The boundary problem holds that, whatever the theory of democratic legitimacy, initial act constituting demos can never be considered met by it. Many contemporary attempts to solve understood as falling into two categories: functional views and global views. This article argues against both Functional exacerbate legitimacy puzzle posed problem, while a democracy cannot held democratically accou...

A book called the Zohar emerged during the Middle Ages, giving rise to a Jewish form of mystical speculation known as the "Cabala" and creating strong interest in the system's mystical teachings in both Jewish and Christian circles. During the Renaissance, Pico, Reuchlin, and Ricci led in applying the Zohar's mystical teachings to the OT in defense of Christian doctrines such at that of the Tri...

The research suggests that Chinese companies do not subscribe to ‘western’ strategy theory. As they rapidly internationalise through massive Foreign Direct Investment, Chinese companies are developing new perspectives on achieving competitiveness. A comparison of the Resource-Based View of strategy (RBV) constructs from western literature with identified (indigent) Chinese business strategies f...

He was more analytic than Hippocrates in his dissertations, concerning the description of the diseases and pathological conditions, attempting to associate the clinical medicine with the experimental investigation [5]. Galen as an author was very productive. His extensive work covered almost every scientific and philosophical field. He composed more than five hundred dissertations on anatomy, m...

We pursue the definition of a KZ-doctrine in terms of a fully faithful adjoint string Dd m dD. We give the definition in any Gray-category. The concept of algebra is given as an adjunction with invertible counit. We show that these doctrines are instances of more general pseudomonads. The algebras for a pseudomonad are defined in more familiar terms and shown to be the same as the ones defined ...

Political constitutionalism emerged on the Chinese academic scene in mid-2000s as a countermovement to rights-based, court-centered, and textual mainstream constitutional scholarship. On surface, it has launched biting sophisticated critique of institutional Westernization reasserted sense particularity. However, contrary its intellectual self-representation genuinely phenomenon, movement’s for...

A case for a pluralistic approach to cognitive science is sketched. It is argued that cognitive scientists should take seriously the possibility that a single, unified framework for all of cognition is an unrealistic expectation for its diverse interdisciplinary goals and subject matter. A pluralistic approach instead seeks ways of integrating the multiple perspectives that have provided explan...

One of the greatest challenges for evolutionary biology is explaining the widespread occurrence of sexual reproduction, and the associated process of genetic recombination (Williams, 1975; Maynard Smith, 1978; Bell, 1982; Stearns, 1987; Michod & Levin, 1988; Hurst & Peck, 1996). Asexual females can potentially produce twice as many daughters as sexual females, so that the ratio of asexual to se...