...on. He is besieged by recurrent depression bouts, hypochondria and an overpowering sense of alienation and drift. He is bored with his own life and... ... to contemplate, let alone comprehend. Psychopaths are inhuman in the most profound sense of this compounded word. Their emotions and conscience ha... ...y lesser films have all tried to tackle this (un)fortunate state of things and its moral and practical implications. The blurring line between li... ...ing to various dramatic or anti-climactic events in Truman's life. That we are the moral equivalent of these viewers- voyeurs, accomplices to the sa... .... We know the truth about Truman and so do they. Of course, we are in a privileged moral position because we know it is a movie and they know it is... ...cted for Truman – is choice-free and dilemma-free. Truman is programmed not in the sense that his spontaneity is extinguished. Truman is wrong when... ...possible where the laws of nature are different. This is the same tired regularity theory in a more exotic guise. They are all descendants of Hume'... ...rld. It mainly arises when we introduce intentional action and perception into the theory of causation. Let us revert to the much- maligned owner of... ... property, planning, wealth and capital. Mental inequalities lead to innovation and theory. Knowledge differentials are at the heart of educational ...

Moral deliberations and philosophical dimensions in thirteen modern films.

...NCES 290 INDEX 312 ABOUT THE AUTHORS 316 5 Preface Fuzzy theory is one of the best tools to analyze data, when the data under s... ...pervised one, involving uncertainty coupled with imprecision. However, fuzzy theory cannot cater to analyzing the data involved with indeterminacy.... ...l women in Tamil Nadu. Chapter 2 is an analysis of the situation using fuzzy theory in general and Fuzzy Relational Maps (FRM) in particular. The F... ...synapse. We do not identify learning with change in a neuron, though in some sense a changed neuron has learned its new state. Synapses change more... ...d from failing to passing, and has stayed that way for some time. In the same sense we can say that the artists canvas learns the pattern of paints ... ... changed religion and developed faith in god after the disease. R 7 - No moral responsibility on the part of husbands and they infect their wiv... ...r logic happens to be correct and the real problem is with us are the failed moralities of our spiritual leaders. R 8 – Men have no responsibi... ... of a NRM we need a domain space and a range space which are disjoint in the sense of concepts. We further assume no intermediate relations exist w... ... accept it. Finally she advises that one should lead a self- controlled and moral life. She had learnt about condoms at the age of 20 from the rad...

...Fuzzy theory is one of the best tools to analyze data, when the data under study is an unsupervised one, involving uncertainty coupled with imprecision. However, fuzzy theory cannot cater to analyzing the data involved with indete...

...ow Short-shorts and short stories M’tisunge Michael Phoya M.M. Phoya asserts the moral right to be id... ...He’d lay the sack and sit on it before taking out his breakfast from his bag, all the while mumbling words that didn’t make much sense. Soon after b... ... at the time on the wall, directly above Maggie’s head. It was 9:45. She was about to put her head back into her hands when she sensed someone looki... ...they brand me mad beyond reasonable doubt. They even put it down on paper that I passed the madness test. They say all my right senses are destroyed... ...sappears up the stairs. He checks into the drawers for any books on communication. He has an important paper on communication theory due in two da...

...h consciousness. Still, numerous anecdotes recounted by eyewitnesses support the theory that consciousness survives in the first 2-6 seconds and ... ...South Africa because he couldn't find work in India. He was a poor lawyer, in both senses of the word. He suffered from stage fright. The "Ency... ...found belonged to female adults. Gein quickly became a cult figure and the butt of moralizing folk tales and "Geiners", macabre jokes. His farm and... ...n Vladimirovich Michurin (1855-1935) and his brand of Lamarckism - a pre-Darwinian theory of evolution of the species proposed in the French scient... ...t. A species with long necks was born. The Soviet leadership sought an indigenous theory to counter the "capitalistic" works of Mendel and Charles... ... http://species.fws.gov/bio_salm.html http://www.psc.org/Pubs/Frp98-webb.pdf Senses Scientifically speaking, onions, apples and potatoes sh... ...s" are, therefore, actually, the way we experience their smells. In humans, the senses of taste and smell are connected. That is why we fail to ... ...r future, are not constrained by any behavioural consistency, 'rules' of conduct or moral considerations. You signal to a narcissist that you are a ...

