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Quantum field theory is generally accepted by the modern scientific community as the most accurate paradigm for understanding the mystery of reality. This theory revolutionizes what we know as ’matter’ and how material things are connected. But is also confirms an ancient philosophical and ethical truth: the unfathomable mystery of being. Quantum field theory demonstrates that beings be in such a manner that their composite reality evades human cognition. Quantum field theory forces a rethinking…Read more
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A Pathological Goodness: Emmanuel Levinas’ Post-holocaust EthicsMinerva 10 172-196. 2006.This essay offers a detailed and comprehensive study of the ethical thought of post-Holocaustphenomenologist, Emmanuel Levinas, through the lens of human passions. Its purpose is to reveal thestrengths, ambiguities and risks inherent in the practice of an ethos of infinite generosity, in the modernera
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Rebecca Pates, The End of Punishment: Philosophical Considerations on An Institution (review)Philosophy in Review 28 (3): 216-218. 2008.
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3Punishment and Shame: A Philosophical StudyLexington Books. 2010.Punishment and Shame: A Philosophical Study reveals the economic and religious underpinnings to modern notions of crime and punishment. Contra Michel Foucault's claim that modern penal practices witness a revolution in Western moral sensibilities, awakened by Enlightenment ideals, Hamblet shows that punishment practices in the West grew out of Protestant moralizations, capitalist greed, and the need for a cheap labor pool
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Alienation and wholeness: Spinoza, Hans Jonas, and the human genome project on the push and shove of mortal beingAnalecta Husserliana 91 57-65. 2006.
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45Order: Divine Principle of Excellence or Perfect Death for Living Beings?Kritike 3 (1): 61-71. 2009.Order is a value highly treasured and deeply embedded in the Westernworldview. Since the archaic Greeks gazed up at the night sky andnoted the reliable, stable movements of the heavens, order hasremained a cherished commodity in the lives of gods and humans. This paper traces the history of that beloved value and then places in question the worth of its rigorous, changeless solidity in the lives of living beings.
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6A Tragic Ethos: The Irresponsibility of the Host in Martin Heidegger's ‘the Ister’Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 35 (2): 157-167. 2004.
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23Mark L. McPherran, ed. , Plato's Republic: A Critical Guide . Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 32 (1): 40-41. 2012.
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Eric R. Wolf, Envisioning Power: Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 21 (5): 386-388. 2001.
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5The Sacred Monstrous: A Reflection on Violence in Human CommunitiesLexington Books. 2003.In The Sacred Monstrous author Wendy Hamblet traces the historical and social fact of violence through the work of Girard, Bloch, Lorenz and Burket. She takes up the charge advanced by social theorists, anthropologists and others that violence is steeped in our being; it pervades our generations and is imbedded in the ethos of our modern institutions. Hamblet's discussion of human history re-frames our understanding of how violence works in history and society. The Sacred Monstrous is a salient …Read more
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