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The thesis presented consists of three main sections: 1. Section A includes comprehensive and detailed critical analyses of Buber's monographs on the Old Testament, "Konigtum Gottes", "Der Gesalbte", "Der Glaube der Propheten", "Abraham der Seher", "Moses", "Recht und Unrecht. Deutung einiger Psalmen"; furthermore the translation of the Hebrew Bible into German is studied, a work Buber had carried out with the aid of Franz Rosenzweig. Buber's statements and interpretation are elaborated and compared with those of recent and contemporary scholars. This investigation brings to light Buber's peculiar and very often individualistic view. He rejects literary criticism which assumes written sources such as J, E, P in the Pentateuch; correspondingly he tries to trace strands of orally and then literarily transmitted traditions which were ingeniously combined by the Redactor(s). This redactional achievement is regarded by Buber as of great importance and of high quality. Modern research has made evident that Buber frequently perceives the proper relations and facts, more, however, through intuition than through convincing arguments (the details of the ancient traditions being usually far more complicated than Buber thinks them to be). His idea of Yahweh as Melekh of the wandering Israelite tribes e.g. has been proved to be wrong, but the conception of the leading and wayfaring God was expounded by Buber earlier and more clearly than in the studies of other scholars. Peculiar to Buber is the idea of an essential uUity of the Hebrew Bible to which so called "guiding words" ("Leitworte") make reference. In his translation (which shows a masterly command and sympathetic understanding of both Hebrew and German) he makes use of such "guiding words" and of the sensuous basic meaning of the individual verbal roots. The fundamental and predominant principle of Buber's hermeneutics appears in all his books on the Bible. It is the principle of dialogue between God and Man; and it is here that Buber finds the essence both of prophecy and of Israel's faith as a whole. 2. Section B tries to elucidate the theological, philosophical, and biographical background of Buber's hermeneutics. It comes out in his view of myth, saga, and historical reality. There is a clearly rationalistic approach to biblical miracle stories, but besides this an irrational intuition leads him to deeper understanding. Dilthey's influence becomes evident. Buber cannot be understood apart from the role that mysticism and chassidism played in his life; it was, however, the Hebrew Bible which helped him to overcome self-sufficient mysticism and chassidic gnosticism. Knowing about the relation of dialogue between God and Man, Buber can remain neither a pure mystic nor a pure existentialist (in the sense of modern existential philosophy). He is "atypical". His interpretation of the Bible is critical, not orthodox or fundamentalist in its approach, although he cannot deny the Jewish and rabbinical background of his learning. Personal religious experience goes hand in hand with scholarly methods of criticism. The principles of dialogue and existential commitment make him strictly discriminate between prophecy and apocalyptic. God speaks to Man in the present historical situation and claims a personal decision. There is no room for any speculations or taking a peep into an already certain and immutable future. The directness of the eternal revelation at every time and the continuous possibility of dialogue between God and Man are theological conceptions that exclude a particular salvation history ("Heilsgesohichte"). Buber is primarily interested in God's speaking, not in God's acting in oertain historical events. Buber's understanding of divine revelation cannot but regard every religion on earth as a sphere of God's disclosure. In opposition to the religion of the Bible, however, the pagan religions misunderstand God and his disclosure. But even for those living with biblical traditions God Himself may disappear for a time as the sun disappears in eclipse. Yet an eclipse is no extinction, and Buber demonstrates, by reference to Job and Deutero-Isaiah, the relevance of the Old Testament as a source of hope in a dark age. Section C summarizes the conclusions of the thesis and appreciates the work of Buber as an outstanding scholar - a work that is fascinating and stimulating even where we have to reject not a few of its results.

