scholarly journals Radical Nature of C-Lignin

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (10) ◽  
pp. 5327-5335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Berstis ◽  
Thomas Elder ◽  
Michael Crowley ◽  
Gregg T. Beckham
Keyword(s):  
Radical Nature

scholarly journals On the Significance of Assumptions about Divine Goodness and Divine Ontology for ‘Logical’ Arguments from Evil

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 186
Author(s):  
John Bishop
Keyword(s):  
Moral Agent ◽  
Problem Of Evil ◽  
Classical Theism ◽  
Radical Nature ◽  
Deep Disagreement ◽  
The Problem Of Evil ◽  
Divine Goodness

Sterba’s Is a Good God Logically Possible? (2019) draws attention to the importance of ethical assumptions in ‘logical’ arguments from evil (LAfEs) to the effect that the existence of (certain types) of evil is incompatible with the existence of a God who is all-powerful and morally perfect. I argue, first, that such arguments are likely to succeed only when ‘normatively relativized’—that is, when based on assumptions about divine goodness that may be subject to deep disagreement. I then argue that these arguments for atheism are also, and more fundamentally, conditioned by assumptions about the ontology of the divine. I criticise Sterba’s consideration of the implications for his own novel LAfE of the possibility that God is not a moral agent, arguing that Sterba fails to recognize the radical nature of this claim. I argue that, if we accept the ‘classical theist’ account that Brian Davies provides (interpreting Aquinas), then God does not count as ‘an’ agent at all, and the usual contemporary formulation of ‘the problem of evil’ falls away. I conclude by noting that the question of the logical compatibility of evil’s existence with divine goodness is settled in the affirmative by classical theism by appeal to its doctrine that evil is always the privation in something that exists of the good that ought to be.

Radical Nature

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Bennington
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Radical Nature

The persistence of the frontier (and therefore nature, violence and evil) leads to the question of the relation in Kant between politics and morality. Kant’s famous distinction between political moralist and moral politician is shown to deconstruct in the very effort Kant makes to secure it. This has important implications for how we think about revolution and the relation of the philosopher to the state.

Mendelssohn and Kant on the Immortality of the Soul

2020 ◽  
pp. 142-166
Author(s):  
Paul Guyer
Keyword(s):  
Human Freedom ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Radical Nature ◽  
Immortality Of The Soul

Mendelssohn argued for the immortality of the soul in his 1767 best-seller Phaedo. Kant’s argument for the postulate of immortality in the first two Critiques was not dissimilar to Mendelssohn’s; both may have drawn on the influential Vocation of Man by Johann Joachim Spalding. But in his 1793 Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason, published after the death of Mendelssohn, Kant argued that the radical nature of human freedom means that a human being can undertake a change of heart from evil to good at any time, thereby undercutting any need to postulate immortality.

scholarly journals TAO-DFT Study on the Electronic Properties of Diamond-Shaped Graphene Nanoflakes

Nanomaterials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 1236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong-Jui Huang ◽  
Sonai Seenithurai ◽  
Jeng-Da Chai
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Properties ◽  
Density Functional ◽  
Energy Gap ◽  
Quantitative Measure ◽  
Smooth Transition ◽  
Von Neumann Entropy ◽  
Triplet Energy ◽  
Von Neumann ◽  
Graphene Nanoflakes ◽  
Radical Nature

At the nanoscale, it has been rather troublesome to properly explore the properties associated with electronic systems exhibiting a radical nature using traditional electronic structure methods. Graphene nanoflakes, which are graphene nanostructures of different shapes and sizes, are typical examples. Recently, TAO-DFT (i.e., thermally-assisted-occupation density functional theory) has been formulated to tackle such challenging problems. As a result, we adopt TAO-DFT to explore the electronic properties associated with diamond-shaped graphene nanoflakes with n = 2–15 benzenoid rings fused together at each side, designated as n-pyrenes (as they could be expanded from pyrene). For all the n values considered, n-pyrenes are ground-state singlets. With increasing the size of n-pyrene, the singlet-triplet energy gap, vertical ionization potential, and fundamental gap monotonically decrease, while the vertical electron affinity and symmetrized von Neumann entropy (which is a quantitative measure of radical nature) monotonically increase. When n increases, there is a smooth transition from the nonradical character of the smaller n-pyrenes to the increasing polyradical nature of the larger n-pyrenes. Furthermore, the latter is shown to be related to the increasing concentration of active orbitals on the zigzag edges of the larger n-pyrenes.

The chemistry of pyrrolic compounds. III. The free radical nature of the oxyporphyrins

1966 ◽  
Vol 19 (8) ◽  
pp. 1481 ◽  
Author(s):  
PS Clezy ◽  
FD Looney ◽  
AW Nichol ◽  
GA Smythe
Keyword(s):  
Free Radical ◽  
Structure Of Molecules ◽  
Radical Nature ◽  
Radical Character

The preparation of a-meso-oxy-1,2,3,4,5,8-hexamethyl-6,7-bis-(2?- ethoxycarbonylethyl)porphin (Ib), a new member of the oxyporphyrin series, is described. The structure of molecules of this type, which have now been shown to exhibit radical character, is further discussed.

A REASSESSMENT OF THE RADICAL NATURE OF JOB'S ETHIC IN JOB XXXI 13-15

2003 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-200
Author(s):  
Richard Neville
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Alternative Interpretation ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
High Point ◽  
Radical Nature ◽  
Language And Ideology ◽  
Made In

AbstractCommentators have concluded that Job xxxi 13-15 represents an ethical high point in the Old Testament and have praised Job for it. Typically Job is seen as recognising the rights of his slaves on the basis that they are his equals as human beings. Given this understanding of Job's words, the high praise seems justified. However, there are reasons to doubt that this is what Job is saying. In the context of his protestation of innocence (Job xxxi) it is doubtful he would defend himself against an accusation so radical that no one would have thought to accuse him of the offence. It would also be out of character for the sages to advocate a revolutionary ethic. Furthermore, it is troubling that there is no consensus on how to derive the proposed meaning from the text, and when the various strategies are investigated they are unconvincing. An alternative interpretation is offered which looks to the language and ideology of personal religion in order to understand the significance of Job's reference to the fact that he and his servants were made in the womb by the same God.

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