This paper critically explores the political theology of Carl Schmitt. It argues that Schmitt’s analysis, which links the transcendence of God with the political concept of sovereignty, is both too nostalgic and too severe. In the place of Schmitt’s political theology that disdains democracy for the failures of modern liberalism, this paper instead draws on the recent collaborative works of Mic...

Much of law and ethics at the end of life turns on whether there is a moral and legal distinction between killing and letting die. That distinction, in turn, relies on a difference between intention (what one purposely aims to bring about in his actions) and foresight (what one merely believes to be likely or even substantially certain). On this distinction rests the plausibility of the legal p...

T AIM of this essay is to clarify the models of moral thinking and doing called teleology and deontology, to gain understanding of utilitarianism as a subcategory of the former, and to explore the relation both to utilitarianism and to teleology in general of certain Christian "consequentialist" modes of moral argument. This purpose arises out of a general and considerable unclarity in recent e...

Every creature is good and subject to the principle of solidarity that everyone has been blessed and gifted with life by God. Therefore, we cannot have one without the other, and no man exists without an animal. Over the last several decades, our world has been confronted with many ethical problems and ethics is being more and more sought after in spheres of human conduct and profession. Man ha...

      This research attempts to investigate the effect of the English language test of the University Entrance Examination (UEE) in predicting the academic achievement of Iranian EFL learners. To achieve this goal, Isfahan, Tabriz, Mashhad, Shiraz and AllamehTabatabaeiUniversities were randomly selected. Then, the scores of the English majors admitted to those universities were collected from t...

introduction: the application of organizational ethics in hospitals is one of the novel ways to improve medical ethics. nowadays achieving efficient and sufficient ethical hospital indicators seems to be inevitable. in this connection, the present study aims to determine the best indicators in hospital accreditation. methods: 69 indicators in 11 fields to evaluate hospital ethics were achieved ...