The purpose of this study was to relate Paul Tillich's concepts of love, power, and justice to teacher-pupil interaction. Three categories were used to indicate the relationship: (1) the formation of the self-concept of teachers and of pupils, (2) the teacher-pupil relationship, and (3) the learning process.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University / The purpose of this dissertation is to determine what takes place on the human side when a man says he has an encounter with God, with special reference to the thought of Martin Buber and of the Hebrew prophet, Jeremiah. The method has been to characterize each man's thought; to pay particular attention to the data lending themselves to psychological description, to the end of analyzing encounter with God in its epistemic, psychological and existential modes. On the basis of these characterizations, each of these men has been compared to the other to determine likenesses and differences; to assay the effect of culture at points of difference; and to summarize the points of likeness which might have abiding value. Findings and conclusions are: 1. Buber and Jeremiah find man's essential nature incomplete apart from relation to God. Fulfilment is possible in what Buber terms an I-Thou relation--a subject-subject relation as opposed to the subject-object relation of knowledge. Subject-subject relation is made possible by a unique category of being, which Buber calls the inborn Thou. This is not to say that man has an original self. A self has to be won. 2. A sense of lack (anxiety), a reaching out, the dual gestalt of man's own being together with objective reference of the Thou, a sense of fulfillment by a Persons over against one, standing in the relation of love--these minimal elements of encounter constitute the fountainhead of religion and ethics, as well as the occasion for man's social being to emerge and to be kept intact. Revelation comes in the form of Presence--presence as power. No verbal message is given. There is a sense of reciprocal relation, of inexpressible confirmation, and of an urge to act out the power of it in the world. 3. Jeremiah conceived man to be created by God and endowed with a drive to fulfillment like the migratory instinct in birds. Man is free to direct this drive toward God and find fulfilment, or to direct it elsewhere with little promise in the face of his precarious existence. 4. For both men, one's religious knowledge and his cultural modes of thought were part of the whole person taken into encounter and could affect the subsequent interpretation of it. Neither believed that encounter was sufficient without the remainder of experience; nor did either conceive the experience of immediacy as resulting from any form of mystical absorption. Jeremiah's tribal consciousness lends itself aptly both to illustrate the limits which culture can impose on revelation and also to reveal how the Presence can transcend the limits. 5. Relation to God is necessary for maintaining the integrity of one's I; otherwise, the world of things assumes the mastery, and persons are cheapened (Buber); or man loses his moral fibre (Jeremiah). 6. Jeremiah negatively illustrates Buber's judgment that verbal messages are not given in revelation. Recently from the Presence, he put his own thoughts into the mouth of God and delivered them as a "Thus saith the Lord." The mistakes he made indicate that alleged verbal messages in revelation do not stand on their own authority. They need further testing. 7. Buber and Jeremiah fonnd that perceptual data of religion gained in concrete life-situations were a reliable foundation upon which to build coherent religious truth. They would agree that this method of gaining religious truth has been a distinctive contribution of the Hebrew-Jewish religion.