...roduce Joy. Do you really think that people can deceive themselves in this sense, as to whether or not they are experiencing Joy? COMMENT: I don’t... ... capable of loving others and of entering into relation with them; in this sense I agree with what you’re saying. These two abilities, which I just ... ...quickly get used to this novelty, and so we no longer perceive it. In this sense, happiness can not be a state of being. We feel Joy, instead, w... ...ourselves die, it requires that we go through physical, or psychological or moral pain, who will want to attain this type of joy, since the psyche re... ...e can experience pleasure in writing poetry, or developing a philosophical theory, or remembering a pleasurable experience in the past. But, as we s... ...t exists. What is the dramatic shock that happens when I present to you my theory of the SELF? You may answer: what is this SELF? Who has ever actua... ...hate the people themselves; he hated the evil that was within them. In my theory, I affirm that it is also necessary to learn how to hate. I also af... ...lso learn to love ourselves more completely. This has nothing to do with a moral duty, but rather with an adherence to the laws of life. 84 CHA...

... The author of this paper is convinced that the Platonic theory of ″reminiscence″ is not a mere speculation, and the meaning of the... ...philosophy is in fact the expression of a natural phenomenon which in the sense of the MESER concept is called revelation. This belief comes from th... ... a testimonial deed in the Socratic assertion on ″the identity between the moral and the rational″. Referring to the identification between the mora... ...anase Joja notes in the ″History of the ancient thought″: <The rational is moral, since by its essence it is an order (cosmos), while the moral is ra... ...on for cataloguing this method as a syncretic one, taken in its pejorative sense. In respect to such an approach, the theologian Marin Stefånescu sta... ...r optimistic- poised approaches. Related to the novel character of a new theory, the physicist Niels Bohr said: <For a theory to be true, it shoul... ...″internal perfection and external confirmation″ should be selected>. This theory assumes scientific responsibility for its assertions and tries to fu... ...with those scientific knowledge that divert from the rules of the natural morals*. It is not moral, for example, that genetic engineering go as far ... ...ave stated that: <We must avoid mistakes not out of fear, but through the sense of duty>. (During the summer of 1998, the Romanian broadcasing compa...

...s obvious in itself, through the angle of reason?. The Cartesian thesis has a testimonial deed in the Socratic assertion on ?the identity between the moral and the rational?....

...They experience no dis-ease, they report no symptoms, no signs are evident. On what moral grounds can we commit them to treatment? On the grounds o... ...wise neutered. The threat inherent in them must be eradicated. This is a dangerous moral precedent. All kinds of people threaten our well-being: u... ...icians. Why should we single out our physical well-being as worthy of a privileged moral status? Why is our mental well being, for instance, of les... ...on etcetera etcetera – well you may take my word that nine parts in ten of a man's sense or his nonsense, his successes and miscarriages in this wo... ...it unacceptable if the experiments meet the criteria of the scientific method. The theory must be all-inclusive (anamnetic), consistent, falsifiabl... ...tributes - may be irrational. But it does not constitute insanity in the strictest sense because it conforms to social and cultural creeds and cod... ...oven that Turing Machines are a private instance of a general, much stronger, class theory (a-la Principia Mathematica). The integration of hardware... ...revealing, insightful, aesthetic, and parsimonious - in short, it must constitute a theory and produce falsifiable predictions. A metaphor is also s... ...l tactics and the characteristics of animals, for instance), the satisfaction of a sense of order (justice), the development of the ability to hypo...

...a wider context of experience to put your understanding into. What is the Sense of Wonder? The Sense of Wonder blends all the Basic Elements of... ... Wonder blends all the Basic Elements of Understanding together. Without the Sense of Wonder: we could never gain a better, more cohesive understan... ...e could never gain a better, more cohesive understanding about anything. The Sense of Wonder is an expansion or contraction of awareness. Any expa... ... in size. The largeness of the Universe is Actually Infinite. This is not a theory or a supposition. This is a fact. Not only that… the smallness... ...light behaves. Light goes around objects directly in its path naturally. No theory of gravitational pull is needed to explain this phenomenon. To... ... The Universe 26 Not only that, but Einstein’s attempt to scrap his entire Theory of General Relativity by introducing what he called a ‘Cosmolog... ... Human society is still a mushed stew of Lion-Hyena- Wild-Dog-Cheetah values, morals, ethics, and lifestyle. We have not changed how we live for mil... ... frozen. It accumulates. All cultural shame or taboo, all cultural mores and morals are designed to ensure both private and public conformity. The... ... But 7 billion human bent on robbery, all stealing from each other… becomes a moral catastrophe and an ethical atrocity… an inhuman social insanity ...

