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Shaking the trees: Abilities and Capabilities of Regression and Decision Trees for Political Science

When committing to quantitative political science, a researcher has a wealth of methods to choose from. In this paper we compare the established method of analyzing roll call data using W-NOMINATE ... forgiving with respect to misspecification. 1 Introduction Roll call voting behavior of legislators in the US Congress is at the focal point of many political science research efforts. A traditional model

Mr. Vane’s Confessions: The Unexpected Play of Augustine in Lilith’s Bibliographic Vision

is not really a place at all” (X.9). As a student at Carthage, he recalls reading a philosophy book titled Hortensius by Cicero. He says, “The book changed my way of feeling and the character of my ... much of its import from Keats’s Lamia, where the philosopher, Apollonius, exposes the subcreature Lamia as a “foul dream” (line 271). But unlike Lamia, Lilith is not being assaulted with cold philosophy

Some Aspects of the Oeuvre of George MacDonald in a Curriculum of Philosophy Courses and in the Production of a Play at a German Gymnasium

) Anthropology; 3) Ethics; 4) historical and political Philosophy; 5) theory of knowledge; 6) Philosophy of religions or another topic chosen by the students. Courses in literature and school theatre allow a ... world of nature becomes possible. In the context of considering the political and historical dimensions of philosophy, we concentrated upon the problems of modern and latemodern societies—the mutual

Modern Implications for George MacDonald's Nineteenth Century Apologetic

connection MacDonald finds to the realm of apologetics or philosophy is when he is mentioned in the same breath as C.S. Lewis. Otherwise, MacDonald is regarded for his literary efforts, his practical theology ... : Baker Book House, 1961) , 13. 4. Ibid., 13. goes on to list other genres of books in apologetic nature such as philosophy of religion, philosophical treatises like Kant’s Critiques, and Philosophical

George MacDonald and the Cambridge Apostles: Literature, Theology, the Arts, and Social Reform in Victorian England

Stephen Prickett hen I first read Benjamin Disraeli’s 1844 novel Coningsby— sometimes described as the first political novel in English—I was intrigued by the mention of a Cambridge tutor who, after ... more of a surprise to me was the news that, so far from practicing dark political arts, this society was founded in 1820 to develop an understanding of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s social and religious

Research Optimization for the Utilization-Exploitation of Hellenic Army Vacant Warehouses

) analysis, Political/Law, Economic, Social, Technological, Demographic, Global Environment analysis, structural-industry analysis of the competitive environment and value chain analysis are used for the ... solutions are functional at all levels of command of the Hellenic Army (Departmentorate – business – functional levels). 2 PEST-DG Analysis The Political/Law, Economic, Social, Technological, Demographic

More Than a Fairy Tale: The Gendered Experience of Child Abuse in George MacDonald’s The Day Boy and the Night Girl

seventy-five” (317). These tales wrestled with social problems, political issues, and questions of faith. Perhaps the most common, and most overlooked, social problem MacDonald addressed in his fairy tales ... the socio-political climate shifted, gender roles fell under evaluation. By the 1870s, “tensions about gender roles had come to a head,” and an open discourse on gender roles took off; it is no surprise

Lilith’s Library and Ellipsoids: Tracing the Shape of a Diabolic Mind

cold philosophy to banish this apparently unsafe symbol of the poetic imagination, MacDonald wants to expose Lilith so that she might be redeemed and reclaimed. It is a fascinating contrast. 10. See

Questioning the Nation: Ambivalent Narratives in Le Retour au désert by Bernard-Marie Koltès

must develop the traditional philosophy of French national understanding as defined by Jules Michelet, Maurice Barrès, and Ernst Renan, three thinkers credited with developing the specifically French ... Michelet is a key figure for this philosophy, and he argues that French history begins with the formalization of the French language. As he notes in his History of France, “The history of France begins with

“Something More or Different”: George MacDonald and Victorian Art Photography

Imagination: The Theology of George MacDonald . Routledge, 2016 . Ferrante , Joan. “The Corrupt Society.” The Political Vision of the Divine Comedy, Digital Dante, digitaldante.columbia.edu/criticism-context ... / scholars-works/political-visions/the-corrupt-society/ . Accessed 28 September 2018 . Flint , Kate. “Surround, Background, and the Overlooked.” Victorian Studies , vol. 57 , no. 3 Spring 2015 , pp. 449 - 461

Mariana Leaves the Moated Grange: The Social Revolutionary Ethics in Weighed and Wanting

