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Is Comparison Based on Translatable Formal Concepts?
Fully realized ethical and metaphysical concepts have intension and extension only within an historically situated epistemic tradition. Only people who live the epistemic tradition fully understand the concept and can accurately identify items that satisfy the concept. Such concepts are only fully understood by those whose lives are shaped from within the epistemic tradition. This makes comparison of ethical and metaphysical concepts across epistemic traditions difficult if not impossible. Comparative hagiology employs theological concepts that may function differently from ethical and metaphysical concepts. The articles in this volume seem to suggest that some theological concepts may function as formal concepts. A formal concept is defined by rules or form, rather than by its intensional or extensional content. Thus, formal concepts may be translatable across epistemic traditions. Because the rules do not fully determine intension or extension, a formal concept can apply to otherwise diverse individuals. Theological concepts may be formal concepts that could provide the basis for comparison of the untranslatable concepts that give meaning and value to the lived experience of people in epistemic traditions. The articles in this volume suggest several candidates for such formal concepts.
Journal Article
THE VALUE ORIENTATIONS OF BUDDHIST AND CHRISTIAN ENTREPRENEURS: A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE ON SPIRITUALITY AND BUSINESS ETHICS
Guilfoy reviews The Value Orientations of Buddhist and Christian Entrepreneurs: A Comparative Perspective on Spirituality and Business Ethics by Gabor Kovacs.
Book Review
Peter Abelard's theory of the proposition
In Peter Abelard's writings, the dictum (pl. dicta) performs the role a twentieth-century philosopher would assign to a proposition. A dictum is what is said or asserted by a sentence. We are able to call a sentence “true” or “false”, “possible” or “necessary”, if the dictum asserted by the sentence is true, false, possible, or necessary. It is clear that the dictum is the central element in Abelard's theory of the proposition. Nonetheless, that the dictum performs an important role, is perhaps the only claim about Abelard's theory of the proposition to which there is general agreement among current thinkers. There is a good deal of dispute and confusion with regard to the proper interpretation of Abelard's theory of the proposition. Much of this dispute centers on the fundamental question: What is the dictum? This dissertation is an extended attempt to answer this question. There are three parts to the dissertation. In part one the dissertation disputes the common assumption that dicta are composed of status. This discussion serves to separate Abelard's theory of the proposition from his theory of universals. The second part of the dissertation argues that Abelard, at different times, advanced two distinct theories of the proposition, one in his Dialectica the other in his Logica Ingredientibus. The dissertation contends that Abelard's more mature view is found in his Logica lngredientibus. The remainder of the dissertation is an account of Abelard's theory of the proposition as it is found in the Logica Ingredientibus.
Dissertation
WHEN ONE RELIGION ISN’T ENOUGH: THE LIVES OF SPIRITUALLY FLUID PEOPLE
Ingram reviews When One Religion Isn't Enough: The Lives of Spiritually Fluid People by Duane Bidwell.
Book Review
