In my thesis with the translated title “A Systematic-theologian account from an epistemological perspective on the theology-science dialogue”, I take epistemology ……., – fused with transcendence – as point of departure in order to understand the theologian-science debate within a theologian as well as a philosophical context. As a starting point, the research reflects upon humans as they are involved in practical and relevant day to day situations, consequently religious, within a religious, philosophical and natural science contexts. (Theology) constitute the so called first discourse in due course, the natural sciences follows as the second discourse. Within the context of epistemology and the cosmology metaphor embedded in a transcendental philosophical viewpoint, we are ultimately led to a ‘third discourse’ as an answer to the theological-science debate. Five statements guide the unfolding of the research process, namely: first that the religion-science discourse is shaped by the biological make-up of human beings. This entails that the discourse / debate starts and ends with human dimensions. Second, we as humans long for something metaphysical that gives us our sense and longing for life, and that includes religion, philosophy and mysticism. Third, the natural science is entertained as the second discourse where an interdisciplinary debate between the philosophical-cosmology and cosmology as metaphor is manifested as a metaphysical longing with strong ties in our thought towards the metaphysical. It examines the deconstruction as well as the participation of human resources for human rationality and in doing so it proposes that evolutionary epistemology sustains the theological question of biological roots and origin for human rationality. Fourth, a theological reflection questions whether Jesus Christ may provide an answer to this religion-science debate from a reinterpretation of a hermeneutical Christ. Fifth, and last, a meaningful perspective that all three discourses be intertwined as a process to encourage the dialogue / debate as a ‘third discourse’ between the religion-science debates. Viewpoints on Jesus Christ as theological paradigm and the way beliefs are synthesised are also examined from various theological and philosophical angles: the palaeontologist-theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the the Danish systematic theologian Niels Gregersen, German systematic theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg, as well as certain South African systematic theologians namely, Wentzel J. van Huyssteen, Daniël P. Veldsman, Cornel W. du Toit and Klaus Nürnberger. The research focus on mentioned theologians reveals a closer but different understanding of the religion-science debate with Jesus Christ as theological point of departure. The closer, but different clarification of the religion-science debate is elaborated on and subsequently justified by a discussion of different definitions of the place of Christ in the religion-science debate. A tentative indication of the road to a new kind of metaphysical Christian religion-science debate is suggested, which entails a transformation of Christian Christology as manifested in the ‘third discourse.’ Finally, the terms Spirit and Hope are identified especially by the German theologian Jürgen Moltmann and his Theology of Hope and The Crucified God are discussed as integral parts of the theological paradigm and syntheses of believes. At the same time, their significance for the synthesis of the religion-science debate is indicated. The importance and crucial role of hermeneutics are subsequently elucidated within the theological religion-science discourse. The research opening statement in which the research problem is formulated, is taken up/explained/explicated in the conclusion as…….that human intentionality for life can be accommodated in the religion-science debate. The loose based (paradoxical) discourse that is called the ‘third discourse’ can be accommodated in more than one religion, philosophy, or intuitive infinite believe in a person’s spiritual life and can satisfy humans in their expectations, experiences, hopes, fears, in their vulnerable existence within the contexts of the religion-science discourses. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria 2015. / Dogmatics and Christian Ethics / PhD / Unrestricted

The purpose of the study was to draw parallels between the Hindu religious teachings and environmental sustainability. A literature review on Hindu teachings on the environment as well as the practical application thereof as experienced or practiced by religious leaders and devotees were conducted. This was similar to the study that was conducted at the Bhaktivedanta Manor Temple near Watford in England at a Janmashtami festival in 2007 (Chauhan et al., 2009).The intention of the 2007 campaign was to raise spiritual self-consciousness by linking the concept of karma to environmental degradation, i.e. the concept of every action has a reaction. It also prompted the devotees to realise that there were practical steps that could be taken to alleviate the environmental crises by reducing one‟s ecological footprint. Literature on similar themes and hypotheses were referenced in the mini-dissertation, exposing the double-edged sword practices of Hinduism, where some religious practices have a harmful impact on the environment, which is contradictory to the teachings themselves. A survey was conducted at the Benoni Temple in Eastern Gauteng in South Africa where there is a strong Hindu community. The study was specifically aimed at two target audiences: Hindu religious leaders and Hindu devotees. The purpose was to establish both the religious leaders‟ and devotees‟ viewpoints regarding the correlation between Hindu religious teachings and lifestyles. The outcome was synonymous that there is a need for better communication and more environmental awareness from the Hindu religious teachings. Limitations of the study: Bearing in mind the vastness of the topic the study has been limited to Hinduism for the Masters in Environmental Management qualification and lays the foundation for expansion of further studies. The purpose of the study was not to denounce any religion, nor is it to promote one religion over the other, but rather to evaluate objectively both the positive and negative influences Hinduism has on the environment. / M Environmental Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2014

