Ethics refers to moral considerations on a human level. It includes standards of what is considered inherently “right or wrong” in terms of rights, obligations, and benefits to individuals and to society. Furthermore, ethical considerations involve the precepts of specific virtues such as honesty and fairness, and impose obligations on conduct, including the obligation to avoid harm to others a...

In the past decade radical changes have occurred in our understanding of the character of moral beliefs, precepts, and prescriptions, and how these are or can be justified. Profound changes have also taken place in our view of the nature of scientific inquiry, particularly in the human sciences, and how scientific knowledge claims can be justified. These changes reflect a larger transition betw...

Second, I have tried to exhibit the peculiarly illogical character of basing an objection to a secular policy on religious revelation. The objectors should concede that nothing they ha ve to say in criticism of the policy ought to persuade a disinterested person. That being so, we had best pass over their objection in silence, for there is nothing that could be said in criticism of it that the ...

Ŭijŏk 義寂 and Sŭngjang 勝莊 both wrote Fanwang jing 梵網経 commentaries quoting the Yogācārabhūmi 瑜伽師地論. However, there is a decisive difference between them in purpose of such quotations. quoted order to expound jing, but commented on itself. These differences are also related their respective understandings precepts戒律. held position that all sentient beings possess buddha-nature一切衆生悉有仏性. For Sŭngja...

prophets’ hadiths are such hadiths narrated in islamic traditional books which narrate some words of divine prophets or ancient celestial books. those hadiths are scattered on the one hand and on a variety of subjects on the other. gathering and classification of those hadiths bear fruitful results. there are 1053 hadiths narrated from 34 prophets in traditional books of them 60% deal with fund...

The field of software development methodology is not new. Its origins may be traced to Dijkstra's famous "Goto" letter [1] and subsequent publications by the same author and his colleagues on structured programming. More recent literature, however, has not always been up to the intellectual standards of that early work. The present discussion was prompted by a critical examination of the curren...

FINANCING AND FUNDS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT There are three broad classes of policy that are required if the world is to aspire to, and perhaps achieve, sustainable development. The first two involve no significant change in the financing of economic development, although they have implications for financing. The third explicitly addresses the issue of financing. The first two policies are:...

The sanctions for prohibited behavior in Vinaya texts are based on the precepts. It is, however, padabhājaniya (commentaries prātimokṣa) and vinītaka (case-law sections) that these further developed explained. In Vinayas, intention (the monk’s motivations while committing an act), action monk carried out), outcome effect of this others) generally understood to be three factors affect sanctionin...