Il pensiero teoretico del filosofo italiano Michele Federico Sciacca è il tema principale di questa tesi di dottorato. Sciacca si interessò costantemente alla cultura spagnola e amò la Spagna quanto una seconda patria, presso l’Università di Barcellona ricevette l’ultima laurea honoris causa della sua esistenza, questi i motivi che hanno dato ispirazione a questo lavoro di ricerca. Il lavoro è stato suddiviso in cinque parti fondamentali, nelle quali abbiamo cercato di cogliere ermeneuticamente le poliedriche sfaccettature della teoresi di e su Michele Federico Sciacca. Nella prospettiva storica ci siamo occupati del pensiero di Sciacca a partire dai pensatori che in qualche modo hanno più di altri plasmato la sua impostazione teoretica, con i quali il filosofo di Giarre ha dialogato durante la sua esistenza. Il dialogo con i grandi filosofi del passato è costituito, come ogni autentica relazione, da assensi e dissensi, dialogo, che non si inscrive in un’asettica ripetizione di formule e concetti ma che permette un autentico e dinamico progresso del pensiero che si svolge nel corso del tempo. Validità dunque della tradizione che si incarna nella perennità del vero, sulla quale è possibile fondare il presente in tensione verso il futuro. Tra le cause che Sciacca considera scatenanti della decadenza dell’Occidente in Occidentalismo, si evidenzia la perdita del senso metafisico della filosofia Dopo aver, quindi analizzato la teoresi di Sciacca era necessario affrontare il problema inerente l’ermeneutica sul pensiero di Michele Federico Sciacca, ovvero il percorso che i discepoli del filosofo siciliano hanno intrapreso sulle orme del maestro. Abbiamo quindi preso in esame il filosofare dei maggiori esponenti della scuola sciacchiana: Alberto Caturelli, Maria Adelaide Raschini e Tomaso Bugossi. Il pensiero sciacchiano ha lasciato un’impronta notevole all’interno di quella scuola genovese che ancora oggi persiste. Il pensiero di Sciacca è tutt’ora connotato di grande attualità combattendo fortemente la società occidentalistica e priva di valori in cui oggi siamo pericolosamente incardinati. In ultima analisi ci siamo occupati in maniera dettagliata dell’eredità sciacchiana, infatti, quella che potremmo identificare come la nuova scuola genovese si radica profondamente nel significativo messaggio che Sciacca lancia all’uomo dei nostri tempi: uomo perennemente squilibrato che deve desiderare con tutto se stesso di riconquistare la libertà, in un mondo che lo lacera, che lo riduce a brandelli. L’appendice, infine ci presenta le tappe fondamentali del filosofo italiano in terra spagnola, ovvero il discorso tenuto in occasione del conferimento della Laura Honoris Causa presso l’Università di Barcellona nel quale Sciacca evidenzia l’importanza della parola, denunciando il caos causato dell’uso inappropriato del linguaggio sia nella sua epoca che nella nostra. Questo ci permette di evidenziare anche la valenza ermeneutica del pensiero del filosofo siciliano In secondo luogo abbiamo presentato un breve articolo che la filosofa Spagnola Maria Zambrano scrisse sul quotidiano argentino “La Nation” nel 1956, intitolato: Ortega y Gasset fuè el tema de ayer de Sciacca, per sottolineare ancora una volta il profondo legame culturale tra Sciacca e il pensiero spagnolo. Sciacca è stato un pensatore responsabile, platonicamente eretto, cosciente del fatto che oggi, in un’epoca in cui manca la presenza di autentici maestri, il compito del filosofo è quello di essere testimone, autentico paladino della verità quale perfetta sintesi di tutti quei valori che nel tempo hanno costituito quell’uomo nuovo al quale ogni buon cristiano si ispira. Sciacca sapeva andare oltre le apparenze, esisteva appieno il suo essere andando contro quegli “ismi” che caratterizzavano la sua epoca e che pervadono la nostra, questo fa di lui un pensatore più che mai attuale il cui pensiero merita di essere scandagliato in ogni su sfaccettatura. / The main objective of this thesis is the theoretical thinking of the Italian philosopher Michele Federico Sciacca. Sciacca is constantly interested in the Spanish culture; he loved Spain as a second home and, at the University of Barcelona, received the last honorary degree of his life. These are the reasons that have given inspiration to this research work. The work was organized into five main parts, in which we tried to hermeneutically capture the multifaceted aspects of the Michele Federico Sciacca theoretical thinking. In the historical perspective, we dealt with the thinking of Sciacca from the people who somehow have more than others shaped his theoretical approach, with which the philosopher of Giarre dialogued during its existence. After having analyzed the theoretical thinking of Sciacca, it was necessary to address the problem of the hermeneutic thinking of Michele Federico Sciacca, i.e. the path that the followers of the Sicilian philosopher have undertaken in his footsteps. We then examined the philosophy of the sciacchiana school leaders: Alberto Caturelli, Maria Adelaide Raschini and Tomaso Bugossi. The Appendix presents the fundamental steps of the Italian philosopher in Spain, and the speech given when he received the honorary Laura at the University of Barcelona, in which Sciacca highlights the importance of the word. Finally, we presented a brief article that Maria Zambrano, a Spanish philosopher, wrote on Argentine newspaper "The Nation" in 1956: Ortega y Gasset de ayer fue el theme of Sciacca. Sciacca was a thinker responsible, conscious of the fact that today, in an age that lacks the presence of authentic teachers, the objective of the philosopher is to be a witness, a real champion of truth as the perfect synthesis of all those values that, over time, have formed “the new individual” to whom every good Christian should be inspired. Sciacca was able to go beyond the appearances, a great control of his capacity, which helped him to be against those “ismi” that characterized his time and pervade us. This makes him a thinker more than ever actual, whose thinking deserves to be explored in every facet.

Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

The National Geographic Channel’s miniseries “Snake Salvation” resurrected a vested interest with the heavily documented practices of signs-following believers in central Appalachia. The current body of scholarship surrounding these congregations focuses mostly on oral history narratives and explanations of religious fundamentalism; a critical analysis of the discourse shared by these congregation members is noticeably absent. This thesis explores selected interviews with George Hensley, Andrew Hamblin, Jamie Coots, and Alfred Ball through the interdisciplinary application of discourse analysis paired with social disclosure theory to unveil the underlying struggles with power and personal beliefs expressed by each pastor. The research performed throughout this study spans interviews collected and published from the 1940s to 2014. Through a discourse analysis performed on these interviews coupled with support from sociological and communicative theoretical frameworks, this study looks to highlight struggles with power and authenticity present for signs-following pastors.

El presente trabajo es una lectura de la obra jurídica de Michele Taruffo desde la teoría y la filosofía del derecho. Consiste en reconstruir la obra del profesor lombardo, dispersa a lo largo de cinco décadas, no como un sistema de derecho procesal o una línea de monografías coherente -que serían lecturas posibles-, sino como una teoría de la decisión judicial, a partir de dos ejes cardinales que son recurrentes en sus trabajos: el concepto de motivación de la sentencia y el concepto de prueba. Para ello, la investigación parte de describir el marco de las principales influencias teóricas en la formación del profesor de la Universidad de Pavía, desde tres perspectivas: la del procesalismo italiano, la de la iusfilosofía analítica y la de un conjunto heterogéneo de autores, desde comparatistas a teóricos, con los que se cruzó la obra de Taruffo. La parte propositiva consiste en reconstruir aquello en lo que consiste la obra fundamental del autor: el concepto de jurisdicción, el concepto de decisión judicial que se deriva del primero, y el concepto de prueba. El primero supone una lectura -en clave de “alta dogmática”- de la actividad consistente en resolver controversias y de los presupuestos de su legitimidad. El segundo redescubre la funcionalidad de la motivación de la sentencia judicial desde las razones por las que se exige en los ordenamientos modernos. El tercero se concentra en la racionalidad subyacente a la búsqueda (de la fijación) de la verdad en las premisas que integran el discurso justificativo de las decisiones judiciales.

The topic of the diploma thesis is the activity of the Cistercian monastic order in the area of Tuscany. During the main wave of founding the Cistercian monasteries in Italy, the area of Tuscany, whose medieval boundaries roughly correspond to its current ones, was under major political influence of Florence, Siena, Pisa and Lucca. Most monasteries in the region were founded in the vicinity of these cities. This work aims to contribute to the discoveries about the influence of these cities and their elites on the establishing of foundation of the white monks in Tuscany. The goal of this work is an analysis of circumstances and causes of the arrival of the Cistercians in the Tuscany region, where they arrived relatively late, compared to other Italian regions. The work focuses on the specificities of the Cistercian movement of the foundation of monasteries. The fist Cistercian foundation in Tuscany was the monastery San Galgano. Most of the Cistercian abbeys in the region predominantly from the 13th century was affiliated with San Galgano. The diploma thesis aims to describe the development of the Cistercian order and its monasteries in the area by exploring specific Cistercian foundations in Tuscany. Possibly the most important monastery in the region was San Galgano, which served as the maternal monastery...

