Presents numismatics from the ancient harbor town of Dor/Dora in modern Israel with a history that spanned from the Bronze Age until the Late Roman Era.
Presents numismatics from the ancient harbor town of Dor/Dora in modern Israel with a history that spanned from the Bronze Age until the Late Roman Era.
Focusing on sin in Pelagius as a possibility while exercising freedom and individual responsibility, Prof. Luiz Carlos Mariano Da Rosa points out the defense of neutrality involving the creation of the human being and his capacity for good and evil, underlining the freedom of the will and its absolute indeterminacy, which ties sin to choice. In this way, the text shows sin in Augustine as a fact and an act in terms of freedom, responsibility and personal guilt, insofar as the human being is constituted as such in a state of holy innocence in a process that attributes to sin the condition of a product of human choice through the exercise of his freedom and full awareness, converging on an event that, based on Adam's attitude, imposes on his posterity the condition of absolute depravity and inescapable guilt. Thus, by examining sin as a rational symbol between Pelagius and Augustine according to Paul Ricoeur, the research affirms the need for a process that is capable of deconstructing the concept in the light of the emergence of the orthodox intention as an upright and ecclesial meaning.
Epistemology is currently in ferment. Ever since Plato, the textbook story goes, knowledge has been conceived as justified true belief; but in 1963 Edmund Gettier blew a huge hole in this supposedly traditional account. Six decades later, however, ongoing attempts to identify the conditions which turn belief into knowledge continue to face counterexamples and charges of circularity. In response to this recurrent failure, leading philosophers have begun exploring alternative accounts of knowledge. This ground-breaking book pushes the revolt against post-Gettier epistemology in a radically new direction. It begins by challenging the crude history of philosophy underling the entire Gettier paradigm. A survey ranging from the pre-Socratics to the mid-twentieth century reveals that the allegedly 'standard' or 'traditional' analysis of knowledge is neither standard nor traditional. In fact, it is difficult to find major philosophers for thousands of years who regarded knowledge as a species of belief, or belief as entailed by knowledge. The standard view was rather that knowing and believing are distinct, mutually exclusive mental states, involving different mental faculties, and playing distinct and complementary roles in our cognitive lives. Having demolished the historical premise upon which the entire Gettier paradigm rests, this book reframes elements of this age-old consensus in contemporary terms which push 'knowledge first' epistemology in a fresh direction. Knowledge, Antognazza argues, is phenomenologically and ontologically prior to belief, and, crucially, is not a kind of belief - not even “the best kind”. In turn, “mere believing” is not “a kind of botched knowing” but a mental state fundamentally different from knowing, with its own crucial and distinctive role in our cognitive life. Contrary to the claim that belief aims at knowledge, the specific contribution of belief to our cognition is that of aiming at truth when knowledge is out of our cognitive reach. Knowing and believing are mutually exclusive but complementary ways of 'thinking with assent'. The book then applies this renewed paradigm to range of controversial issues, including the taxonomy of belief, the role of the will in belief, testimony, collective knowledge, and religious epistemology. Applying innovative methods to a vast range of materials on a rich variety of topics, this is a rare philosopher and a work of exceptional interest. Applying innovative methods to a vast range of materials on a rich variety of topics, this is a rare philosopher and a work of exceptional interest.
This Element examines the material and social mechanisms that enacted mobility in the Renaissance and offers a new way to understand the period's dynamism, creativity, and conflict. It highlights the experiences of a wide range of mobile populations, paying particular attention to the concrete, practical dimensions of moving around at this time.
This text is a proposal of a new perception of human beings to reach a new education style, an approach that we base on four nodes that we built, and recursively transformed us during the two years and a half in which the whole process of this group doctoral project took place, to humbly try and conspire, adding elements to the emerging scientific paradigm that enhances and needs the concurrence of a new education.
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