It is a piece of idle senthentality that truth, merely as truth, has any inherent power denied to error, or prevailing against the dungeon and the stake. Men are not more zealous for truth than they often are for error, and a sufficient application oflegal or even of social penalties will generally succeed in stopping the propagation of either. The real advantage which truth has, consists in th...

This paper develops a theory of the interaction between appropriative conflict and economic growth. Appropriative conflict, as measured by the diversion of resources, is viewed as the cost of securing effective property rights. We identify conditions under which conflict rises or falls as the rate of economic growth improves. The main implication of the analysis is that if the quality of proper...

In the past decade, biobanking has fuelled great scientific advances in the human medical sector. Well-established domesticated animal biobanks and integrated networks likewise harbour immense potential for great scientific advances with broad societal impacts, which are currently not being fully realised. Political and scientific leaders as well as journals and ethics committees should help to...

From a psychiatrist's point of view, the definition of mental illness put forth by Ian Kennedy in his 1980 Reith Lectures on medical ethics is far too narrow. Clare rejects Kennedy's diagnostic criteria of dangerousness, helplessness, or subjective distress; he argues that the diagnosis of mania should be based on identifiable signs of psychological dysfunction that impair autonomy and respons...

The purpose of this paper is to identify the various dimensions of leadership emerging in Plato's discussions on ideal political governance and then generalize them to fit in with current discussions. The consideration will also cover some areas of organizational ethics, managerial discourses on rhetoric, management of meaning an charismatic leadership are presented. Also the possibility to eva...

1 ABSTRACT Conflict resolution of the ethical aspects of accessibility issues for Web communities can be facilitated by the judicious use of scenarios. Carefully designed scenarios permit real and perceived conflicts to be explored in safe, no-consequence environments. Building on research into scenario use and Actor Network Theory, the Doing Ethics Technique is extended to better cater for the...

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DURING THE LAST several decades something of a renewal in natural law and rights theorizing has emerged in political philosophy. Until around 1970 the dominant theme in contemporary moral and political philosophy was noncognitivism, notably variations of evotivism, the view that when we judge some act or institution morally right or wrong, what we are doing is giving expression to our feelings ...