At around 11 pm, someone on CNN felt the need to ask some guest in the airline industry who had nothing substantive to say, “What would you tell anyone watching who fears for her life and those of her loved ones in future flights as a result of this tragedy?” The guest blathered ...
Propositions about a sex do not become false or true by the device of insisting upon a new definition of man, of woman, of sex, or of gender. Tags: gender, sex, transgenderism, transsexualism, transsexuality Posted in commentary, communication, disturbing the peace, epistemology, ethics, ...
Joseph Stalin(1878-1953): The dictator of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953. Stalin was responsible for the deaths of millions of his own people, including through purges, executions, and forced labor. Mao Zedong(1893-1976): The leader of the Chinese Communist Party and Chairman of the Pe...
The definition of “government official” is broad and can vary depending on the applicable law. In general, a “government official” is any government officer, employee or consultant, candidate for public office, or employee of government owned or controlled companies, publicly operated or funded...
アThe first source of worry is individualism (where people have a right to choose for themselves their own pattern of life, to decide in conscience what convictions to espouse, to determine the shape of their lives in a whole host of ways that their ancestors couldn't control [In principle...
It is possible to apply the definition of care according to Berenice Fisher and Joan Tronto and its consequences in the moral sphere. Deborah Fingfeld-Connett elaborated her own concept of nursing care, which is not based on abstract definitions or concepts, but it is a "meta-synthesis" of...
and also bolstered the opinion of the court that Section 3 of DOMA, which narrowed the definition of “marriage” in the United States Code to mean only a union between a man and a woman, violated the Fifth Amendment (an opinion propitiously released on the tenth anniversary of Texas v....
An appreciation of the emphasis on flexibility in the Analects is one of the most consistent motifs in the various interpretations of this text. When applied specifically to normative readings, embracing adaptability, having malleable standards, and taki
The argument itself is simple enough: it consists of taking any proposed definition of good and turning it into a question. For instance, if the proposed definition is “Good means whatever leads to the greatest happiness of the greatest number,” then Moore would ask: “Is whatever leads...
Given the prominence of ‘value’ itself within the DfV tradition and VSD in particular, the definition of values is of singular importance. However, Friedman never gives a full account for what ‘value’ consists of or in. Instead, the authors opt for a more general account of value that ...