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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This dissertation explores the way that Heb 12:1-3 uses a narrative world to instill vision in order to reorient readers who are in a crisis of faith. The first chapter explores the exhortation in Heb 12:1-3 as key to understanding how the writer seeks to reinterpret readers' st…
Is theoretical construction of Carl Jung's psychology an extension of Aristotle's natural philosophy and Hermeticism? Aristotle's natural philosophy was transferred to the 12th century Europe, via Islam, with Hermeticism and Neoplatonism. Transmission of Corpus Hermticum to Wolf…
With the meteoric rise of Aristotle in the intellectual life of thirteenth-century Europe, a series of proofs concerning the world's possible eternity took on new meaning. The recovery of various Aristotelian texts, an influx of commentaries from the Arab world, and rapid change…
The latest and now standard edition of Themistius' paraphrase of Aristotle's de Anima was published by R. Heinze in 1899. This edition has been the basis of all translations and scholarly discussions of the paraphrase since its appearance. In this edition Heinze mentions 29 manu…
There have historically been numerous connections between the way that medieval Iberian Muslims conceptualized love, lust, and desire and the ways in which Western Europeans have expressed those same concepts, especially as potentially derived from the literary genre of the muwa…
The philosophical and scientific teaching in the universities of 17th century Scotland has frequently been dismissed as Aristotelian and reactionary. However, there must surely have been some development during the century for the universities to have achieved as much as they di…
This thesis develops a disjunctivist approach to action as an alternative to the standard causal theory, or 'causalism'. The standard theory promotes a concept of action as constituted by a bodily event joined to certain mental conditions by a bond of causation. A disjunctivist …
In his ethical treatises Aristotle offers a rich account of those conditions that render people’s behaviour involuntary, and defines voluntariness on the basis of the absence of these conditions. This dissertation has two aims. One is to offer an account of the significance of t…
This thesis is a study of the theories of pleasure as proposed in Plato’s Philebus, Aristotle’s EN VII.11-14 and EN X.1-5, with particular emphasis on the value of pleasure. Focusing on the Philebus in Chapters 1 and 2, I argue that the account of pleasure as restorative process…
The principal claim defended in this thesis is that for Aristotle arousing the emotions of others can amount to giving them proper grounds for conviction, and hence a skill in doing so is properly part of an expertise in rhetoric. We set out Aristotle’s view of rhetoric as exerc…
Object of the present dissertation is the reception of Aristotle's Metaphysics in the Kitab al-Sifa', Book of the Cure , by Avicenna (Ibn Sina, d. 1037 C.E.)--one of the greatest exponents of Arabic philosophy--with particular regard to the section entitled Ilahiyyat , [ Science…
In the 3rd century BCE the Hebrew Torah was translated into Greek. This work argues that the translator of Greek Genesis, a narrative text concerning global and Jewish national origins, aimed to make his translation's plot virtuous according to contemporary literary standards: c…
This dissertation analyzes the contributions of Augusto Boal to the theory and practice of contemporary theatre. Presenting the political nature of Boal's theories I will focus on the practical applications of Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed in Turkey in an effort to und…
American studies and literary scholarship have long operated on the assumption that the United States has no official religion. That assumption has led naturally to a circumscribed and incomplete, if not inaccurate, set of traditionally accepted literary-critical conclusions whe…
Within a discourse analysis framework, this research investigates persuasion in political discourse in the last speech of the former Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, delivered one day before he left the country in the middle of the Tunisian Revolution that sparked the…
This project works to disassemble a tragedy into its parts, both in terms of stagecraft & composition by staging the biography of The Dowager Empress Cixi as an exhibition. This is a text written in lieu of a physical exhibition that could not happen, in preparation for one that…
The centrality of aretē and virtus in the value systems of the Greeks and Romans has been examined by many scholars, yet the lack of a comprehensive study directly comparing the semantic development of each term within their individual historical and cultural contexts represents…
My project is a reflection of “foreignness” in America. It is a collection of ten portraits, all of whom are women that has touched my life in some way. The project consists of two portions, the first portion is fragmented, the second portion is whole. I will reference to this t…