...he Persians. Two volumes represent Islam, and six the two main indigenous systems of China, Confucian­ ism and Taoism. This great undertaking, planne... ...h the works translated by them belong. By thus rendering these religious systems accessible as a whole to the Western world in authorita­ tive trans... ...ations, Professor Max Muller for the first time placed the historical and comparative study of religions on a solid foundation. But with that large ... ...­ culated to stimulate both the historical investigation of each, and the comparative study of all, of the religious systems dealt with in the serie... ...investigation of each, and the comparative study of all, of the religious systems dealt with in the series. Hence if I were asked to select any one... ...or the Antiquarian-the student of ancient law, customs, manners, art, and economic life. For there is hardly any phase of human life that is not in ...

...nd there cannot, therefore, be a universal, or eternal hierarchy. In Western moral systems, the Right to Life supersedes all other rights (includin... ...s are all such cases. This could be argued against by saying that, in the case of economic hardship, f or instance, the damage to the mother's fut... ... Problem In the catechism of capitalism, shares represent the part- ownership of an economic enterprise, usually a firm. The value of shares is dete... ...n of the "Principal-Agent Problem". It is defined thus by the Oxford Dictionary of Economics: "The problem of how a person A can motivate person B ... ...said subversion. The logical outcome is to call for the overthrow of all political systems, as Michael Bakunin suggested. Governments should theref... ...y to communicate (manipulate vocal-verbal-written symbols within structured symbol systems). Yet, we ignore the fact that using the same symbols do... ...ces of survival at any given gauging moment. It is through its role as a universal comparative scale - that it came to acquire the might that it po...

...odern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

...Chapter 6. Colleagues in the business school—particularly Jim Anton, a great economic modeler and greater volleyball partner, and Wes Cohen, a leading... ... These questions may be hard, because the underlying moral and political and economic issues need to be thought through. They may be weird; alien scri... ...important to pause at this point and inquire how closely reality hews to the economic story of “nonexcludable” and “nonrival” public goods. It turns o... ...ent in the case of books, is commercially unavailable. 6 The process happens comparatively quickly. Estimates suggest that a mere twenty- eight years ... ...nt copyright law regime, it largely holds for their patent and trademark law systems, and utilitarian strands suffuse even “the sacred rights of autho... ... of other countries, including Britain, concluded that their national patent systems were doomed. Various proposals were made to replace patents, with... ...nstitute any kind of survey of crit- ical reactions to intellectual property systems, but I believe that nevertheless they give us some sense of typic... ...interesting that the First Amendment and concerns about free expression have comparatively little bite when applied to the DMCA, but antitrust and con... ...ngers than poorly understood interventions to produce some specific result in comparative ignorance of the processes we are employ- ing to do so. If th...

...Our music, our culture, our science, and our economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (...

...lligence, neural networks, evolutionary programming, neutrosophic dynamic systems, and quantum mechanics. Especially in quantum theory there i... ...nship, one searches Mathematics in connection with Psychology, Sociology, Economics, and Literature. 13 This is a foundation study of the NEU... ...the uninterpretable; - regards, from many different angles, old concepts, systems: showing that an idea, which is true in a given referential system... ...d to make war in the peaceful ideas; - measures the stability of unstable systems, and instability of stable systems. D) Methods of Neutrosophic S... ... of an idea is also determined by external (pro, contra, neuter) factors (Comparative Philosophy, as comparative literature). Between particul... ...erpretation - by using neutrosophic probability and statistics). In economics Keynes chose for the concept of "unstable equilibrium" (<The Gene... ...ry new theory always be exactly the reverse of the old one" [Mark Blaug, <Economics Theory in Retrospective>]. Neohegelians: Reconciliation of cont... ... culture does not differ much from the precedents - culture even repeats, comparatively to the science's exponential growth. Culture The ratio ., ...