What is the relationship between religious affiliation and conceptions of moral domain? Putting aside question whether people from different religions agree about how to answer questions, here we investigate a more fundamental question: How much disagreement there across which issues count as in first place? That is, do conceptualize scope morality differently? Using new methodology map out ind...

Pragmatizmin öncü filozoflarından olan John Dewey, genel olarak felsefesinde insanın karşılaştığı problemlere çözümler sunmaya çalışmıştır. Bu çözümlerinde onun düalizme karşı olduğu, çevresiyle uyumuna ehemmiyet verdiği ve insan deneyimini merkeze aldığı görülmektedir. Felsefesinin bu temel özellikleri başta eğitim felsefesi olmak üzere din ahlaka ilişkin fikirlerinde de öne çıkmaktadır. Dewey...

Physical cleansing has been a focal element in religious ceremonies for thousands of years. The prevalence of this practice suggests a psychological association between bodily purity and moral purity. In three studies, we explored what we call the "Macbeth effect"-that is, a threat to one's moral purity induces the need to cleanse oneself. This effect revealed itself through an increased mental...

Despite widespread acceptance in the United States of neurological criteria to determine death, clinicians encounter families who object, often on religious grounds, to the categorization of their loved ones as "brain dead." The concept of "reasonable accommodation" of objections to brain death, promulgated in both state statutes and the bioethics literature, suggests the possibility of comprom...

The major objective of this research was to assess the impact of corruption upon the prevalent religious values in Peshawar. The conceptual framework comprise of perception of religious values as independent variable, and corruption perception as dependent variable. The objectives were to find out people’s perception, causes and institutional role regarding corruption and social values, and sug...

The problem of respecting the patients' religious-based decisions seems to play increasingly important role in medical practice. Most probably it happens because: (i) bioethical standards accentuate the principle of the respect for autonomy (the departure form medical paternalism) and (ii) the contacts between people belonging to different religious traditions are becoming more and more frequen...

The changes are of many different kinds. In the religious realm, the role of the Lutheran folk church that formerly was very influential in many parts of society has changed. The differentiation of society in Modernity diminished the immediate significance of religion outside a narrow religious sphere. Today one can see an increasing interest in religion but this does not mean a return to the r...