From prohibition to toleration: Japanese government views regarding Christianity, 1854–73

Christianity views fetal research.

Education and Churchgoing Protestants' Views of Highly Politicized Christianity

On Certain Views Regarding Fever in India

important details embraced in that inquiry. In the meantime this very serious statement is officially made, namely, that "of late years the proportionate fever mortality has increased nearly a fourth, and the proportion of fatal cases entered as ' enteric' fever to all other fevers has quadrupled". It accordingly appears to me that further investigation may be facilitated and helped on by means...

From Electronic Government to Information Government

Information is the foundation of all governing. Information guides decisions and processes large and small—from matters of war and peace to garbage collection. The last decade has witnessed unprecedented attention to the machinery of information in government—often categorized as ‘‘electronic government.’’ Information and communication technologies have been touted as the cure for everything fr...

Bayle's Theory of Toleration

This paper gives an overview of Pierre Bayle’s theory of toleration and derives a normative principle of toleration from it that is meant to compete with other normative principles of toleration such as the Harm principle. INDEX WORDS: Political philosophy, Social philosophy, toleration, religion, Christianity, justice, legitimacy, stability, John Locke, Pierre Bayle, Baruch Spinoza, Harm princ...