... to not demand change. Politics are based on prices of these subsidizes, and “moral” issues rather then ideaology ... ... into them. 17 Legalizing the “Immoral” Morals depend on the individual, but deeply Conservative Countries that... ...are hurt during the current economic crisis, may find, that the cost of high “morals” may be sacrificed to kick start ailing economies. Empty poc... ...now stagnant economies of the West. Simply because outsourcing makes economic sense, and the only negative reaction towards outsourcing is that the ... ...expectations and raises the imagination of a nation. Often they have an acute sense of history, and are part of the Nations image. However often t... ... the tremendous number of things we see, hear, feel, and otherwise constantly sense. Managing this is difficult, particularly inside larger multi- c... ...d, needs. And chances are, they themselves may have something you need. So in theory, exchanging goods for the equivalent value of another, does not...

...e name given to the Church of England in the United States) left me with a sense of coldness, making me feel a total outsider watching a stage play wi... ... of them is still not complete. I was already familiar with Plato. I could sense that he had come upon an insight which has its origins in something f... ...was right. 1 1. Socrates is reported by Plato as claiming that at times he sensed a supernatural voice within himself forbidding him to undertake some... ...ears later did a scientist in the West propose a different explanation—the theory of genetics. (Even so, many intelligent thinkers in the East believe... ...than in most religious traditions. In his remarkable application of Jung’s theory of psychological types to the classification of religions, Toynbee s... ... carefully worded and made into creeds. In Toynbee’s application of Jung’s theory of psy- chological types, Christianity is defined as an extroverted,... ...nd mind are im- portant. Along with these go a careful observance of basic morality including: no killing—either of people or of animals— truthfulness... ...st. Jesus was sinless, this was taken as axiomatic. Generally speaking the moral rules as taught by Judaism were taken for granted as necessary for an... ...le life, but the Jewish rituals and prayers were not. The Jewish system of morality along with belief and faith in Jesus Christ’s execution and resurr...

...hor X. About "After the Rain" Terrorists and Freedom Fighters "'Unbounded' morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of t... ... the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality." Thomas Sowell There's a story about Robespierre tha... ...ry elements of society. Relegated to the fringes by the inexorable march of common sense, the freedom fighters naturally gravitate towards like min... ... from access to the sea. It had another cause for paranoid delusions and deepening sense of victimization at the hands of vast conspiracies. Relega... ...roat and the Romanian - shared a virulent type of anti-Semitism and the constipated morality of the ascetic and the fanatic - Codreanu's was more am... ...r series of events, or circumstances, which threaten the self identity, self image, sense of self worth, and self esteem of the collective consisten... ...C. Fred Alford (in "Narcissism: Socrates, the Frankfurt School, and Psychoanalytic Theory", Yale University Press, 1988) enumerates the symptoms: ... ...it unacceptable if the experiments meet the criteria of the scientific method. The theory must be all-inclusive (anamnetic), consistent, falsifiabl... ...ucation I, along with millions of my fellow students, had to study Marxist-Leninist theory and even had to pass exams in the knowledge of "the only ...

...ople who wield power and authority speaks volumes for the degradations of our moral structure and civilized standards.” Ex-President of India, th... ... untouchability and the caste-system of Hinduism using Fuzzy and Neutrosophic theory. In studying untouchability, we have chosen to view it throug... ...te is based on the 8 mind, it is appropriate to use Fuzzy and Neutrosophic theory. In Chapter Two we use the opinion of several experts to anal... ...that gives the hidden pattern of the situation. As we have a very well known theory, which states that the strength of the data depends on, the num... ...e FCMs to produce a new FCM. The strong law of large numbers ensures in some sense that, knowledge reliability increases with expert sample size. ... ...ine a FRM we need a domain space and a range space which are disjoint in the sense of concepts. We further assume no intermediate relation exists w... ...g of a NRM we need a domain space and a range space which are disjoint in the sense of concepts. We further assume no intermediate relations exist w... ...y, deduces: "Without knowledge, intelligence was lost, without intelligence, morality was lost and without morality was lost all dynamism! Without ... ... throne or crown. Today’s need is only democratic rule. Whoever is an honest moral humanitarian can wield power. The Indian subcontinent is 3000 m...

