The text, Freedom and Error, aims to present an original conception of freedom by relating it to the phenomenon of error. While it is clear that freedom and error must have a close correlation, the present formulation shows that our capacity to err conditions our freedom. In oth…
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Since around the middle of the last century, Ephrem the Syrian has received an increasing amount of scholarly attention. Yet, amid all the literary and topical studies of his works, his understanding of human freedom, which occupies a central place in his thought, has gone large…
The signature forms of modern constitutional politics include such features as egalitarianism and equality before the law; the separation of constitutionally limited powers; the ability for each citizen, regardless of social standing, to appeal to impartial arbiters who will jud…
This dissertation traces the history of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), the educational testing agency for Ghana, Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone and the Gambia. WAEC was created in 1952 on the eve of independence from Britain. This dissertation studies the transiti…
In this dissertation I address the question of what accounts for the success or failure of privatization efforts in middle-income developing countries. I have looked for an answer in the context of the interaction between the central government as the major agent of the reform a…
Beginning with the destruction of the holy Temple in Jerusalem in the year 70 C.E., the music of the Jewish synagogue was restricted to monophonic, a cappllea chant. In the year 1622, however, Salamon Rossi of Mantua, Italy composed and published a collection of Hebrew polyphoni…
The Kalasha are a community of 3000 people living in three small valleys in the Hindukush in northern Pakistan. The Kalasha differ in many ways from the conservative Muslim communities which surround them--they still practice their indigenous religion, both men and women partici…
This study aims to determine the relationship between agency and freedom and it has developed a Tri-Modal Theory of Agency that explains an agent’s decisions with a focus on freedom. Here, based on Berlin’s (1958) ideas we have conceptualised positive and negative sides of freed…
This thesis places pressure on common distinctions between rhetoric and ideology, ideas and arguments, semantics and form, by examining the use of freedom rhetoric in political speech and propaganda in post-war Britain. To do so it combines a sophisticated statistical analysis o…
Freedom is a fundamental concept for anarchism; but what does that mean, exactly? What sort of freedom do anarchists seek, and how do they hope to realise this freedom? Starting with the premise that such questions, though vital to the anarchist project, have mostly been ignored…
The international agenda on poverty, freedom and human rights has becomeincreasingly influential in recent years. Mrs. Mary Robinson, UN HighCommissioner for Human Rights, has stated that "Ip]overty itself is a violationof numerous basic human rights" (1997,6), while the UNDP's …
It is commonly contended by the political right that freedom and equality are mutually incompatible values. This ‘incompatibility argument’ can be characterized as positing a trade-off between freedom and equality, such that the more a society realizes of one, the less it is abl…
The experience of opposition between what could be contained in my internal world, and what I wanted freedom from containing while a client in counselling led to the conception of this research. Containment and freedom seemed to form a polarity (Jung 1961; 1969) in that each not…
This project revisits the work of Nikolai Berdiaev, one of the first Russian Silver Age religious philosophers to be widely read in the West. The focus of this research is his thought on freedom and the ‘creative act’. We will argue that Berdiaev’s vision of freedom contains two…
This is a rhetorical study of President George W. Bush's use of the - ideographic dialectic in his appeals for support for war in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as reelection in 2004. I argue that President Bush's use of the - dialectic in each case provided him with specific rhe…
In this project I develop two concepts intended to be of use to those who wish to transform capitalist social arrangements: the concept of freedom as growth and the closely related concept of educative solidarity. Central to both concepts is not just opposition to capital but al…
June 23, 1908 in Iran, the day of the bombardment of the majles and the arrest, torture and execution of many constitutionalists, marks the beginning of the reign of terror for those who sought reform and progress, within a modernist context. As a result of the politically preca…
This thesis looks at religious school funding in Ontario from both a legal and policy perspective. Specifically, this thesis argues that religious minority communities are constitutionally entitled to government support for religiously based independent schools. This entitlement…