Local review of research by ethics committees in the UK has long been held to be an important right of the local research ethics committee and, even with the introduction of the European Clinical Trials Directive, the governance arrangements for research ethics committees continue to allow for local review of multicentre studies. There is no requirement for local review in either the European U...

Article history: Received: 18-06-2015 Revised: 24-09-2015 Accepted: 11-11-2015

All human relationships involve some form of cost and benefit and altruism forms the foundation upon which human relationships are built. In this paper, a taxonomy of human relationships in terms of altruism was constructed. In the proposed taxonomy, human relationships are categorized into three major groups: primary group, secondary group, and tertiary group. The primary group consists of mem...

Ilya S. Geller [email protected] Abstract. In this article I substantiate my position that a human being is a point of accumulation – that is, an object. And based on this assumption I provide a foundation for my ontological justification of Differential Linguistics: I then introduce the understanding that ‘becoming better and the best’ is what motivates an object to movement (and change). ...

Consideration was given to a model of social dynamics controlled by successive collective decisions based on the threshold majority procedures. The current system state is characterized by the vector of participants’ capitals (utilities). At each step, the voters can either retain their status quo or accept the proposal which is a vector of the algebraic increments in the capitals of the partic...

According to Kant’s concept of natural religion, the moral God consists in coordinated aggregate concepts holiness, goodness and justice. I argue that this can be used define a critical account religion’s role within public sphere. In order do so, refer Hermann Cohen’s philosophy religion. Cohen undertakes explicate religion as progress toward “dominion good on earth”, especially relation ideas...

Revisiting Parfit’s ‘Triple Theory’ 
 Resumen: En On What Matters, Derek Parfit trata, según nos dice él mismo, de solucionar lo que Sidgwick denominó “el dualismo la razón práctica”. Según Sidgwick, el intuicionismo y consecuencialismo son fácilmente compatibles dentro un utilitarismo sensato, si bien no se pueden hacer con egoísmo ético. Parfit, quien considera a Kant al propio como sus ...