Category: Ethics; Religion; Philosophy
The Innovative Arrest Warrant Tracking System
There currently remain 152,148 warrants in the database of the Royal Thai Police (data as of 28 March, 2013, Royal …
Religion and Respeto: The Role and Value of Respect in Social Relations in Rural Oaxaca
This paper discusses the different ways that the notion of ‘respect’ (respeto) is used in common discourse in rural Oaxaca, …
To Mend the World: Trauma, Containment and Mourning
In his 1989 work, To Mend the World, Emil Fackenheim systematically confronts the questions he believes are posed to philosophy, …
Love, Suffering and Conflict: Some Lessons from Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents
In Civilization and its Discontents, Freud suggests that interpersonal relations constitute one of the three main sources of human suffering, …
NonStandard Ethics
Contemporary Ethics is, mathematically speaking, a field biweldered by its natural commutativity axiom, wherein any nonzero element is invertible. Not …
A Call for Positive Metaphysical Agnosticism: Creating a Synergistic Relationship between the Individual and the Community in the Religious Studies Classroom
The religious studies classroom has become an increasingly dynamic "place" over the last several decades, and this trend will continue …
System of World Coordinates on the Basis of Extreme Dynamic Equilibrium – Link between Natural and Artificial
Artificial formations are often created in arbitrary manner, but in complexity world it is very dangerous. All artificial formations must …
Role of Noobiogeocoenosis in Interaction of Artificial and Natural
The contradictions between artificial and natural reality lead to the ecological crisis. The biosphere is the object of natural planetary …
Industry’s Needs on Oral Communication Skills among Tourism Students in a Polytechnic
As a growing industry, tourism provides tremendous opportunity for students who enjoy working with people. It is important that the …
Existential Communication: Beyond Conflict
Some, if not all, of our most deeply held positions are not at all the
result of reasoned enquiry but …
A Synthesis of Researches Conducted by Personal of Sirindhorn College of Public Health Chonburi during 2009-2011
The purpose of this study was to analyze the situation of research conducted by personnel of Sirindhorn College of Public …
Design from Fiction to Reality: An Exploration into the Process of Design in Cosplay
Enthusiasts dressing up as anime characters and posing for photography have become a common sight in anime activities around Taiwan. …
Ethical Transformation of Individual Managers through Spirituality: A Sufi Perspective
Business ethics literature appears to focus more on philosophy and seems to have overlooked spirituality. Though spirituality has started to …
The Challenge of Assessment for the Community of Inquiry: Negotiating Individuals and Community
Philosophy has always grappled with the tension between the individual and the community. In the Philosophy for Children (P4C) movement …
Religion and Alienation: The Case of Catholic Poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope is known to be the first professional poet in England. At a time in which many still depended …
Freedom of Speech and Doctrine of Personal Privacy: A Comparative Law Analysis Originating from a South Korean Case
Following up on the ratification of the Free Trade Agreement among Republic of Korea and United States, a judge of …
Patients’ Perception of Their Patient Rghts as Compared to Compliance with such Patient Rights as Exhibited by Nurses when They Incorporate the Patient into the Bedside Teaching of Nursing Students
The purpose of this study was to study patients’ perception of their patient rights while concurrently observing how the actual …
Beyond Kolmogorov Philosophy
The Kolmogorov's probability philosophy is based on a set of axioms that can be extended to encompass the imaginary set …
Is Self-Defeating the Self-Fullfilling Prophecy of Judaism?
The challenge of the Re-Ligare and Connectedness ensemble surveys are also the interwoven and tangled form between other conceptual pairs, …
We Are Place; Place is Us
The way we see place is the way we see ourselves. Our thoughts, values and identities are shaped by how …
On Divine Omniscience and Human Freewill: An Analysis of Nelson Pike’s Argument of Incompatibilism
Nelson Pike's article entitled, "Divine Omniscience and Voluntary Action," proves that fatalism is unavoidable. Fatalism is the philosophical doctrine emphasizing …
Postmodern Identity Politics and the Social Tyranny of the Definable
The pervasive, almost irresistible privileging of what can be defined and specified and claim rights for itself in a democratic …
Ricoeur’s Dialectic of Distanciation and Appropriation in the Asynchronous, Online College Classroom
The digital age has brought about new dimensions of connectedness and alienation in the 21st century. New communication technologies and …
Communication Technology and the World Spirit
This paper aims to demonstrate how the global socio-cultural impact of the increasing interconnectedness of the world enabled by the …
The Quest for Spirituality: A Psychoanalytic Approach
The relationship between psychoanalysis and religion is often said to be antagonistic, as Freud famously claims that our religious beliefs …
Theses on Prolegomena to Ethics
Building the concrete ethics (or moral) always depends on the solution of the question of the existence. "Due" (better or …
An Explanation of Monk’s Marriage in Japan ―The Ideas of Shinran and a Comparison with M.Luther―
Buddhism is one of unique religions which prohibit having sex as its rule. Monks must uphold their precepts in which …
The Catholic Church and Abortion: An Examination of Immediate Animation and Hylomorphism
The Catholic Church currently maintains that abortion is immoral at any stage of gestation because the foetus is a person …
Musicians’ Enigma in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nocturnes
Global citizens in the highly competitive material world in the twenty-first century immerse themselves in an enigma, an enigma where …
The Thinking of Animation: Conflict of 3D and 2D
The computer game and cinematic movie are quite common recreational activities in recent people's lives, and computer technology in games …