological positions than are commonly assumed by Marxist and analytical philosophers. The object of the demonstration are especially the "Poverty of Philosophy", ... View Record
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Descriptors:Language Ordinary Language Marx Wittgenstein
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Socrates in the Apology: An Essay on Plato's Apology of Socrates.Reeve, C D CIndianapolis: Hackett, 1989.... Meletus's charges. It develops a new account of Socrates' philosophical doctrines, and proposes novel solutions to the paradoxes which are central to them. It presents Socrates as a fundamentally nonironical figure who is above all just what he ... View Record
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Descriptors:Ancient Apology Defense Knowledge Religion Virtue More...
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POVERTY AS LIVING DEATH: TOWARDS A PHENOMENOLOGY OF SKID ROW.Jones, John DPhilosophy Research Archives, vol. 12, pp. 557-575, 1987... inferiorization constitute the most destructive form of everyday poverty, The meaning of which is shown through a phenomenological interpretation of skid row. There are three parts to the paper. First, There is a brief discussion of poverty ... View Record
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Descriptors:Death Phenomenology Poverty Social Philosophy
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POVERTY AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE: A PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH.Hartman, Robert H (eds.)NY: PAULIST PR, 1984.View Record
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Descriptors:Economy Justice Poverty Social Philosophy Society Marx
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SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH.Kelly, James RThought: Fordham University Quarterly, vol. 53, pp. 442-448, December 1978... recent monographs from the institute for research on poverty to illustrate the twofold difficulty presented by social science for the concerned citizen: (1) the public does not easily understand social science methodology and the nature of ... View Record
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Descriptors:Citizen Poverty Research Social Philosophy Social Sciences
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NUCLEAR ENERGY AND OBLIGATIONS TO THE FUTURE.Routley, R; Routley, VInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, vol. 21, pp. 133-179, Summer 1978... The bulk of the paper comprises discussion of this philosophical issue, Including many arguments against assigning obligations to the future drawn both from analyses of obligation and from features of the future such as uncertainty and indeterminacy. ... View Record
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Descriptors:Conflict Energy Ethics Future Indeterminacy Nuclear Tests More...
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HEGEL ON PROPERTY AND POVERTY.Teichgraeber, RichardJournal of the History of Ideas, vol. 38, pp. 47-64, January-March 1977... explaining hegel on property as part of his grand philosophical system, And (2) recognizing how hegel's theory tries to encompass arguments of previous thinkers, Particularly those of natural law philosophers. To deal with the larger claims ... View Record
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Descriptors:Poverty Property Social Philosophy State Hegel
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TEORIAS COSMOLOGICAS.Archidiacono, VincenzoRevista Portuguesa de Filosofia, vol. 31, pp. 28-67, January-March 1975... the platonic-Ptolemaic system when the maturity of philosophical thought prevailed on the poverty of astronomical data. In the second stage (the copernican and newtonian one) marked by progresses of astronomy, Those unitary ... View Record
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Descriptors:Cosmology Laws Origin Science Universe
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MICHEL HENRY LECTEUR DE MAITRE ECKHART.Dufour-kowalska, GabrielleArchives de Philosophie, vol. 36, pp. 603-624, October-December 1973... and sermons of eckhart by m henry brings out a pure philosophical content. The implicit ontological work, Concealed under the preaching and its language, Which m henry unveils, Can be summed up as follows: the determination of being and of ... View Record
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Descriptors:Being God Immanence Ontology Religion Sign More...
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THE CASE FOR SYSTEMS PHILOSOPHY.Laszlo, ErvinMetaphilosophy, vol. 3, pp. 123-141, April 1972... is offered as the means of overcoming the intrinsic poverty of logically sophisticated but empirically trivial analysis. Grounds for systems philosophy include the need for recovery of meaning in the contemporary scientific world picture, ... View Record
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Descriptors:Analysis Ecology Experience Hierarchy Organism Philosophy More...
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WELFARE, THE SOCIAL ISSUES IN PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE.Rescher, NicholasPITTSBURGH: PITTSBURGH UNIV PR, 1972.View Record
Boudon's European Diagnosis of and Prophylactic Against RelativismJarvie, IanPhilosophy of the Social Sciences, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 279-292, June 2008... the doyen of French sociology. His 2004 book The Poverty of Relativism counters the relativist plague with philosophical, historical, and comparative deconstruction and proposes an alternative: a cognitive notion of values ... View Record
Database:
Philosopher's Index
Descriptors:Morality Reason Relativism Science Social Sciences Sociology More...
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The Choice of Duty and the Duty of ChoiceOliver, DanielDialogue: Journal of Phi Sigma Tau, vol. 50, no. 2-3, pp. 79-83, April 2008... that Kierkegaard used this perspective to show the philosophical poverty of such a lifestyle and that Kierkegaard's true ethical views are a precursor to the existentialism of the 20th century. I compare a Kierkegaardian perspective on what ... View Record
Database:
Philosopher's Index
Descriptors:Choice Duty Ethics Good Life Morality Kant, Immanuel More...
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Why Should We Help the Poor? Philosophy and PovertyIllies, ChristianBoylan, Michael.(2008). International Public Health Policy and Ethics, Boylan, Michael (ed). (pp. 143-156). New York: Springer Verlag.Empirical poverty-research without specified ends is blind; it requires the prior identification and rational justification of particular ends. This, however, is the task of ethics because no empirical science can lead to normative insights. ... View Record
Database:
Philosopher's Index
Descriptors:Ethics Freedom Poverty Sen, Amartya
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The Impact of Dirty Money on Global CapitalismDunfee, Thomas W; Baker, ColleenBusiness Ethics Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 729-742, October 2007... countries around the world. Baker terms "illegality, poverty, and distorted philosophy" to be the crux of this Achilles heel and analyzes the real-world impact of these pervasive financial practices. This review examines the core themes and ... View Record
Database:
Philosopher's Index
Descriptors:Business Ethics Capitalism Ethics Free Market Baker, Raymond
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¿Qué es la justicia global?Pogge, ThomasRevista Latinoamericana de Filosofia, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 181-203, Spring 2007... significance of this shift in terminology. Distinctive of the philosophical framework associated with the increasingly prominent expression "global justice" is the focus on the causal and moral analysis of the global institutional order against the ... View Record
Database:
Philosopher's Index
Descriptors:Ethics Global Justice Language Poverty Social Philosophy
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Discourse on the Foundations of Solidarity in the Social Encyclicals of John Paul IINjoku, Uzochukwu JudeEthical Perspectives: Journal of the European Ethics Network, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 79-97, March 2007This essay elucidates the theological and philosophical backgrounds of the ethics of solidarity in the thoughts of Pope John Paul II and expounds the basic hermeneutical conditions for its reappraisal in social ethics and contemporary debates. ... View Record
Database:
Philosopher's Index
Descriptors:Catholicism Ethics Solidarity John Paul Ii Ricoeur, Paul
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Infancy and History: The Destruction of ExperienceAgamben, Giorgio; Heron, Liz (trans)New York: Verso, 2007.... charismatic Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, articulates philosophical and linguistic oppositions between nature and culture, language and speech. It builds on Walter Benjamin's diagnosis that the modern age suffers from a "poverty ... View Record
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Philosopher's Index
Descriptors:Experience Fable History Infancy Knowledge Play More...
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Crisis, Terror, and Tyranny: On the Anti-Democratic Logic of EmpireAmato, PeterPresbey, Gail M.(2007). Philosophical Perspectives on the War on Terrorism, Presbey, Gail M (ed). (pp. 113-128). New York: Rodopi NY.... reference to Plato's Republic. Taking active steps to promote something like authentic democracy in the U.S. and elsewhere would be the only way to mitigate the crises of poverty and chaos that fuel desperate futile acts of terrorism. View Record
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Philosopher's Index
Descriptors:Democracy Empire Terrorism
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The Benumbing Moral Indifference of the Wealthy: What Does It Take to Motivate the Fulfillment of a Minimal Norm of Economic Justice?Rottschaefer, William AVilarroya, Oscar.(2007). Social Brain Matters: Stances on the Neurobiology of Social Cognition, Vilarroya, Oscar (ed). (pp. 131-138). New York: Rodopi NY.... this world are morally obligated to alleviate the poverty of the vast majority. Fulfilling this obligation would cost a trivial one percent of their incomes. But the relatively wealthy appear be numbingly indifferent. Why? Current findings ... View Record
Database:
Philosopher's Index
Descriptors:Economics Justice Morality Wealth
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The Colour of AIDSCloete, MichaelSouth African Journal of Philosophy, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 388-402, 2007... viewed as a structural effect of capitalist-induced poverty. This article aims at providing a philosophical basis for understanding the African debate on HIV/AIDS. Its primary contention is that, in order to understand the African ... View Record
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Philosopher's Index
Descriptors:African Aids Bioethics Ethics Hiv Postcolonialism More...