黃天生. / "2005年1月". / 論文(哲學碩士)--香港中文大學, 2005. / 參考文獻(leaves [1]-[5], 2nd group). / "2005 nian 1 yue". / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / Huang Tiansheng. / Lun wen (zhe xue shuo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2005. / Can kao wen xian (leaves [1]-[5], 2nd group). / Chapter 1. --- 引言 / Chapter 1.1 --- 硏究之背景 --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- 硏究目的 --- p.4 / Chapter 1.3 --- 硏究方法及結構 --- p.8 / Chapter 2. --- 關聯法之一極一一對處境之理解 / Chapter 2.1 --- 田立克關聯法對處境之理解 --- p.10 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- 引言 --- p.10 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- 田立克自覺處身於時代的轉接階段 --- p.13 / Chapter 2.1.3 --- 田立克對現代性中心問題之反省 --- p.14 / Chapter 2.1.4 --- 從現代性的特徵帶出人存在之根本問題 --- p.16 / Chapter 2.1.5 --- 過往方法的評檢 --- p.19 / Chapter 2.2 --- 徐思相互批判關聯對處境之理解 --- p.22 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- 引言 --- p.22 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- 時代轉變的中心問題一一從現代至後現代 --- p.24 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- 處境的轉變，修正的需要 --- p.32 / Chapter 2.3 --- 從田立克至徐思 --- p.34 / Chapter 3. --- 關聯法之一極一一對宗教信仰之理解 / Chapter 3.1 --- 田立克關聯法之一極一一對宗教信仰的理解 --- p.35 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- 引信 --- p.35 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- 終極關懷作爲宗教普遍性的基礎 --- p.38 / Chapter 3.1.3 --- 終極關懷到基督宗教的上帝 --- p.41 / Chapter 3.1.4 --- 終極關懷與耶穌是基督一一基督教的獨特性 --- p.43 / Chapter 3.2 --- 徐思關聯法之一極一一對宗教信仰的理解 --- p.46 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- 引言 --- p.46 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- 徐思對宗教之定義 --- p.47 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- 宗教之定義´ؤ´ؤ極限經驗 --- p.49 / Chapter 3.2.4 --- 宗教之定義一一經典 --- p.53 / Chapter 3.2.5 --- 從經典的理解到基督論之建構 --- p.58 / Chapter 3.3 --- 從田立克至徐思 --- p.59 / Chapter 4. --- 關聯法之方法論一一如何關聯的問題 / Chapter 4.1 --- 田立克關聯法之方法論框架 --- p.61 / Chapter 4.1.1 --- 引言 --- p.61 / Chapter 4.1.2 --- 問題與答案之關係 --- p.63 / Chapter 4.1.3 --- 形式與內容之關係 --- p.67 / Chapter 4.2 --- 徐思關聯法之方法論框架 --- p.72 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- 引言 --- p.72 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- 詮釋學之於經典的嫁接 --- p.73 / Chapter 4.2.3 --- 批判技巧之運用 --- p.75 / Chapter 4.2.4 --- 類比想像的意思 --- p.77 / Chapter 4.3 --- 從田立克至徐思 --- p.80 / Chapter 5. --- 總結 / Chapter 5.1 --- 引言 --- p.82 / Chapter 5.2 --- 進入多元世界的田立克 --- p.83 / Chapter 5.3 --- 徐思在關聯法裏修正了甚麼？ --- p.86

王賜惠. / "2003年5月". / 論文(哲學碩士)--香港中文大學, 2003. / 參考文獻 (leaves 86-89). / 附中英文摘要. / "2003 nian 5 yue". / Wang Cihui. / Lun wen (zhe xue shuo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2003. / Can kao wen xian (leaves 86-89). / Fu Zhong Ying wen zhai yao. / 導論：本論文的寫作目的與方法問題 --- p.1 / Chapter (A) --- 本論文的寫作目的 --- p.1 / Chapter (B) --- 文的方法 --- p.1 / Chapter (C) --- 用的形而上學槪念架構 --- p.3 / Chapter 第I章： --- 從形而上學看世界的本然面目 --- p.5 / Chapter (一） --- 田立克的觀點：田立克的本體論 / Chapter (A) --- 存在結構的第一層：自我與世界 --- p.6 / Chapter (B) --- 存在結構的第二層：三對極性 --- p.9 / 小結 --- p.11 / Chapter (二） --- 唯識宗的觀點：唯識宗的本體論 / Chapter (A) --- 現象界的虛假性 --- p.13 / Chapter (B) --- 從假現象到真實的本體-阿賴耶識 --- p.15 / 小結 --- p.21 / Chapter (三） --- 田立克與唯識宗本體論之相似性 / Chapter (A) --- 自我意識與阿賴耶識的相似性 --- p.22 / Chapter (B) --- 存在狀態的相似性 --- p.23 / Chapter (C) --- 價値意義的相似性 --- p.23 / Chapter 第II章： --- 罪惡世界的形上根源 --- p.24 / Chapter (一） --- 田立克的觀點：「自我意識」的覺醒 / Chapter (A) --- 本體界的「非存在」性 --- p.24 / Chapter (B) --- 「自我意識」的覺醒 --- p.26 / Chapter (C) --- 從「自我意識」的覺醒到「自我凸顯」的慾求 --- p.28 / Chapter (D) --- 從焦慮到自我肯定 --- p.29 / Chapter (E) --- 從焦虜到自我凸顯 --- p.32 / 小結 --- p.35 / Chapter (二） --- 唯識宗的觀點：「末那識」的執我慾求 / Chapter (A) --- 「末那識」的執著本性 --- p.37 / Chapter (B) --- 「末那識」的執著對象和目的(所緣) --- p.39 / Chapter (C) --- 「末那識」的依靠對象(所依) --- p.41 / Chapter (D) --- 「末那識」執我的後果 --- p.42 / Chapter (E) --- 「實我」的哲學意涵 --- p.44 / 小結 --- p.47 / Chapter (三） --- 「自我意識」與「末那識」之相似性 --- p.49 / Chapter (A) --- 「自我」本質的相似性 --- p.49 / Chapter (B) --- 「自我」慾求的相似性 --- p.49 / Chapter (C) --- 「自我」慾求在後果上的相似性 --- p.50 / Chapter 第III章： --- 罪惡世界的本質 --- p.51 / Chapter (一） --- 田立克的觀點：割離的實存界 / Chapter (A) --- 本體世界的瓦解 --- p.53 / Chapter (B) --- 實存界中範疇的割離 --- p.57 / Chapter (C) --- 三種象徵「割離」的人性表現一不信、狂妄、邪慾 --- p.58 / 小結 --- p.61 / Chapter (二） --- 唯識宗的觀點：虛妄分別的世界 / Chapter (A) --- 六識如何變現境相 --- p.63 / Chapter (B) --- 從六境的呈現到諸煩惱的出現 --- p.64 / Chapter (C) --- 虛妄分別世界的本質 --- p.67 / Chapter (D) --- 由虛妄分別世界到生死輪迴的苦果 --- p.71 / 小結 --- p.73 / Chapter (三) --- 割離的實存界虛妄分別界之相似性 --- p.74 / Chapter (A) --- 性質之相似性 --- p.74 / Chapter (B) --- 結構之相似性 --- p.74 / Chapter (C) --- 理路之相似性 --- p.75 / 結論 --- p.76 / 附論：宗教對話的意義和重要性 --- p.80 / Chapter (A) --- 宗教對話的重要性 --- p.80 / Chapter (B) --- 宗教對話的態度問題 --- p.81 / Chapter (C) --- 本論文在「宗教對話」上的價値意義 --- p.83 / 參考文獻 --- p.86

