For the most part, public finance theory follows economic theory in taking individual preferences as given. The resulting analytical agenda revolves around the ability of different fiscal institutions to reflect and aggregate those preferences into collective outcomes. This paper explores to what extent fiscal institutions can influence and shape what are commonly referred to as preferences. St...

2007 III DEDICATION To the owners of the glowing hearts and burning vigor.……………. To those who sacrificed their money, souls and blood for their faith..... To those who faced the devil of evil and the devil of craving………. To Al-Aqsa Intifada martyrs and all the martyrs of Palestine………. To the spirit of the struggling martyr, my nephew, Rami Ganim……… To the stubborn heroes and political prisoners...

Allocortical structures such as hippocampal formation and amygdala are involved in the emotions and memory, and regarded as the seat of personhood. Human body is a composite of a biological organism and an intellective soul. It was suggested that cerebral allocortex is the main region harboring the soul and the beginning of a human person as an individual living organism is at the 13 week of de...

Introduction Ancient Jewish teaching circa selfhood was quite holistic. The Hebrew word nefeš is often translated as “soul” but also means “body”, whereas Paul clearly distinguishes the two, talking about a co-existence, “concupiscence”, and the necessity of dominating the body to exalt the spirit. I will examine the semantic changes in words dealing with body and soul, and how Paul’s authority...

Firing another salvo in the on-going monism-dualism debate, Joel B. Green in his new book Body, Soul, and Human Life, presents his ontological monism, a rebuttal against anthropological dualism in general and against the holistic dualism in Body, Soul, and Everlasting Life by John W. Cooper in particular. Green’s anthropological monism, which “coheres well with Nancey Murphy’s argument . . . an...

philosophers view the advantage of human soul over animal soul in theoretical and practical intellect. however, there is disagreement among them in stating the quiddity of these two intellects. with a deliberation on their words, at least four interpretations can be implied from these two intellects. after reporting the statements and expressing the functions of practical intellect, the article...