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Rousseau's 'Philosophical Chemistry' and the Foundations of Adam Smith's ThoughtRasmussen, Dennis CHistory of Political Thought, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 620-641, Winter 2006... as a lamentable departure from a happy and peaceful state of nature, Smith sees it as a definite improvement over the poverty, dependence and insecurity that characterized most previous ages, its very real imperfections notwithstanding. View Record
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Descriptors:Commerce Human Nature Political Philosophy Society Rousseau, Jean Jacques Smith, Adam
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The Axiological Dimension of Freedom at Sartre (in Romanian)Aiftinca, MarinRevista de Filosofie (Romania), vol. 53, no. 1-2, pp. 277-288, January-April 2006... person, freedom, against all that would bring about touching it. It seems to me that this is the most important message that Sartre confers to us today -- when the human being is gravely hungover by poverty, violence and is humbled. (edited) View Record
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Descriptors:Axiology Freedom Human Being Philosophical Anthropology Sartre, Jean Paul
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The Poverty of the Linnaean Hierarchy: A Philosophical Study of Biological TaxonomyEreshefsky, MarcPhilosophy of Science, vol. 72, no. 3, pp. 491-494, July 2005View Record
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Poverty: A Philosophical Approach (Rodopi Philosophical Studies 6)Dieterlen Struck, PauletteNew York: Rodopi NY, 2005.In Poverty: A Philosophical Approach, the author studies various philosophical issues concerning poverty in the Program for Education, Health and Food (Progresa) that was in effect in ... View Record
Database:
Philosopher's Index
Descriptors:Equality Ethics Mexican Political Philosophy Poverty Rights More...
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Who Responds to Global Poverty?Lavin, ChadSocial Theory and Practice: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal of Social Philosophy, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 143-152, January 2005The author examines philosophical approaches to international economic aid, and argues that the established alternatives are hampered by their unspoken commitments to deficient understandings of responsibility. Examining the contributions ... View Record
Database:
Philosopher's Index
Descriptors:Assistance Ethics Global Needy Poverty Chatterjee, Deen K
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Cosmopolitanism and Global JusticeBeitz, Charles RJournal of Ethics: An International Philosophical Review, vol. 9, no. 1-2, pp. 11-27, 2005Philosophical attention to problems about global justice is flourishing in a way it has not in any time in memory. This paper considers some reasons for the rise of interest in the subject and reflects on some dilemmas about the meaning ... View Record
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Saving Amina: Global Justice for Women and Intercultural DialogueJaggar, Alison MEthics and International Affairs, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 55-75, 2005... philosophers' comprehension of our moral relationship to women elsewhere in the world and so of our philosophical task. It also impoverishes our assumptions about the intercultural dialogue necessary to promote global justice for women. View Record
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Reflections on a Critical Genealogy of the Experience of PovertyMcgushin, EdwardProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, vol. 79, pp. 117-130, 2005The persistence of poverty is one of the great problems of our times. In this paper I want to show how we can use Michel Foucault's work to recast this problem through a genealogy of the political rationality within which it appears. Foucault's ... View Record
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Investigar la pazMartínez Guzmán, VicentDialogo Filosofico, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 412-442, September-December 2004... analysis of the state of the art of peace research from a philosophical perspective. After considering the role of violence and reviewing some concepts of war, it will revise the rise of what has been called peace research, at the end of the 1950s, ... View Record
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Philosophical Anthropology As Presupposition of Understanding Social Ethics (in Czech)Dolista, JosefFilozofia, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 141-147, 2004The author of the article presents philosophical anthropology as the basis of social morality and social proceedings. It is the intellectual case of ethics which could become a motivating power for a social worker. The proper understanding ... View Record
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Poverty, Patriotism, and National Covenant: Jonathan Edwards and Public LifeMcdermott, Gerald RJournal of Religious Ethics, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 229-251, Summer 2003First I show how Edwards provides both philosophical and theological rationales for social engagement and thereby resists the separation of religion from public life, and use his consideration of poverty as an illustration. ... View Record
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The Law of Reason and the Law of LoveNubiola, JaimeDebrock, Guy.(2003). Process Pragmatism: Essays on a Quiet Philosophical Revolution, Debrock, Guy (ed). (pp. 39-49 ). New York: Rodopi NY.... encouraged, both as a remedy against the conceptual poverty of the scientific reductionism inherited from the Vienna Circle, and at the same time as a way of efficiently tackling the most stubborn and unresolved problems which our society ... View Record
