To speak this evening on the phenomenology of John Paul II – this is my appointed task, graciously assigned to me by Sister Judith Kathryn when she established this Edith Stein lecture series. While I am grateful for the invitation to lecture at Immaculata University, we have a slight problem! I am a theologian, not a philosopher, and the late pope himself once wrote, “A Christian thinker, and ...

Ryan Patrick Hanley makes two original claims about François Fénelon: (1) that he is best regarded as a political philosopher, and (2) his philosophy understood “moderate modern.” In what follows, I raise concerns Hanley’s revisionist turn. First, argue the role of in Fénelon’s account rather handmaiden theology than an autonomous area inquiry—with implications for both theory practice politics...

This paper explores and develops the notion of applying the ethical perspective of Danish philosopher and theologian K.E. Løgstrup, when designing and developing interactive technologies. The ethical reflections presented in this paper are currently considered in the development of Persuasive Learning Designs within the EU funded PLOT project, thus enabling this paper to support the argumentati...

During the 14 century, the noted theologian and philosopher William of Ockham identified and applied the “law of economy,” as a fundamental postulate of logical thought. Subsequently, Galileo and others used this “law” as justification for the notion of “scientific parsimony.” This idea, which is also often called “Ockham’s Razor,” states that simplicity should be the cornerstone of scientific ...

I shall confine my attention to the one Scotist doctrine that seems to be singled out as especially worrisome, the doctrine of univocity. In the first part of the paper I argue that the doctrine of univocity is true. So even if the doctrine has unwelcome consequences, we ought to affirm it anyway; it is not the job of the theologian or philosopher to shrink from uncomfortable truths. In the sec...

D r Martin Luther King popularized the notion of the Beloved Community, a term first coined in the early days of the twentieth century by philosopher-theologian Josiah Royce. Dr King envisioned the Beloved Community as a society based on justice, equal opportunity, and love of one’s fellow human beings. As explained by The King Center, the memorial institution founded by Coretta Scott King to f...

This article addresses psychotic patients' fragile boundaries and need for professional help to restore their personal untouchable zone. We examine how nurses move into this inviolable zone and re-establish limits. Empirical data are drawn from an acute psychiatric setting and focus on one patient in different situations and on her relationships with nurses. Data from nurses' discussions and th...

The aim of the paper is to discern between philosophy and theology. A philosopher looking after impersonal wisdom, a theologian searches for personal God. This differentiation fundamental because knowledge persons differs from that. author shows how taking into account fact that theology based on second-person changes way one should approach hiddenness argument.
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In this paper we discuss the general question on how a Byzantine philosopher-theologian of late Palaeologan Renaissance forms some aspects Natural Science. Specifically, focusing George Pachymeres’ Paraphrasis Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagite’s De divinis nominibus, investigate philosopher builds his theory natural elements (earth, air, water, fire). We raise number questions that have to do with wa...