The purpose of the study was to draw parallels between the Hindu religious teachings and environmental sustainability. A literature review on Hindu teachings on the environment as well as the practical application thereof as experienced or practiced by religious leaders and devotees were conducted. This was similar to the study that was conducted at the Bhaktivedanta Manor Temple near Watford in England at a Janmashtami festival in 2007 (Chauhan et al., 2009).The intention of the 2007 campaign was to raise spiritual self-consciousness by linking the concept of karma to environmental degradation, i.e. the concept of every action has a reaction. It also prompted the devotees to realise that there were practical steps that could be taken to alleviate the environmental crises by reducing one‟s ecological footprint. Literature on similar themes and hypotheses were referenced in the mini-dissertation, exposing the double-edged sword practices of Hinduism, where some religious practices have a harmful impact on the environment, which is contradictory to the teachings themselves. A survey was conducted at the Benoni Temple in Eastern Gauteng in South Africa where there is a strong Hindu community. The study was specifically aimed at two target audiences: Hindu religious leaders and Hindu devotees. The purpose was to establish both the religious leaders‟ and devotees‟ viewpoints regarding the correlation between Hindu religious teachings and lifestyles. The outcome was synonymous that there is a need for better communication and more environmental awareness from the Hindu religious teachings. Limitations of the study: Bearing in mind the vastness of the topic the study has been limited to Hinduism for the Masters in Environmental Management qualification and lays the foundation for expansion of further studies. The purpose of the study was not to denounce any religion, nor is it to promote one religion over the other, but rather to evaluate objectively both the positive and negative influences Hinduism has on the environment. / M Environmental Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2014

No abstract available. / Systematic Theology & Theological Ethics / D. Th. (Systematic Theology)

No abstract available. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / D. Th. (Systematic Theology)

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2016-08-09T13:07:34Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Rodrigo Francisconi Costa Pardal.pdf: 755328 bytes, checksum: e39356bcf486ce47e1c74774b87eb786 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-09T13:07:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rodrigo Francisconi Costa Pardal.pdf: 755328 bytes, checksum: e39356bcf486ce47e1c74774b87eb786 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-30 / On a daily basis, it has been noticed the lack of safe and dogmatically rational criteria to gauge the fraud in a given case. Thus, often, it ends up being assumed without evidence ballast in the process, which leads the agent to receive a greater punishment than the guilty modality or even be punished when it should not be, in cases where the guilt is not expressed. This is true not only as a result of a punitive pressure unjustified dogmatically and often exerted by the media to attribute malice to the agent's action, but also because theories are not investigated with due deepening also lacking systematization. Consequently, the analysis of the existence or not of deceit turns out to be case by case, without reasonable parameters. Thus, the aim of this study is to systematize the intent of theories from his presentation, pointing misconceptions about its application and analyzing the controversy involving volitional and cognitive aspects. Such systematization was conducted through bibliographical study of authors such as Busato (2013), Díaz Pita (1994), Jorio (2012), Copello (1999) Nucci (2015), Puppe (2004), Casabona (2009), Roxin (2006), Köster (1998) and Vives Antón (2011). Obviously, the deceit balls and guilt must be safer parameter because, although there were no structural problems (eg, deceit the presumption in cases where it is not proved satisfactorily, reversing the burden of proof, which violates the presumption of innocence), the importance of the subject justifies the completion of the work, because the uncertainty about the existence of fraud directly affects the penalty imputed to the agent, which, if not properly sized, ultimately harm the democratic rule of law as it gives rise to arbitrariness. That said, the systematization presented here facilitates the subject of study and comparisons between the various theories of deceit. Analyze weaknesses of each theory, in practice, it provides tools for professionals who deal with criminal law can fight casuistical treatments, facilitating the identification of punitive excesses / No dia a dia, tem-se notado a ausência de critérios seguros e dogmaticamente racionais para se aferir o dolo em um dado caso. Desse modo, muitas vezes, ele acaba sendo presumido, sem lastro probatório no processo, o que leva o agente a receber uma pena muito maior do que a da modalidade culposa ou até ser punido quando não deveria sê-lo, nos casos em que a culpa não está expressa. Isso se dá não somente em consequência de uma pressão punitiva não justificada dogmaticamente e frequentemente exercida pela mídia para se atribuir dolo à ação do agente, mas, também, porque as teorias não são estudadas com o devido aprofundamento, carecendo também de sistematização. Por consequência, a análise sobre a existência ou não do dolo acaba sendo casuística, sem parâmetros razoáveis. Diante disso, o objetivo deste estudo é sistematizar as teorias do dolo a partir de sua exposição, apontando equívocos quanto à sua aplicação e analisando a polêmica envolvendo os aspectos volitivo e cognitivo. Tal sistematização foi realizada por meio de estudo bibliográfico que envolveu autores como Busato (2013), Díaz Pita (1994), Jorio (2012), Copello (1999), Nucci (2015), Puppe (2004), Casabona (2009), Roxin (2006), Köster (1998) e Vives Antón (2011). Por óbvio, esferas do dolo e culpa devem ter parâmetros mais seguros, porque, ainda que não existissem problemas estruturais (por exemplo, presunção do dolo em casos em que ele não está comprovado de maneira satisfatória, inversão do ônus da prova, o que viola a presunção de inocência), a importância do assunto justifica a realização do trabalho, pois a insegurança sobre a existência ou não de dolo afeta diretamente a pena imputada ao agente, que, se não dimensionada adequadamente, acaba por trazer prejuízos ao Estado democrático de direito, pois dá margem a arbitrariedades. Dito isso, a sistematização aqui apresentada facilita o estudo do tema e as comparações entre as diversas teorias do dolo. Analisar pontos fracos de cada teoria, na prática, fornece instrumentos para que os profissionais que lidam com Direito Penal possam combater tratamentos casuísticos, facilitando a identificação de excessos punitivos

