Langdon Gilkey's theological method distinguishes three stages of the theological enterprise, namely, prolegomenon, constructive theology and theology of culture. In this dissertation we employ this threefold division as an organizing principle for the exposition and evaluation of Gilkey's thought. We propose further, however, that the whole project is best understood if seen primarily in terms of the third stage. Consequently the dissertation focuses on Gilkey's theology of culture and interprets his prolegomenon and constructive theology in terms of their foundational relevance to his theology of modernity in decline. Interpreted in this way the project as a whole displays a coherent interrelatedness. That coherence also means, however, that ambiguity and weak arguments in both the prolegomenon and constructive theology are reflected in the theology of culture. These deficiencies notwithstanding, Gilkey's theology of culture provides us with an analysis and diagnosis of modernity that plumbs to the religious depths of that culture. Such analysis is necessary for all cultures but especially for cultures in decline.

Inaug.-diss.--Greifswald. / Lebenslauf. "Literaturverzeichnis": p. [7]-9.

Thèse : Sciences politiques et économiques : Paris : 1919.

Inaug.-diss.--Greifswald. / Lebenslauf. "Literaturverzeichnis": p. [7]-9.

From Introduction: This thesis then is a detailed study of Lessing's novels in an attempt to show her development as a writer. Her short stories are handled briefly in connection with her novels. For, although the short stories are among her finest work, focus on the novels is sufficient to show her growth as a writer. Hers is the small individual struggle to overcome the limitations of both her content and her form. To overcome the limitations of her content means expanding her own consciousness and re-forming life itself. Only when she is free and the world is free can she overcome the limitations of her content. Then, of course, she need no longer and can no longer write. The task seems as impossible as that of the dung beetles, but she nevertheless continues. Like the sacred beetles with "the sun between their feet" she carries on rolling the muck of the world into symbols of the truth.

Dissertção (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasilia, Instituto de Ciencias Humanas, Departamento de Filosofia, 2010. / Submitted by Raquel Viana (tempestade_b@hotmail.com) on 2011-06-16T19:41:31Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_RafaelSilvaPinto.pdf: 355277 bytes, checksum: c2600acaea6a4ecaf101f2422c62a9ad (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Guilherme Lourenço Machado(gui.admin@gmail.com) on 2011-06-17T13:07:41Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_RafaelSilvaPinto.pdf: 355277 bytes, checksum: c2600acaea6a4ecaf101f2422c62a9ad (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2011-06-17T13:07:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_RafaelSilvaPinto.pdf: 355277 bytes, checksum: c2600acaea6a4ecaf101f2422c62a9ad (MD5) / Interpretação da filosofia moral de Iris Murdoch. A presente dissertação é estruturada em torno de três temáticas correlatas a fim de buscar uma compreensão abrangente da ética e da metafísica da filósofa. São elas: o pluralismo das visões morais, o bem e o vazio. A pergunta fundamental que orienta a investigação é sobre a possibilidade ou não de compatibilizar o pluralismo das visões morais e a soberania do Bem. Esta relação ocorre por meio de uma filosofia moral concebida como iconoclasmo criativo, que se nutre da tensão entre forma e contingência, explorando as fissuras e as ambigüidades de vários cenários e conceitos morais tais como retratados por sistemas filosóficos, pelas obras de arte, pela religião e tantas outras atividades humanas investigadas. Por meio da crítica de correntes filosóficas preponderantes, a filósofa delineia o seu programa de recuperação de conceitos e imagens metafísicos, esclarecendo a sua centralidade para o pluralismo moral, concebido como a exploração imaginativa do mistério vinculado às visões morais dos indivíduos. O caráter assistemático de sua filosofia bem como a pluralidade de formas adotadas para investigar cenários morais diversos integram a sua concepção de moralidade como uma peregrinação individual em busca do Bem, que envolve a purificação do Eros e o aperfeiçoamento dos estados de consciência. O Bem é a melhor metáfora encontrada para exprimir que a moralidade não pode ser descartada da vida humana. O seu caráter transcendente visa à preservação da consciência moral e do julgamento ético individual como ferramentas críticas para apontar os limites e as falibilidades de toda e qualquer teoria. A sua filosofia é um convite ao leitor para empreender sua própria jornada espiritual, é uma provocação para que os indivíduos não considerem o discernimento entre o bem e o mal uma mera questão de escolha ou de vontade arbitrária, mas um engajamento existencial na tarefa inesgotável de atenção, purificação da energia espiritual, aprimoramento da visão moral, que envolve tanto um aprofundamento íntimo da compreensão do vocabulário moral como uma transformação moral interior. A discussão do problema do mal face ao realismo moral abre caminho para uma análise mais acurada do conceito de vazio, que se revela como idéia-chave para a compreensão do Bem e da própria atividade filosófica. _______________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT / Interpretation of Iris Murdoch’s moral philosophy. The present dissertation is structured upon three issues correlated in order to propose a general grasp of ethics and metaphysics in Iris Murdoch’s thought. The issues are: the pluralism of moral visions, the good and the void. The fundamental question, which guides the investigation, is about the possibility of harmonizing her pluralism of moral visions and the sovereignty of the Good. This relation comes about by means of a moral philosophy conceived as creative iconoclasm, which is fostered by the tension between form and contingency, exploring fissures and ambiguities of several moral pictures and concepts as portrayed by philosophical systems, by works of art, by religion and so many others human activities investigated. By means of the criticism of predominating philosophical currents, the philosopher draws her recuperation program for metaphysics’ concepts and pictures, showing its centrality for moral pluralism, thought as an imaginative exploration of the mystery attached to individuals’ moral visions. The unsystematic feature of her philosophy, as well as the plurality of adopted forms in order to investigate different moral scenarios, integrates her conception of morality as an individual peregrination in search of the Good, which involves the purification of Eros and the improvement of states of consciousness. The Good is the best metaphor found to express that morality cannot be eliminated from human life. Its transcendent feature intends to preserve moral consciousness and individual ethical judgment as critical tools to point limits and failures of every theory. Her philosophy is an invitation to the reader to undertake his own spiritual journey. It’s a challenge to individuals not to regard the discernment between good and evil as a matter of choice or arbitrary will, but as an existential commitment to the ceaseless task of attention, to the purification of spiritual energy, to the improvement of moral vision, which involves an intimate deepening of the comprehension of moral vocabulary as well as an interior moral transformation. The discussion of the problem of evil faced with the Good as a reality principle enables a more accurate analysis of the concept of the void, that reveals itself as a key idea for the comprehension of the Good and of the philosophical activity itself.

