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Brayton Polka

Researcher at Vanier College

Publications -  11
Citations -  16

Brayton Polka is an academic researcher from Vanier College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Modernity & Form of the Good. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 11 publications receiving 16 citations.

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How Do We Know What We Know

TL;DR: In the last chapter of his book "What Makes Us Tick" as discussed by the authors, Lieberman writes in the preface that he focuses on research that points to understanding how humans make decisions.
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The Will to Exist: Reflections on Desire and the Good in Western Culture

TL;DR: The authors argued that the critical distinction that Spinoza makes between two concepts of desire, as well as between concepts of the good, captures the distinction that Tertullian makes in posing the question: What does Athens have to do with Jerusalem?
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Hobbes and the Sovereignty of the Golden Rule

TL;DR: Hobbes and the Law of Nature. By Perez Zagorin (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009), xiv + 177 pp. $29.95/£20.95 cloth as discussed by the authors.
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Philosophy without God? God without Philosophy?: Critical Reflections on Antony Flew's God and Philosophy 1

TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that, while the case that Antony Flew makes against philosophically invalid arguments for the existence of God is generally sound, he fails to comprehend the power and cogency of the ontological argument, thus, his conception of the grounds of morality, separate from the biblical tradition of theology, is by no means compelling.
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Coriolanus and the Roman World of Contradiction: A Paradoxical World Elsewhere

TL;DR: The authors argue that Shakespeare's aim in Coriolanus is to depict the ancient world of Rome as dominated by contradiction, and to signal to us moderns, in the biblical tradition, that we can comprehend or interpret the contradictory world of the ancients solely on the basis of a paradoxical world elsewhere, beyond contradiction.