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O animal humano e o corpo cênico / The human animal and the body scenicSilva, Eduardo Osorio 16 August 2018 (has links)
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Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: Essa pesquisa é uma reflexão sobre o trabalho de ator. Baseia-se na prática teatral desenvolvida no grupo Boa Companhia, a partir da corporeidade animal. Os estudos realizados buscam compreender a experiência e as idéias elaboradas na construção do corpo cênico, em especial para a montagem dos espetáculos "PRIMUS" e "GALERIA 17". O trabalho baseado na corporeidade animal propiciou um encontro em meu corpo de duas forças concretas e distintas, concretas em seu aspecto físico - articulações, músculos, membros, máscaras - e distintas em sua lógica comportamental. Nesse encontro entre dois corpos diferentes surgiu um terceiro, um corpo impregnado com o corpo do outro animal, mas, ao mesmo tempo, revelador do corpo normalizado que ele desorganizava. A tese aqui desenvolvida é, por um lado, o resultado de um amplo diálogo com as idéias de alguns filósofos que construíram parte do pensamento crítico sobre a sociedade moderna ocidental, entre eles, Nietzsche, Benjamin, Foucault, Deleuze e Guattari. Por outro, é fruto da minha prática teatral. Esse embasamento teórico permitiu-me o aprofundamento em formas de conhecimento que ultrapassam os limites tradicionais de minha área de atuação, o teatro. Essa idéia de transdisciplinaridade, que caracteriza esse estudo, ofereceu-me uma visão renovada sobre o trabalho do ator / Abstract: The main subject of this research is the actor's work. It is centered in the theatrical experience of the Boa Companhia and its practice with the animal corporeity. The work explores this experience, trying to understand it through the ideas of construction of the scenic body, especially in regard to the spectacles PRIMUS and GALERIA 17. Two concrete and distinct forces are at work in my body while I am working with the animal corporeity. Concrete in their physical aspect: joints, muscles, members, masks; and distinct in their behavioral logic. Through this encounter of two different bodies emerges a third one, a body imbued by the body of the other animal, but also a body disclosing the normalized body that it disturbes. The thesis presented results of an ample dialogue with the ideas of a number of philosophers such as Nietzsche, Benjamin, Foucault, Deleuze e Guattari which have contributed to the critique of the occidental modern society. It is also based in my experience as an actor. This theoretical approach has provided me with the opportunity to study other forms of knowledge beyond the traditional ones at work in the actor's practice. The interdisciplinary idea which characterizes this thesis offers a renovated view of the theatrical practice / Doutorado / Artes / Doutor em Artes
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Wittgenstein e a questão da harmonia entre linguagem, pensamento e realidade / Wittgenstein and the question of harmony between language, thought and realityAntonio Ianni Segatto 12 May 2011 (has links)
O propósito deste trabalho é examinar a recolocação e a transformação da questão da harmonia entre linguagem, pensamento e realidade na segunda fase da produção filosófica de Wittgenstein. A fim de cumprir esse propósito, discutem-se, no primeiro capítulo, a formulação dessa questão na fase inicial de sua reflexão, que culmina no Tractatus logico-philosophicus, e sua vinculação com as concepções de filosofia e método apresentadas nesse livro. Em seguida, discutem-se as modificações de tais concepções a partir do início da década de 1930 e a necessidade de reformulação da questão examinada. No segundo e terceiro capítulos, comentam-se as duas principais facetas que ela assume na segunda fase da produção de Wittgenstein: 1. o exame de alguns trechos dos manuscritos do chamado período intermediário e das seções 428-465 das Investigações filosóficas revelam sua vinculação com a noção de intencionalidade e noções correlatas; 2. o exame dos textos dedicados à noção de seguir regras, sobretudo as seções 185-242 das Investigações, permite reconsiderar as relações entre as regras e a prática de sua aplicação. Esse percurso visa mostrar, por um lado, que, mesmo depois do abandono do projeto do Tractatus, Wittgenstein ainda considera filosoficamente legítima a questão da harmonia entre linguagem, pensamento e realidade, desde que posta em outros termos; e, por outro lado, que as relações entre nossas formas de representação e a realidade são mais complexas do que pensara. / The aim of this work is to examine the replacement and transformation of the question of the harmony between language, thought and reality in the second phase of Wittgensteins philosophical production. In order to fulfill this aim we discuss in the first chapter the formulation of the question in the initial phase of his reflections, which culminates in the Tractatus logico-philosophicus, and its connection with the conceptions of philosophy and method presented in the book. Then, we discuss the modifications in these conceptions since the beginning of the 1930s and the necessity of reformulating the question we approach. In the second and third chapters we comment on the two main sides of the question in the second phase of Wittgensteins production: 1. the examination of some passages of the manuscripts of the so-called middle period and of the §§428-465 of the Philosophical Investigations reveal its connection with the notion of intentionality and correlated notions; 2. the examination of the texts dedicated to the notion of following a rule, mainly the §§185-242 of the Philosophical Investigations, allows to reconsider the relations between the rules and the application practices. This path is intended to show, on the one hand, that even after the abandonment of the Tractarian project, Wittgenstein still considers the question of the harmony between language, thought and reality as a legitimate philosophical question, provided that it is put in other terms; and, on the other hand, that the relations between our forms of representation and reality are more complex than he once thought.