Kant attributes the power to awaken one from dogmatic slumber to skepticism and to the antinomy of pure reason; in his accounts of his own awakening and the origin of the critical philosophy, he credits the antinomy and his memory of David Hume. This essay suggests that Kant’s primary aim in the first Critique was to find a resolution to the antinomy; an examination of this resolution shows Kant’s memory of Hume critical to Kant’s enterprise. Kant’s resolution to the antinomy exploits metaphors of war, jurisprudence, slumber, and historical development, as well as his Transcendental Deduction and explanation of transcendental illusion, to unravel the riddle of metaphysics and provide for both the possibility of objective knowledge and the possibility of freedom.

La thèse propose une théorie du discours de l’avocat devant la Cour de cassation. Plus précisément, c’est une partie du contenu de ce discours, les moyens de cassation, qui sont au cœur de l’analyse. Trop souvent, l’attention des théoriciens du droit se porte sur les discours qui sont traditionnellement perçus comme normatifs, à savoir le discours législatif et le discours jurisprudentiel. Assimilé au discours doctrinal parce qu’il n’est ni scientifique, ni à l’origine d’une norme, le discours de l’avocat demeure quant à lui dans une catégorie (les discours de « politique juridique » selon Kelsen, et les discours de « dogmatique juridique » selon Michel Troper) vouée à l’indifférence. Pourtant, ce n’est parce que les interprétations des avocats sont des actes guidés par la seule volonté de leurs auteurs qu’elles ne gagnent pas à faire l’objet d’une étude scientifique. Certains discours universitaires, également prescriptifs, font l’objet d’analyse visant à montrer leur incidence sur l’évolution de la jurisprudence alors même que d’un point de vue ontologique, le discours de l’avocat est mieux doté pour agir sur l’œuvre jurisprudentielle, notamment lorsqu’il est, comme celui de l’avocat aux Conseils, immédiatement et systématiquement destiné aux juridictions suprêmes. Cette spécificité du discours étudié, dégagée à travers l’étude de sa nature, nous permettra d’en étudier la portée. De ce point de vue, notre thèse, qui doit s’entendre comme une contribution à la théorie réaliste de l’interprétation et à son complément, la théorie des contraintes juridiques, propose une explication de la cohérence jurisprudentielle. Si la Cour de cassation, alors même qu’elle est libre d’interpréter les énoncés législatifs comme elle le souhaite (proposition centrale de la TRI), se montre généralement cohérente par rapport à sa jurisprudence antérieure, c’est parce qu’un ensemble de contraintes spécifiquement juridiques la conduisent à être cohérente (proposition centrale de la TCJ). Or, ces contraintes sont principalement produites ou relayées par les moyens de cassation (notre proposition). Sauf à relever un moyen d’office, procéder à une substitution de motifs ou énoncer un obiter dictum, techniques qui seront exceptionnellement utilisées par cet homo juridicus, la Cour de cassation est généralement contrainte d’effectuer un choix binaire, prédéterminé par le moyen de cassation : réaffirmer l’interprétation des juges du fond (arrêt de rejet) ou retenir celle de l’avocat du demandeur (arrêt de cassation). Autrement dit, le moyen de cassation définit le cadre de l’interprétation authentique, cadre qui favorise la circulation de la jurisprudence antérieure, et qui contraint la Cour de cassation à agir de façon prévisible. / In France, legal realism is currently represented by Michel Troper who is supporting the fact that the law resides in its interpretations by the Supreme Court. Supreme Court interpret legal text with complete freedom because those text do not contain any significations that necessarily need to be apply. This freedom regarding legal text does not exclude the existence of specific legal constraints which determine the supreme Court decisions. Even tough the lawyer’s discourse addressed to supreme jurisdictions does not look like any other legal discourses, it has never been apprehended as a source of constraint limiting sovereign courts freedom. This is what about I will discuss on my thesis.

