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Browsing College of Arts & Sciences by Author "Zavaliy, Andrei"
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A Remorseful Criminal: Searching for Guilt in Aristotle.
(Philosophical Investigations, 2021-11-18) -
Christianity and Environmental Duties
(2012-02-13) -
Courage and Cowardice in Ancient Greece: From Homer to Aristotle
First book to offer a comprehensive study of the virtue of courage and its corresponding vice, cowardice Uniquely combines the literary, historical and philosophical sources to present a complete picture of the diverse ... -
Courage: A Modern Look at an Ancient Virtue.?
(Fall 2014)The purpose of this article is twofold: to demystify the ancient concept of courage, making it more palpable for the modern reader, and to suggest the reasonably specific constraints that would restrict the contemporary ... -
Cowardice and Injustice: The Problem of Suicide in Aristotle's Ethics.
(University of Illinois, 2019-01-10)Contrary to Greek tradition, Aristotle condemns suicide without qualification, citing two reasons for moral disapproval. First, suicide is an act of cowardice. Second, suicide involves an act of injustice toward the state. ... -
Eschatological Expectations in Early Christianity
(2012-08-16) -
How Homeric is the Aristotelian Conception of Courage?
(Sep 2017)When Aristotle limits the manifestation of true courage to the military context only, his primary target is an overly inclusive conception of courage presented by Plato in the Laches. At the same time, Aristotle explicitly ... -
On Rational Amoralists
(2012)An influential tradition in moral philosophy attempts to explain an immoral action by reference to the defect in reasoning on the part of an immoral agent. On this view, the requirements of morality are not only sanctioned ... -
Philosophy 101: What's Left of the Discipline in the 21st Century
(The Crisis of the Human Sciences: False Objectivity and the Decline of Creativity, 2011) -
Religious Convictions and Moral Motivation
(Jesuit University Ignatianum, Krakow, Poland, 2020-06-25)Adherence to certain religious beliefs is often cited as both an efficient deterrent to immoral behavior and as an effective trigger of morally praiseworthy actions. I assume the truth of the externalist theory of motivation, ... -
A Remorseful Criminal: Searching for Guilt in Aristotle
(John Wiley & Sons, 2021-11-18)While instances of shame are plenty in Ancient Greek sources, it is notoriously difficult to identify a case of a wrongdoer who exhibits a reaction approximating our modern concept of guilt. Adopting a behavioural criterion ... -
Saving Morality: A Case against Moral Neutralism
(2012)The purpose of this paper is to defend a position in metaethics, saving morality from certain reductionist attempts, and arguing that a moral point of view denotes a distinct attitude toward the world with a set of ... -
The Myth of Psychological Dependence of Morality on Religion.
(Department of Philosophy and Religion, University of Malta, Valletta., 2019-11-07) -
The Philosophical Assumptions behind the Non-Cognitive Use of Scriptures in Eastern Religions
(2015)It is well-known that sacred scriptures play a dual role in many religions – cognitive (or informative) and non-cognitive (or performative). Arguably, the non-cognitive use of scriptures is especially prominent in Eastern ... -
The Relevance of Philosophy as a Discipline in the Humanities
(Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait, March 6-8,)