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Revolta, niilismo e religiosidade: a antropologia filosófica de DostoiévskiNoguchi, Eduardo Armaroli 26 March 2012 (has links)
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Previous issue date: 2012-03-26 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / O objetivo deste trabalho é investigar a possibilidade de se construir uma antropologia filosófica a partir dos romances de Fiódor Dostoiévski. A primeira noção que se destaca neste discurso filosófico é a de revolta, que está intimamente ligada ao fenômeno da liberdade humana. Dostoiévski mostra como a revolta conduz o homem ao niilismo filosófico, em suas várias manifestações históricas. A única alternativa viável para superar estas aporias seria uma nova religiosidade, fundada num verdadeiro sentimento de compaixão. Para Dostoiévski, isto só é possível quando o homem alcança um total domínio de seus impulsos egoístas. A consumação do egoísmo humano é o altruísmo da fé. / The aim of this work is to investigate the possibility to elaborate a philosophical anthropology on Fiódor Dostoyevsky’s novels. The first idea which is to be stressed in this philosophical discourse is that of revolt, and it is closely related to the phenomenon of human freedom. Dostoyevsky show how revolt leads human being to philosophical nihilism, in its different historical manifestations. The only viable alternative in order to surmount those aporias would be a new religiosity, based in a true sentiment of compassion. For Dostoyevsky, this is possible only when human being reaches full dominion of his egotistic impulses. The fulfillment of human egotism is faith’s altruism.
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Problematização e prática sociocultural no contexto do estágio da licenciatura : um olhar terapêutico-desconstrutivo / Socio-cultural practices and problems in the context of the stage of graduate : look therapeutic-desconstructivePedrini, Adriano Luiz, 1985- 08 December 2013 (has links)
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Previous issue date: 2013 / Quais os usos que fazemos dos constructos práticas socioculturais e problematização? Como podemos acionar nossos rastros de significações para pensarmos uma educação indisciplinar1? São perguntas como estas que mobilizam o estudo investigativo desta dissertação tendo como base discursiva as narrativas e vídeos contendo apresentações e orientações, produzidos em uma turma de estagiários/futuros professores que cursaram a disciplina de estágio supervisionado - EL774 - da Faculdade de Educação no ano de 2011. Nesta disciplina, o projeto de estágio denominado "Desconstruindo a educação escolar disciplinar", teve como propósito pensar a educação escolar a partir da problematização de práticas socioculturais indisciplinares desenvolvidas em diferentes campos de atividade humana, tal qual preparada e problematizada pelos seis grupos participantes, com alunos provenientes dos cursos de licenciatura dos diferentes institutos da Unicamp. Com base nas ideias de Wittgenstein e Derrida desenvolvemos uma maneira de "ampliar nosso campo de significação", desconstruindo os conceitos de prática e problematização, dialogando com os diferentes autores no campo da Filosofia, Educação e Linguagem, tendo como princípio wittgensteiniano de que aprender é aprender a ver de outras maneiras. A partir disso, e aliado às perspectivas pós-estruturalistas no campo da filosofia e linguagem, tal pesquisa buscou problematizar, pelo aspecto da terapia filosófica de Wittgenstein, quais os usos que os estagiários/futuros professores fizeram enquanto se apropriavam dos termos práticas socioculturais e problematização, nos três momentos estabelecidos ao longo da disciplina, a saber: o momento das orientações, o momento das problematizações das práticas socioculturais e o momento das discussões e debate coletivo dos projetos. / Abstract: What are the uses we make of constructs sociocultural practices and problematization? How can we engage our tracks of meanings to think an education indisciplinar?2 It's questions like these that mobilize the investigative study of this dissertation based on discursive narratives and videos containing presentations and orientations, produced in a class of interns / student teachers in the discipline supervised internship - EL774 - the College of Education in the year in 2011. In this course, the internship project called "Deconstructing education school discipline", aimed to think school education from the questioning