Bu araştırmanın amacı, ahlak felsefesinin temel tartışma alanlarından olan erdem etiğini Aristoteles ve Alasdair MacIntyre örneği üzerinden incelemektir. Erdem ve ahlak tartışmaları, insana ve topluma dair şeyler olmaları yönüyle hemen her dönemin önemli konu başlıkları olarak ö…
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While the merits of the naturalistic approach to various epistemological problems are vigorously debated by philosophers, the idea that psychology could be relevant to virtue epistemology has attracted little attention. My dissertation attempts to address this neglect by offerin…
Liberal thinkers have suggested different theories that legitimise the state's various processes, institutions, and use of coercive power. However, their theories cannot account for those motivations that cause men to put their lives in danger when standing against political opp…
The hypothesis of this dissertation is that republican polities in the ancient world demonstrated a rare form of martial ideology in their citizen armies. Otherwise known as "civic militarism," this martial ideology was directly linked to republicanism's reliance on civic virtue…
This study addresses unresolved issues in the literature on positive youth development (PYD) theory by drawing on international adolescent interview data and philosophical ethics. The unresolved issues addressed include (a) What is positive development? (b) What is the role of m…
Metaphors of “journey” or “rootlessness” are often used to describe movements of people across cultural and social spaces, and physical geographies. Such journeys whilst revealing stories that speak of a people's voice, are rarely seen as embodying an implicit quest for a narrat…
Humility is an integral virtue within Benedictine spiritual traditions. It is also the subject of a burgeoning body of empirical literature in the field of psychology. This dissertation undertakes an interdisciplinary dialogue between Benedictine spirituality and contemporary ps…
Christianity teaches that man does not find his end in this world, but transcends all earthly political ends. This doctrine implies a natural question for political philosophers: can men who do not accept the teachings of revealed religion act justly? Can they promote the common…
Despite improvements that the Capabilities Approach has made in the field of development studies and its ethics, three concerns rooted in its anthropological and ethical individualism remain insufficiently addressed by its proponents, especially from the perspective of Catholic …
This dissertation is part history, part analysis. It surveys prima facie historical antecedents to our current clinical concept of depression—a chapter each on acedia, tristitia, noche oscura, melancholia, and Tungsindighed. The analytic portion compares and contrasts each histo…
This thesis establishes a link between conceptions of female virtue and the practice of veiling by women from ancient to medieval times in the Mediterranean region. This is evidenced by the consistent advocacy and prescription of veiling in ancient and medieval theological texts…
The goal of this essay is to lay out the ways by which this author's art practice should be understood to be a theorization with and through objects. Such object-theorizations represent a strategy for inquiry into the fields of material culture, play theory, leisure studies, and…