This thesis analyses three modern plays that are identified as modern tragedies, Equus, A View From the Bridge and Long Day&amp / #8217 / s Journey Into the Night, to find out whether they share certain themes with classical Greek tragedies. These themes are namely values and conflict, hamartia and learning through suffering. Three Greek plays, Agamemnon, Oedipus Rex and Medea will be used as foils to conduct this comparative study. The study will aim to support the view that these major themes appear both in ancient Greek and modern tragedies.

Thesis (M.A.)--Denver Conservative Baptist Seminary, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 96-98).

Thesis (M.A.)--Denver Conservative Baptist Seminary, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 96-98).

Thesis (M.A.)--Denver Conservative Baptist Seminary, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 96-98).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Carleton University, 1998. / Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

This thesis provides a critical examination of John Rawls’s political philosophy as it relates to international justice and human rights, Rawls’s theory of justice as fairness has made an enormous impact on contemporary political and ethical theory, yet it has been criticized by some for failing to address the extra-domestic aspects of social justice, including universal human rights. In Chapter One I describe the theoryof.rights, developed in the social contract tradition and how this theory has influenced the modern discourse of human rights. In Chapter Two I discuss Rawls’s theory of justice as fairness, the basic rights and liberties, and the idea of political liberalism. In Chapter Three 1 analyze Rawls’s account of international justice and argue that it fails to uphold the same rigorous principles of justice as found in his account of domestic justice. Finally, in Chapter Four l discuss Rawls’s more recent attempts to theorize international justice and human rights, I conclude that Rawls is not justified in limiting the set of human rights available to persons in different societies, and that this limitation is an unnecessary feature of his theory of justice. In contrast 1 argue for a more cosmopolitan system of social justice that is strongly normative and grounded in Rawlsian ideal theory. / Philosophy, Practical & Systematic Theology / D.Litt. et Phil. (Philosophy)

This thesis provides a critical examination of John Rawls’s political philosophy as it relates to international justice and human rights, Rawls’s theory of justice as fairness has made an enormous impact on contemporary political and ethical theory, yet it has been criticized by some for failing to address the extra-domestic aspects of social justice, including universal human rights. In Chapter One I describe the theoryof.rights, developed in the social contract tradition and how this theory has influenced the modern discourse of human rights. In Chapter Two I discuss Rawls’s theory of justice as fairness, the basic rights and liberties, and the idea of political liberalism. In Chapter Three 1 analyze Rawls’s account of international justice and argue that it fails to uphold the same rigorous principles of justice as found in his account of domestic justice. Finally, in Chapter Four l discuss Rawls’s more recent attempts to theorize international justice and human rights, I conclude that Rawls is not justified in limiting the set of human rights available to persons in different societies, and that this limitation is an unnecessary feature of his theory of justice. In contrast 1 argue for a more cosmopolitan system of social justice that is strongly normative and grounded in Rawlsian ideal theory. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / D.Litt. et Phil. (Philosophy)

