Toward a More Communitarian Future? Fukuyama as the Fundamentalist Secular Humanist

F . A . Hayek : The Liberal as Communitarian

At the heart of Friedrich A. Hayek’s social philosophy is a regard for the socially-constituted nature of man: the individual is not taken to be asocial or pre-social, but rather it is recognized that society defines the individual. The neglect of this aspect of Hayek’s work by both liberal and communitarian, as well as libertarian, writers within political philosophy has led to his position be...

The Future of Bitcoin as a Tool for Financial Development

The purpose of research is focused on the insight into the future of Bitcoin on the financial situation, its implications and challenges. The problem of study is to investigate how to deal with a new type of digital currencies (such Bitcoin) that does not have a physical presence and there is no specific body to issue. Thus, this study aims to identify the nature of Bitcoin currency and what ar...

The Scientific Fundamentalist

Add Health measures the physical attractiveness of its respondents both objectively and subjectively. At the end of each interview, the interviewer rates the physical attractiveness of the respondent objectively on the following five-point scale: 1 = very unattractive, 2 = unattractive, 3 = about average, 4 = attractive, 5 = very attractive. The physical attractiveness of each Add Health respon...

A Look toward the Future

tranScriptorium : A Guide for the Humanist

The aim of the tranScriptorium project is to produce software applications that will ‘read’ historical handwritten documents and will produce transcripts for these documents. There are many millions of pages of handwritten documents, the basis for much research in the arts and humanities, and yet the vast majority of this material—including manuscripts that have been digitized—remains inaccessi...