Abstract People give surprising weight to others’ expectations about their behaviour. I argue the practice of conforming is ethically well-grounded. A special class ‘reasonable expectations’ can create prima facie obligations even in cases where arise from contingent pre-existing practices, and duty-bearer has not created them, or directly benefited them. The obligation arises because substanti...

The matrilineal culture in Minangkabau, West Sumatra, is a that thick with emancipation values and the teachings of feminism. kinship system contains importance gender equality justice, both philosophically terms implementation. However, reality, there has been shift pattern social responsibility towards women's parents who should have position bundo kanduang. change way marked by number being ...

Plato was the first philosopher who discussed love philosophically. The discussion can be found in his work entitled Symposium. Through text analysis of Symposium, perspective about and position philosophical discourse concluded. For Plato, ultimate does not have a relation to body anymore. believed that is hierarchical, it ascends from lower level higher as illustrates Scala Amoris. mental sta...

One of the most profound and philosophically captivating foci modern astronomy is study Earth-like exoplanets in search for life Universe. The paradigm-shifting investigation described here calls a new type scalable space telescope that redefines available light-collecting area space. Nautilus Space Observatory, enabled by multiple-order diffractive optics (the MODE lens), ushering advent large...

Abstract Scholars often suggest that Wisdom of Solomon contains disparate approaches to impiety in chs. 1–9 and 10–19. The earlier chapters approach impious individuals from an ethical perspective, but the latter with ethnocentric and/or nationalistic perspective. In 10–19, presents righteousness as characteristic Jewish people Gentiles. This article argues Wisdom’s is more consistent coherent ...

The law during the colonial and sultanate periods in Indonesia already existed has even been practiced by community, this can be seen establishment of legal theory forms ranging from creed theory, receptio complex to receptie theory. form period had applied before colonialists came, so that there was an attempt at intervention Netherlands against Islamic confronting customary establishing appli...

Abstract In a recent paper, Christian List (2014) has argued for the compatibilism of free will and determinism. Drawing on distinction between physical possibility (used in defining determinism) agential will), constructs formal two-level model which two concepts are consistent. This paper's first contribution is to show that though List's formally consistent, philosophically it falls short es...

In this article, I explore the interplay of yoga, theology and time perimenopause menopause. Through an approach centered physically, theologically philosophically on becoming, find integrated web thinking, feeling moving that weaves new ways perceiving living change; example, suggest, what Keller calls creatio ex profundis, creation from depths a life. bring aspects process (along with feminis...

In education and elsewhere, practitioner researchers sometimes experience ethical bewilderment when established university-based codes prove inadequate. We delineate this philosophically as a quandary, rather than dilemma, necessitating responsible improvisation, which may be supported through hermeneutical conversation. describe an exploratory study with eight participants. Analysis of pictori...

Abstract A powerful idea put forward in the recent philosophy of science literature is that scientific models are best understood as instruments, tools or, more generally, artifacts. This has thus far been developed combination with traditional representational approach: accordingly, current artifactualist accounts treat tools. But artifactualism and representationalism independent views, adopt...