This paper points to the congruence between political and social variables and the epidemiology of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in modern China. STDs became a major health problem after the fall of the empire in 1911 and were only reluctantly addressed by a weak nationalist government during the 1930s. During the 1950s and 60s, the communist regime brought STDs under control, but proble...

Moral attributes such as honesty, being devoted to one's social duty and principles, responsibility for one's words and action are very important for civil servants. Morality as a basis for personnel management and the moral features of civil servants are of special value, especially during the deep political, social and economic reforms taking place in Russia. Global social changes are extreme...

which Ronald Dworkin published three decades ago. Though that earlier volume bore a catchier title, Justice in Robes is otherwise similar in being a collection of very loosely related essays on sundry topics in legal, political, and moral philosophy. Both books display Dworkin’s truculent hostility toward legal positivism and his more polite opposition to value-pluralism (namely, the notion tha...

Given intractable secular moral pluralism, the force and significance of the four principles (autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice) of Tom Beauchamp and James Childress must be critically re-considered. This essay examines the history of the articulation of these four principles of bioethics, showing why initially there was an illusion of a common morality that led many to hold t...

Both Alasdair MacIntyre and Jeffrey Stout are concerned social critics who lament many of the features of contemporary life and political and ethical discourse. They both see the global market and government bureaucracies as institutional arrangements that often rob their citizens of the capacity to hold reasoned debates about important matters and lead virtuous, meaningful lives. And both want...

Our research investigated whether promotion concerns with advancement and prevention concerns with security related to moral beliefs and political ideology. Study 1 found that chronic prevention and promotion focus had opposite relations to binding foundation endorsement (as measured by the Moral Foundations Questionnaire), that is, positive for prevention and negative for promotion, and opposi...

It is undeniable that contemporary internetworking practices are drastically altering the social, political, moral, epistemological, and cultural landscapes in which we live. In a world in which an increasing amount of information is increasingly available everywhere and in which an increasing amount of everyday activity yields information about our innermost selves, we simply cannot stand stil...

David Easton is considered one of the founding fathers of political science. He has had a tremendous, in particular tacit, influence on the development of modern political analysis. Ironically, however, his concept of political system is generally thought of as a minor offspring of Parsons’s theory of the social system. Nearly all of Easton’s critics presume that his political system is based o...