劉卓輝. / "2009年9月". / "2009 nian 9 yue". / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 121-125). / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / Liu Zhuohui. / 論文摘要 --- p.頁ii / Chapter 第一章 --- 導言 --- p.頁5 / 背景 --- p.5 / 文獻回顧 --- p.12 / 論文主旨 --- p.17 / Chapter 第二章 --- 蒂利希拯救論的框架：上帝與世界的關係 --- p.頁19 / 引言 --- p.19 / 「文化神學」、及宗教與文化的關係 --- p.20 / 上帝與世界的關係、及恩典的內蘊性 --- p.25 / 「新教原則」與「大公實質」的互補及相互重要性 --- p.32 / 小結 --- p.46 / Chapter 第三章 --- 蒂利希論稱義 --- p.頁47 / 引言 --- p.47 / 「因恩典藉信稱義」 --- p.47 / 蒂利希對「信」和「恩典」的理解 --- p.55 / 蒂利希對稱義的理解和信義宗傳統的關係 --- p.61 / 小結 --- p.69 / Chapter 第四章 --- 蒂利希論拯救的多重向度 --- p.頁70 / 引言 --- p.70 / 多重向度的拯救 --- p.70 / 稱義與拯救的關係 --- p.78 / 對信義宗和天主教拯救觀的雙重批判 --- p.86 / 小結 --- p.92 / Chapter 第五章 --- 對信義宗-天主教有關稱義/成義的對話的意義 --- p.頁93 / 引言 --- p.93 / 「恩典」的觀念 --- p.93 / 如何理解稱義/成義？ --- p.100 / 稱義/成義在教義中的地位 --- p.106 / 對蒂利希的一些批判性評價 --- p.113 / 小結 --- p.117 / Chapter 第六草 --- 結論 --- p.頁118 / 參考書目 --- p.頁120

Non-Anglophone voices in literature can lead to a better understanding of the intricate relationships shown by Ashley Dawson tying capitalism, slow violence, and uneven development to climate change. There is skepticism that science fiction (sf) in particular can properly present climate issues in the anthropocentric era that we live in today, but scholars such as Shelley Streeby argue against such perceptions. Science fiction writers that use magical realism, such as Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Nalo Hopkinson, as ecological sf have already accomplished the task of creating speculative works that fit in perfectly under the umbrella of “serious fictions.” These writers work from a non-Anglophone perspective or from a minority group within a Western society, allowing for different modes of thinking to play a part in these bigger discourses. Writers, educators, and other scholars need to reestablish humanity’s kinship with nature. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2019. / Florida Atlantic University Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

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This thesis traces the relationship between the First World War, constructions of masculinity, and the life and poetry of T.S. Eliot. Central to this relationship is a study of homoeroticism, which the author characterizes as different from homosexuality but not exclusive of it, in late 19th and early 20th century poetic traditions. The argument begins by establishing a critical framework that draws on contemporary paradigms of Modernist literary gender studies but also seeks to revise them by shifting the focus to issues surrounding masculinity. With this framework in place, the thesis goes on to discuss the tradition of male homoeroticism in artistic movements preceding World War I, including Symbolism, Uranianism, and Aestheticism, then moves on to an examination of the war itself, its effect on soldiers' notions of masculinity, and the intensification of the homoerotic element in the poetry composed by soldier poets. I then reexamine the relationship between Eliot's poems, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Waste Land, arguing that both are significantly inflected by the changing masculine consciousness of the war era and that both are largely personal in nature despite their author's insistence on the impersonality of poetry. An explication follows of Prufrock and Eliot's other verse written between 1914 and c.1920, focusing on passages that suggest the homoerotic. The bridge between this and the section on The Waste Land is a commentary on the relationship of Eliot and his friend Jean Verdenal, a Frenchman who was killed in the war, and the import of this friendship to Eliot's work. The possibility of their homosexual involvement is entertained but not insisted upon, the point being reemphasized that homoeroticism, not homosexuality, has the more meaningful impact on the masculine artistic consciousness. All of these ideas culminate in the Waste Land chapter, which highlights passages of the poem dealing with a range of human possibilities for intimacy-male and female, sexual and non-sexual. The study concludes that the poem ought to be read as a representation of an embattled masculine consciousness drawn to the homoerotic but uncomfortable with changing 20th century sexual mores. / Graduation date: 2001