The phenomenon of self-love elicits conflicting reactions. Some believe is the key to happiness, while others are skeptical. This essay defines as wholehearted concern for one's well-being, argues that it does not imply selfishness, arrogance, or vanity, discusses reasons value self-love, and describes ways Logic-Based Therapy can be used help people love themselves.

Abstract Plotinus’ understanding of self is formulated largely in dialogue with the Stoics. In early works he categorically rejects Stoic notion hēgemonikon (‘leading part’ or ‘commanding faculty’) soul. this paper, I show how, light a general dissatisfaction account articulated his work, Plotinus deals oikeiōsis (‘appropriation’). argue that develops across period during which uses it. middle ...

Self-stabilizing system is a concept of fault-tolerance in distributed computing. A distributed algorithm is self-stabilizing if, starting from an arbitrary state, it is guaranteed to converge to a legal state in a finite number of states and remains in a legal set of states thereafter. The property of self-stabilization enables a distributed algorithm to recover from a transient fault regardle...

Boettke, Leeson and Subrick (Boettke and Leeson 2004; Leeson and Subrick 2006) describe institutional robustness as the ability of a given system of social organization to stand up to the test of the so-called “hard cases,” i.e., hypothetical scenarios under which the ideal assumptions concerning, e.g., information and motivation possessed by the members of a given society are relaxed. In this ...