abstract: comparison of justice in islam and utilitarianism this article is to explain and compare justice in islam and utilitarianism. first, it is pointed to difinition and necessary and divisions of justice in islam: justice is putting of everything in its suit place. because of being absoulatly complete of god, his commands and prohibitions are justicely. knowledge of all human needs and th...

The recent report by Barnhill and King about obesity prevention policy raises important issues for discussion and analysis. In response, this article raises four points for further consideration. First, a distinction between equality and justice needs to be made and consistently maintained. Second, different theories of justice highlight one additional important source of disagreement about the...

ibn sina speaks repeatedly of the distinction between the specific (khas) being and the positive (ijabi) being; a distinction on the basis of which is his distinction of being and essence. thence, the famous problem of the distinction of being and essence is applicable to this distinction too. the difficulty is this: if the specific being is 'being'? this is indeed a problem about ess...

The recently recognized aetosaur Tecovasuchus chatterjeei Martz and Small occurs at several localities in lower Chinle Group strata across Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. Based on lithostratigraphic correlation and other vertebrate occurrences, all Tecovasuchus occurrences are of Adamanian age. Indeed, all occurrences are consistent with assignment to the St. Johnsian sub-land vertebrate faunac...

Appealing to Albert Einstein’s distinction between principle and constructive theories, Harvey Brown has argued for an interpretation of the theory of relativity as a dynamic and constructive theory. Brown’s view has been challenged by Michel Janssen and in this paper I investigate their dispute. I argue that their disagreement appears larger than it actually is due to the two frameworks used b...

In an article written for the London Times in 1919, Einstein presented a remarkably clear and succinct, non-technical account of the theory of relativity. He began by drawing a distinction between &constructive' and &principle' theories, and pointed out that the theory of relativity should be understood as a principle theory &in order to properly grasp its nature'. (I use the translation in Ein...