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The Poverty of the Linnaean Hierarchy: A Philosophical Study of Biological TaxonomyEreshefsky, MarcMetascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 355-358, November 2002View Record
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Some Philosophical Considerations on Mexico's Education, Health, and Food ProgramDieterlen, Paulette; Bazdresch, Ana (trans); Tazzer, Maurizio (trans)Salles, Arleen L F.(2002). Bioethics: Latin American Perspectives, Salles, Arleen L F (ed). (pp. 85-106). Atlanta: Rodopi.... resources, so the purpose of the paper is to study the main philosophical problems raised by Mexico's Education, Health, and Food Program (PROGRESA). The program tries to benefit the poorest families, but in order to know who they are, it is necessary ... View Record
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The Poverty of the Stimulus ArgumentLaurence, Stephen; Margolis, EricBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol. 52, no. 2, pp. 217-276, June 2001Noam Chomsky's poverty of the stimulus argument is one of the most famous and controversial arguments in the study of language and the mind. Though widely endorsed by linguists, the argument has met with much resistance in philosophy. ... View Record
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The Poverty of Linnaean Hierarchy: A Philosophical Study of Biological TaxonomyEreshefsky, MarcHistory and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 303-304, 2001View Record
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The Poverty of the Linnaean Hierarchy: A Philosophical Study of Biological TaxonomyEreshefsky, MarcCambridge: Cambridge Univ Pr, 2000.The question of whether biologists should continue to use the Linnaean hierarchy is a hotly debated issue. Invented before the introduction of evolutionary theory, Linnaeus's system of classifying organisms is based on outdated theoretical ... View Record
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Institutional ViolenceCurtin, Deane (eds.); Litke, Robert (eds.)Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999.... are institutionalized forms of violence, including poverty, parenting, sexism, and racism. Since violence is as complex as the human beings who resort to it, its institutionalized forms pervade our relational lives. These philosophical ... View Record
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Autonomy, Independence, and Poverty-Related Welfare PoliciesChristman, JohnPublic Affairs Quarterly, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 383-405, October 1998This paper undertakes a philosophical analysis of poverty-related welfare programs and proposals for welfare reform of the sort recently instituted in the U.S. I argue that behind the rhetoric of providing recipients a measure ... View Record
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Hegel: libération formelle et inégalité dans la société civile bourgeoiseVernes, Paule-moniqueDialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 693-702, Fall 1998... analysis of Bourgeois Civil Society, Hegel formulates a philosophical theory of British society as it had been already described by A. Smith and, thereby, anticipates our present "dual" societies which can be characterized by luxury and poverty. ... View Record
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The Urban Context of Schools and Education: Community, Commitment, and ChangeParker, Laurence; Kelly, Michelle; Sanford, JayminEducational Theory, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 123-137, Winter 1998... Stephen Nathan Haymes; Teaching for Meaning in High Poverty Classrooms, by Michael Knapp & Associates; Chartering Urban School Reform: Reflections on Public High Schools in the Midst of Change, edited by Michelle Fine; and Class, Culture ... View Record
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On Economic InequalitySen, AmartyaNew York: Clarendon Press, 1997.... Alternative approaches are evaluated in terms of their philosophical assumptions, economic content, and statistical requirements. In a new annex, Amartya Sen, jointly with James Foster, critically surveys the literature that followed the publication ... View Record
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Power and Poverty: The Prospects for World PeaceBoxill, Bernard RKaplan, Laura D.(1997). Philosophical Perspectives on Power and Domination, Kaplan, Laura D (ed). (pp. 137-157). Amsterdam: Rodopi.View Record
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The Roots of Economic Disparity and PovertyPanthanmackel, GeorgeJournal of Dharma, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 89-93, January-March 1995The purpose of the work is to make a philosophical response to the problems of "Economic Disparity and Poverty" in India. In the work the author is of the opinion that the phenomenal situation of economic disparity and poverty ... View Record
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El franciscanismo de Guillermo de Ockham: una aproximación biográfica-contextual a su filosofíaFrancisco González, MarcosRevista Espanola de Filosofia Medieval, vol. 2, pp. 127-144, 1995... firm believer in Franciscan spirituality: humility, poverty and social harmony. At the same time, Ockham defended the idea that intellectual humility did not impede the construction of a rationality that would help in the religious transformation ... View Record
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Recognizing Rationalizations Among Responses to HungerDandekar, NatalieAgriculture and Human Values, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 28-37, Fall 1994... undertake to discover the extent to which five distinct philosophical arguments for "hardhearted" responses to hunger are rationalizations. In each case, I consider the prima facie appeal and then consider the extent to which these appeals can ... View Record
