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Items in this Collection
- 1Buchinski, Alexander
- 1Buijs, Peter T
- 1Dukic, Vladimir
- 1Glass, Jordan
- 1MacLeod, Damon
- 1Rodger, Charles P
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Bernard Stiegler’s critique of and supplement to Martin Heidegger’s account of the independence of entities
DownloadFall 2011
This thesis first provides an explication of Bernard Stiegler’s implicit critique of Martin Heidegger’s account of the independence entities. After accomplishing this explication, an explanation and justification of Stiegler’s theory of entities, in the form of technology, is given to see if it...
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Fall 2010
This thesis argues that Hannah Arendt is correct to suggest that thinking enables judgment, even though Arendt never fully formulates this idea herself. I provide a critical reading of Arendt’s essay “Thinking and Moral Considerations” and of her series of lectures on Kant’s political philosophy....
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Fall 2015
This thesis aims to contribute to the study of the history of 20th century continental philosophy, centering in particular on Heidegger’s “being-historical” writings of the 1930s and the 1940s, with a special emphasis on his Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event). In particular, this thesis...
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Fall 2010
This thesis is a detailed examination of the relationship between historical faith and rational religion in Immanuel Kant's philosophy, especially as presented in Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason. Due to recent contemporary philosophical debate about Kant's philosophy of religion,...
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Fall 2016
Nietzsche is famous for his critique of Christianity and the declaration that “God is dead.” His aversion for the Christian religion has generated scholarly debates as to what might be the key issue Nietzsche has with Christianity. In this work, I argue that the key problem Nietzsche finds with...
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Fall 2011
The following is an analysis of the affinity between the accounts of value of Nietzsche and Levinas—two philosophers commonly thought to be antithetical. I propose an account of value, derived from the aforementioned authors, according to which an enigmatic phenomenon beyond or hither from being...
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Spring 2015
In 1831, on the same day that Hegel at last committed himself to providing a revised edition of the Phenomenology of Spirit, he signed a contract to write what he must have suspected would be his final book, entitled Über das Dasein Gottes. Unfortunately, Hegel died only a few days later, leaving...