Virtually every human society has some form ofmythto explain the origin of morality. In the Louvre in Paris there is a black Babylonian column with a relief showing the sungodShamash presenting the code of laws toHammurabi(died c. 1750bce), known as theCode of Hammurabi. TheHebrew Bible(Ol...
Virtually every human society has some form ofmythto explain the origin of morality. In the Louvre in Paris there is a black Babylonian column with a relief showing the sungodShamash presenting the code of laws toHammurabi(died c. 1750bce), known as theCode of Hammurabi. TheHebrew Bible(Ol...
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such as healthcare, education, unemployment or immigration, it is mind-boggling that de-funding a program involving only four high schools received so much attention that it needed to be anchored in the coalition contract. In
It is supremely ironic that Joe Biden’s most remembered quote as President will be this one, uttered as he his administration is going out not with a bang, but a whimper. (George Washington also had a famous quote acknowledging his successor: “I am fairly out and you fairly in! George...
penalties of the law. Such episodes seriously erode public trust in our legal system and power structure. The cliche is “No one is above the law,” but except for the case of indisputable bribery or violent felonies, elected officials are seldom prosecuted, and sometimes not even for those ...
Philosophy in general is sometimes characterized as consideration of the True, of the Good, and of the Beautiful. I don't know of a manga to which I'd point as a worthwhile meditation on the Beautiful, but I can point to one manga that has interesting ideas about the True, and another...
The installation, known as Deus in Machina, was launched in August as the latest initiative in a years-long collaboration with a local university research lab on immersive reality. After projects that had experimented with virtual and augmented reality, the church decided that the next step was ...
In 343 or 342 Aristotle was summoned by Philip II to the Macedonian capital at Pella to act as tutor to Philip’s 13-year-old son, the future Alexander the Great. Little is known of the content of Aristotle’s instruction; although theRhetoric to Alexanderwas included in the Aristotelian ...
Also known as: care ethics Written by Brian K. Burton Brian K. Burton is Dean of the College of Business and Economics at Western Washington University. He contributed an article on “Ethics of Care” to SAGE Publications’Encyclopedia of Business Ethics... ...