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Incommensurability in Aristotle's Theory of reciprocal justice

Gallagher R.L. (ABINGDON4 PARK SQUARE, MILTON PARK, ABINGDON OX14 4RN, OXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND, 2012)

In just proportional exchange, under Aristotle's theory of reciprocal justice, superior sharers in a community materially assist the weaker, and receive honour as a reward. Aristotle's economic thought is represented with ...
In search of identity: Hijab recollections from west Beirut

Fuleihan N.S. (University of Texas Press;, 2010)

In autumn 1983, a young woman at the American University of Beirut entered the cafeteria wearing a hijab.1 Heads turned, and whispers were audible throughout the room. The hijab itself was not unusual in West Beirut, where ...
The 'Battle of the Pass': Two consequential readings

Agha S.S. (, 2005)

M. A. Shaban realized the necessity of the existence of a disenfranchised but empowered demographic base to carry out a revolution of the magnitude of the 'Abbāsid revolution. The sources do not provide for the existence ...
The Tithonos Myth in Homer's Odyssey and Virgil's Aeneid

Nassaar C.S. (WASHINGTON1319 EIGHTEENTH ST NW, WASHINGTON, DC 20036-1802 USA, 2010)

[No abstract available]
Orientalism and the nineteenth-century nationalist: Michele Amari, Ernest Renan, and 1848

Mallette K. (, 2005)

[No abstract available]
Aristotle on Eidei Diapherontoi

Gallagher R.L. (ABINGDON4 PARK SQUARE, MILTON PARK, ABINGDON OX14 4RN, OXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND, 2011)

Aristotle holds that there must be multiple forms of human being and those forms constitute a genos, this paper argues. Aristotle advances his claim by arguing that the strength of a polis rests on the existence of a ...
Aristotle's Peirastic treatment of the Republic

Gallagher R. (BERLINGENTHINER STRASSE 13, D-10785 BERLIN, GERMANY, 2011)

Aristotle's discussion of Plato's Republic in Politics II is argued to be, at least in part, peirastic, on the grounds that nine premises that Aristotle uses in his arguments on unity and property in the city of the guardians ...
Recto verso: Redefining the sketchbook

Bartram A.; El-Bizri N.; Gittens D. (Ashgate Publishing Ltd.;, 2014)

Bringing together a broad range of contributors including art, architecture, and design academic theorists and historians, in addition to practicing artists, architects, and designers, this volume explores the place of the ...
Arabic literary-scientific journals: Precedence for globalization and the creation of modernity

Sheehi S. (, 2005)

[No abstract available]
Parerga - Carnet de Croquis: 'ni oeuvre, ni hors d'oeuvre'

El-Bizri N. (Ashgate Publishing Ltd.;, 2014)

[No abstract available]
In defense of moral economy: Marx's criticism of aristotle's theory of value

Gallagher R.L. (, 2014)

Marx's criticism of Aristotle's theory of value is refuted. Aristotle's theory is explained. Marx is shown is be even more indebted to Aristotle than previously thought, but his argument for a strict commensurability of ...
By way of an overture: Classical optics and renaissance pictorial arts

El-Bizri N. (Ashgate Publishing Ltd.;, 2014)

[No abstract available]
Introduction

Bartram A.; El-Bizri N.; Gittens D. (Ashgate Publishing Ltd.;, 2014)

[No abstract available]
Antiphasis as Homonym in Aristotle

Gallagher R.L. (ABINGDON4 PARK SQUARE, MILTON PARK, ABINGDON OX14 4RN, OXON, ENGLAND, 2014)

Antiphasis is a case of core-dependent homonymy, and has three significations in Aristotle's philosophy: (1) antiphasis as an opposition between propositions (a propositional signification); (2) antiphasis as the opposition ...
On the institution of the moral subject: On the commander and the commanded in nietzsche's discussion of law

Bornedal P. (, 2013)

The article discusses how Nietzsche understands the institution of law and morals in distinction to Kant and the Christian tradition. It argues that Nietzsche to a large extent is inspired by the paradigm-shift toward a ...
Tampering with the future: Apollo's prophecy in sophocles's oedipus the king

Nassaar C.S. (ABINGDON4 PARK SQUARE, MILTON PARK, ABINGDON OX14 4RN, OXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND, 2013)

[No abstract available]
Art and political dissent in postwar Lebanon: Walid Sadek's fi annani akbar min bikasu [bigger than picasso]

Mejcher-Atassi S. (NEW YORK32 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, NEW YORK, NY 10013-2473 USA, 2013)

Taking Walid Sadek's fi annani akbar min bikasu [bigger than picasso] as its starting point, this article examines relations of art and politics in post-civil war Lebanon. A tiny and inexpensive paperback related to Picasso ...
On a Supposed Solution to the Reinhold-Sidgwick Problem in Kant's Metaphysics of Morals

Fugate C.D. (, 2012)

The purpose of this paper is to challenge the suggestion that Kant offers a solution to the Reinhold-Sidgwick Problem in his Metaphysics of Morals. The problem, briefly, is about how Kant can hold moral evil to be imputable ...
Coverture in Lebanon

Shehadeh L.R. (, 2004)

The principle of coverture in Lebanon is defined and examined through a study of the Christian personal status codes. While these do not necessarily reflect the social status of women, they remain highly discriminatory ...

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