The essential reason that a 100-percent-reserve gold standard should be the ultimate goal of monetary reform is that it would secure the economic system against the evils both of inflation and of deflation–depression. In addition, it would be consistent with the fundamental moral–political principle of the absence of the initiation of physical force and thus the positive presence of individual ...

Skeptical theists purport to undermine evidential arguments from evil by appealing to the fact that our knowledge of goods, evils, and their interconnections is signi cantly limited. Michael J. Almeida and Graham Oppy have recently argued that skeptical theism is unacceptable because it results in a form of moral skepticism which rejects inferences that play an important role in our ordinary mo...

© 2010 The Author Journal compilation © 2010 Foundation for Cellular and Molecular Medicine/Blackwell Publishing Ltd doi:10.1111/j.1582-4934.2010.01167.x Apparently, ancient Greeks somehow learned that human liver could regenerate after damage. This information was connected in their intuition with their most powerful ability, that to produce fire. What is less often remembered is that in Hesio...

The patient (or rather the victim) takes the drug to escape from his problems, and may accidentally overdose himself; or, having achieved a pleasant experience from a modest dose, may foolishly feel that a larger dose will have an even better effect. Other reasons for taking overdoses may be social, due to mistaken or malicious pressures brought upon the victim by associates. Sometimes a sympat...

The article tries to examine and study the role of some Hindu social reform movements that came up during British rule transform, modernize, uplift society by imparting modern or western education. studies their in eradicating evils like child re-marriage, dowry sati among community Jammu Kashmir. In addition these elements, it also enlighten various education all sections without any discrimin...

In 1852, when the medical discoverer of alcoholism, Magnus Huss, was being honoured by the Academie franqaise, a spokesman for the Academie wrote that "France has many drunkards, but happily, no alcoholics." Sixty years later, on the eve of World War I, if one is to believe the reports of parliamentary commissions, economists, hygienists and social reformers, France had few drunks but a plethor...

This paper reports on research conducted with Muslim Institute of Hadrat Sultan Bahoo order in Pakistan. Using a qualitative approach and Manuel Castells' theory the network society, findings illustrate that respondents recognize role digital media to increase outreach Sufi messages. The leaders institute realize evils era suggest spiritual solutions. However, although use modern mode communica...