Few works in the history of philosophy have provoked as much discussion and diverse opinions as Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (NE). Philosophers and scholars in different eras have examined a number of moral topics, such as the best life for a human being, the meaning of virtue, the ideal of natural law and the reasons for moral actions, as a result of their reading of Aristotle’s text. Aristo...

helped to qualify this, because in order to win Moritz's favour it was not enough to claim special revelation; as other plausible obfuscation failed, one had to achieve some practical credibility. The quarrel between Andreas Libavius and Johannes Hartmann, the subject of a separate monograph by Moran, also assisted in the process. As Moritz's appointee to the first chair of Paracelsian chemistr...

Since its inception, evidence policymakers have vacillated with respect to whether the rule barring hearsay evidence at trial is a doctrine designed to promote decisional accuracy or a doctrine designed to promote procedural justice. To the extent that policymakers view the rule barring hearsay evidence as promoting decisional accuracy, the rationale for this view stems from the “testimonial tr...

The dominant theory of human nature in modern intellectual life is based on the doctrines of the blank slate, the noble savage, and the ghost in the machine; these doctrines are being challenged by the sciences of the mind, brain, genes, and evolution. Behavioral geneticists have found that all behavioral traits are partially heritable—challenging the doctrine of the blank slate. Evolutionary p...

The medical profession consistently strives to uphold patient empowerment, equality and safety. It is ironic that now, at a time where advances in technology and knowledge have given us an increased capacity to preserve and prolong life, we find ourselves increasingly asking questions about the value of the lives we are saving. A recent editorial by Professor Raanan Gillon questions the emphasi...