Diss.--Munich.

Thesis--Zürich. / Biographical sketch. "Bibliographie": p. 193-204.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Washington State University, May 2010. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on May 18, 2010). "Department of Teaching and Learning." Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-205).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1969. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

No abstract available / Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2014. / lmchunu2014 / Private Law / unrestricted

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I defend the compatibility of the classical theistic doctrine of divine providence, which includes infallible foreknowledge of all future events, with a libertarian understanding of creaturely free will. After setting out the argument for theological determinism, which purports to show the inconsistency of foreknowledge and freedom, I reject several responses as inadequate and then defend the ‚Ockhamist‛ response as successful. I further argue that the theory of middle knowledge or ‚Molinism‛ is crucial to the viability of the Ockhamist response, and proceed to defend Molinism against the most pressing objections. Finally, I argue that a proper understanding of the Creator-creature relationship accounts for why no explanation can be given for how God’s middle knowledge comes about.

Thesis advisor: Marina McCoy / This thesis proposes that anxiety should be seen as a doorway to profounder human nature rather than a pathology to be cured, it is important to embody our courage to confront the anxiety and transcend from within. By looking at the Western existentialists, the existential question is raised regarding the latent and yet absolute existential anxiety in our lives. As Western existentialists have certain answers in their framework, the thesis also provides a fresh perspective combined with some Buddhists’ thoughts to present that the courage to be is a deep acceptance to the threats of non-being and our creative possibilities as human beings. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2019. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Departmental Honors. / Discipline: Philosophy.

Thesis advisor: Felix Palazzi / Thesis advisor: Dominic Doyle / Thesis (STL) — Boston College, 2023. / Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry. / Discipline: Sacred Theology.

Thesis advisor: David Quigley / Chiefly an effort in cultural, intellectual, and political history, this dissertation is concerned primarily with the American North between the 1830s and the 1860s. The study explores the critical connections that contemporaries drew between childrearing, the home, and the exercise and preservation of individual liberty in a rapidly changing United States. Before, during, and after the Civil War, Northerners celebrated the autonomy of American youngsters. But they did so with bated breath and furrowed brow. Leaving home—potentially a profound expression of personal autonomy for a young person—generated both encouragement and trepidation. Young people on their own, beyond the threshold of their families’ homes, outside the ambit of mothers and fathers: this appeared to contemporaries an intractable fact of life—and a perilous one. Of singular concern was temptation: a cunning, ruthless, and virulent force to which young people seemed highly, maybe uniquely, susceptible. To Northerners living through the nineteenth century’s tumultuous middle decades, temptation was a pressing problem; not least, it was a pressing political problem, a grave threat to individual liberty. Nineteenth-century Northerners, especially those of a Whiggish cast of mind, generally believed that the maintenance of liberty required that citizens follow the law, and they held parents, above all others, responsible for investing their children with respect for the law. But a freedom dependent on law-following alone, and on the formal power of the state that the law embodies, was not the freedom that all Northerners idealized. Many preferred that freedom be preserved less by officials acting upon individuals than by individuals acting upon themselves. From this perspective, young citizens were to emerge from their parents’ homes equipped not only to follow the law—that is, to be governed—but also to self-govern. This entailed, among other things, preparing young people to confront and overcome temptation, the enemy of self-governance. Drawing upon a wide array of sources, including periodicals, personal correspondence, popular literature, and Christian sermons, The Perfection of Government: Childrearing, Freedom, and Temptation illustrates how contemporaries harnessed the power of childrearing and home life to meet this formidable challenge. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2023. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: History.