...os that secures the keys to those locks among groups with shared norms and a sense of public purpose, rather than in the hands of a single gatekeeping... ...the Internet’s architects were academics, amateurs like T om Jennings in the sense that they undertook their work for the innate in- terest of it, but... ...dertook their work for the innate in- terest of it, but professionals in the sense that they could devote themselves full time to its development. The... ...ativity, but it lacks accessibility. 11 The Generative Pattern 77 Affordance Theory Fields such as psychology, industrial design, and human-computer i... ...ble options are as obvious and inviting as possible to the intended users. A theory of affordances can also be used to predict what various people migh... ...he damage that they can inadvertently do. Yet unlike generativity, affordance theory does not focus much on systemic output. Instead, it takes one obje... ... move the boundaries of liberty along all three vectors of liberal political morality. They enable democratic discourse to flow among constituents, rat... ...Jean-Luc Piotraut, An Authors ’ Rights–Based Copyright Law: The Fairness and Morality of French and American Law Compared, 24 C A  E. L.J.... ...ployment of trusted systems. See Dan Burk & Tarleton Gillespie, Autonomy and Morality in DRM and Anti-Circumvention Law, 4 C 239 (2006) (“State ...

...form and with the relationship between matter and form as perceived by our senses, such as sight, hearing, taste and touch. 7 Secondary beauty is... ...y connected to form. To the contrary, it transcends both form and external sense perception, and it leads individuals directly to the very special e... ...p of and that keeps it alive. This contact does not come about through the senses, but rather through the vibrations that this beauty emanates, and ... ...s lies in its affirmation of the existence of the Personal SELF (see A.M. “Theory of the Person and Existential Personalistic Anthropology”). This s... ...out, however, demanding that this happens overnight. I believe that the moral perfection the great religions proposed is only one step in human e... ...izations that have come and gone one after another, we know that: 44 - moral perfection alone brings absolutism and intolerance along with it, an... ...istic perfection, and religions, in both the East and the West, search for moral perfection. However, we still have not yet completely understood wh... ...*** It is not easy to embrace Sophia-Art. It does not require learning a theory, it means applying it to daily life. Some ways we can do so are as... ...LOGIA PERSONALISTICA ** Ed. Sophia University of Rome (S.U.R.), Rome 1991 THEORY OF THE PERSON AND EXISTENTIAL PERSONALISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY Publishe...

...he Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to life. The e... ... often and easily confuse rights and their attendant duties or obligations with the morally decent, or even with the morally permissible. What one M... ...result of another's right - should never be confused with one SHOULD or OUGHT to do morally (in the absence of a right). The right to life has eigh... ...anctity of Human Life" by Baruch A. Brody). One form of calculus is the utilitarian theory. It calls for the maximization of utility (life, happines... ...es. Despite strong philosophical objections to some of the premises of utilitarian theory - I agree with its practical prescriptions. In this cont... ...hese implicit agreements: the embryo. To start with, it lacks consciousness (in the sense that is needed for signing an enforceable and valid contra... ...or falsified. Attaining an achievement involves the construction of an ad-hoc mini theory. Reality has to be thoroughly surveyed, models constructe... ...y are, indeed, the outcomes of interactions with others - but not in the immediate sense, as the personalist philosopher Emmanuel Levinas suggested... ...y of most nation-states is exclusionary and oppositional: to generate solidarity, a sense of shared community, and consensus, an ill-defined "we" is...

...e Friendly Trend V. The Merits of Inflation VI. The Benefits of Oligopolies VII. Moral Hazard and the Survival Value of Risk VIII. The Business... ...t XIX. Scavenger Economies, Predator Economies XX. Notes on the Economics of Game Theory XXI. Knowledge and Power XXII. Market Impeders and Mark... ...ruists XXXVI. The Wages of Science XXXVII. The Lessons of Transition XXXVIII. The Morality of Child Labor XXXIX. Law and Technology XL. The Autho... ...isguise its nature as a social science by applying complex mathematics where common sense and direct experimentation would have yielded far better r... ... far better results. The outcome has been an embarrassing divorce between economic theory and its subjects. The economic actor is assumed to be con... ...f-interest" as the pursuit of the fulfillment of preferences is a tautology. The theory fails to predict important phenomena such as "strong reci... ...es" good for? Economic "theories" and narratives offer an organizing principle, a sense of order, predictability, and justice. They postulate an ... ... justice administered by some supreme, transcendental principle is restored. This sense of "law and order" is further enhanced when the theory yie... ...ipants, regardless of the hubris of some, or the paranoia of others. Return Moral Hazard and the Survival Value of Risk By: Dr. Sam Vaknin...

