Browsing by Subject "Ethics"
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A Defense of Basic Prudential Hedonism
(2020)Prudential hedonism is a school of thought in the philosophy of welfare that says that only pleasure is good for us in itself and only pain is bad for us in itself. This dissertation concerns an especially austere form of ... -
A Nonviolent Augustinianism?: History and Politics in the Theologies of St. Augustine and John Howard Yoder
(2008-12-10)The theologies of St. Augustine and John Howard Yoder are, if at all treated together, typically contrasted. This negative juxtaposition is in so small part due to the very different reputations of each theologian on the ... -
A Politics of the Unspeakable: The Differend of Israel
(2012)Israel's establishment in 1948 in former British-Mandate Palestine as a Jewish country and as a liberal democracy is commonly understood as a form of response to the Holocaust of WWII. Zionist narratives frame Israel's ... -
Altered Stakes: identifying gaps in the psychedelic-assisted therapy research informed consent process
(2022)Nearly 60% of the US population experiencing posttraumatic stress disorder have not received a meaningful clinical response from traditional interventions (Akiki & Abdallah, 2018). Early research using psychedelics in tandem ... -
An Investigation Into the Relationship Between Aristotelian Eudaimonia and Christian Discipleship: A Thomistic Perspective
(2022)This thesis project explores Thomas Aquinas’ writings about eudaimonia (human flourishing, happiness) and its compatibility with Christian discipleship. Eudaimonia and Christian discipleship are not mutually exclusive ... -
Anger Eliminativism: Stoic and Buddhist Perspectives
(2022)Many psychologists and philosophers hold that anger is a completely normal and often healthy human emotion. This position perhaps traces back to Aristotle, who argued that anger is morally good when it is moderated, such ... -
Animals as Moral Agents
(2022)Since Peter Singer’s (1975) Animal Liberation, sentience has been the dominant justification for increasing non-human animal (hereafter ‘animal’) welfare. This dissertation is an attempt to discover a different reason to ... -
Anything For Views Parenting: Framing Privacy, Ethics, and Norms for Children of Influencers on YouTube
(2023)Children who appear as the main characters or primary consumers of YouTube content have been the focus of emerging academic literature and public debate (Feller & Burroughs, 2022; Ferguson, 2018; Kumar, 2021). Sharenting, ... -
Arrested Development/Scrubs: Excursuses on the Use of Fiction
(2010)This thesis investigates two episodic television shows, <italics>Arrested Development</italics> and Scrubs, and attempts to establish why one succeeded with audiences and the other failed. Following the work of genre theory, ... -
Augustine and the Therapy of Self-Love
(2023)For over a century, theologians, ethicists, and philosophers have debated the coherence and moral validity of Augustine’s account of self-love. What to make of statements like “Love the Lord, and in so doing learn how to ... -
Authenticity and Enhancement
(2019)Recent accounts of authenticity have defined the concept in terms of self-creation, self-discovery, or some combination of the two. While these accounts get something right about the concept, I argue that they fail to capture ... -
Beyond Public and Private: A Theological Transfiguration
(2013)In this dissertation, I argue that the conceptual grammar of Augustine's thought provides a way of re-thinking the public/private distinction as it has been developed in modernity. The dissertation consists of two parts. ... -
Bioethics and the Body: Moral Formation in the Hospital
(2018)This dissertation explores the formational power of healthcare as revealed in the modern hospital, offering a constructive theological and moral response to two interrelated questions. First, how should the work of healthcare ... -
Buying into conservation: intrinsic versus instrumental value.
(Trends Ecol Evol, 2009-04)Many conservation biologists believe the best ethical basis for conserving natural entities is their claimed intrinsic value, not their instrumental value for humans. But there is significant confusion about what intrinsic ... -
Christ the Mediator and the Idol of Whiteness: Christological Anthropology in T. F. Torrance, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Willie Jennings
(2016)This dissertation asks how the theological anthropologies of T. F. Torrance, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Willie Jennings help Christians diagnose and subvert the idolatry of our current racial imagination. It concludes that ... -
Civic Friendship and Democracy: Past and Present Perspectives
(2015)My dissertation seeks to clarify the stakes of recent calls to increase civic friendship in our communities by initiating a conversation between contemporary and historical theoretical work about the requirements and consequences ... -
Consent Forms: A Biopolitical Theology
(2023)What is consent? What does it mean, what is its use, and what good does it do? My dissertation turns these questions over and over, looking at the answers given by three different eras of western history: the Information ... -
Convincing the World: Pentecostal Liminality as Participation in the Mission of the Paraclete
(2013)Did the early Pentecostals regard themselves as servants to the wider church, bearers of the gifts of the Spirit, sent to bring a renewed focus on love, unity, holiness, and justice to all parts of the church? Or did they ... -
Crisis: Masculinity and an Ethic of Care in American Literature
(2023)This dissertation takes three crisis periods that have occurred throughout American history—times of war, times of disease, and times of apocalypse—and examines how such periods simultaneously provoke what can be called ... -
Data monitoring and interim analyses in the pharmaceutical industry: ethical and logistical considerations.
(Stat Med, 1993-03)The characteristics of data monitoring and the need for the use of data monitoring committees in clinical trials sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry differ from those of trials sponsored by government. Data monitoring ...
