Background: Ethics is a science that discusses human properties related to plant, animal and human forces. In this science, the knowledge of the virtuous queens from vices is discussed, through which a person brings himself to the virtuous queens and by this means he is revived by actions that lead to the happiness of the hereafter. The importance of political and ethical interactions has been ...

In this article, I explore two neglected works by the twentieth-century Jewish German Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch, Avicenna and Aristotelian Left Natural Law Human Dignity. Drawing on previous analyses of leftist Aristotelians natural law, blend Bloch’s texts’ concepts pregnant matter maternal law into “pregnant materialist law.” More precisely, articulates a concept as dynamic, impersonal ...

This paper addresses the problem of recovering variable-like entities when analyzing executables in the absence of debugging information. We show that variable-like entities can be recovered by iterating Value-Set Analysis (VSA), a combined numeric-analysis and pointer-analysis algorithm, and Aggregate Structure Identification, an algorithm to identify the structure of aggregates. Our initial e...

I provide the account of divine creation found in multiverse theorists Donald Turner, Klaas Kraay, and Tim O’Connor. I show that the accounts Kraay and Turner offer are incoherent. God does not survey all possible worlds and necessarily actualize those universes in the (on balance) good worlds or the worthy worlds. If God necessarily actualizes the multiverse, we have no idea which universes ar...

The term 'The Divine Command Theory of Ethics' is similar to 'The Ontological Argument' in that there is no unique entity deserving of that title. Rather, there is a multiplicity of theories, each of which is appropriately taken to be a divine command theory. The strongest versions are, if not the finest, at least definist. That is, according to these versions moral predicates, such as 'is obli...

This study was designed to investigate the changes in a number of facial proportions as a result of combined orthodontic/orthognathic surgical treatment. According to some authors, in beautiful faces, the values of the proportions measured are likely to approximate the divine proportion (1.618:1). The hypothesis for this study was that, as a result of treatment, the faces of patients in the sam...

In her article, "Holy Fools, Secular Saints, and Illiterate Saviors in American Literature and Popular Culture," Dana Heller identifies and analyzes characteristics of the holy fool figure in American literature and culture. Heller defines the holy fool, or divine idiot, as a figure central to U.S. myths of nation. One encounters such figures in American literature as well as in American folklo...

Abstract The article explores the long lost synthesis between apophatic and cataphatic theological strategies early legal systematizations which shaped Christian, Jewish Islamic collections in twelfth century. It argues that possibilities to achieve Divine knowledge have reached out all normative forms of human existence including law. focuses specifically on a Christian context where imagining...