Nostalgia, to some people, may seem foolhardy in a way. However, nostalgia is a completely and intensely private but social, collective emotion. It has continuing consequence and outgrowth for our lives as social actions. It leads people to hunt and explore remembrance of persons and places of our past in an effort to confer meaning of persons and places of present. In the ‘Poems of 1912-13’ Th...

Abstract What should we think about ‘acts of conscience’, viz., cases where our personal judgments and public authority come into conflict such that principled resistance to the latter seems necessary? Philosophers mainly debate two issues: Accommodation Question , i.e., ‘When, if ever, accommodate claims conscience?’ Justification are justified in engaging acts conscience – why?’. By contrast,...

Physicians sometimes refuse to provide legally permitted medical services on the grounds that they cannot do so in good conscience. Such conscientious refusals are at least as old as the Hippocratic movement. Yet new events, such as the refusal by health care professionals to prescribe or dispense post-coital (‘‘emergency’’) contraception, have kindled new debates about what physicians are obli...

The hidden-action moral hazard model is one of the cornerstones of contract theory and it has become a basic tool to analyze job contracts and other agency relationships. Close social ties often implied by such relationships make the moral hazard model a prime application of approaches where agents care about inequity, and intrinsically reciprocate each others’ kind and hostile intentions. We c...

If a claimant, C, gives property to the defendant, D, as a result of actual or presumed undue influence over C by another person, X, why is D liable to rescind the gift? A common misconception, given Equity’s ubiquitous concern with conscience, is that D’s liability must be based upon fault and that this will be established if D was aware of the relationship of influence between C and X. 1 Prof...

The French Dominican Thomas Deman (1899–1954) argued for the restoration of virtue prudentia against a background moral theology and philosophy that, as he saw it, had replaced centrality prudenti with conscience. This article will follow in his reading Aquinas develop an understanding intellect, which co-ordinates good life, life. Conscience is moment within performance prudentia. argument pap...

Consider the following three cases: A paediatrician is called to the delivery room as a woman is about to give birth to a premature baby at 24 weeks. The mother and father request that the baby not be resuscitated. The baby weighs 760 grams and has an Apgar score of 6 at 1 min. The paediatrician ignores the parents’ requests for comfort care and intubates the baby. A full-term baby with Trisomy...

On 2 July 2015, the killing of a lion nicknamed "Cecil" prompted the largest global reaction in the history of wildlife conservation. In response to this, it is propitious to consider the ways in which this moment can be developed into a financial movement to transform the conservation of species such as the lion that hold cultural significance and sentiment but whose numbers in the wild are dw...