Laurence Francis Bove

The essays in this volume explore in detail many of the ways power structures our daily personal, political and intellectual lives, and evaluate the workings of power using a variety of theoretical paradigms, from Hobbesian liberalism to Foucauldian feminist postmodernism. Taken as a whole, the book aims towards an end to unjust and destructive uses of power and the flowering of an encouraging, educated empowerment for all human beings in a pluralistic world. Section I offers a progressive chain of arguments that moves from the acceptance of domination, through the rejection of domination and, finally, to a new vision of power based on equality and mutual respect. Section II explores the questions, how is the philosophical self, that is, our very understanding of who we are, implicated in the web of power and domination? Section III responds to political realism as it explores morally ideal solutions to the global problems of poverty, war and hunger. Section IV discusses ways in which our thought and practice in both public and private life are bound up in hierarchies of domination

_From the Eye of the Storm: Regional Conflicts and the Philosophy of Peace_ presents to the reader a cross section of an emerging field of study: the philosophy of peace. The editors bring together articles that explore the philosophic implications of many recent regional conflicts. Reflecting the diversity and vitality and any new field of study, this volume contains five sections: Conceptual Foundations; America's Homefront; Desert Storm Assessments; _Jihad, Intifada_, and Other Mideast Concerns; and Latin American Issues. The topics of the articles include war, militarism, patriotism, nationalism, nonviolence, conscientious objection, feminist peace, the media, the ethics of the Gulf War, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Islamic pacifism, and Latin American resistance. A concluding postscript assesses prospects for achieving peace and change within our fast changing international scene. This volume has an extensive bibliography of writings concerning peace and conflict and is suited to professional and student audiences

This dissertation analyzes the ontological functioning of eternality, especially as it relates to the ethical action of the religious individual. This action, it is argued, is based upon an ontological framework that transcends universal or other immanent criteria. This framework is identified as an ontology of non-mediated being. As such, it is the purpose of this inquiry to show that Kierkegaard posited an ethic based upon a form of being which could not be mediated by the human intellect. ;Chapter II enunciates the basic claims and insights necessary to understand Kierkegaard's method and his ontology. The interpretations of Collins, Elrod, Malantschuk, and Wyschogrod are examined in order to clarify Kierkegaard's concept of ontology. Chapter III introduces and designates the ontological role of the eternal. The eternal's genesis into the temporal forms the basis of this chapter. Chapter IV examines how externality effects an ontological framework for Christian love. Kierkegaard's concept of genuine love is explained and related to existence. We conclude that the existential requirements of the paradoxically religious self which brings into actuality the eternal, and the ontological structure of the eternal determines value. Chapter V is a study of the ontological, theological, axiological, and existential interrelationships that function within the paradoxically religious person's moral action. In Chapter VI, the legitimacy of Kierkegaard's qualitatively different moral criteria is examined. We argue that non-mediated being is normative and regulative. Chapter VII considers the problematic facets of his thought, recognizes the interplay of teleological ontology and act-deontological moral actions, and summarizes the inquiry