ABSTRACT Science, for James Croll, began and ended in metaphysics. Metaphysics, turn, provided proof of a First Final Cause all things. This rested on two metaphysical principles: that every event must have cause, the determination cause is distinct from its production. argument emerged his deeply held religious commitments. As 17-year-old, he converted to Calvinist evangelical form Christianit...

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At first one is inclined is to conceive of the problem of mass morality as one of a generally valid norm. ‘The construction of norms for the regulation of social life and individual behaviour is a compelling need of capitalism, so long as it wishes to proclaim itself as a universal form of social life,’ says B. (Borkenau, 1971: 96). Consequently, the new morality had to be a mass morality, base...

How can we understand the persistence of archaic or conservative socio-cultural practices in hybrid communities in the diaspora? How does the experience of exile and immigration manifest itself in ideological, cultural, and linguistic terms? In this project, we will examine the practices of a unique settlement in Patagonia, Argentina, which presents an exceptional situation of cultural and ling...