Correspondence to Professor Arthur Caplan, Division of Medical Ethics, Department of Population Health, NYU Langone Medical Center, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA; [email protected] The underappreciated moral theorist Benjamin Franklin in his youth made up a list of virtues he felt ought to be followed as sound guides for living one’s life. Some of the virtues he prescribed rel...

Broadly speaking, the Holy Quran as the most sublime heavenly message is a book of human life. Since, the Life Creator, the sender of this holy book, is the Creator of human body and mind. Human mental activity starts from about 16 weeks of fetal life with the blow of divine spirit into the fetus. At this point, we observe the beginning of mental and psychological activities and the emergence o...

broadly speaking, the holy quran as the most sublime heavenly message is a book of human life. since, the life creator, the sender of this holy book, is the creator of human body and mind. human mental activity starts from about 16 weeks of fetal life with the blow of divine spirit into the fetus. at this point, we observe the beginning of mental and psychological activities and the emergence o...

I'm sitting in the bishop's office. My dress is slightly damp, but I can't determine whether moisture a result of snowstorm or sweat beading beneath cotton. haven't eaten since yesterday, so vomit, churning my stomach wants to prove otherwise.The bishop has questions memorized. He's looking me straight eye. “Do you keep law chastity?”“Well.” take breath. speak fast, quirk that's magnified when ...

Open Access2. Background: Tension, Ambiguity, and Discussion Surrounding a Versehttps://doi.org/10.13109/9783666573507.33SectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail AboutQuod autem ait: Crescite et multiplicamini, replete terram, necesse fuit prius plantare silvam crescere, ut esset quod postea posset excidi. Simulque c...

In this important volume, Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt bring together scholarship that rethinks, in creatively productive ways, how gender figures medieval representations of sainthood sanctity. While, for the past several decades, sexuality have featured importantly medievalist work on Christianity, only recently scholars begun to consider contemporary trans studies—with its attention tr...

We figured the Utah Mormons started it, because they were gardening crowd.Now, to most of Saints in College Village Ward, my family and I Mormons, since we had come university town from BYU so Jeff could get his PhD. As a convert Oklahoma married many-generations Mormon who grew up Boston, as working mother only one child, did feel closer being than being, say, Martian—but not whole lot.Anyway,...

This is an experimental review essay responding to Michael Marder’s Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013). The essay departs from the ordinary structure of comparing three books on a similar theme. Instead three of Marder’s concepts, plant “nourishment,” “desire” and “language” are explored through readings of Gabrielle de Vietri’s installation...

The subtexts of Shakespeare's plays often provide surprisingly accurate insights not only into the central themes of the plays, but also a greater understanding of the unifying elements. The subtexts from a representative sampling of plays from each of the major periods reveáis that such subtextual elements as repeated words, near synonyms and recurrent images are fairly accurate assessors of t...