Natural Right and Aristotle's Understanding of Justice

Behavioral ethics meets natural justice

Binmore’s Natural Justice offers an evolutionary approach to morality, in which moral rules form a cultural system that is robust and evolutionarily stable. The folk theorem is the analytical basis for his theory of justice. I argue that this is a mistake, as the equilibria described by the folk theorem lack dynamic stability in games with several players. While the dependence of Binmore’s argu...

State Succession in respect of “Right to Reparation” in Jurisprudence of International Court of Justice

Transferring right to reparation, as one of the consequences of succession of states, has always been debatable. International court of justice, meanwhile, has issued decisions which has consisted of the said issue in its proceedings, that is necessiating to revisiting them. The article in hands, explains the views of international court of justice (ICJ) on how the judicial organ of the united ...

Natural Law, Justice and Democracy-Some Reflections on Three Types of Thinking About Law and Justice

Understanding natural and pathological autoimmunity

The immune system is usually described as a two edged sword: it recognizes and destroys non-self targets protecting us against environmental pathogens, but sometimes it aims at self targets causing autoimmune disease. Lately, however, we have become aware of the beneficial role of autoimmunity in some biological processes such as tissue repair (Park and Barbul, 2004), which might be exploited t...

Natural Language Understanding and Assessment

INTRODUCTION Natural language understanding and assessment is a subset of natural language processing (NLP). The primary purpose of natural language understanding algorithms is to convert written or spoken human language into representations that can be manipulated by computer programs. Complex learning environments such as intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) often depend on natural language un...