cited as reasons for students’ career choices, contemporary hyper-positivist philosophy could be cited as its intellectual foundation. Hyper-positivism, with the natural sciences as its model, has as its ‘ontological assumption that the world is orderly
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The Artist in a Positivist Academy
Bridging the Artist-Scholar Divide
Ibanga B. Ikpe
Solidarity in Times of Pandemics
Barbara Prainsack
if I had been socialized to focus on what people have in common. In sum, solidarity is characterized by symmetry between people in the moment of enacting mutual support. This symmetry is not an ontological statement about the configuration of our
Coronavirus, Democracy and the Challenges of Engaging a Planetary Order
Milja Kurki
forms of living, or silence? 3. Democracy in a pluriverse. Anthropocene authors show an interest in thinking through the “ontological turn.” If the world consists of multiple (overlapping?) worlds—rather than “one world”—how do worlds speak to each
Contesting Paradigms in Society’s Poverty Alleviation and Development Arena
Theoretical Debates on Agency
Sunday Paul Chinazo Onwuegbuchulam and Khondlo Mtshali
, as the state or organisations do not really act; rather, it is individuals who act. The ontological status of organisations in society’s different spheres is thus contested, an issue that the SiSA enunciates ( Migdal 1988 , 1994 ). Thus, it is
Colonising ‘Free’ Will
A Critique of Political Decolonisation in Ghana
Bernard Forjwuor
inflected, as the right to declare independence by the Ghanaian is subverted, and in its place, the colonial master usurps that role to grant such authority. By this act of granting political liberty alone, the Ghanaian is still constructed as ontologically
A Critique of Thaddeus Metz's Modal Relational Account of Moral Status
Olusegun Steven Samuel and Ademola Kazeem Fayemi
traces his African ethical theory to the ubuntu understanding of the traditional African worldview. The idea of ubuntu did not originate with Metz, and he was not the first to offer normative, ontological and ecological explanations of ubuntu
A Negative Theory of Justice
Towards a Critical Theory of Power Relations
Leonard Mazzone
, for example, the emancipation process relies on ideal principles that can be discovered through reason, given that they belong to an ontological moral order, regardless of any human creation. 9 Kant provides a model of moral constructivism, according
Deleuze's Postscript on the Societies of Control
Updated for Big Data and Predictive Analytics
James Brusseau
Guattari 1987 ). Ontologically, this regeneration corresponds with the privileging of difference over identity at the production of being itself ( Deleuze 1983 ), but what's more humanly pressing is this question: What experiences create immunity from past
Claims of Need in Property Law and Politics
Patrick Cockburn
-language may end up in conservatism because progressive social aspirations ‘are given the same ontological form and moral value’ as, for example, property rights, which means that a dispute where opposing moral claims clash will ‘appear as a conflict over
Invoking a World of Ideas
Theory and Interpretation in the Justification of Colonialism
David Boucher
). The philosophies of history of R. G. Collingwood (1993 , 1998 , 2005a , 2005b ) and Michael Oakeshott (1933 , 1983 ), and the ontological hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer (1975 , 1976 ) are particularly pertinent. What I am doing is a form of