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Description:: While it has long been acknowledged that Ralph Waldo Emerson’s work has had an important impact on religious thought in America, he is often treated …
Year:: 2017
Contributor:: Friesner, Nicholas Aaron (creator); Cladis, Mark (Advisor); Lewis, Thomas (Reader); Bush, Stephen (Reader); Willis, Andre (Reader); Brown University. Department of Religious Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882; Religious ethics; Environmental ethics; Ethics; Pragmatism; Transcendentalism
Collection:: Religious Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: "'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 …
Year:: 2014
Contributor:: Clements, Niki Kasumi (creator); Lewis, Thomas (Director); Harvey, Susan (Reader); Cladis, Mark (Reader); Bush, Stephen (Reader); Brown University. Religious Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: John Cassian; ethical formation; human agency; self; person; Ethics; Subjectivity
Collection:: Religious Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: 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 …
Year:: 2013
Contributor:: Duperon, Matthew Lee (creator); Roth, Harold (Director); Rosemont, Henry (Reader); Lewis, Thomas (Reader); Cladis, Mark (Reader); Bush, Stephen (Reader); Brown University. Religious Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: daoism; huainanzi; Dewey; Taoism; Ethics; Huainan zi
Collection:: Religious Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: 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. …
Year:: 2011
Contributor:: Babcock, David J (creator); George, Olakunle (Director); Bewes, Timothy (Reader); Reichman, Ravit (Reader); , (Director); , (Reader); , (Reader); Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: professional; Anglophone; postcolonial; Ishiguro; Coetzee; Ondaatje; affect; Globalization; Biopolitics; Professional employees; Subjectivity; English-speaking countries; Postcolonialism; Ethics; Coetzee, J. M. > 1940-; Ondaatje, Michael > 1943-
Collection:: English; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: 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 …
Year:: 2017
Contributor:: Sheridan, Derek (creator); Lutz, Catherine (Advisor); Smith, Daniel (Reader); Fruzzetti, Lina (Reader); Mason, Katherine (Reader); Greenhalgh, Susan (Reader); Brown University. Department of Anthropology (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Ethics; race & ethnicity; China-Africa; Transnationalism; Migration; Empire; Mutuality; Inequality; trade
Collection:: Anthropology; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: 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 …
Year:: 2015
Contributor:: Syme, Timothy David (creator); Estlund, David (Director); Larmore, Charles (Reader); Krause, Sharon (Reader); Brown University. Philosophy (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: practice; institutions; Justice; Ethics
Collection:: Philosophy; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: 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 …
Year:: 2013
Contributor:: Nuhrat, Yagmur (creator); Gutmann, Matthew (Director); Faudree, Paja (Reader); Brink-Danan, Marcy (Reader); Parla, Ayse (Reader); Brown University. Anthropology (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Football (Soccer); Ethics; Fairness; Soccer; Fair play; Turkey
Collection:: Anthropology; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: 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 …
Year:: 2020
Contributor:: Thomas, Anna (creator); Gandhi, Leela (Advisor); Murray, Rolland (Reader); George, Olakunle (Reader); Bogues, Anthony (Reader); Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Ethics; Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932; Caribbean Studies; American literature--African American authors; House for Mr. Biswas (Naipaul, V. S.); Kincaid, Jamaica; Incidents in the life of a slave girl (Jacobs, Harriet A.); habit
Collection:: English; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: An intuitive way to think about what it is to be a good person is in terms of doing good deeds. Indeed, many contemporary thinkers …
Year:: 2014
Contributor:: Bommarito, Nicolas P (creator); Arpaly, Nomy (Director); Estlund, David (Reader); Garfield, Jay (Reader); Brown University. Philosophy (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: action; Virtue; Vice; Emotions; Anger; Fear; Attention; Ethics
Collection:: Philosophy; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: 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 …
Year:: 2019
Contributor:: Weber, Alison Zulick (creator); Pellowski, Jennifer (Advisor); Harrison, Abigail (Reader); Brown University. School of Public Health (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Maternal health services; Ethics; HIV; Medication Adherence; Antiretroviral agents
Collection:: Public Health; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: 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 …
Year:: 2017
Contributor:: Kurtz, Joshua (author); Nahme, Paul (advisor); Bush, Stephen (reader)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Mysticism; Ethics; Christianity; Political science
Collection:: Religious Studies; Theses and Dissertations