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Liberals' Opposition to Workfare: A Misunderstanding of Their Philosophic TraditionLevin-waldman, Oren MPublic Affairs Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 341-357, October 1994... arbitrary; not policy that at a minimum might be demanding and at a maximum harsh. Upon exploring liberalism's philosophical antecedents, this paper concludes workfare to be as acceptable to liberalism as traditional income maintenance policies. View Record
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What Is the Philosophy of Nationalism?Weiler, GershonStudies in East European Thought, vol. 46, no. 1-2, pp. 119-128, June 1994It is a strange fact that the poverty of the philosophy of nationalism stands in inverse ratio to its political success. While its basic concepts are far from clear, it dominates world politics. The thesis of this paper is that nationalism ... View Record
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Preparing for the 21st Century: A Philosophy for New ThinkingParsons, Howard LDarshana International, vol. 32, no. 1/125, pp. 8-14, January 1992... state today indicates and requires a formulation of philosophical beliefs about it and certain imperatives for action, such as: Consider our common estate and its implications; discover the meaning of individual mortality; take time seriously; ... View Record
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Wittgenstein and Marx--Some Methodological Remarks (in German).Raatzsch, RichardDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, pp. 931-939, 1990... more resemblances between Wittgenstein's and Marx's philosophical and methodological positions than are commonly assumed by Marxist and analytical philosophers. The object of the demonstration are especially the "Poverty of Philosophy", ... View Record
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Socrates in the Apology: An Essay on Plato's Apology of Socrates.Reeve, C D CIndianapolis: Hackett, 1989.... Meletus's charges. It develops a new account of Socrates' philosophical doctrines, and proposes novel solutions to the paradoxes which are central to them. It presents Socrates as a fundamentally nonironical figure who is above all just what he ... View Record
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POVERTY AS LIVING DEATH: TOWARDS A PHENOMENOLOGY OF SKID ROW.Jones, John DPhilosophy Research Archives, vol. 12, pp. 557-575, 1987... inferiorization constitute the most destructive form of everyday poverty, The meaning of which is shown through a phenomenological interpretation of skid row. There are three parts to the paper. First, There is a brief discussion of poverty ... View Record
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POVERTY AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE: A PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH.Hartman, Robert H (eds.)NY: PAULIST PR, 1984.View Record
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SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH.Kelly, James RThought: Fordham University Quarterly, vol. 53, pp. 442-448, December 1978... recent monographs from the institute for research on poverty to illustrate the twofold difficulty presented by social science for the concerned citizen: (1) the public does not easily understand social science methodology and the nature of ... View Record
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NUCLEAR ENERGY AND OBLIGATIONS TO THE FUTURE.Routley, R; Routley, VInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, vol. 21, pp. 133-179, Summer 1978... The bulk of the paper comprises discussion of this philosophical issue, Including many arguments against assigning obligations to the future drawn both from analyses of obligation and from features of the future such as uncertainty and indeterminacy. ... View Record
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HEGEL ON PROPERTY AND POVERTY.Teichgraeber, RichardJournal of the History of Ideas, vol. 38, pp. 47-64, January-March 1977... explaining hegel on property as part of his grand philosophical system, And (2) recognizing how hegel's theory tries to encompass arguments of previous thinkers, Particularly those of natural law philosophers. To deal with the larger claims ... View Record
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TEORIAS COSMOLOGICAS.Archidiacono, VincenzoRevista Portuguesa de Filosofia, vol. 31, pp. 28-67, January-March 1975... the platonic-Ptolemaic system when the maturity of philosophical thought prevailed on the poverty of astronomical data. In the second stage (the copernican and newtonian one) marked by progresses of astronomy, Those unitary ... View Record
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MICHEL HENRY LECTEUR DE MAITRE ECKHART.Dufour-kowalska, GabrielleArchives de Philosophie, vol. 36, pp. 603-624, October-December 1973... and sermons of eckhart by m henry brings out a pure philosophical content. The implicit ontological work, Concealed under the preaching and its language, Which m henry unveils, Can be summed up as follows: the determination of being and of ... View Record
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THE CASE FOR SYSTEMS PHILOSOPHY.Laszlo, ErvinMetaphilosophy, vol. 3, pp. 123-141, April 1972... is offered as the means of overcoming the intrinsic poverty of logically sophisticated but empirically trivial analysis. Grounds for systems philosophy include the need for recovery of meaning in the contemporary scientific world picture, ... View Record
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WELFARE, THE SOCIAL ISSUES IN PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE.Rescher, NicholasPITTSBURGH: PITTSBURGH UNIV PR, 1972.View Record
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