Some notion of a moral reason along these lines is common place. However, the definition here used was first put forward only recently by John Broome.1 The idea that the notion of a conclusive moral reason is b
so that the United States can look good in the eyes of the world.' But I don't think Americans really understand. [The Iranians] began showing me official US classified documents. I realized that the US has been doing things there that these people didn't like. It makes you see that...
The enteric nervous system (ENS) is an independent “brain-in-the-gut” that integrates gastrointestinal motility, secretion, and blood flow into homeostatic patterns of gut behavior that have susceptibility to becoming clinically disordered. Heuristic models for the ENS are the same as for all inde...
aIn two experiments, one conducted in-person and the other online, participants were primed to consider a belief in either moral realism (the notion that morals are like facts) or moral antirealism (the belief that morals reflect people's preferences) during a solicitation for a charitable donat...
If there is an “invention” here, it is not the sacrament of penance, but the notion that the sacramental forgiveness of sins is not to be found in the Bible or in early Christian history. NIHIL OBSTAT: I have concluded that the materials presented in this work are free of doctrinal ...
It suggested the notion of governing as an activity which sprang from a ‘natural’ authority of a ‘natural’ head: patriarchalism.)奥克肖特指出,罗马政治从根本上是家族政治,罗马政治中真正的派系是“家族联系”而非平贵斗争,这与古希腊明确拒绝家族或家庭的类比理解城邦有别(it may be said that Roman...
that pursuit by establishing agreed-upon, neutral rules. Of course those rules have for Rawls a moral character, so his conception is not a purely instrumental one; there should be moral limits imposed on the search for self-interest. But between the "reasonable" and the "rational" there is...
Footnote 10 As we will see there are objections to the notion that someone else can accurately gauge what a citizen values and how that trades off for compensation. Further, there are bargaining problems because the citizen might be better off but hoping to “hold up” the process by ...
I have NO idea where the notion that “Ronald Reagan fired the air traffic controllers” got started — because he sure did NOT fire anyone. As civil servants he couldn’t. They fired themselves by violating Federal law. They’d signed a no-strike clause in their union contract, to boot...
this study refutes the widely accepted notion that the 1763 version of the painting had “quality flaws”. The research reveals that beneath the artistic conflict lay the political intrigues for leadership in the art world, the social tensions behind the opposing aesthetic camps, and the conflict...