Thesis (MA (English))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis analyses six novels by different women writers, each of which rewrites an originally androcentric biblical story from a female perspective. These novels are The Red Tent by Anita Diamant, The Garden by Elsie Aidinoff, Leaving Eden by Ann Chamberlin, The Moon under her Feet by Clysta Kinstler, The Wild Girl by Michelle Roberts and Wisdom’s Daughter by India Edghill. By classifying these novels as feminist revisionist fiction, this study considers how they both subvert and revise the biblical narratives they are based on in order to offer readers new and gynocentric alternatives. With the intention of establishing the significance of such an endeavor, the study therefore employs the findings of feminist critique and theology to expose how the Bible, as a sexist text, has inspired, directly or indirectly, many of the patriarchal values that govern Western society and religion. Having established how biblical narratives have promoted and justified visions of women as marginal, subordinate and outside the realm of the sacred, we move on to explore how feminist rewritings of such narratives might function to challenge and transform androcentric ideology, patriarchal myth and phallocentric theology. The aim is to show that the new and different stories constructed within these revisionist novels re-conceptualise and re-imagine women, their place in society and their relation to the divine. Thus, as the title suggests, this thesis ultimately considers how women writers ‘steal’ the original biblical stories and transform them in ways that prove liberating for women. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis analiseer ses romans deur verskillende vroue skrywers - romans wat die oorspronklik androsentriese bybelse stories herskryf vanuit ’n vroulike perspektief. Die romans sluit in The Red Tent deur Anita Diamant, The Garden deur Elsie Aidinoff, Leaving Eden deur Ann Chamberlin, The Moon under her Feet deur Clysta Kinstler, The Wild Girl deur Michelle Roberts en Wisdom’s Daughter deur India Edghill. Deur hierdie romans te klassifiseer as feministiese revisionistiese fiksie, oorweeg hierdie studie hoe hulle die bybelse verhale waarop hulle gebaseer is, beide ondermyn en hersien om sodoende lesers nuwe en ginosentriese alternatiewe te bied. Met die voorneme om die betekenisvolheid van so ’n poging vas te stel, wend hierdie tesis dus die bevindings van feministiese kritiek en -teologie aan om bloot te lê hoe die Bybel, as ‘n seksistiese teks, baie van die patriargale waardes van die Westerse samelewing en godsdiens, direk of indirek, geïnspireer het. Nadat vasgestel is hoe bybelse verhale sienings van vroue as marginaal, ondergeskik en buite die sfeer van heiligheid bevorder en regverdig, beweeg die tesis aan om te ondersoek hoe feministiese herskrywings van sulke verhale, androsentriese ideologie, patriargale mite en fallosentriese teologie uitdaag en herskep. Die doelwit is om te wys dat die nuwe en anderste stories saamgestel in hierdie revisionistiese romans, vroue, hul plek in die samelewing en hul betrekking tot die goddelike, kan heroorweeg en herdink. Dus, soos die titel voorstel, oorweeg hierdie tesis primêr hoe vroue skrywers die oorspronklike bybelse stories ‘steel’ en herskep op maniere wat bevrydend vir vrouens blyk te wees.

Over the course of the last few years, a new movement has taken the American political system by storm, the Tea Party. The movement has not only captivated our media but also the minds of ordinary Americans and political elites. According to popular consensus and academic opinion, the Tea Party is comprised of a group of conservative-leaning Republicans who want a smaller government and a lesser tax burden. This is what we think of the Tea Party, but is it true? It is perceived that Tea Party members differ significantly from their Republican colleagues in the House of Representatives, but do they? Do they truly represent the Tea Party philosophy and agenda? By creating an original data set on the Republican members of the United States House of Representatives, and examining variables such as the political lean, economic and employment make-up of a member's district, their endorsements and incumbency, as well as high priority legislative votes from the 112th Congress, I will be able to investigate the characteristics and tendencies of Tea Party Caucus members. Once one looks at the 242 member House Republican Caucus and further examines the sixty members of the Tea Party Caucus, the data shows that Tea Party Caucus members largely originate from safe Republican districts and have served in previous congressional terms. Analysis shows that Tea Party Caucus members do vary significantly from their House Republican colleagues when examining their districts, but do not vary as considerably when examining their voting patterns.

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