Orientador: Marcos Lutz Muller / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-08T02:41:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Lima_ErickCalheirosde_D.pdf: 2308487 bytes, checksum: 6dfb3fccea5c3fb1cb1bf08e6d614a3b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: Este trabalho pretende desenvolver uma tese de leitura acerca das motivações e da consolidação da filosofia social de Hegel, qual seja: a importância da assimilação da teoria fichteana da intersubjetividade para a constituição do modelo hegeliano do desenvolvimento da eticidade. Na primeira parte, pretende-se mostrar que a teoria fichteana da intersubjetividade, desenvolvida no contexto da dedução da relação de direito, possui um potencial ético que parece cristalizar-se numa concepção não limitativa, não excludente e positiva da relação intersubjetiva. Na segunda parte, após investigar a contraposição, nos escritos de Hegel em Frankfurt, entre a intersubjetividade limitativa e potencialmente desagregadora, própria às relações contratuais do direito privado, e a harmonia intersubjetiva do amor, pretende-se mostrar que a derrocada da expectativa de Hegel com respeito ao ideal de integração social pela via de uma Volksreligion conduz a contraposição entre a intersubjetividade ¿solidária¿ e a ¿restritiva¿ ao projeto de uma ¿subjugação¿ da esfera econômica juridicamente regulada sob o âmbito político-público da eticidade absoluta. Em seguida, perseguindo a tese de que o problema do Einssein entre universal e singular pressupõe uma solução intersubjetivista, procura-se explorar as peculiaridades da ¿gênese intersubjetiva¿ do espírito do povo no System der Sittlichkeit e no Jenaer Systementwurf 1803/04, com especial ênfase na progressiva imbricação entre teoria da consciência, reconhecimento e desenvolvimento conceitual da eticidade, a qual interpretamos como uma articulação sócio-filosófica entre a intersubjetividade formadora e a intersubjetividade limitativa. Na terceira parte, pretende-se clarificar, a partir de uma análise comparativa do reconhecimento em suas versões ¿fenomenológicas¿, a conexão do mesmo com a efetivação da liberdade individual na eticidade. A intenção é mostrar que a ¿generalização¿ do movimento, pela sua inserção na ¿filosofia do espírito subjetivo¿, não conduz necessariamente ao seu desligamento dos estágios de efetivação intersubjetiva da liberdade, mas antes à sua pressuposição como forma normativa da relação social efetiva, de maneira que não apenas a relação intersubjetiva participativa e formadora da individualidade e a relação solidária, que constitui a gênese do estado ético, como também a relação de respeito recíproco à intangibilidade da pessoa, podem, enquanto ¿relações éticas¿, ser tematizadas no registro comum de um ¿ser-reconhecido¿. Finalmente, procura-se mostrar como Hegel insere, no Systementwurf 1805/06, a ¿luta por reconhecimento¿ em uma argumentação que articula a forma participativa de intersubjetividade com a gênese da solidariedade ética que tem de estar vinculada à efetividade social de uma vontade universal, a qual é, entretanto, compreendida pela primeira vez por Hegel, em sua imediatidade, como direito. O resultado mais amplo do trabalho é a tese de que tal interpretação poderia ser ¿aplicada¿ em uma leitura das Grundlinien, o que, entretanto, será apenas aqui indicado / Abstract: This work intends to delineate some motives underlying the development of Hegel's social philosophy. According to the interpretation we attempt to formulate, Fichte's view of intersubjectivity plays a decisive role in Hegel's comprehension of the conceptual unfolding of ¿ethical life¿ (Sittlichkeit). The first part focuses on Fichte's theory of intersubjectivity, particularly on its version presented in the Foundations of Natural Law, where it is deduced as a condition for the ¿juridical relation¿(Rechtsverhältnis). The main task is to show that Fichte's conception of the intersubjective mediation of individual conscience, when considered apart from its endurable form as a relation of reciprocally limited spheres of action, seems to contain the ethical potential for a ¿non-limited¿, ¿non-exclusive¿ and positive actualization of individual freedom. In the second part, after elucidating, in Hegel's early writings, the opposition between the ¿juridical¿, potentially disintegrative conception of intersubjectivity and the harmony of love, we intend to indicate how the frustration of Hegel's expectations, regarding social integration through a Volksreligion, conduces to the project of ¿subordination¿ (Bezwingung) of juridically regulated economics under the political realm of the abolute ethical life. Thus, after demonstrating that the problem of the Einssein of universal and individual pressuposes an intersubjective solution, the aim is to delineate the intersubjective genesis of the ¿Spirit of a People¿ in the System of Ethical Life and in the Philosophy of Spirit 1803/04, always emphazising the progressive articulation of theory of conscience, recognition and the conceptual unfolding of ethical life. The third part aims to elucidate, through a comparative investigation of the ¿phenomenological¿ versions of Hegel's theory of recognition, its connection with the actualization of individual freedom in the institutional framework of ethical life. In this context, it is aimed to show that the ¿generalization¿ of the process of recognition, due to its insertion into the ¿philosophy of subjective spirit¿, in despite of its immediate disconnection from the stages of intersubjective actualization of freedom, points toward the possibility of its pressuposition as the normative form of the actual social relation. According to this view, this ¿generalization¿ allows that not only the formative intersubjective ralation and the solidary connection among the individuals, that engenders the ¿ethical state¿, but also the interpersonal relations, based on reciprocal respect to the intangibility of individual freedom, could be reduced to the common denominator of a ¿being-recognized¿ (Anerkanntsein). Finally, the task is to consider how Hegel integrates, in the Philosophy of Spirit 1805/06, the ¿struggle for recognition¿ into an argumentation that articulates the participative form of intersubjectivity with the genesis of the ethical solidarity that is vinculated to the social actuality of the universal will, which is, for the first time in Hegel's philosophical development, understood in its immediacy as right (Recht). As a conclusion, we summarize some indications of a possible extension of this presented view to an interpretation of Hegel's Philosophy of Right / Doutorado / Doutor em Filosofia

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