Like most of the great early modern philosophers, George Berkeley was not a university professor. He pursued, instead, a career in the clergy of the Anglican Church of Ireland. Berkeley was ordained in 1710, the same year he published his Treatise on the Principles of Human Knowledge (Berman 1994, 17). His first clerical post was as chaplain to Lord Peterborough from 1713-1714 (80). From here, ...

'Modernity, having removed God from the world, not only has not exited theology, but it has only, in a certain sense, brought to completion the project of providential oikonomia'. i With these lines, Giorgio Agamben closes his latest, and longest, addition to the Homo Sacer project begun in 1995, Il Regno e la Gloria. Per una genealogia teologica dell'economia e del governo (The Kingdom and the...

Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA. 9 Perinatal Research Initiative, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA. 10 School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5000, USA. 11 University of Connecticut, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, Storrs, CT 06269, USA. 12 The Rowland Institute at H...

The positions of Christian Wolff and Im­manuel Kant on the possibility proving existence God require some examination. Wolff’s critique physical-theological proof his proposed ways improving it are here analysed. is central to philosophical system fundamental prerequisite theoretical practical philosophy. Although insists that natural law inherent in human nature can therefore be comprehended b...

There are two major elements in this article. First, we describe the role and function of beliefs and philosophy in instruction, particularly in adult education. Second, we report the results of a research undertaking to determine the predominant educational philosophies for the field of training and development. On Beliefs and Philosophical Foundations The development of a working philosophy i...

The article is devoted to the consideration of one episodes Buddhist-Christian dialogue, which was actively held in last decades 20th century. immediate cause discussion work Japanese thinker Abe Masao (1915–2006) “Kenotic God and Dynamic Sunyata”, where compared Buddhist concept emptiness Christian idea kenosis, “the self-emptying God”. representatives Kyoto School Philosophy, existed Japan si...

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola is a very famous philosopher who worked during the Renaissance, 1463-1494. He laid foundation for new philosophical currents: syncretism, natural philosophy, and Christian Kabbalah, which basis of today's Western mystery tradition. There not much information about in Georgian scientific space due to scarcity works, although this does mean that there nothing written...

We present a model for the radio outbursts of microquasars based on the assumption of quasi-continuous jet ejection. The jets arèlit up' by shock fronts trav-eling along the jets during outbursts. The shocks accelerate relativistic particles which emit the observed synchrotron radiation. The observed comparatively at decay light curves combined with gradually steepening spectral slopes are expl...