Raanan Gillon is a noted defender of the four principles approach to healthcare ethics. His general position has always been that these principles are to be considered to be both universal and prima facie in nature. In recent work, however, he has made two claims that seem to present difficulties for this view. His first claim is that one of these four principles, respect for autonomy, has a sp...

I begin by introducing the standoff between the transculturalist aim of moving beyond cultural inheritances, and the worry that this project is itself a product of cultural inheritances. I argue that this is rooted in concerns about the meaning of life, and in particular, the prospect of nihilism. I then distinguish two diametrically opposed humanistic responses to nihilism, post-Nietzschean re...

Background and aim: Grounded theory has taken some different theoretical perspectives since its creation in 1967 by Barney Glaser. Considering that applying grounded theory partly depends on an awareness of its philosophical perspectives, gaining knowledge about these various perspectives is required for health care professionals who are interested in studying the social processes. This review ...

Prior work has established that children and adults distinguish moral norms (e.g., hitting is wrong) from conventional norms (e.g., wearing pajamas to school is wrong). Specifically, moral norms are generally perceived as universal across time and space, similar to objective facts. We examined preschoolers' and adults' perceptions of moral beliefs alongside facts and opinions by asking whether ...

The material in this communication may be subject to copyright under the Act. Any further reproduction or communication of this material by you may be the subject of copyright protection under the Act. Do not remove this notice. Semantic primitives have fallen on hard times. Though their existence was once widely accepted in linguistics, a variety of counter-arguments have since engendered wide...

American Art in the 1930s embraced a realizm similar way to New Objectivism. The economic crisis world 1929 had an impact on art and discovering culture became inevitable. economical political negativities which occurred America caused Bureaucrats businessman’s take over small merchantman’s liberal farmers. With acceleration of migration growth population, there will recreate areal differences ...

at first, this article explained the theoretical foundations of sadraee wisdom as a criterion for evaluation, then; it discussed the bourdieu’s intellectual system and then is criticized his approach. in discussing the theoretical foundations of authenticity of individual and society, substantial motion, human truth, knowledge, integration and development-oriented nature based on sadra’s point ...

methods and principles used in education come from diverse foundations. this paper aims at examining philosophical and psychological foundations of education based on two similar views from the west and the east: the illuminationist philosophy of suhrawardi and phenomenology of husserl. questions of the research deal with philosophical and psychological foundations of education from the standpo...