Historically, in ancient civilization, man had already imagined changes in the morphology, structure and function of the human body. Egyptian and Greco-Roman mythology provided examples of the metamorphoses sung by Homer and Ovid, symbolic incarnations of the “comedie humaine” with its strength, weakness, vices and virtues. The liver has been the noble organ, the organ of life from time immemor...

Aston Business School Research Institute is the administrative centre for all research activities at Aston Business School. The School comprises more than 70 academic staff organised into thematic research groups along with a Doctoral Programme of more than 50 research students. Research is carried out in all of the major areas of business studies and a number of specialist fields. For further ...

In recent years, fears of technological unemployment have (re-)emerged strongly in public discourse. response, policymakers and researchers tried to gain a more nuanced understanding the future work an age automation. these debates, it has become common practice signal expertise on automation by referencing plethora studies, rather than limiting oneself careful discussion small number selected ...

Globalization is often seen as consisting of economic virtues and political vices. I provide a more optimistic interpretation of the effects of economic integration on international politics, arguing that autonomous global markets help to promote world peace. I use game theory to show that the claims of competing states can be made more credible by investors able to re-allocate capital across n...

Transimpedance or current feedback amplifiers are still relatively new to audio applications, since they are pri­ marily designed for video circuits. While the AD846 (an early high-per­ formance example) was successfully used in TAA,1 transimpedance amps may not be completely familiar de­ vices (The AD846 data sheet contains a detailed discussion of transimped­ ance amplifier theory). Interesti...

RESUMEN: La tradición emblemática declara los vicios con símbolos monstruosos. Los emblemas usan frecuencia motivos teratológicos para expresar las deformaciones producidas por el mal en organismo social. Es un saber antiguo, mítico y práctico, al servicio de gobernantes. Mediante esta plástica pedagogía se enseñan virtudes a través figuras nobles animales mediante representaciones monstruos. E...

Throughout all of Rousseau’s works there is tension between reason and conscience. Reason binds men when they think correctly, but divides them when they place it at the service of self-interest. Conversely, the universality of conscience is immediate and transparent: it transmits the truth of the existence of God and of the universal principles that underlie human action, despite the differenc...

This is an ambitious book, in two ways. First, it advocates a drastic transformation of contemporary epistemology’s scope and method. Second, it exemplifies a new way of doing epistemology, plumbing the depths of epistemic psychology by subtly characterizing the nature of, and interrelations among, a host of intellectual traits. Part I critiques standard “analytic” epistemology and expounds the...

Background: Ethics is a science that discusses human properties related to plant, animal and human forces. In this science, the knowledge of the virtuous queens from vices is discussed, through which a person brings himself to the virtuous queens and by this means he is revived by actions that lead to the happiness of the hereafter. The importance of political and ethical interactions has been ...

DESPITE HIS FAULTS AND HIS ANTIQUITY, Mircea Eliade (19071986) had insights to which we would do well to attend. Our epistemological ancestors bequeath our situation to us and we need to respect them — which does not mean adopting or ignoring their vices but cultivating their virtues. The danger is not so much of throwing out the baby with the bathwater but — in a perhaps even more grotesque im...