Focusing on the virtue-ethics tradition, this article analyzes the practice of networking within the business context. First, it distinguishes three types of networking: utilitarian, emotional, and virtuous. Virtuous networking does not exclude utilitarian and emotional networking, but these latter forms should be practiced with reciprocity. It is argued that virtuous networking requires (1) ac...

Deceased donation in the UK relies upon family consent. Approaching a family at the tragic time of a loved one's death requires significant emotional resilience from staff. The UK is comprised of individuals who have a number of life and death values which are, to some extent, based upon their faith, culture, and ethnicity. This paper seeks to provide an overview of some of key issues relating ...

Faith, as the key element of the mass psyche, manifests itself in the public mind and the collective unconscious. Systematization of the diverse phenomenology of faith, the distinction of its scope, forms and kinds allows us diagnose its nonadaptive variants and develop the specifi c principles and methods of correction and therapy. Rational understanding of the typology of faith allows develop...

one of the worst phenomena in a muslim’s life is apostasy. an apostate has renounced the faith and denies the principles and precepts of religion after accepting it. if either parent or both are muslims and their child accepted islam after his maturity, but he denied it later, he/she is called a natural apostate. however, if a person was born to a non-muslim family and converted to islam after ...

Karl Popper discussed admirably the choice between faith and reason [Popper, 1945, Ch. 24]. He admitted that the basis of rationalism is a faith of sorts, a faith in reason. Later on his disciple William W. Bartley dissented from him [Bartley, 1962] and even called him a fideist [Radnitzky and Bartley, 1987, 205, 208, 210-11], much to his annoyance. All this caused bad blood between the two [La...