Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive...

The article reflects on the significance of a special memorable - anniversary date from birthday outstanding Russian statesman, reformer and jurist Mikhail Mikhailovich Speransky (1772-1839). authors show importance commemorative practices associated with this event, which have significant pedagogical effect, as well ongoing controversy over reform legal education. Due to continuity discussion ...

This article examines the legal implications linked to recent scientific research on human consciousness. The article contends that groundbreaking revelations about consciousness expose the frailties of the criminal law's traditional dual dichotomies of conscious versus unconscious thought processes and voluntary versus involuntary acts. These binary doctrines have no valid scientific foundatio...

ThisArticle broadly examines the conservative Rehnquist Court's federalism doctrines and, in doing so, explores the connections between judicial conservatism and a commitment to federalism. Three conclusions emerge First, although the Court has moved aggressively to advance federalism through well-known doctrines, it frequently proves more substantively conservative than it does profederalism w...

The authority of educators in general, and the authority of the moral educator in particular, are central and pervasive themes in John Wilson’s writings. This paper summarises his account of authority in educational relationships, not simply by describing the results of his analysis, but by reconstructing his views in terms of some basic distinctions between different types of authority, in par...

Mahavira, 24th Tirthankara of Jainism is highly celebrated figure in the world for his ideas that revolutionized world. He was a realist thinker who tried hard to spread humanitarian values, human-centric teachings centred on making one’s life viable himself and others. This paper an attempt present brief one aspect Mahavira’s model individual well-being comparing it with ‘Capability-approach’ ...

Philosophical perspectives are worldviews that define the nature of the world, the individual’s place in it, and the possible relationships to that world and its parts. Learning and instructional theories are developed with respect to a particular set of assumptions regarding what it means to know and learn. It is our contention that when situational variables require some decision on the part ...

The historical development of concepts of causality in philosophy is described. Since the Enlightenment and the growth of science, exponents of the two most important concepts, determinism and teleology, have been in conflict. At the inception of psychoanalysis at the end of the nineteenth century this conflict was particularly intense. It was the cause of the first major schism in psychoanalys...