Scope and Purpose With a temporal span beginning in 1796 and ending in 1909, this thesis takes an interdisciplinary approach to investigating the abundance of ways in which people of all social classes in the long-nineteenth-century were able to engage with the Arctic. Encompass…
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The German-Jewish thinker Hannah Arendt is perhaps most famous for introducing the controversial phrase “the banality of evil” into moral discourse and for developing a conception of action that emphasizes participation in worldly affairs and respect for plurality. However, in t…
John Cassian and the historian Socrates write of ‘anthropomorphites’ dwelling in the Egyptian desert—uneducated monks who crudely believed that God has a body. Their characterization was largely accepted—that is, until the late-nineteenth-century discovery of The Life of Apa Aph…
The main objective of my research is to explore how secondary school children used the concept of Boredom to make sense of, and construct, their daily lived experiences in school. My interest is the pragmatic rather than semantic, and the emic rather than etic. This is an examin…
Divination is a universal phenomenon in the ancient world. It once assumed the roles of philosophy and science in providing guidance on how to live. In our present time, this ancient practice is reduced to a mere form of irrationality, magic, or superstition and this suggests th…
Skeptics argue that we can know very little, threatening our claims to knowledge. Many philosophers now think there is no use in talking to skeptics—that nothing can change their minds, curing them of skepticism. These philosophers opt for mere prevention, aiming to convince onl…
Hobbes was Britain’s quintessential atheist at the dawn of the eighteenth century, and Hobbism (a widely recognized creed) was commonly used to identify and police theological and ecclesiological heterodoxy. A competing interpretation of Hobbism emerged over the first fifty year…
The principal aim of this dissertation is to seriously consider what accounts of fashion and dress can offer—have indeed already offered—to philosophy. In recounting these histories, I have two primary goals. The first is to show that, despite the breadth of primary literature o…
While Olivier Messiaen is an increasingly popular figure in music research, the life and works of his first wife Claire Delbos (1906-1959) are still shrouded in obscurity. Her compositional career spanned just over 10 years, blossoming alongside yet remaining independent from te…
Nishitani Keiji, a 20th century Japanese Buddhist philosopher of the Kyoto School, made novel contributions to the history of philosophy with his hybrid theory of affect. Scholars to date have either generally rejected Nishitani's philosophy because of its support of state ideol…
O relatório que se apresenta pretende estudar a vida e trabalho de Maria de Lourdes Modesto. Procura igualmente dar a conhecer o arquivo audiovisual da RTP e um pouco da história da televisão. Partindo do percurso da televisão desde o seu aparecimento até aos dias de hoje, anali…
The dissertation investigates how the three primary works on metaphysics, history, and moral philosophy of Miskawayh, an 11th century Islamic ethicist, can be read in toto as one existential work that exhibits three Sartrean existential properties, namely, the materialization of…