Date of Award
Summer 1995
Document Type
Dissertation - Restricted
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Theology
First Advisor
Hinze, Christine F.
Second Advisor
Hinze, Bradford E.
Third Advisor
Maguire, Daniel C.
Abstract
Notions of interdependence and mutuality have been a significant element in recent developments in the natural sciences, human sciences, and philosophy. These advances across so many fields can be viewed as recognizing the facticity of mutuality, or even its ontological status. If this is so, the ethical questions naturally follow: "Is this state of affairs a 'good'?" ; "How then ought we to act?". It is to these latter questions that this dissertation attends...
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