This dissertation reexamines the music-theoretical writing of Georg Jospeh Vogler (1749-1814) in light of his educational background. His system, which is often characterized as “awkward” or “self-contradictory,” is actually indicative of the rationalist/humanist preferences of …
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Iran's foreign policy is consistent and is fundamentally realist with a revolutionist vision while the means are rationalist is the central argument of this dissertation. I make use of the English Schools three traditions of realism, rationalism and revolutionism in analyzing th…
What or who is the modern subject? Are people sovereign, filled with passion, creativity, freedom and autonomy; or are we slaves, robots and automatons forever tied to the chains of civilization? It is very common to critique modernity. From the Frankfurt school to Foucault, man…
Today, the concepts "toleration" and "pluralism" are generally taken to be synonymous. Yet Baruch Spinoza's rationalist political philosophy outlined a conception of positive liberty, as well as a robust doctrine of toleration, which grew out of a monistic metaphysics instead. E…
Using intuitionist moral psychology and a detailed anthropological investigation of the moral reasoning of Turkish "Islamist” voters, I argue for an urgent rethinking of the dynamics of political Islam and religious fundamentalism in general. Having explained a widespread conten…
Fas'ta inanç ve dindarlık geniş çapta çalışılırken, ateizm ve deizm din sosyolojisi alanındaki araştırma konuları arasında yer almamaktadır. Hiç şüphe yok ki, dindar olmayan Faslılarla ilgili çalışmalar var, ancak bunlar çok sınırlı ve bu durum, Fas'ta ateizm konusunun hala araş…
This dissertation studies a textual tradition which documents the earliest and hitherto little known phase of two formative processes in Shi'i thought which are tied together in a dialectical bond. One of the processes was, broadly speaking, the opposition between the believers …