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John Henry Newman and Ludwig Wittgenstein: on certainty and faith
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2013)
The roles of certainty and faith have been very much divided in modern times by the positions allocated them under an all-consuming positivistic account of human processes. It is ironic that this view, which stems from ...
The dance of joy: Nietzsche’s metaphysics of becoming & tragic wisdom.
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2014)
This thesis seeks to establish Nietzsche as a Metaphysician of Becoming, as a foreseer of the immanence of eternity and in turn to establish a deep correlation between his writing style and his account of an eternity that ...
Traversing the abyss: saintliness and the quest for meaning in Tolstoy and Nietzsche
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2015)
The positions of Nietzsche and Tolstoy as 'prophets of dissent' in relation to modern culture and modern civilization is now widely recognised (Riser, 2006: passim), and in that broad sense their status as two of the most ...
A philosophical investigation into coercive psychiatric practices(Volume 1 & 2)
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2012)
This dissertation seeks to examine the validity of the justification commonly offered for
a coercive1 psychiatric intervention, namely that the intervention was in the ‘best
interests’ of the subject and/or that the ...
A foucauldian discourse analysis of intellectual disability in Irish education
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2013)
Since the birth of the Irish State there has been three official terms for children with mental disabilities, ‘mental deficiency’, ‘mental handicap’ and ‘intellectual disability’. Each new term replaced the previous one; ...
Truth, being and the work of art: reflections on Heidegger's and Gadamer's interpretations of the tradition
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2016)
This thesis addresses the fundamental and interrelated questions of truth and being, which have occupied Western philosophical thought since the time of the Ancient Greeks, giving particular attention to how they relate ...