This article explores a disconcerting phenomenon. In recent years, in writing on the subject of assisted suicide, several bioethicists have made extraordinary historical claims. The history of Western moral theories that exhibit disapproval of all forms of suicide is well known. Nevertheless, the bioethicists have claimed that some of Europe's most prominent early modern moral philosophers neve...

We consider a generalization of the drinking philosophers problem, called GDrPP, in which processes may issue AND-OR requests for resources, as opposed to the AND requests of the original formulation. For GDrPP, we introduce a basic priority dynamics that can be regarded as generalizing the edge-reversal priority dynamics underlying the classical solution to the original formulation. The novel ...

Abstract: One of the common characteristics early modern Western European philosophers is emphasis on freedom and equality. Philosophers this period looked for answers to “what equality?” realized equality into fundamental human rights. From John Locke Montesquieu Jean Jacques Rousseau, all consider as natural rights beings. Rousseau’s concept reflected in The Social Contract. At beginning work...

Like morally sensitive hospital staff, philosophers resist routine simplification of morally complex cases. Like hospital clergy, they favour reflective and principled decision-making. Like hospital lawyers, they refine and extend the language we use to formulate and defend our complex decisions. But hospital philosophers are not redundant: they have a wider range of principles and categories a...

جدليَّةُ العلاقةِ بين الشعر والفلسفة هي إشكاليَّةٌ حديثةٌ قديمةٌ، فهي ترتبط في الأصل بالخلاف حول نوعيِّة المعرفة التي يحتاجها الإنسان، هل بالقضايا الفيزيقيَّة، أو بقضايا الوجود الظاهريَّة الحسِّيَّة؟ كما بتحديد مصدر لدى الإنسان. فهل هو العقل المحض الحواسُّ؟ وهل ننقاد خلف المنطق والحساب أم الخيال والوجدان؟ وقد مثَّلت هذه التساؤلاتُ مُنطَلَقَ الخِلافِ الفلاسفة والشعراء طبيعة العلاقة والفلسفة، بدأت الجدليَّةُ مع طرد أفلاطون للشعر...