...7 PREFACE The objective of this work is to investigate meeting grounds where the theory and practice of marketing overlap with processes of dissem... ...rigorous … (but) specialized and narrow" (p. 60). This book attempts to bridge the theory /practice gap, first by postulating concepts such as a pre... ...upon which their wishes 11 safely can be carried out. That at any rate is the theory of our constitution. (Oliver Wendell Holmes [ 1919) in Abr... ... in which the perplexity occurs, calls up something not (otherwise) present to the senses.” This "something" is only a suggestion, a suggested solut... ...o as to stress simplicity, independence of technology and conservation in a larger sense (Millstein, in Lovelock and Weinberg 1978, p. 287). 1... ...mists assume that individuals seek an "optimal bundle" of products, optimal in the sense of utility maximization and that preferences are based on re... ...imarily for mutual satisfaction and amusement rather than to convince someone of a moral position or to probe for news or confirmation of news (p. 1... ...rsonality and Social Psychology 34, 874-84. Phelps, Edmund S., ed. 1975. Altruism, Morality and Economic Theory. New York: Basic Books (distributor ...

...t XVI. The Distributive Justice of the Market XVII. Notes on the Economics of Game Theory XVIII. The Spectrum of Auctions XIX. Distributions to Pa... ...VIII. The Spectrum of Auctions XIX. Distributions to Partners and Shareholders XX. Moral Hazard and the Survival Value of Risk XXI. The Agent-Princ... ...rincipal Conundrum XXII. Trading in Sovereign Promises XXIII. Portfolio Management Theory XXIV. Going Bankrupt in the World XXV. The Author Intr... ...ent skills, marketing techniques, intellectual property, clientele and a vision, a sense of direction. In many cases, the strategic investor also ... ...lient, distributor, or supplier. 2. To constantly monitor and analyse the payment morale, regularity, non-payment and non- performance events, etc.... ...hough not necessarily realized. But the amount of new money is finite and, in this sense, this kind of market is essentially a "closed" one. When ... ...often bewildering marketplace. As opposed to the assumptions underlying the classic theory of portfolio analysis - investors do remember past prices... ...king, golden shares do not seem to deter foreign investors. They may even create a moral hazard, causing investors to believe that they are partner... ...n economics. Players assume that their counterparts maintain a realistic and stable sense of self- worth based on intimate knowledge of their own str...

...m—and you?” “I can’t answer you, Atthis. Time answers such questions.” I sense my old loneliness, a loneliness that was distorted like a ship’s rib,... ...ers bare, wearing gold sandals. As the evening wore on, the old familiar sense of freedom returned. Restraint dropped away. Voices and laughter inc... ...isdom. His reddish whiskers and black brows gave him a comic look. But he sensed his pro- fundity, as he guided me about Corinth and sat beside me at... ... the system. Why was I slow in grasping the obvious? I have explained my theory to some but was often rebuffed and yet when I told her—using my dra... ...ns more than most, helping them infest this town, making it a sawtooth of moral crud, chair and whip in line, summoning whispered inquisitions. Mo... ...etary recorded our speeches. As the summer wore on, I began to stress the moral issues with great empha- sis. I had little hope that I would win the ... ... and that I first heard from the lips of my mother, are settled and fixed moral precepts with me. I have concluded to dis- miss from my mind the deba...

...nia. This innocuous model subversively undermines the concept - legal and moral - of ownership. It also expropriates the book from the realm of pass... ...here is so overwhelming that the plagiarist develops a (fairly justified) sense of immunity. The temptation is irresistible, the rewards big and the... ...ged, a mostly altruist endeavour. This also happens to make good business sense by educating and conditioning a future generation of users. He who v... ...is case be more readily tolerated as a marginal phenomenon. This is the theory. But the facts are tellingly different. The less the cost of product... ...e-off favouring small, elite, select, rich world clientele. This raises a moral issue : are the children of Macedonia less worthy of education and ac... ..., and universities that don't yet participate in self- archiving. In this sense the BOAI is not just a statement of principles or ideals, but a serio... ...is not the main function of the advertising dollar. Modern economic signal theory has cast advertising in a new and surprising - though by no means c... ...prising - though by no means counterintuitive - light. According to this theory, the role of advertising is to signal to the marketplace the adverti... ...rt" dollar invested in employees results in increased performance, higher morale, less turnover and absenteeism and an overall increase in the growth...