Journal of Teleological Science

MONOTHEISM(S) AND VIOLENCE

António Amaral — 2024-12-09

The article seeks to address the origin of the ambivalent (and ambiguous) relationship between religion and violence, asking, on the one hand, to what extent the force of the sacred determines and is determined by the “sacralization” of power, and discussing, on the other hand, the extent to which the devices for legitimizing political power tend to absorb the “strength” of religious power and vice versa, in a circularity whose feedback often insinuates and infiltrates a latent “inter-monotheistic” rivalry and, from this, narratives capable of inducing unimaginable levels of conflict and belligerence. Can interreligious dialogue overcome the impasses that fideisms (whether of a Jewish, Christian or Islamic nature) multiply and amplify at the heart of human communities, regardless of the societal or cultural ecosystem in which they occur?

A HEURISTIC FOR THOMIST PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Daniel D. De Haan — 2024-12-09

In this study, I outline a heuristic for Thomist philosophical anthropology. In the first part, I introduce the major heuristics employed by Aquinas to establish the objects, operations, powers, and nature of his anthropology. I then identity major lacunae in his anthropology. In the second part, I show how an integrated approach to commonsense, experiential, experimental, and metaphysical psychologies can fill these lacunae and contribute to the enquiries of a contemporary Thomist philosophical anthropology.

HUMAN DIGNITY, FIRST-ORDER FACTOR OF HUMAN PERSONALITY

Emanuel Dobrin — 2024-12-11

The most complex being, man, is defined by an understanding of his dignity. Nothing is more important to humanity than ensuring that dignity is respected. It is dignity that makes man 'truly human', allowing him to manifest himself in complete freedom and express, unhindered, all the capacities and abilities with which he has been endowed or which he has developed. This paper explores various trends in the definition of human dignity and personality, while also examining the concerns of both ancient Greco-Roman and contemporary societies regarding the implementation of guarantees for human dignity in the social sphere, legal system, and interpersonal relationships. Although the exploration is limited, it aims to keep the concept of respect for human dignity at the forefront. This focus is essential, as the world can only be envisioned as a better place when human dignity is respected.

THE VALUES OF CIVILIZATION ARE ANTI-LIFE

Milagros Elena Rodriguez — 2024-12-14

In the midst of global coloniality, in a frank dialogical-dialectical dialogue with the readers,
making sincere confessions without political debts, we know that the nature of life has been attacked,
bodies and organs are sold, children and women are prostituted and the family and the creation of
man and woman are alienated, man and woman, eyesores of history that manicheanize life, provoking
the violation of life in every sense of the word. In this particular that anything goes, science and
genetics, values and the family, which is a sacred Christian institution founded by God, not a religious
one, are transgressed. In the midst of these aberrant facts, by means of a transmethodical hermeneutic
hermeneutic, comprehensive, ecosophical and diatopic inquiry in analytical, empirical and propositive
moments; in rhizomes and planetary - complex decolonial perspective; we fulfill the objective of
analyzing in the homeland the values of civilization that are anti-life and we answer the question: Is
there hope for humanity?

THE EMERGENCE OF AGENCIES

Cláudia S. Costa — 2024-12-14

The adoption of New Public Management (NPM) has brought with it changing values, changing organizational structures, redefining roles and introducing new actors, as well as a new management culture (Ferlie et.al, 1996). One of the main structural changes introduced in the last decades is the introduction of agencies (Pollitt et.al, 2001). It is in this context that the relevance of this essay arises, highlighting the main consequences associated with these changes. To reach viable conclusions the way the data will be treated will help a lot. Through literature review it will be possible to study the theme from its beginnings to more recent studies, equally important in that they will help to better understand the progression of the studies.