A PRÁTICA DA LIBERDADE NO ESTADO MODERNO NAS CONCEPÇÕES DE JOHN LOCKE E JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

Um Estudo de Campo sobre o Estado da Prática da Elicitação de Requisitos em Sistemas Embarcados

Embedded Systems have a very important role in the modern life. We use them in our home, work, transportation, medical procedures, leisure time and so on. Despite of its great importance to our lives this kind of system steel lake a better process to improve the quality of its software. In this paper we present the results from a field research that focused the state of the practice of the embe...

Hospitais E Programas De Qualidade No Estado De São Paulo

The Health Administration field understands and deals with quality issues in a way that differs from what is seen in the industry. This article presents a survey done in a sample of 159 hospitals in São Paulo state during the second semester 1999 regarding the implementation of quality initiatives. The sample had public, philanthropic, non-philanthropic and university hospitals. Among 97 hospit...

Do Discurso a Prática: O Papel da Dimensão Social no Processo de Alinhamento Estratégico

The Problem of Evil in the Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Throughout all of Rousseau’s works there is tension between reason and conscience. Reason binds men when they think correctly, but divides them when they place it at the service of self-interest. Conversely, the universality of conscience is immediate and transparent: it transmits the truth of the existence of God and of the universal principles that underlie human action, despite the differenc...

Logos and Ethos: The Civil Religion in the Political Philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

This article explores the concept of civil religion from the perspective of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. It starts with a discussion of the essence of sovereignty as the implementation of general will, which, the author explains, is manifested in the obedience of the laws. The article then discusses the way in which, in Rousseau’s view, institutional mechanisms work and thereupon explores how he envi...