"'Inflamed by Daily Practices': John Cassian and Ethical Formation" is the first inter-disciplinary treatment of the ethical program fostered by the fifth-century Christian ascetic John …
This dissertation is a detailed study of ethics in the second-century BCE text Huainanzi, and its implications for our understanding of classical Daoist ethics in …
This dissertation maintains that Michel Foucault's concept of biopolitics holds a crucial significance for how we analyze character and subjectivity in postcolonial Anglophone literary studies. …
During the 1960s era of decolonization, the Chinese and Tanzanian governments framed the close relationship between them in the relational language of anti-imperial “friendship.” The …
This dissertation offers a re-reading of the work of Augustine of Hippo as a case study of philosophical and rhetorical education in the Greco-Roman world. …
This dissertation explores the relationship between individuals’ everyday actions and the justice or injustice of entire societies. It is a conceptual and sociological investigation of …
This dissertation lies at the intersection of anthropology of sport and anthropology of ethics. I study football (soccer) in Istanbul to posit fairness as a …
This dissertation argues for the interconnection of Black Diasporic and Postcolonial Studies through the frame of comparative diaspora. It does so by situating African American …
Abstract of “Kant on the Intertwining of Individual Moral Development and Ethical Community” by Emily Hodges, Ph.D., Brown University, February 2022 I seek to resolve …
Historically, research has focused on prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT), with little focus on the health outcomes of mothers. As the HIV treatment landscape has …
This thesis examines the spiritual, ethical, and political writings of Simone Weil. In particular, I endeavor to articulate Weil's theory of \"decreation\" in the content …
My dissertation explores a plurality of politico-ethical ideas of three anticolonial thinkers in the early and mid-twentieth century: M.K. Gandhi, B.R. Ambedkar, and M.N. Roy. …
Free will skepticism—a term that encompasses multiple arguments that cast doubt upon our free will—is on the rise in recent decades, especially in response to …
This dissertation provides an explication of fitting actions (kathêkonta) within the broader context of Stoic ethics and philosophy. Specifically, I address the Stoics' contentious definition …
What information do people look for when making moral judgments about negative events? This question is important given its theoretical relevance (for psychological models that …
