It is conventionally thought impermissible to force treatment on a patient, even when his life is at stake. Following Kant or Mill, we may defend this convention either by appealing to the inviolability of autonomy, or to the benefits of treating liberty as inviolable, subject only to considerations of harm to others. In both cases, an exception might be made for mental illness. For Kant, auton...

This paper summarizes work over the past ve years on the automated planning and generation of multisentence texts using discourse structure relations, placing it in context of ongoing eeorts by Computational Linguists and Linguists to understand the structure of discourse. Based on a series of studies by the author and others, the paper describes how the orientation of generation toward communi...

In its political discourse, the European Union balances Christian heritage, secularization of societies, liberal values and Europe’s culturally religiously diverse contemporary reality. This article explores how narrates story Europe role Christianity in this narrative. exploration is based on two qualitative case studies focusing key heritage history initiatives Commission Parliament: Heritage...

This text focuses on the mentalities and technologies of power employed by Norwegian government as it attempts to control Covid-19 pandemic. Utilizing governmentality studies a Foucauldian discourse analysis, I find life itself be given primacy within biopolitical problem space where seeks contain spread Covid-19. The primarily rationalizes its exercises in liberal manner while employing comple...

Criticisms of realism and liberalism, traditionally the two dominant fields within international relations (IR) and international political economy (IPE) theory, have been widespread for the past two decades. What unites these critical theorists is their claim that IR/IPE theory is both ahistorical and decontextualised. What is missing from this critical account is a sustained historical examin...

Discourse audiences are susceptible to fall victims of the concealed ideological representations in discourses at the expanse of changing and modifying their mental models through which they act on the world. Translators as readers and at the same time intercultural mediators need to be equipped with the knowledge of how ideology is accommodated in discourse both not to fall victim to it and to...

Astonishingly, almost 25 years after the publication of “A Nation at Risk,” the clarion call for a radical overhaul of America’s education system, our Nation continues to find its students performing poorly on international exams in mathematics and sciences. In the spring of 2007, the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on Prospering in the Global Economy of the 21 Century published the mos...

At present liberal education is generally understood and justified as the acquisition of critical thinking skills and individual autonomy. Traditionally, however, the ultimate purpose of liberal education has been leisure. Freedom, it was thought, was not simply the result of critical thinking but also required the cultivation of leisure that involved a vigilant receptivity — a stillness from t...