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Chris A. Kramer deposited The Philosophy of Humor: What Makes Something Funny in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoPeople can laugh at almost anything. What’s the deal with that? What makes something funny? This essay reviews some theories of what it is for something to be funny. Each theory offers insights into this question, but no single approach provides a comprehensive answer.
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited ‘La piel que habito’: Transexualidades y transtextualidades in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoSpanish abstract: ´La piel que habito´, película de 2011 de Pedro Almodóvar, es una historia sugerente, llena de ecos de debates de actualidad, y que señala en muchas direcciones diferentes, todas interesantes, pero el núcleo donde se unen todas es un personaje tan patológico que es totalmente implausible, excepto como ficción cinemat…[Read more]
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Pruritus Migrans deposited V stands for Vanadium in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoV stands for Vanadium * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA
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Duane Alexander Miller deposited FREEDOM OF RELIGION IN ISRAEL-PALESTINE: MAY MUSLIMS BECOME CHRISTIANS, AND DO CHRISTIANS HAVE THE FREEDOM TO WELCOME SUCH CONVERTS? in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThis research represents a continuation and elaboration on Miller’s research for the Christianity and Freedom project, presented in Rome in December of 2013. This article seeks to understand the challenges and context of Christians who are also ex-Muslims in the HolyLand. Attention is paid to the difference between the contexts in the West Bank a…[Read more]
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Duane Alexander Miller deposited La ordenación de las mujeres: más opciones de las que creías in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoEn este breve artículo deseo esbozar las diversas posiciones que existen a lo largo de la Comunión Anglicana (así como los cuerpos anglicanos que no pertenecen a la Comunión) con respecto a la cuestión de la ordenación de mujeres. Mi intención no es respaldar ningún enfoque, sino comunicar que no hay simplemente dos opciones, sino muchas más.
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Pruritus Migrans deposited Kherson eleison in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoKherson eleison * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Lenguaje sin evolución in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoSpanish abstract: El lenguaje no puede entenderse al margen de la evolución. No basta sólo con explicar el surgimiento evolutivo de una “capacidad de lenguaje”, sino que también hay que explicar la evolución del lenguaje en sí, el lenguaje en acto y no en potencia. En suma, no sólo se trata de averiguar si nuestros ancestros hablaban, pues hoy c…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited तकनीकी बर्बरता के नए युग की शुरुआत है ऑनलाइन शिक्षा in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoनावेल कोरोना वायरस के अनुपातहीन भय के खिलाफ आवाज़ उठाने वालों में इतालवी दार्शनिक जार्जो आगम्बेन सबसे प्रतिष्ठित आवाज हैं। उनकी बातों का विश्व के प्रमुख अकादमिशयनों ने संज्ञान लिया है, जिसके परिणामस्वरूप कथित ऑनलाइन-डिजिटल शिक्षा के के विरोध की सुगबुगाहट वैश्विक स्तर पर आरंभ हुई है।
यहां प्रस्तुत है, उनकी एक टिप्पणी…
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Allan Savage deposited Philosophical Consciousness and Christian Humanity in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThis book is not a set of introductory essays. It has been written with the more seasoned philosopher in mind. I follow Leslie Dewart’s general understanding of consciousness as a means of personal
adjustment based upon the unique experience of a human being. He notes that consciousness as “human adjustment differs from the animal kind in that m…[Read more] -
Allan Savage deposited Philosophical Consciousness and Christian Humanity in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThis book is not a set of introductory essays. It has been written with the more seasoned philosopher in mind. I follow Leslie Dewart’s general understanding of consciousness as a means of personal
adjustment based upon the unique experience of a human being. He notes that consciousness as “human adjustment differs from the animal kind in that m…[Read more] -
Jason Goroncy deposited The Powers of Death: Recognition, Resistance, Resurrection in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThis essay is an invitation to examine the powers of death, particularly the modes by which such powers are manifested in the world, modes that relate to but are irreducible to an individual’s life. It considers contributions to the subject from Karl Barth, Walter Wink, and William Stringfellow, among others, to argue that while death and its a…[Read more]
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Jason Goroncy deposited Creation, God, and the Coronavirus in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThis short reflection argues that, in the face of natural crises that occur in the world, responsible Christian speech requires a much fuller and more thickly textured understanding of creation than is often presented. Reading the Bible leads us to avoid speculating on the origins or purposes of such crises. Rather, it bears witness to the divine…[Read more]
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Jason Goroncy deposited Sanctification in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoA chapter on Karl Barth’s doctrine of sanctification.
