Truth: Its criteria and conditions is an in-depth critical-and-constructive inquiry in almost equal measure. The theories of the nature of empirical truth critically considered include two forms of the traditional correspondence theory; truth as appraisal; truth as identity of proposition and truth; en emotive theory of truth; P.F. Strawson's performative theory, and N. Rescher's novel theory of a coherentist criterion of truth. The constructive parts include an analysis of the concept of "a fact," the meaning and uses of 'true' and 'false' in empirical statements, together with the...
Truth: Its criteria and conditions is an in-depth critical-and-constructive inquiry in almost equal measure. The theories of the nature of empirica...
"The Morality of Terrorism" argues that terrorism violates certain human rights, and just war, and consequentialist moral principles, and so is always wrong. In distinguishing -freedom fighting- from terrorism, this study lays down stringent conditions derived from just war theory, for the moral justifiability of -freedom fighting-, such as some revolutions, civil wars, and guerilla warfare. This book then evaluates the morality of actual and possible judicial and military responses to terrorism by targeted governments. An appendix provides a case study (the Palestine problem) of root causes...
"The Morality of Terrorism" argues that terrorism violates certain human rights, and just war, and consequentialist moral principles, and so is always...
This work is a detailed analytical study of different forms of silent doing. It explores a range of topics related to silence, including the theory of silent doing and its relationship to other forms of action and communication, silence and aesthetics, the ethics and politics of silence, and the religious dimensions of silence. The book, as an original contribution to analytical philosophy, should be of interest to philosophers and students.
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This work is a detailed analytical study of different forms of silent doing. It explores a range of topics related to silence, including the theory...
About the Contributor(s): Haig Khatchadourian is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is the author of twelve books in philosophy and two volumes of poetry. He is a member of the International Academy of Philosophy and of The Academy of Sciences in Armenia, as well as a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacture & Commerce, United Kingdom.
About the Contributor(s): Haig Khatchadourian is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is the author of twelve...
Arpine Khatchadourian, Roy Arthur Swanson, Haig Khatchadourian
The Armenian folk epic David of Sassoun was performed and transmitted orally for over one thousand years before a variant was discovered and transcribed in 1873. The publication of this variant marks the beginning of a long period of discoveries of other variants. The fifty variants collected by1936 are the source of the epic's unified text. The action of the epic is centered on the preservation of the House of Sassoun, or freedom from invaders. The oaths taken by heroes create conflicts of loyalties that work against this central concern. The curse, another form of the oath, leads to the...
The Armenian folk epic David of Sassoun was performed and transmitted orally for over one thousand years before a variant was discovered and transc...
