Kantian Theoretical Concept of God Reconsidered

The concept of autonomy and its role in Kantian ethics.

Among bioethicists, and perhaps ethicists generally, the idea that we are obliged to respect autonomy is something of a shibboleth. Appeals to autonomy are commonly put to work to support legal and moral claims about the importance of consent, but they also feed a wider discourse in which the patient’s desires are granted a very high importance and medical paternalism is regarded as almost self...

Erikson's concept of ego identity reconsidered.

This paper explores and attempts to explain the paradox that Erik Erikson--after Freud, undoubtedly the psychoanalyst best known, most deeply esteemed, and most widely influential in the sociohistorical surround of world culture--has at the same time never been properly integrated into the psychoanalytic mainstream, but has instead been marginalized, consigned to a persisting psychoanalytic lim...

Motivation reconsidered: the concept of competence.

No wonder you activities are, reading will be always needed. It is not only to fulfil the duties that you need to finish in deadline time. Reading will encourage your mind and thoughts. Of course, reading will greatly develop your experiences about everything. Reading motivation reconsidered the concept of competence is also a way as one of the collective books that gives many advantages. The a...

Complexity, Consonance, and the Concept of God

Elkan ' s theoretical argument , reconsidered q

This paper takes part in the discussion motivated by Elkan's paper ``The Paradoxical Success of Fuzzy Logic'' printed in 1993, whose main theoretical point was that Fuzzy Logic does not properly deal with a speci®c Law of Classical Logic: :…p ^ :q† ˆ q _ …:p ^ :q†. The given answer can be summarized, like in other previous cases, by the sentence ``Yes it can but, of course, at some cost''. As i...

Oppy, infinity, and the neoclassical concept of God

In this article I concentrate on three issues. First, Graham Oppy’s treatment of the relationship between the concept of infinity and Zeno’s paradoxes lay bare several porblems that must be dealt with if the concept of infinity is to do any intellectual work in philosophy of religion. Here I will expand on some insightful remarks by Oppy in an effort ot adequately respond to these problems. Sec...