Plotinus on Transmigration: a Reconsideration

Experimenting on animals: a reconsideration.

We .live ,in a world that is morally hor­rific by almost anyone's standards. In the Third World millions of people suffer from malnutrition, and due to inefficiency, stu­pidity, or venality many of them will liter­ally starve to death. Even those of us for­tunate ,enough to live in affluent countries are threatened daily with annihilation. Through madness or miscalculation, Reagan or Gorbachev ...

Was Plotinus influenced by opium?

SOME justification is necessary for adding to the list of suspected opium-takers of the past. The academic game of seizing on certain similarities between the thought of a selected victim and the features supposed to be characteristic of opium dreams long ago became something of a bad habit. In the case of Plotinus (205-270 A.D.), however, grounds for the belief can be found outside his own wri...

Rational Choice Theory: A Cultural Reconsideration

Economists have heralded the formulation of the expected utility theorem as a universal method of choice under uncertainty. In their seminal paper, Stigler and Becker (Stigler & Becker, 1977) declared that “human behavior can be explained by a generalized calculus of utility-maximizing behavior” (p.76). The universality of the rational choice theory has been widely criticized by psychologists, ...

Safety behaviour: a reconsideration.

There is ample evidence that the use of safety behaviour can interfere with the progress of therapy, particularly if exposure is involved. As a result, it is widely asserted that safety behaviour is anti-therapeutic. However, an unqualified rejection of safety behaviour should be reconsidered because we now have theoretical justification, experimental evidence and clinical observations showing ...

A Reconsideration of Tolerance: