The corporatist pluralist debate is explored as it applies to the Federal Republic of Germany. It is argued that the Federal Republic has an 'accommodationalist' political structure in which elements that resemble both corporatism and pluralism may be found. Corporatism and pluralism really explain two fundamentally different phenomenon. It is implicitly and explicitly argued that the mutual ex...

This paper, tries to establish the pluralism within one particular system of medicine, namely the Ayurvedic system. Herein we find not only a multitude of approaches to medical treatment - originating from it's subtle nosological categories. Rather more, the same subtleness in nosology works effectively into the sector of preservation of health and prevention of diseases. The author would like ...

As scholars become more aware of the importance of religion in world affairs, several have begun to ask whether specific religious traditions are compatible with the institutions and values of liberal democracy. With approximately 350 million Orthodox Christians in the world, and given the great political and economic importance of the many countries they call home, an understanding of Orthodox...

This paper attempts to delineate a kind of realism, which incorporates some anti-realistic insights regarding the perspective, situated, and historical character our forms knowing being in world, resonates with basic tenets Christian theism. The first part analyzes challenges anti-realism poses theism, particularly role, doctrine creation played securing correspondence theory truth as well fund...

Those economists who have emphasized true uncertainty tended to draw an epistemic distinction between ascertainable past and unknowable future. But in one critical respect—in extracting causal relationships—that is not warranted. Whether they are situated the or future, arguments economics depend equally on counterfactual reasoning. Counterfactualizing entails construction of fictitious narrati...