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The objective of this text is to try to understand the widespread belief in the existence of miracles in a world otherwise dominated by science and technology. This paper is divided into five parts. Firstly, we present various surveys which encompass the question of the belief in miracles, while also defining the phenomenon per say. In consideration of the fact that the prayer is at the very heart of the miraculous process, the analysis of its efficiency is discussed in the second part of the text. Subsequently, we examine the functioning of the seemingly inexplicable events by referring to the miracles which would have occurred in the town of Lourdes. In the fourth part, we ponder on the possibility of reconciling science and religion. Finally, the last part of this text is constituted of three subsections: four methodological criticisms regarding the efficiency of prayer, an overview of the apparent failure to assess the notions of randomness and probability when attempting to understand the origin of miracles, and lastly, we present six hypotheses in an effort to offer an alternative to the explicatory models provided by the Church.
Keywords: Miracle, guérison, efficacité de la prière, science, religion, Miracle, healing, effectiveness of prayer, science, religion
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The study of criminal careers has made it possible, up until now, to identify the mechanisms that lead a person to commit crimes. However, although it is well documented that the vast majority of offenders will one day cease their criminal activities (reference to the crime-curve), only in recent years have scholars focused on the last phase of these criminal careers: the moment at which they end. While desistance processes have been studied for probationers and prisoners, little is known about the desistance process of offenders on conditional sentence. At the present time, there are three main theories of desistance in the literature on which no consensus has been reached. Highlighting the limitations of these theories, this paper offers a new conceptual angle with which to understand desistance from crime. By applying this new conceptual framework to qualitative data collected from 29 offenders on conditional sentence in Quebec, the paper brings to light three separate processes (the convert, the repentant and the rescued) that contribute to stopping criminal behavior.
Keywords: désistement du crime, emprisonnement avec sursis, changements identitaires, réalisme critique, desistance from crime, identity, critical realism, conditional sentence, house arrest
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AbstractThe guiding question in the present study is the following : how is it possible to understand the necessity of a pedagogical endeavour in order to reach the intelligible in the Republic, whereas in the Phaedo the soul reaches the Idea without the help of a master ? Those two epistemological approaches, respectively political and moral, are contradictory in appearance only, for it is always a philosophical nature who, whether there be an educational program or not, can have an intuition of the Idea in a solitary experience. While the role of education in the Republic is to identify such a nature, to preserve it from political corruption (though never from a corruption of the eye), to make it owe an involvement in public affairs and to facilitate the eidetic conversion of its eye, philosophy — or dialectics — remain, in the two dialogues, a personal and solitary venture.
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AbstractThis article reports on an experiment in which German students of French translated a German text into French using a thinking-aloud protocol. The goal of the experiment was to collect data on the translation process as it actually occurs. Using a set of previously determined parameters, the authors analyze the data. Their findings are seen as contributing to a theory of the translation process itself and whose objective is translation not as it should take place, but as it actually takes place.
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When European missionaries first entered Asia and the New World, they largely transposed to their new contexts European catechisms that assumed the intellectual passivity of the catechumen. The Jesuits, however, soon realized that such textual models would not be appropriate in East Asia which boasted its own sophisticated philosophical traditions. This article explores how Michele Ruggieri (1543–1607) deploys and adapts in his pioneering Chinese catechism, Tianzhu shilu 天主實錄 (The true record of the Lord of Heaven, 1584), innovations in the catechism genre that Jesuit missionaries had originally developed for Japan. By comparing Ruggieri’s arguments for the existence of God with those found in the Catechismus christianae fidei (Catechism of the Christian faith, 1586) composed by Alessandro Valignano (1539–1606) for the Japan mission, this article shows that Ruggieri lays the groundwork for a transcultural natural theology that de-emphasizes metaphysics in favour of arguments derived from a shared ethical understanding and political analogies.