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Landesman, Bruce M. | Egalitarianism | Despite the popularity of equality as a political value, egalitarianism as a political theory has never, I think, been fully or successfully defended. I aim in this paper to begin the defense of such a view. The egalitarianism I have in mind has as its ideal a condition of equal wellbeing for all p... | Equality; Equal; Theory | 1983 |
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Kachi, Yukio | Gods, forms, and socratic piety | The recent resurgence in Socratic scholarship has been rather unconcerned with the religious dimension of Socrates' thought. Yet there can be no doubt that there is such a dimension, and that it is significant to his Philosophy;. After all, Socrates was tried and found guilty of impiety. | Socrates; Philosophy;; Divine | 1983 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | Least worst death: selective refusal of treatment | In recent years "right-to-die" movements have brought into the public consciousness something most physicians have long known: that in some hopeless medical conditions, heroic efforts to extend life may no longer be humane, and the physician must be prepared to allow the patient to die. Physician re... | Death; Dying; Right to die; Natural death | 1983 |
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White, Nicholas P. | Review of J. Moline, "Plato's theory of understanding | The Introduction to this book promises a " synoptic" (p. xi; cf. p. 183) account of Plato's concept (£moi;f]UT|), which Prof. Moline says is the "central integrating concept" of Plato's dialogues (p. ix). The term "synoptic" here appears to mean that the book treats and links problems in such ar... | Synoptic; Knowledge; Meaning | 1983 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | Suicide and ethical theory | Except in the present century, suicide has been viewed throughout Western history as an act having ethical significance, one for which moral blame or praise was a proper response. Response, of course, varied with the times. During the Stoic era of Greece and Rome, suicide was praised as the morall... | Ethical theory | 1983 |
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Hanna, Patricia Lee | Summaries and comments on Lappin, S. Sorts, ontology and metaphor: the semantics of sortal structure | In this interesting study, Shalom Lappin argues that any adequate theory of sortal incorrectness must meet four requirements. First, it must account for the truth valuelessness of sortally incorrect sentences. Second, it must provide a means of distinguishing truth valuelessness arising from sortal... | Valuelessness; Incorrectness | 1983 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | Telling confessions: confidentiality in the practice of religion | WHEN, if ever, may or should a professional practitioner reveal a confidential disclosure? This is a question of moral concern that arises in many areas of professional ethics. Those who have access to private information include many individuals, among them physicians, psychiatrists, attorneys, tea... | | 1983 |