Revolutionary Ethics in Weighed and Wanting Adelheid Kegler n 1862 the Cornhill Magazine published Ruskin’s essay “Ad Valorem, Unto This Last.”1 This was the last of a series of essays on Political Economy which ... preserved. His evaluation turned out to be the correct one, for by 1894 Unto this Last was described as the best-read work of “the most popular author who deals with political economy and sociology.”3 The

Phantastes as Theological Critique of Hoffmann's The Golden Pot

theological critique of The Golden Pot. In reading Phantastes as a critique of The Golden Pot, we can see what aspects of Platonic philosophy MacDonald affirms and what aspects he rejects in favor of Maurice’s ... theology of the incarnation and revelation. Before I analyze Maurice’s influence on Phantastes, I will first consider the extent to which both stories embody Platonic philosophy. In Phantastes, Fairy Land

Victorian Fairy Tales, edited by Michael Newton, Oxford UP, 2016, 444 pp.

general overview of the importance of fairy tales, arguing that fairytale writers “experimented with the form to explore political and social concerns, as well as questions of identity, love, and the moral ... evokes Edward Clodd’s Tom Tit Tot: An Essay on Savage Philosophy in Folk Tale (1898) as his defense, demonstrating how Andrew Lang and Rudyard Kipling, in particular, participated in this “atavistic mode

F. D. Maurice: The Man Who Re-wrote the Book (Presidential Address given at the 2002 Annual General Meeting of the MacDonald Society)

genuinely felt that “the new philosophy puts all in doubt” (questions of irony prevent an unambiguous reading), certainly, a full century after Copernicus’ death, Milton —who not merely knew perfectly well ... fazed by new discoveries in science or biblical criticism. In that sense, at least, it was consonant with the new philosophy being developed by Kant and his idealist successors in Germany, as well as with

Chapter 8: Lilith's Dantean Homecoming Structure

. “ Meditations on First Philosophy.” Classics of Western Philosophy , edited by Stephen M. Cahn , 7th ed., Hackett Pub. Co. , 2006 , 484 - 516 . -. “Meditations on First Philosophy.” Great Books of the Western

George MacDonald and Kegan Paul’s “Indian and Colonial Series”

principal merit the graphic delineation of Indian character, modes of life, political distractions, individual treacheries, and social customs. Seeta herself is as lovely in character as in person, and the ... ingenuity in working out the plot of ‘God’s Providence House.’ . . . The period of the story is the close of the last century, when haunted houses, political plots, inexorable fathers, and wasp-waisted

The Religious and Philosophical Foundations and Apologetic Implications of George MacDonald’s Mysticism

Novalis PART TWO: George MacDonald’s Philosophy and its Affect on His Mysticism Chapter 2 MacDonald’s Metaphysical Foundations 2.1 Living in a Shadow World, examining MacDonald’s ‘Temperamental ... Chapter 5 An Outworking of MacDonald’s Philosophy on his Theology and Mysticism 5.1 Defining MacDonald as a ‘True Mystic’ 5.2 MacDonald’s utilization of Swedenborg’s Theory of Correspondences and Boehme’s

“A Great Machine”: George MacDonald and Popular Science

-established but later disregarded. As Broome acknowledges, Greville MacDonald’s 1924 biography of his father emphasizes George MacDonald’s interests in chemistry and natural philosophy (88). Broome further ... , after earning his MA degree (including chemistry and natural philosophy) at King’s College . . . later rejected science altogether” while ignoring that MacDonald “continued to lecture occasionally on

Objects of Nonsense, Anarchy, and Order: Romantic Theology in Lewis Carroll’s and George MacDonald’s Nonsense Literature

philosophy of the fall.” (191-2). Christianity, as Gabelman observes, “seems destined to defy common sense” (169) and aims to restore the sense through a process of paradox, anarchy, and chaos towards an ... static conception of the mind and actually attributed the decline in English philosophy and theology to the popularity of such Enlightenment modes of thinking. Under Locke’s view, the imagination can only

Straddling Boundaries: Gutta Percha Willie and the 1870 Education Act

remained essentially intact during the subsequent two decades” (214). Specifically, their philosophy was “a peculiar hybrid of social romanticism and political radicalism,” fostered by the thinking of such ... and religion as with education. Gutta Percha Willie may have been MacDonald’s response to the political discussion in the British Houses of Parliament surrounding the 1870 Education Act, an act which