Of Iubirea la oameni (Human Love) and Other Demons

The Other Love

This account traces the changes in social and legal attitudes towards homosexuality in England. It begins with mediaeval times, when sodomitical and heretical practices were lumped together and dealt with severely by the ecclesiastical courts. It describes the long period, starting with the statute of 1533 'for the punishment of the Vice of Buggery', when homosexuals were dealt with as criminal...

Of the Hennessy-Milner Property and other Demons

We relate three different, but equivalent, ways to characterise behavioural equivalence for set coalgebras. These are: using final coalgebras, using coalgebraic languages that have the HennessyMilner property and using coalgebraic languages that have “logical congruences”. On the technical side the main result of our paper is a straightforward construction of the final T -coalgebra of a set fun...

Self-Love or Other-Love? Explicit Other-Preference but Implicit Self-Preference

Do humans prefer the self even over their favorite other person? This question has pervaded philosophy and social-behavioral sciences. Psychology's distinction between explicit and implicit preferences calls for a two-tiered solution. Our evolutionarily-based Dissociative Self-Preference Model offers two hypotheses. Other-preferences prevail at an explicit level, because they convey caring for ...

Phenomenology of love: The Destructive and Constructive Nature of Love

Love, this eminent humane experience, has been explored not only by writers and poets, but also by philosophers, psychologists and even experimental scientists. This paper aims to discuss a novel aspect in phenomenology of love, as the concept of destructive and constructive nature of love, which is to the best of our knowledge, presented for the first time. The fundamental idea of this paper w...

On Demons and Oracles