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The Political Department and the Indian Political Service stand accused of sins of omission and commission. The evidence suggests that they were badly hampered by ill-conceived training prodecures, a lack of manpower and above all the incoherent policy of the British government towards the Indian states. The failure of the 1935 Federation Act which formally established the Political Department was not due to princely intransigence inspired by political officers. Between 1935 and 1947 the Political Department embarked on a vigorous programme of combining the resources of the smaller states to strengthen them as viable partners in a new India. Their lack of success in effecting the federation of the states with India in 1947 was not a result of the disinclination of political officers to implement reform as much as their inability to do so. Many princes were also unwilling to sacrifice a measure of sovereignty for efficient government and paramountcy precluded forcing internal reform on the princes. Paramountcy was never clearly defined and thus its retraction in 1947 took place amidst confusion and misunderstanding on all sides. The Indian Political Service was always treated as secondary to the Indian Civil Service and the states to British India. Britain's emphasis on constitutional change in British India, reflected in the Cripps Mission of 1942, the Cabinet Mission of 1946 and the rush towards independence in 1947 resulted in her inattention to the Political Department and the princes which culminated in the abandonment of both in 1947.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau's ideas on liberal democracy and political philosophy are relevant to Canadian life. He is a modern liberal democrat with a vision of the 'Good' society - what he terms the Just Society. The values of a Just Society are numerous, but perhaps, the most important are freedom, equality, and tolerance. These values are core to his theory and are often revealed in his battle against nationalism. Trudeau is radically opposed to notions of ethnic nationalism, such as French Canadian and Aboriginal nationalism, but he supports a type of civic nationalism within a federal, pluralistic system. In his dislike for nationalism, Trudeau is similar to Lord Acton, who has had a major influence on his work. Trudeau also shows thought similar to John Locke, J.S. Mill, I. Berlin, de Tocqueville, Publius, and John Rawls. / Arts, Faculty of / Political Science, Department of / Graduate

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