World events and psychological research often fail to support a relationship between religion and forgiveness. We suggest that the gap between general religious support of forgiveness and actual forgiveness by religious individuals (the religionforgiveness discrepancy) described by McCullough and Worthington (1999) may be partly due to methodological shortcomings. We present three studies with ...

This paper argues for and explores the implications of the following epistemological principle for knowability a priori (with ‘KA’ abbreviating ‘it is knowable a priori that’). (AK) For all /, w such that / semantically presupposes w: if KA/; KAw: Well-known arguments for the contingent a priori and a priori knowledge of logical truth founder when the semantic presuppositions of the putative it...

We study when two-member household choice behavior is compatible with Pareto optimality. We ask when an external observer of household choices, who does not know the individuals’ preferences, can rationalize the choices as being Pareto-optimal. Our main contribution is to reduce the problem of rationalization to a graph-coloring problem. As a result, we obtain simple tests for Pareto optimal ch...

Ihsan is the pursuit of excellence in worship and daily activities to achieve success happiness so as be rewarded with sweetness faith Paradise for doing something beyond what required. A person who does not pursue ihsan considered zalim (wrongful or unjust) failing his religious obligations long he just fair. The main goal Islamic banking institutions avoid all forms zulm (injustice, cruelty, ...