A lth ou g h m ost in d iv id u a ls who move off-campus make the move w ith a group o f friends, off-campus students must often face a sense o f isolation from on-campus life and events, ac­ cording to Cecelia I3urger, a se­ nior who moved off-campus in the sum m er betw een her sophomore and jun io r years. " I f you re a lly w a n t to be a round people a ll the tim e , don't move off-campus...

In thinking about democratization we should avoid a one-dimensional set of categories. Western observers sometimes picture events in the post-Soviet world as a clear-cut battle between the forces of democratic reform on the one side and those of nationalist extremism on the other. While this scenario captures much of the situation, it does not exhaust the field of political possibilities. Sever...

– only as persons of this conscience do we still feel ourselves related to the German rectitude and piety of millennia, even if as its most questionable and final descendents, we immoralists, we godless ones of today, indeed even in a certain sense as its heirs, as the executors of its innermost will …

We consider the algorithmic problem of community detection in networks. Given an undirected friendship graph G = (V, E), a subset S ⊆ V is an (α, β)-community if: • Every member of the community is friends with an α-fraction of the community; • Every non-member is friends with at most a β-fraction of the community. Arora et al [AGSS12] gave a quasi-polynomial time algorithm for enumerating all ...

This essay briefly evaluates the ongoing controversy between LIU Qingping and GUO Qiyong (and their followers) about the “moral heart” of Confucianism in order to draw a comparison with Islamic ethics for mutual illumination of the two traditions (see Guo 2007: 21). Liu argues that Confucianism is basically consanguinism and, as such, it lands into an “embarrassing paradox” in its moral thinkin...

Though patriotism has traditionally been considered a virtue, in many countries of the world today, status as virtue challenged. Philosopher John Hare recently defended virtue. Kierkegaard, with his suspicion “the crowd” and attack on “Christendom” sometimes thought to be one critics patriotism. This paper argues that Kierkegaard’s view is actually close Hare’s. Kierkegaard does believe can tho...