C’est en 1974 que l'historien du droit Pierre Legendre publie l’Amour du Censeur, ouvrage dans lequel il propose une herméneutique originale du droit et des institutions, fondée sur l’histoire et la psychanalyse, qu'il nomme l’anthropologie dogmatique. On trouvera ici une interprétation de cette anthropologie dogmatique, qui est au cœur de l'œuvre de Pierre Legendre. Elle tient le droit et les institutions du monde occidental comme un ordre de type totémique, à la manière des sociétés supposées primitives.It’s in 1974 that the historian of law Pierre Legendre publishes The Love of the Censor, a work in which he proposes an original body of hermeneutics of law and institutions, based on history and psychoanalysis, that he names dogmatic anthropology. One will find here an interpretation of this dogmatic anthropology, which is in the heart of Pierre Legendre’s work. It considers law and the institutions of the western world as an order of a totemic kind, in the way of societies supposed to be primitive. / It’s in 1974 that the historian of law Pierre Legendre publishes The Love of the Censor, a work in which he proposes an original body of hermeneutics of law and institutions, based on history and psychoanalysis, that he names dogmaticanthropology. One will find here an interpretation of this dogmatic anthropology, which is in the heart of Pierre Legendre’s work. It considers law and the institutions of the western world as an order of a totemic kind, in the way of societies supposed to be primitive.

The essay is about the work environment at home, where the purpose is to examine the work evironment legislation at home and shed a light on the law's problem with the employer's work environment responsbility and whether there are regulations that prevent the employer's responsibility on the work environment at home work. Further the pupose is to analyze whether the work environment in homework is to noticed from an international perspective. The topic ”work environment at home work” has been selected beacuse it is topical as Covid-19 has forced organizations to reorganize their organizations, this may later lead to potential further changes in the future to increasingly allow workers to work at home. The legal dogamtic method has been used to analyze the issues and to achieve the purpose of the essay. Laws, regulations, propositions, public inquiries, lawsuits, sources of international law, literature, articles, reports and electronic materials have been used to analyze the legal aspects. EU-Osha and ILO are organisations that have been analyzed to achieve the international perspective of the essay. What can be stated after a careful analysis is that there are laws that regulate the work environment and work envirionment responsibility for work at home. The employer may finde it difficult to carry out his work for the work evironment when the workplace is at home for the employees. The reason is that there are other regulations that prevent the employer from performing certain actions in order to maintain it's work environment responsibility. Privacy is an important factor where the home should be a private sphere for the employee. What can further be stated is that the employee and the employer must have a good collaboration with each other where both parties illuminates and perform their work for the work environment, so this fulfills its pupose. From an international perspective, the analysis can state that both organizations have carried out work that draws attention to the work environment and its responsibilities when employees works at home. The organizations have many different points of view and tools for the work environment to help companies and employers to fulfill the responsibilities on work environment when the workplace is at the employees home.