Epidemiologists, like many scientists, tend to become specialized and focused on a particular disease, even though behavioral risk factors such as physical activity have effects across many diseases. This commentary is a personal reflection by an epidemiologist on the shortcomings of this disease-oriented approach to prevention.

Darwin thought that the moral sense was among most challenging aspects of human life to account for through evolutionary explanations. This article seeks probe question about uniqueness primarily from a theological perspective by focusing in depth on one distinctive sentiment, gratitude, particularly Thomas Aquinas. It uses example as case study how consider validity arguments within broader co...

One of the most influential English writers twentieth century David Herbert Lawrence makes biblical allusions in his novella titled The Man Who Died. casts aspersions on doctrines Christianity and raises doubts about Christians’ established truths same way that German philospher cultural critic Nietzsche does. That is to say, main generic affinity which links Lawrence’s Nietzsche’s theoretical ...

In The Order of Public Reason (2011a), Gerald Gaus rejects the instrumental approach to morality as a viable account of social morality. Gaus’ rejection of the instrumental approach to morality, and his own moral theory, raise important foundational questions concerning the adequate scope of instrumental morality. In this article, I address some of these questions and I argue that Gaus’ rejecti...

Longstanding debates about whether morality is best defined in terms of emotions or judgments have been recently rekindled. In this essay, we review recent approaches from social psychology and moral neuroscience that have emphasized emotions and intuitions as central to morality. We assert that the results of developmental science research on judgments and reasoning informs these approaches an...

Bentham’s attack on organised religion was principally an the ‘Church-of-Englandist’ ruling few, and, in particular, ecclesiastical establishment. This article will examine argument that establishment fostered and exploited religious belief, as well hopes fears associated with popular religiosity, pursuit of ‘sinister interest’. Bentham recognised a senior clergy extorted enormous sums money fr...

BACKGROUND The principles of biomedical ethics - autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence, and justice - are of paradigmatic importance for framing ethical problems in medicine and for teaching ethics to medical students and professionals. In order to underline this significance, Tom L. Beauchamp and James F. Childress base the principles in the common morality, i.e. they claim that the principle...