of cultural practices indisciplinares developed in different fields of human activity, like prepared and problematized by the six participating groups, with students from the graduate courses of different institutes of Unicamp. Based on the ideas of Wittgenstein and Derrida have developed a way to "expand our field of meaning", deconstructing the concepts of practice and problematization, dialoguing with different writers in the field of Philosophy, Education and Language, based on the principle Wittgensteinian that learn is to see other ways. From this, and coupled with the post-structuralist perspectives in the field of philosophy and language, this research sought to problematize the aspect of Wittgenstein's philosophical therapy, which uses the trainees / student teachers did while appropriated terms of socio-cultural practices and problematization in three stages set along the course, namely the time of the guidelines, the moment of contextualizing socio-cultural practices and timing of discussions and debate of collective projects. / Mestrado / Ensino e Práticas Culturais / Mestre em Educação
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Mensbeeld, etnisiteit en kultuurpluralisme by N. Glazer en D.P. Moynihan.Landman, Jan Christoffel Hendrik 12 November 2015 (has links)
M.Phil. (Philosophy) / The author's choice of a theme is practical. It is a cultural-philosophical analysis·of the views of GLAZER and MOYNUlAN on ethnicity. 1 The result is studied and viewed in relation to philosophical anthropology and the ·genetic method of explanation of culture of CA VAN PEURSEN and by means of his cultural-historfcal three-tier development of the mythological, successively followed by the ontological and the functional. The author then suggests the. principle of sovereignty, within the limited sphere of competence of social structures within the same cultural ·entity to overcome the dialectic struggle for supremacy between social structures (i.e.: nation and state or church and state, etc). Linking this the writer offers a structural analysis of state versus nation (volk) and also rejects a dualistic (soul versus body) concept of man, preferring the model of man as a single integrated existential being. The author finds the views of GLAZER and MOYNIHAN are that ethnic identification is a natural and inevitable fact of human existence. It has its positive aspects (providing identity ... support ... security) and its negative aspects (encouraging isolation ... ethnocentrism ... conflict ... etc). By rejecting humanistic individualism and integration as ideological (therefore ontological) and ethnicity as practical · (therefore functional), and urging governments to recognise ethnicity within the framework of plural democracy, they by implication become the proponents of ethnicity, and culture with them becomes cultural determinism. By so doing they also derived and subscribed to some inevitable pre-empirical and therefore theoretical-philosophical concepts re group identity and the relation betwe€n soul and body and culture versus physical environment. Within each of the cultural-historical development phases posed by VAN PEURSEN the author finds that group identity as the essence of ethnicity is after all, as proposed by GLAZER and MOYNIHAN not so new, and that ethnicity during the course of history was always coined to the supremacy of an identity carrying social structure (i.e. the state in Greek culture; the church in Roman Catholicism; race in national-socialism; the individual in humanistic liberalism; and the state in dialectic materialism; etc). It is in the functional, practical realm that ethnicity has gained ground during the latter part of this century. The rediscovery of group identity signals the bancruptcy of ontological individualism and the appearance of pragmatism, existensialism and the dramatic growth of cultural anthropology and new-conservatism. The author sees existensial man as a unitary being and by so doing disacknowledges an inner spiritual world of the soul against the outer world of nature and body. This one-ness of man makes culture his first nature and not his second, as suggested by GLAZER and MOYNIHAN. Mans cultural identity is expressed in a variety of social structures and by utilysing the principle of sovereignty within each structural sphere of competence, the author wishes to avoid ethnicity or group identity being captured by one structure (i.e. race in national socialism and volk/nation in ethnocentrism) and thereby becoming an operationalism.
