We Spring from that History: Bernard Lazare, between Universalism and Particularism

from historical facts to geo-political realities: relation between turkey and armenia ( 1915 – 2010)

armenias geopolitics and its historical experience have had a determining impact on the character of its foreign policy .present-day armenia is a small, landlocked country with _11,620 square miles area armenias landlocked nature makes it dependent on the benevolence of its neighbors for access to the outside world a fact that gives it a sense of isolation and vulnerability. as it was indic...

Moral Particularism and Transduction

The Hospital Saint-Lazare in Paris; its past and present history.

The Saint-Lazare Hospital and its annexes are situated near the Gare de l'Est, more or less on the site of the old prison of Saint-Lazare which used to occupy number 107, Faubourg Saint-Denis. The buildings stretch from Faubourg Saint-Denis as far as La Cour de la Ferme Saint-Lazare. The front entrance is at 9, Cour de la Ferme Saint-Lazare. It is a magnificent modem building, built and planned...

Some Problems with Particularism

This article suggests that due to a restricted understanding of the nature and scope of ethical theory, particularism discounts prematurely the possibility of a metatheory of Buddhist ethics. The textual evidence presented in support of particularism is reconsidered and shown to be consistent with a metatheoretical reading. It is argued that writers who have adopted a particularist approach bas...

Perdurantism, Universalism, and Quantifiers

I argue that the conjunction of perdurantism (the view that objects are temporally extended) and universalism (the thesis that any old class of things has a mereological fusion) gives rise to undesired complications when combined with certain plausible assumptions concerning the semantics of tensed statements.