Nostalgia, to some people, may seem foolhardy in a way. However, nostalgia is a completely and intensely private but social, collective emotion. It has continuing consequence and outgrowth for our lives as social actions. It leads people to hunt and explore remembrance of persons and places of our past in an effort to confer meaning of persons and places of present. In the ‘Poems of 1912-13’ Th...

Abstract What should we think about ‘acts of conscience’, viz., cases where our personal judgments and public authority come into conflict such that principled resistance to the latter seems necessary? Philosophers mainly debate two issues: Accommodation Question , i.e., ‘When, if ever, accommodate claims conscience?’ Justification are justified in engaging acts conscience – why?’. By contrast,...

Physicians sometimes refuse to provide legally permitted medical services on the grounds that they cannot do so in good conscience. Such conscientious refusals are at least as old as the Hippocratic movement. Yet new events, such as the refusal by health care professionals to prescribe or dispense post-coital (‘‘emergency’’) contraception, have kindled new debates about what physicians are obli...

The hidden-action moral hazard model is one of the cornerstones of contract theory and it has become a basic tool to analyze job contracts and other agency relationships. Close social ties often implied by such relationships make the moral hazard model a prime application of approaches where agents care about inequity, and intrinsically reciprocate each others’ kind and hostile intentions. We c...

If a claimant, C, gives property to the defendant, D, as a result of actual or presumed undue influence over C by another person, X, why is D liable to rescind the gift? A common misconception, given Equity’s ubiquitous concern with conscience, is that D’s liability must be based upon fault and that this will be established if D was aware of the relationship of influence between C and X. 1 Prof...