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Funeral Service Employers' Perceptions of Body Art and HireabilityScotece, Tanya E. 20 November 2015 (has links)
The purpose of this research was to determine whether there were biases among funeral home and cemetery professionals with regards to hiring mortuary science graduates with tattoos.
An anonymous survey including a photograph of either a male or female with various degrees of visible body art, ranging from none to extreme, was sent to 1484 members of the International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association. The primary methodology used to determine whether biases existed regarding visible body art were a semantic differential and a hireability scale. The survey was designed to gather information related to the following three research questions:
1. What are employers’ perceptions regarding hireability of individuals based on extent of visible body art?
2. Are there differences in the employers’ perceptions regarding visible body art based on the gender of the individuals in the photographs?
3. What are the differences in perceptions regarding visible body art based on respondent age, gender, and their own extent of visible body art?
Of the surveys distributed, responses totaled 151. Due to incomplete information, 74 were discarded. The number of surveys used in the analysis was 77.
Results indicated no specific biases of employers' perception towards potential hirees with body art. These results were based on multiple categories, including age and gender of respondent, extent of body art of respondent, and respondent position within their companies.
Although the responses were neutral and showed no significant bias towards hirees with body art, mortuary science students should be aware of potential biases of the families served by the funeral homes, including age of the deceased and family members, as well as the conservative nature of the funeral profession.
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The philosopher masked as literary theorist : 'cunning intelligence' (metis) instantiated in Bakhtin's rhetorical styleCook, John January 2016 (has links)
This dissertation discusses and analyses Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin's conscious strategy of self-fashioning and reinvention, which is realised in his life and supported by the theoretical constructs contained in his Collected Works. It addresses the ambiguities and uncertainties in Bakhtin's life and work and uses two aspects of his philosophical approach and constructs to explicate these inconsistencies: his theory of identity and his theory of language. The analytical tools used to arrive at this conclusion include the notion of reflexivity (using Bakhtin's own theoretical constructs to analyse incidents in his life, and in turn, using those incidents to illustrate the concepts he developed). Theoretical support for Bakhtin's self-fashioning is provided by Fitzpatrick's theory of reinvention through impersonation and imposture in Revolutionary Russia. Bakhtin's theory of identity (expressed in his Nietzsche-influenced concept of the mask and its associated concept of travesty) supports this reinvention. Bakhtin's notion of double-voicedness, supported by his linguistic theories of interdiscursivity, heteroglossia and the utterance reinforce these two lines of thought. Bakhtin's two figures of speech: the word with a 'backward glance' and the word with a 'loophole' encapsulate this convergence of theory and life. These two constructs are brought into sharp relief when illuminated by Wittgenstein's theory of language-games, Austin's concept of performativity and Benveniste's formulation of deixis. The overarching metaphor for this dissertation is the Classical Greek concept of metis, or 'cunning intelligence', a concept that is instantiated in the way in which Bakhtin framed the narrative of his life and the manner in which he performed his work. The dissertation concludes that Bakhtin evolved a multi-threaded philosophy which was self-consistent in the way in which it addressed the creation of identity, the expression of language and the performance of life and work through the metaphor of metis.
