III.—HEDONISM AND ULTIMATE GOOD

Doing the ultimate public good through Teacher Education

It is argued here that the many public goods associated with education are derivatives of an ultimate good. This ultimate good is the overall purpose of life in general and is similar to a telos as understood in ancient Greek culture. This paper reviews the notions of ‘good' and telos, and examines implications of Bauman’s analysis of our present individualizing era, the role of personal meanin...

Good Governance and Urban Management

The pattern of governance is a new topic which has found its traces in urban management, and has the features of continuance, decision making, justice, efficiency, effectiveness, clarity, accountability, partnership, and immunity, all of which are interdependent and empowering. According to this pattern, decisions about civil affairs are taken with the cooperation of government, private sectors...

Ultimate Cloud

One of the supreme perplexing problems of cloud service provisioning is to motivate users to believe and to trust the security of cloud service and upstream their sensitive data. Even though cloud service providers can say that their services are heavily protected by extravagant encryption methodologies, modern cloud systems still cannot convince the users that even if the cloud servers are exp...

Ultimate Computing

Satanic Indifference and Ultimate Reality

Satan has captured the imagination of writers in the English language for centuries. This figure and the notion of evil have gone through many changes in English literature of the 19 and 20 centuries. Something changed Satan during this time, and made him into an arbiter of truth rather than a figure of rebellion. In The Mysterious Stranger, Mark Twain used him as the grand narrator of the univ...