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Exploring the Idea of Private Property
Kenneth R. Melchin
Jun 30, 2010
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
The Significance of Self-Affection
Garth W. Green
Dec 30, 2016
Michel Henry’s “Destruction ontologique” does not interpret itself. In the following interpretive essay, I will attempt to articulate its basic structure, to address its principal engagements, and, on this basis, to interpret...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
“Spiritual Acoustics”
Kevin Hart
Aug 28, 2017
Kierkegaard steadily maintains, against Lessing, that Jesus’s contemporaries had no advantage as regards faith merely because they had personal experience of him. It is a view proposed both by Johannes Climacus and...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Ubuntu as Reflected in the Kgotla System of the Government in Botswana
Josiah Tlou
May 28, 2021
The chapter illustrates the application of Ubuntu to governance through a democratic system called “Kgotla.” The chapter places and defines Ubuntu as a unique African philosophy and worldview. The author explains how it is...
Communication Studies Social Sciences and Humanities Philosophy Business and Management Media and Communications
Published by: IGI Global
Functional Specialization And the Education of Liberty
William J. Zanardi
Oct 20, 2010
This article locates Lonergan’s call for a new political economy within a larger project, the “education of liberty,” one aim of which is to have large numbers of producers and consumers voluntarily and ...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
L’intériorité pathique des mots
Cesare Del Mastro
Dec 20, 2016
Si la phénoménologie de Michel Henry renvoie l’humain à son ancrage dans la vieauto-affective, comment aborder dans un tel cadre philosophique deux des traitspropres au vivant humain, à savoir le langage et la création...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Growing Up in a Society Practicing Ubuntu
Joseph Mukuni
May 28, 2021
In this chapter, the author looks back at his life as a child growing up among a Bantu-speaking society in which life is guided by Ubuntu values. Ubuntu refers to a philosophy that teaches the interconnectedness of humans and...
Communication Studies Social Sciences and Humanities Philosophy Business and Management Media and Communications
Published by: IGI Global
On Intellectual Conversion
Garrett Barden
Jun 30, 2010
This essay focusses on two questions: What is intellectual conversion? Why is naive realism attractive?
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Review of S.J. McGrath and Joseph Carew (eds.), Rethinking German Idealism (London
James Scott Johnston
Dec 30, 2016
These are exciting times for the philosophy and historiography of German Idealism. While in the first half of the 20th century, scholars have been content to provide stand-alone works on single thinkers (itself a very important...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Fichte, Henry, and the Problem of Manifestation
Gaetano Rametta
Dec 30, 2016
The interpretation of Fichte plays a crucial role in the argumentation of Michel Henry’s seminal work, The Essence of Manifestation. 1 Indeed, it accompanies one of the most important passages of the entire volume, which...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland