Ancient Chinese philosophy already developed a philosophy of humanitarianism or humanity in the general sense. The concept of "Ren" / "Jen" was indeed a main idea already in Confucianism. It was to my mind Mencius, who was the most explicit, if not even the first, philosopher of what I call concrete humanity. The article takes up Albert Schweitzer's discussion of MengZi's philosophical humanita...

IN RECENT years I have heard many moral theologians express the opinion that the treatise on mutilation, as usually given in the manuals, needs extensive revision. Needless to say, a satisfactory revision could hardly be the work of one man. The purpose of the following pages is merely to suggest, for constructive criticism, a number of points that ought to be considered in making the revision....

The moral status of the human embryo has gained much attention in debates over the acceptability, or otherwise, of human embryonic stem cell research. Far less attention has been paid to the suppliers of those embryos: people who have undergone IVF treatment to produce embryos to assist them to have a baby. It is sociologically and ethically important to understand their views and experiences o...

Early in the nineteenth century the London publishers and printsellers, S. and J. Fuller, packaged paper dolls and storybooks together in their Temple of Fancy paper doll books. Th is article examines the tension between the narratives of these works—typically moral tales for children in which a love of clothing is punished—and the accompanying paper dolls, which celebrate costume and dressing ...

The Dilemma of Penal Reform. By Dr. Hermann Mannheim, with a preface by Prof. A. M. Carr-Saunders. Allen & Unwin. 1939. pp. 228. 7s. 6d. This book is based on a course of public lectures given at the London School of Economics in 1938-9. Professor Carr-Saunders points ?ut that for the constructive development of Penal Reform we need, firstly, accurate systematic sociological and psychological s...

We now begin the final part of this treatise on the phenomenon of mind, namely the exposition of the power of pure Reason. In a number of ways this is the most challenging part of our theory owing to the peculiar aloofness of Reason from all sensational attributes of the Self in Reason’s role as the supreme regulator and executive of all non-autonomic actions of the Organized Being. All our con...