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    Plato's teaching method in its historic context
    Askew, Anne G (University of Melbourne, 1966)
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    Free play : a study of one characteristic of our response to beauty through the aesthetics of Kant and Schiller
    Wetherell, R. F ( 1967)
    Our pleasure in beautiful things is both invigorating and relaxing. It is invigorating because we learn something new, that a certain form exists in nature, or may be imposed upon it by man. This is not learnt as a piece of information - it is an experience which moves us one step further in our search for order In the chaos of our experience. Intellectual pleasure arises from the discovery of order, too, either through dividing our experience into segments, or through putting them back together again. But the discovery of intellectual order may bring us no closer towards realising how physical and mental characteristics are united in the human personality. Now pleasure in beautiful things is neither purely intellectual nor purely physical. Beautiful thoughts are rare, and beautiful touches do not exist. I want to show how an experience of beauty is a model for, and a foretaste of, a more ultimate synthesis between the mind and the physical world. Pleasure in beautiful things is also relaxing, because it allows us to enjoy being ourselves. For the time being, we do not worry about achieving anything, or learning anything. Some experiences of beauty make great demands on our powers of comprehension, but somehow this is relaxing rather than exhausting. There is pleasure in the very exercise of these powers in appreciating beauty, arid, moreover, we cannot be forced into it. It is the pleasure of freedom, through which a fuller self-realisation is possible, because we are not tied to a particular task. This experience is best characterised as one of free play, as opposed to work and other serious occupations. Freedom here is not to be confused with the more solemn freedom of the moral sphere. Nevertheless, because the pleasure of free play, like moral feeling, may be communicated to others and even required of them, a study of free play is illuminating for our understanding of moral freedom. This essay aims at following these ideas through the two books which first gave the currency. They are Kant's Critique of Judgement and Schiller's letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man.
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    The men called 'Sophists'
    Wesson, A ( 1967)
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    Karl Barth and the concept of analogy
    Weeks, Ian Gerald ( 1967)
    A philosophical examination of the use of the concept of analogy in the theology of Karl Barth - with particular reference to some of the problems in explaining religious knowledge and language.
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    The Jansenist conflict
    Elliott, Peter J ( 1967)
    "Pascal was a Jansenist.", "Port-Royal was a Jansenist convent.". These facts are known quite widely. They may arise in conversatlon, often baffling all present, or appear as passing comments, in some lecture or general work of history or literature. But what was Jansenism? Who were the Jansenists? My own approach to Jansenism began at this level of honest curiosity, and the initial investigation soon destroyed my own preconception of Jansenism as merely a strict, form of Catholic life. I discovered that these Jansenists lived and died as members of the Catholic Church, and that most of them lived in union with the Holy See. However, at the same time Jansenists were involved in a bitter conflict with the authority of both Church and State, a conflict which spanned the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, a struggle, in which not one drop of Jansenist blood was shed. At this stage, my investigation into Jansenism became The Jansenist Conflict. Having settled, for the most part, the turmoil, of my own "Jansenist conflict", I wish to thank Mrs Anne Patrick of the Department of History in the University of Melbourne, and M. Antoine Denat of the Department of French Language and Literature in the University of Melbourne. Without their guidance, advice and concern, this work would have been impossible. Looking through the bibliography, I see a debt of gratitude to the Librarians and their assistants of the Baillieu Library in the University of Melbourne, the Leeper Library in Trinity College Melbourne, the Fisher Library in the University of Sydney, and Saint Mark's Library and the Australian National Library in Canberra. With regard to sources, I also thank Mr Peter Tronson of East Melbourne for providing me with a rare edition of the letters of his illustrious ancestor, M. Louis Tronson of Saint-Sulpice. Finally, I thank Rev. Dr Marry Marshall O.G.S. for his help with rare source material during his own research at the Institut Catholique in Paris. I also than him for setting me on the path which led to The Jansenist Conflict.
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