The moral essence of climate change relates to causing/suffering harm. In particular, carbon emissions that threaten the stability of climate systems, and the consequent harm inflicted by altered climatic dynamics on present and future generations are the moral facets of climate change. Moral cognitive neuroscience indicates that up close and personal harm triggers deontological moral reasoning...

For millennia, philosophers have speculated about the origins of ethics. Recent research in evolutionary psychology and the neurosciences has shed light on that question. But this research also has normative significance. A standard way of arguing against a normative ethical theory is to show that in some circumstances the theory leads to judgments that are contrary to our common moral intuitio...

some hadith on the surface do not seem to be very approval of women’s perfect enjoyment of wisdom and this has raised the question whether imams (pbuh) believed that women have an inherent deficit in the intellect or training environment conditions as well as time ones have had an impact upon this belief. it becomes more important for women when the possession of the fullest sense of intellect ...

The doctrine of double effect (DDE) is a moral principle that distinguishes between harm we cause as a means to an end and harm that we cause as a side-effect. As a purely descriptive matter, the DDE is well established that it describes a consistent feature of human moral judgment. There are, however, several rival theories of its psychological cause. I review these theories and consider their...

in order to evaluate the microvascular anatomy and the interconnections, 101 fixed brains from human cadavers with a mean age of 41.3 years were subjected to objective scrutiny. symmetry was visualized with an unaided eye and measurements made under microscopic magnification technique using a micrometer. classic symmetry was observed in only 19 of the specimens, whereas the rest of the 82 speci...