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Refining Just War theory	Split subjectivity in the first mother-child relation: Interpreting Lacan's first two versions of the graph of desire

Introduction to Nietzsche's "Daybreak"	On God, creation, and the necessity of a finite past: A philosophical investigation into the question concerning the eternity of the world as an attempt to clarify the doctrine of 'creatio ex nihilo'

Despairing over the Present Age: Soren Kierkegaard and modernization	The relationship between the state and Salomon's House in Francis Bacon's "New Atlantis"

The path towards mysticism: A critical examination of Hayy Ibn Yaqzan	The boss's dilemma: Mark Twain and the relation of technology and society

Michel Foucault and visual culture: Toward a genealogy of modernity	Role-centered morality

Montesquieu and the transformation of republicanism	The ontology of presentation: The infinite and the finite in early German Romantic philosophy (1795--1802)

A philosophical reflection on nature writing	Normative inquiry after Wittgenstein

Bernard Lonergan's notion of emergent probability: Computer aided insights and a possible implementation on African history	Identity and historicity. Hermeneutics of contemporary African marginality

Moderation as a political and philosophical virtue in Xenophon's "Memorabilia"	Poetry and philosophy in Aristophanes' "Clouds" and Plato's "Republic"

Plato's critique of injustice in the "Gorgias" and the "Republic"	Why the passion?: Bernard Lonergan on the cross as communication

The metaphysics of sex and gender: Human embodiment, multiplicity, and contingency	Martin Heidegger's critique of freedom

An approach to the "Laws": The problem of the harmony of the goods in Plato's political philosophy	The natural goodness of man in Rousseau's "Confessions": A reply to Augustine's "Confessions"

Saint Thomas Aquinas on the death penalty	Toward an engaged account of objectivity: Contributions from early phenomenology

The reality of knowing: The status of ideas in Aquinas and Reid	Aristotle's theory of prohairesis and its significance for accounts of human action and practical reasoning

Totality, the Other, the Infinite: The relation between ethics and religion in the thought of Emmanuel Levinas	Being and the imaginary: An introduction to aesthetic phenomenology and English literature from the eighteenth century to Romanticism

Giambattista Vico's "On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians": Text, translation and interpretive essay	Leviathan drawn out by its tail: The religious ideas of the second half of Leviathan

Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutic detours and distanciations: A study of the hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur	The origins of Descartes' concept of mind in the "Regulae ad directionem ingenii"

Socrates' praise and blame of eros	Locke, tocqueville, liberalism and restlessness

Infinite hermeneutics: Events, globalization, and the human condition	Between faith and knowledge: "Theological knowledge" in Gregory of Rimini and his fourteenth-century context

The art of governing: The critical ethics of Michel Foucault	Aristotle: Movement and the structure of being