William Lane Craig insists that I am wrong in reducing God’s moral goodness to his beneficent aim of drawing all people himself. For Craig, goodness, best conceived terms righteousness, must also include retributive justice toward the wicked, who deserve punishment they receive. My response is Craig’s argument rests on two assumptions about value, neither which, argue, Christian theists have go...

abu `al-barakat al-baghdadi, before explanation of his selected view about the problem of the quality of emergence of multitudinous from unit, expresses the theory of peripatetic philosophers with a historical outlook. he then critics the viewpoint of peripatetic philosophers and finally explains his view in the course of four descriptions. the following points are proposed when criticized his ...

There has been growing interest in moral-emotional phenomena in psychology, sociology and other social sciences. One of the main issues in this field of study centers on the relationship between public/political discussion and moral-emotional framework. The first major attempt was done by J. Haidt(2012), a leading advocate of ‘moral psychology’. He argues that there are five distinct moral foun...

In his seminal work Moral Notions, Julius Kovesi presents a novel account of concept formation. At the heart of this account is a distinction between what he terms the material element and the formal element of concepts. This paper elucidates his distinction in detail and contrasts it with other distinctions such as form-matter, universal-particular, genus-difference, necessary-sufficient, and ...

According to John Mackie, moral talk is representational (the realists go that bit right) but its metaphysical presuppositions are wildly implausible (the non-cognitivists got that bit right). This is the basis of Mackie’s now famous error theory: that moral judgments are cognitively meaningful but systematically false. Of course, Mackie went on to recommend various substantive moral judgments,...

Mussel adhesive proteins have been suggested as a basis for environmentally friendly adhesives for use in aqueous conditions and in medicine. However, attempts to produce functional and economical recombinant mussel adhesive proteins (mainly foot protein type 1) in several systems have failed. Here, the cDNA coding for Mytilus galloprovincialis foot protein type 5 (Mgfp-5) was isolated for the ...

Natural proteins are often confined within their local microenvironments, such as three-dimensional confinement in organelles or two-dimensional confinement in lipid rafts on cytoplasmic membrane. Spatial confinement restricts proteins' entropic freedom, forces their lateral interaction, and induces new properties that the same proteins lack at the soluble state. So far, the phenomenon of envir...

The αvβ6 integrin is up-regulated in cancer and wound healing but it is not generally expressed in healthy adult tissue. There is increasing evidence that it has a role in cancer progression and will be a useful target for antibody-directed cancer therapies. We report a novel recombinant diabody antibody fragment that targets specifically αvβ6 and blocks its function. The diabody was engineered...