Willful Ignorance, Embodiment, and the Limitations of Sympathy: J. M. Coetzee on Animal Cruelty Through Fictional Interlocutors

1 Equal Culpability and the Scope of the Willful Ignorance Doctrine

A Sociological Study of Iranian Women’s Role in Fictional Literature in the Recent Two Decades

Fictional literature has experiencedan increasing and stunning growthof women writers in the past two decades. In terms of quality and quantity, theincrease was to the extent that nowadays women’s names are mentioned sometimeseven more than men’s amongthe distinguished writers ofcontemporary Iranianliterature. On the other hand, these authors have often chosen the novel astheir main literary fo...

Analysis and Study of the Embodiment of Actions from Ibn Arabi's Point of View According to Some Principles of Anthropology and Epistemology

Embodiment of deeds and beliefs in the afterlife is the subject of Islamic verses and narratives, and has long been one of the issues of interest to Muslim scholars. The proof and explanation of this idea by Mulla Sadra caused the religious scholars attention again to that, while the roots of this issue were raised in the works of mystics such as Ibn Arabi and his followers. Mohi al-Din has bee...

Reports of severe physical punishment and exposure to animal cruelty by inmates convicted of felonies and by university students.

A self-report questionnaire designed to assess abusive childhood environments and exposure to animal cruelty was administered to 314 inmates in a prisoner classification center. Although high rates of physical punishment characterized the entire sample, persons charged with violent, but nonhomicidal crimes reported more severely punitive childhood histories than those charged with homicidal cri...

Why doctors should care about animal cruelty.

BACKGROUND Animal cruelty is a significant problem for society, and there are good reasons why doctors should be particularly concerned by it. Increasing evidence for links between animal cruelty and child or spousal abuse is an area of growing concern internationally and of real importance to health professionals. OBJECTIVE This article aims to raise awareness of the relevance of animal crue...