The Ontology of Marriage
| atmire.migration.oldid | 2436 | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Goldstein, Joshua | |
| dc.contributor.author | Haase, Joshua | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-09-02T15:15:13Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-11-17T08:00:42Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-09-02 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2014 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis is a response to the lack of philosophical integrity in contemporary same-sex marriage legislation and jurisprudence, both for and against, in North America. Rather than being based on an account of the authentic ontology of marriage, these legalities are merely assimilated to external terrains of meaning. In the case of the expansion of the institution, the assimilation is to frameworks of rights, while the obstruction of this expansion is founded upon notions of tradition and the divine. As a solution, I undertake an examination of three varieties of political philosophy: liberalism, new natural law, and Hegelian idealism. And as will be shown, each account is an attempt to get at the same ontology: marriage as an instance of self-constitution. However, I will argue that Hegel’s formulation best fulfills the goal of marital self-constitution—encompassing form, substance, and participation—and, crucially, implies the possibility of same-sex marriage. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Haase, J. (2014). The Ontology of Marriage (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/28260 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/28260 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11023/1714 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Graduate Studies | |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Calgary | en |
| dc.publisher.place | Calgary | en |
| dc.rights | University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission. | |
| dc.subject | Philosophy | |
| dc.subject.classification | Political Philosophy | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | Ontology | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | Sexual Ethics | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | marriage | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | Same-sex Marriage | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | Self-Constitution | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | Liberalism | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | New Natural Law | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | Hegel | en_US |
| dc.title | The Ontology of Marriage | |
| dc.type | master thesis | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Political Science | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Calgary | |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Arts (MA) | |
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