Browsing by Subject "ethics"
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FORESTS FULL OF BEASTS: ARISTOTELIAN ANALYSES OF ANTINOMIAN MADNESS IN 'KING LEAR' AND 'TIMON OF ATHENS'
(2012-08-28)"Forests Full of Beasts" analyzes late-Shakespearean thought as represented in "Timon of Athens" and "King Lear," focusing on expressions of madness. Applying an Aristotelian framework, each chapter examines the two plays ... -
GET REAL(ISM): EVOLUTIONARY DEBUNKING ARGUMENTS AND MORAL REALISM
(2013-08-26)Genealogical arguments which aim to undermine some aspect of ethics by referring to its supposed evolutionary origin have become both more common and more philosophically substantive in recent years. In this thesis, I ... -
Professional Undermining: Homelessness and Service as Method
(2023-04-12)The present thesis investigates homelessness and architectural practice. This thesis argues that homelessness defies deterministic solutions to housing and underscores the importance of non-market-based solutions for housing ... -
Together in the Crowd of Time: Temporal Decentering and Ethical Action in David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks
(2020-08-18)In The Bone Clocks, the novelist David Mitchell demonstrates how crowded time leads to the interruption of self-centred temporal flows, creating moments of collision between the self and others, and sparking points of ... -
The Unforgiven and the Unforgivable: On the Nature and Limits of Forgiveness
(2015)In this thesis, I argue in favour of the moral significance of an essentialist account of forgiveness. In chapter two, I analyse the emergence of this view – which defines forgiveness as the rational foreswearing of ... -
ῥοπὴ βίου μοι: THE PASSIVE ROUTE TO APOTHEOSIS IN SOPHOCLES' OEDIPUS AT COLONUS
(2016-08-26)This thesis seeks to demonstrate the necessary role of passivity in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus as a catalyst of Oedipus’ restoration to community, of his ethical innocence and of the renewed personal agency that culminates ...