Copyright (c) 2009 Salve Regina University All rights reserved. http://escholar.salve.edu Recent documents in eScholar@Salve Regina en-us Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:26:02 PST 3600 http://escholar.salve.edu/memories/1 http://escholar.salve.edu/memories/1 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:43:33 PDT Caroline Ruocco Scott, class of 1968, shares her memories of being a student at Salve Regina in the mid-1960s. Paul DeWolf http://escholar.salve.edu/masters_theses/1 http://escholar.salve.edu/masters_theses/1 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:07:34 PDT This paper examines the effects on the community when its police officers are held to different physical standards based upon their sex. Through a Platonic analysis of the modern day "guardians of the city," it can be seen that the community is deprived of the strongest and best police force when the department compensates individuals based upon a "weakness" that thier class of applicants possesses. This process proves to be unfair to both the applicants and to the citizens they may subsequently serve. Robert W. Boyle http://escholar.salve.edu/fac_staff_pub/12 http://escholar.salve.edu/fac_staff_pub/12 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:48:02 PDT Defining religion as morality, Thomas Jefferson considered religion essential for the unity of the United States. His casual wall metaphor is not representative of his thinking and, therefore, should not be a basis for constitutional interpretation. Lois M. Eveleth http://escholar.salve.edu/fac_staff_pub/11 http://escholar.salve.edu/fac_staff_pub/11 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:51:57 PDT This question has developed, post Hobbes, in two directions. In one understanding, morality is reasonable, either because it coincides with self-interest or because it contributes to self-interest. An alternative approach rejects the primacy of reason and looks instead to human intuition, human affections or the will for an account of being moral. Lois M. Eveleth http://escholar.salve.edu/fac_staff_pub/10 http://escholar.salve.edu/fac_staff_pub/10 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:00:53 PDT Interpretations of Emerson's theme of self-reliance which generate charges that he understood neither evil nor virtue are inappropriate. A fairer reading should keep in mind the Neo-Platonism of Plotinus, which gave to Transcendentalism a dynamic emanation/return schema and to mankind a place of privilege in knowing and valuing Nature. Lois M. Eveleth http://escholar.salve.edu/fac_staff_pub/9 http://escholar.salve.edu/fac_staff_pub/9 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:57:40 PDT Law and morality now stand as two poles of an American dilemma. We are requiring of law far more than it can deliver, while morality is constitutionally unworkable. However, a third option, viz. philosophical/secular ethics, can provide a viable conceptual-linguistic framework for understanding and achieving the seemingly-elusive unity of national vision. Lois M. Eveleth http://escholar.salve.edu/fac_staff_pub/8 http://escholar.salve.edu/fac_staff_pub/8 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:52:55 PDT The Protestant work ethic, as identified by Max Weber, has its first and, arguably, best American articulation in the work of the Reverend John Cotton (1584-1652). Revisiting key writings of this Boston minister-scholar, we see the origin of American valuation of wealth, work, and success. Lois M. Eveleth http://escholar.salve.edu/fac_staff_pub/7 http://escholar.salve.edu/fac_staff_pub/7 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:48:17 PDT The challenge to educators in Catholic higher education to play a crucial role in the Church's work of evangelization is a significant intellectual challenge for Americans. One important reason is the difficulty of recapturing Scholastic philosophy in college curricula and in faculty hiring. A new way of intellectualizing the faith is called for. Lois M. Eveleth http://escholar.salve.edu/fac_staff_pub/6 http://escholar.salve.edu/fac_staff_pub/6 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:44:23 PDT In his early essay "Nature" Emerson lays the foundation of the Transcendentalist or Romantic movement in America. Key is his "transparent eyeball" passage, where "eye" refers to the human role in Nature, i.e. creatively perceiving or knowing Nature. Man is Nature knowing itself. Lois M. Eveleth http://escholar.salve.edu/fac_staff_pub/5 http://escholar.salve.edu/fac_staff_pub/5 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:40:26 PDT More than ever before, being able to draw a distinction between the tolerable and the intolerable is necessary. Unfortunately the traditional understanding, as identified with the Enlightenment view first articulated by John Locke, presents merely formalistic criteria. Lacking substantive criteria, our contemporary understanding of toleration is inadequate to our needs. Lois M. Eveleth