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Book Review: Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, and the Demise of Naturalism: Reunifying Political Theory and Social Science

Jason Blakely, Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, and the Demise of Naturalism: Reunifying Political Theory and Social Science. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2016. Pp. 142 ... the language of the behavioral approach in social and political study. Second, in the research and writing of my doctoral dissertation (1995), I was strongly influenced by ordinary language philosophy

Truth and Politics: The Loss of Authoritativeness in Contemporary Politics

This article deals with an aspect of the contemporary political crisis in Western countries, namely, the sharpening conflict between politics and truth, a problem interwoven with the progressive loss ... risk of reducing truth to opinion is to be expected in a merely procedural interpretation of democracy, obscuring the element of shared truth that lies at the origin of every political community. The

Guidelines for defining assembly batches of engineer-to-order concrete prefabricated systems

production philosophy. Design Science Research was the methodological approach adopted in this investigation, which was based on an empirical study carried out in an airport expansion project. The main ... propose a set of guidelines for the definition of assembly batches for ETO prefabricated concrete system, with the support of 4D BIM, based on concepts and principles of the lean production philosophy

Science, Values, and Power: Toward a Christian-Critical Perspective on Responsible Science

accountable to transcendent values and must be in dialogue with other disciplines, including ethics, philosophy, and theology. ... , Teller released scientists from responsibility for any entific research itself is to be done. He viewed moral reflection military-political decision to drop the atomic bomb (to which he on values as

Method for location-based production planning and control supported by BIM

concepts and principles of the lean production philosophy, and their interaction with BIM functionalities. Indeed, it is necessary to develop studies not only on planning and control methods that consider

The “Book of Nature”: Connecting Science and Wisdom

recapitulation of all things in God. Chiara sees this theo-logical interpretation of nature as being not in conflict with other interpretations from philosophy and science but in dialogue with them. Rondinara ... background for many issues in contemporary culture. Conin the cosmos—as well as transcendent—grants creation the abilsider the path mapped out by contemporary philosophy, startity to interact with and

The Mystical Theology of Chiara Lubich: A Foundation for Interreligious Dialogue in East Asia

global Catholic philosophy. ... has been discussed above as it relates to the philosophy of Zhu Xi, perhaps the greatest of the Neo-Confucian thinkers. Zhu Xi posits certain “principles,” “forms,” or “laws” (li) that exist “above

The Forgotten Principle: Fraternity in Its Public Dimension

“forgotten principle.” This scholarship that began in Europe, spread to Latin America, and then back to Europe with new insights and publications in the fields of philosophy, political science, sociology ... ; economics - W 35–52 © 2013 The Appearance of Political Fraternity Why then should we occupy ourselves with 1789 if the appearance of the triptych was so brief? The fact is that the Revolution of 1789

Survey of Catholic Social Teachings

XIII began to address these “new things” (rerum 1. In this paper, “economic liberalism” refers to the political philosophy that calls for unregulated markets and a minimal role for the state while ... who is nomic, and political life are based on a Christian undersocial by nature and whose ultimate spiritual destiny is achieved in community, as testified to by the Bible and as indicated by reason

Beyond Secularism and Fundamentalism: Reinventing Global Citizenship

rejection of all forms of Fundamentalism. Next the author traces the origin of “secularism” to England and explains its theory concerning the need to push religion out of social institutions and political ... emerges at a historical moment in reaction to political, social, and cultural situations. This is true especially in parts of the world that experience traumatic situations, such as when nation-states

From Conflict to Communion: Introducing the Document of the International Catholic-Lutheran Commission for Unity in Commemoration of the Reformation in 2017

religious and political leaders, including princes, the emperor, the French king, and even Ottomans, who created the misunderstanding and division that led to the splitting of the Western church. Above all ... the reformers but also persons responsible for the Roman Church so that the Reformation in this sense is the work of Luther as well as of those responsible in Rome and of numerous political actors. In

Philosophical and Theological Historiography in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Red Wheel

This article provides an overview of Solzhenitsyn’s historical novel, The Red Wheel, in the context of a philosophy and theology of history. For his philosophical categories used in analysing the ... expression in space and time of the inner life of the Trinity.6 4. Voegelin uses “spiritual realism” “to designate the attitude of the political thinker . . . who has to detach himself intellectually, and

Prolegomenon to Interreligious Dialogue in China: Daoism, the Trinitarian Relationship, and Christian Inculturation

. Augustine of Hippo, made great contributions to theology out of their profound experience of God and the encounter between Christianity and Latin culture that has its roots in Greek philosophy. In this ... . The Chinese culture often uses the term laisheng (来生), meaning “next life,” to refer to ultimate reality. Whatever it is, it is a mystery to those living in this world. Philosophy in the West, on the

Kody W. Cooper, Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2018).

Thomistic tradition in Hobbes's civil philosophy, Cooper suggests that Hobbes is not advancing an a-religious, a-theistic political theory but is working consciously in the Thomistic-Aristotelian paradigm of ... can interpret Hobbes properly, or that, setting aside his personal beliefs, Hobbes’s political theory cannot be reformulated on the basis of natural philosophy alone. Overall, this book will appeal to

The trades of the "beehive

the ethical crisis implicating the political class that controls the power in the municipality. Finally, the study proposes an alternative to overcome the crisis, which can be addressed through a

The trades of the "beehive

the ethical crisis implicating the political class that controls the power in the municipality. Finally, the study proposes an alternative to overcome the crisis, which can be addressed through a

The trades of the "beehive

the ethical crisis implicating the political class that controls the power in the municipality. Finally, the study proposes an alternative to overcome the crisis, which can be addressed through a

The trades of the "beehive

the ethical crisis implicating the political class that controls the power in the municipality. Finally, the study proposes an alternative to overcome the crisis, which can be addressed through a

God and Creation: Trinity and Creation out of Nothing

The question of God’s relationship with creation touches upon important contemporary issues with regard to science, interfaith dialogue, and contemporary philosophy. Using the fundamental and ... principle would seem to postulate, at least in some of its simplistic and reductive interpretations.6 This is to say nothing of a whole vein of modern philosophy that—starting with Nietzsche and passing

A Spirituality that Inspires Ontology: The Discovery of God-Love and the Renewal of Ontology

united in his name. This article reflects on the insights emerging from those discoveries for philosophy, in particular, for ontology. The result is a Trinitarian ontology that highlights the centrality of ... , but the non-being which reveals Being as Love.22 Theology in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries had arrived at a philosophy that was its instrument, its ancilla. That Christian 22. Lubich