American Theists

A Metaethical Option for Theists

John Hare has proposed “prescriptive realism” in an attempt to stake out a middle-ground position in the twentieth century Anglo-American debates concerning metaethics between substantive moral realists and antirealistexpressivists. The account is supposed to preserve both the normativity and objectivity of moral judgments. Hare defends a version of divine command theory. The proposal succeeds ...

Morality and the religious mind: why theists and nontheists differ.

Religions have come to be intimately tied to morality and much recent research has shown that theists and nontheists differ in their moral behavior and decision making along several dimensions. Here we discuss how these empirical trends can be explained by fundamental differences in group commitment, motivations for prosociality, cognitive styles, and meta-ethics. We conclude by elucidating key...

American Self-Identification: A Strategy of Maintenance

Oriental Rugs in the American Market

After the World War II was over, and due to the relative peace of mind, a population explosion occurred and baby boomers were born. This generation which is called “Generation X” entered the 80’s as the buyers of homes and consumers of furniture, bed, mattress and rugs. This was one of the reasons for huge increase in demand for Oriental rugs of the 80’s. In this short a...

American Decline in the Perspective of Democrats and Republicans: Otherization and Construction of American Identity in Election Speeches

American decline has received substantial attention from Iranian political and academic circles, with few analysts paying attention to the domestic debate on the concept. One of the overlooked aspects is the different ways that liberals and conservatives define and construct it. This difference is manifested in the perception of American identity and on the global role of the US, and intensifie...