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Filosofická víra u Karla Jasperse / Philosophical faith in Karl JaspersDostál, Václav January 2016 (has links)
Karl Jaspers is a thinker who tries in his philosophy to formulate a non-religious concept of faith. The thesis wants to clarify this "philosophical faith", which constitutes for Jaspers an answer to the question, "by what and toward what shall we live". Jaspers characterizes his philosophical faith as a "faith of a thinking man", which lay in grounds of philosophizing itself. On the one hand, philosophical faith (and philosophy itself) is different from the knowledge and science, because it cannot be reduced to a mere content; on the other hand, it is different from the religious faith and religion itself, mainly because it cannot accept the traditional Christian revelation. Finally, philo- sophical faith can be characterized as a communicative manner of life, which wants to reach the maximum possible level of understanding by all people. Keywords Karl Jaspers, philosophical faith, transcendence, existence, religion, revelation, communication
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Monoliittisesta trilogiseen tasa-arvoon:tasa-arvo hoitotyön etiikan tutkimuksessaKangasniemi, M. (Mari) 31 May 2007 (has links)
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The aim of the study was to open up, define and categorise the concept of equality as a value of nursing ethics research. The goal of the study was to acquire tools that would help to understand the background, meaning and possibilities of the concept of equality in nursing ethics research. The research was positioned in conceptual basic study of nursing ethics, and it followed a philosophical approach, which consisted of three phases: problematisation, explication and argumentation. During problematisation, a systematic review of literature was conducted to define the concept of equality and its theoretical starting points in previous nursing ethics research.
This study characterised the concept of equality in previous nursing ethics research as monolithical liberalistic-individualistic privilegisation. Here, monolithical meant that in previous nursing ethics research, equality had been a key value that was argued through classical but fairly uniformly interpreted theoretical starting points. At times, the status of equality had been so self-evident that its theoretical starting points were sometimes accepted with very little critique and no explicit examination. Liberalistic-individualistic privilegisation manifested itself as emphasising the individual, emphasising the community and as internal conflict of the concept in terms of practical nursing.
The theoretical frame of reference of the study, based on feminist moral philosophy, was defined during explication. It viewed equality as a changing and evolving ethical value, depicting interrelations between people, with different implications in different relationships. In this study, equality was described using the concept of trilogical equality. This means that in addition to monolithical liberalistic-individualistic privilegisation, equality in nursing ethics research calls for taking into account three dimensions defining equality, i.e. the concepts of difference, dependence and power. As a world order principle, difference meant diversity, in which it is significant and valuable in itself. Understanding differences lead to acknowledging the difference and the resulting dependence between individuals or groups. Through redefinition of difference and dependence, power obtained its new meanings, where focus was given to the asymmetry and lack of dominance connected with it. During argumentation, the concept of trilogical equality brought a range of concepts into the study of equality within nursing ethics research, through which the practical encounter of nursing and health care could be approached. The results of the study can be used to develop the range of concepts concerning equality in nursing ethics research and the ethical discussion on it, as well as to develop nursing ethics research and teaching. / Tiivistelmä
Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli avata ja jäsentää tasa-arvon käsitettä hoitotyön etiikan tutkimuksen arvona. Tavoitteena oli lisätä ymmärrystä käsitteen taustoista ja näkökulmista. Tutkimus sijoittui hoitotieteen käsitteelliseen perustutkimukseen. Se noudatti filosofista tutkimustapaa, joka muodostui problematisoinnin, eksplikoinnin ja argumentoinnin vaiheista. Problematisoinnin vaiheessa tasa-arvosta rakennettiin viitekehys, jonka avulla analysoitiin aikaisemman hoitotyön etiikan tutkimuksen tasa-arvon käsite. Eksplikoinnin vaiheessa määritettiin feministiseen moraalifilosofiaan perustuva trilogisen tasa-arvon näkökulma. Tämän avulla jäsennettiin, syvennettiin ja kehitettiin edelleen aikaisempaa hoitotyön etiikan tutkimuksen tasa-arvon käsitettä. Argumentoinnin vaiheessa arviointiin trilogisen tasa-arvon näkökulman mahdollisuutta avata hoitotyön etiikan tutkimuksen tasa-arvon käsitettä.