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Jeremy Kidwell deposited Reconfiguring Deep Time in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoDeep time comes in many forms, including a range of temporal frames, and various approaches to more ethical engagement with the biosphere. In this paper, I explore the recent use and contestation of history, in light of its legacy as a Christian theo- logical project (from Eusebius and Bede into more recent renderings) and a potent political tool.…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Threats to the concept of social justice in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoIn this paper, I have tried to define social justice in the Indian context and about the dangers shadowing its basic concept.
Social justice means providing justice to all those people who have had to face injustice having been subject to some form of dominance. They may have had to face injustice due to their varna, ethnicity, profession,…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited सामाजिक न्याय की अवधारणा पर खतरे in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoसमाजिक न्याय की अवधारणा क्या है?
भारत में सामाजिक न्याय का संघर्ष मुख्य रूप से द्विजों और शूद्रों-अतिशूद्रों-आदिवासियों के बीच है। द्विज अल्पसंख्यक हैं जबकि शुद्र-अतिशूद्र-आदिवासी बहुसंख्यक। देश के लोकतंत्र पर राज करने वाली दोनों प्रमुख पार्टियां – कांग्रेस और भारतीय जनता पार्टी – अपने संगठन में ओबीसी प्रकोष्ठ, दलित प्रकोष्ठ, आदिवासी प्रकोष्ठ…[Read more] -
Pramod Ranjan deposited साहित्य में त्रिवेणी संघ और त्रिवेणी संघ का साहित्य in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoत्रिवेणी संघ की सक्रियता का काल 1933 से लेकर 1942 ईसवी तक माना जाता है। इस समय ”बीसवीं सदी अपने शैशवकाल को समाप्त कर युवावस्था को प्राप्त कर रही थी। ’जागरूक होते पिछड़े-दलित समुदायों और उनके दमन, शोषण की चौतरफा कोशिश के बीच जन्मे त्रिवेणी संघ का ”उद्देश्य तथा कार्यक्रम शोषित, शासित तथा दलित यानी सभी अनुन्नत समाज की उन्नति’’ था। उसने उद्घोष क…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited विद्यार्थियों के लिए एक शोकगीत in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoनावेल कोरोना वायरस के अनुपातहीन भय के खिलाफ आवाज़ उठाने वालों में इतालवी दार्शनिक जार्जो आगम्बेन सबसे प्रतिष्ठित आवाज हैं। उनकी बातों का विश्व के प्रमुख अकादमिशियनों ने संज्ञान लिया था, जिसके परिणामस्वरूप कथित ऑनलाइन-डिजिटल शिक्षा के के विरोध की सुगबुगाहट वैश्विक स्तर पर आरंभ हुई थी। आगम्बेन की इस टिप्पणी का अनुवाद उनकी अनुमति से किया गया है।
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Paul Michael Kurtz deposited A Historical, Critical Retrospective on Historical Criticism in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoThis chapter examines how historical and critical modalities of reading sacred scripture became central to modern biblical studies. It examines what “criticism” was, whence it came, what it did, and which critiques it sustained, before considering its prospects for future historical and literary analysis of the Bible.
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Paul Michael Kurtz deposited A Historical, Critical Retrospective on Historical Criticism in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoThis chapter examines how historical and critical modalities of reading sacred scripture became central to modern biblical studies. It examines what “criticism” was, whence it came, what it did, and which critiques it sustained, before considering its prospects for future historical and literary analysis of the Bible.
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