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Millgram, Elijah | Does the categorical imperative give rise to a contradiction in the will? | The Brave New World-style utilitarian dystopia is a familiar feature of the cultural landscape; Kantian dystopias are harder to come by, perhaps because, until Rawls, Kantian morality presented itself as a primarily personal rather than political program. This asymmetry is peculiar for formal reas... | Categorical imperative; Dystopia; Self-refutation | 2003 |
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Goldberg, Robert A. | Don't know much about history | Most of us have heard of the "Greatest Generation," those who weathered the storms of the Great Depression and World War II. Many of us are Baby Boomers, born between 1946 and 1965. Other are part of the cynical and worldly Generation X-arriving between the mid '60s and the early '80s-raised in the ... | 2003 | |
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Chatterjee, Deen | Moral distance: introduction | This issue of The Monist is devoted to the question of how we should gauge the moral significance of distance. "Moral distance," by analogy with "aesthetic distance," may signify degrees of moral indifference, but that is not the theme we are concerned with here. The problem of distance in mora... | Distance; Boundaries; Morality | 2003 |
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Andreou, Chrisoula | Rationality and Freedom by Amartya Sen [review] | A review of Rationality and Freedom, the first of two volumes of essays by Amartya Sen on rationality, freedom, and justice. | Book review; Rationality; Freedom; Justice | 2003 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | Review of angels of death: exploring the euthanasia underground | Roger Magnusson's angels of death describes the practice of extralegal assisted suicide and euthanasia by physicians, nurses, technicians, and other health care professionals who provide care to seriously ill patients and patients with AIDS who are dying. It is based on a snowball sample of 49 detai... | 2003 | |
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Battin, Margaret P. | Scott Ames: a man giving up on himself | The tragic story of Scott Ames raises a fundamental question concerning involuntary commitment of patients when suicide seems likely. What right has a physician ever to interfere when apatient proposes to take his own life? Under ordinary cirucmstances one argues that because of depression, or some ... | Suicide prevention; Scott Ames | 2003 |
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Parker, Bradley J. | Archaeological manifestations of empire: Assyrias imprint on Southeastern Anatolia | One of the most enduring problems for the study of ancient empires is the fact that material correlates indicative of imperial integration are often difficult to define in the archaeological record. This situation results in part from two factors that distinguish empires from other less complex poli... | 2003-01-01 | |
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Parker, Bradley J. | The early second millennium ceramic assemblage from Kenan Tepe, Southeastern Turkey: a preliminary assessment | In the initial survey of the upper Tigris river valley the authors o f the survey report concluded that ‘either this portion o f the Tigris basin was bypassed entirely by Middle Bronze Age development attested to elsewhere or, more likely, it is characterised by a thus far unreported and unrecogni... | 2003-01-01 | |
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Kukathas, Chandran | Multiculturalism of Fear (Book Review) | Reviews the book "The Multiculturalism of Fear," by Jacob Levy. | Books; Multiculturalism; Fear | 2003-10-16 |
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