How are they related to each other? This chapter seeks to answer these questions. Answering the first is simple. Obviously, the current world order cannot be fully understood without taking ‚globalization‛ into consideration. The effects of Globalization reach every corner of the world in different scope and degree. Why is ‚civilization‛ important? It is important because civilization incorpora...

We present a hypothesis as to the cause of diverticulosis coli which is consistent with its geographical distribution, its recent emergence as a medical problem, and its changing incidence. Diverticulosis appears to be a deficiency disease caused by the refining of carbohydrates which entails the removal of vegetable fibre from the diet. Consequently we consider it to be preventable. Diverticul...

martin heidegger, the originator of fundamental ontology, considers the analysis of human as facilitative measures to investigate the meanings of existence. he calls it the fundamental ontology. in heidegger’s view, the precise investigation of existence primarily depends on elucidating what resolves the existential questions namely “dasein”. heidegger is an existential philosopher who believes...

New archaeological evidences of the so-called "Bactrian-Margiana Archaeological Complex" (= BMAC) has invited a change in our knowledge of the cultural relations between Oxus civilization and south-eastern Iran during the III-II millennium B.C. transition period. The new archaeological projects in southern and western Turkmenistan, as well as attested at Gonur Depe, have showed a wider and more...

Historians of science Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, authors of Merchants of Doubt, have written a new book as ambitious as it is concise. The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future is told from the perspective of a Chinese historian several centuries in the future, looking back at our current time and attempting to explain to readers the irrationality of our behavior. In the ...

The announcement that Sir John Gurdon had been awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology was received with great joy by developmental biologists. It was a very special occasion because of his total dedication to science and turning the Golden Rule of western civilization - love your neighbor as yourself - into a reality in our field. This essay attempts to explain how John became ...

"Our Western civilization, it has been said, favours an overdevelopment of the intellect at the expense of the emotions. This is why people prefer nouns to verbs." (Potter 1975: 101) 1. Introduction In the present paper we do not aim at the type of language-based cultural criticism encapsulated in the motto, which is taken from Potter's Changing English – an interesting if somewhat impressionis...

In discussing bioethics and the formulation of neuroethics, the question has arisen as to whether secular humanism should be the sole philosophical guiding light, to the exclusion of any discussion (or even mention) of religious morality, in professional medical ethics. In addition, the question has arisen as to whether freedom or censorship should be part of medical (and neuroscience) journali...

How is it that the name of a brilliant 18th century scientist and philosopher, many of whose exceptional achievements were often advanced for his time, is almost never mentioned in the annals of science? And how did it happen that a man very deeply dedicated to the advancement of science experienced a vision that completely altered the course of his life? We suggest, based on his extensive self...