Tämän tutkimuksen mukaan aikaisemman hoitotyön etiikan tutkimuksen tasa-arvon käsite oli luonteeltaan monoliittinen, joka tarkoitti sitä, että tasa-arvo on keskeinen ja itsestään selvä universaaliin ihmisarvoon perustuva arvo. Käsitteelle määritettiin kaksi ulottuvuutta. Ensimmäistä eli teoreettista ulottuvuutta kuvasti liberalistis-individualistinen etuoikeutus. Tällä tarkoitettiin sitä, että yksilö asetetaan tasa-arvon tarkastelussa ensisijaiseen asemaan ja tuota asemaa pyritään turvaamaan distributiivisen tasa-arvon rakenteiden avulla. Toista eli toiminnallista ulottuvuutta kuvasi hajaannus. Hajaannuksella tarkoitettiin sitä, ettei tasa-arvon käsitteen teoreettinen ulottuvuus kyennytkään vastaamaan toiminnallisen ulottuvuuden esiin nostamiin kysymyksiin. Toiminnallinen ulottuvuus jopa haastoi universaalin ihmisarvon ja tasa-arvoa turvaavien rakenteiden toteutumisen. Lisäksi hoitotyön kontekstuaalinen ja konkreettinen kohtaaminen toivat esille käsitteen rajapinnat eli tasa-arvon toiminnallista ulottuvuutta lähellä olevat käsitteet.
Tutkimus tuotti näkökulman, jossa tasa-arvo ymmärrettiin siten, että se on muuttuva ja muuntuva ihmisten suhteita ja välejä kuvaava eettinen arvo. Lisäksi se saa eri suhteissa erilaiset merkitykset. Tätä kuvattiin eron, riippuvuuden ja vallan käsitteillä ja sitä kutsuttiin trilogisen tasa-arvon näkökulmaksi. Näkökulmassa ero merkitsi yksilöihin tai ryhmiin liittyvää itsessään arvokasta ja merkityksellistä epähierarkkista moninaisuutta. Ihmisten eroista ja erilaisuudesta johtuen ihmiset ymmärrettiin toisistaan väistämättä riippuvaisiksi. Riippuvuus ymmärrettiin myönteisenä olemisen perusedellytyksenä, johon sisältyvä valta oli luonteeltaan vastuullista, asymmetristä ja dominoimatonta. Trilogisen tasa-arvon näkökulma avasi tasa-arvon käsitettä sekä teoreettisen että toiminnallisen ulottuvuuden kautta. Tutkimuksen tuloksia voidaan hyödyntää hoitotyön etiikan tutkimuksen tasa-arvoa koskevan käsitteistön ja siitä käytävän eettisen keskustelun kehittämiseen sekä hoitotyön etiikan tutkimukseen ja opettamiseen.
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A Thomistic exploration of the unity of Truth in the science and religion dialogue: seeking oneness of the human experienceScott, C.D. January 2014 (has links)
This study sets out to reclaim the ontological epistemology of Saint Thomas Aquinas which serves as a unifier of knowledge in being, within the philosophical milieu of being’s forgottenness. Post-Humean and Kantian thought made appearance rather than being solely accessible to the thinking subject. The consequence has been the marginalisation of being as reflected in truth – influenced by scientistic and postmodern paradigms – which has contributed to both the paucity of meaningless metaphysics, and the conceptualisation of science and faith as necessarily opposing categories. To the end of establishing that science and faith have points of intersection, it is argued that the reclamation of Thomist natural philosophy leads to the defence of a clarified form of realism. Establishing the “real” implies that the metaphysical dimensions of the problem of existence can be explored. Within this realist model, the “pre-Modern” Thomistic theory of “scientia” is employed to bring physical and natural science and metaphysics into relationship as components of true knowledge of being. Consequently, the author puts forth that “scientia” is exemplified in, amongst others, the particular science of cosmology since the rudimentary point of engagement between physical and metaphysical science occurs in the act of creation, that is, when being comes into existence. Whilst metaphysics is often disregarded, it is consistently proposed that the causal nature of being demands – by its presence – a more robust account than physical and natural science can offer. The contribution made by this work rests in its ontologically-formed epistemic typology whereby “hard” science and faith are related in boundary areas of knowledge, that is, when metaphysical problems emerge from within physical and natural science. By reimaging “hard” science and reasonable faith within “scientia”, both approaches are conceived as adequating to truth when their content is reflective of being. / Thesis (DPhil)--University of Pretoria, 2014. / lk2014 / Philosophy / DPhil / Unrestricted
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