In this paper, I will argue that, while the ethical issues raised by cluster randomization can be challenging, they are not new. My thesis divides neatly into two parts. In the first, easier part I argue that many of the ethical challenges posed by cluster randomized human subjects research are clearly present in other types of human subjects research, and so are not novel. In the second, more ...

ontemporary ethical theory begins with G. E. Moore (1873–1958). Moore opened up new issues for consideration and altered the focus of ethical discussion. Much of twentieth-century analytic ethics, at least until recently, treated issues that were raised by Moore or by philosophers responding either to him or to other respondents. Although analytic ethical philosophers discussed many questions t...

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Quantum mechanics has been utterly successful as a physical description of the sub-astronomic. It has led to unprecedented technological accomplishments, such as microprocessors, modern pharmaceuticals, and advanced materials. It has revealed compelling theoretical insights into nature, such as the reality of the atom and the understanding of its properties both isolated and as a part of compou...

The article discusses the main ideas of F. M. Dostoevsky’s political philosophy and their organic connection with integrity his Orthodox worldview. It is shown that monarchism writer, artistic world understanding a person as spiritual being shared same higher moral foundations. philosophy, though unappreciated by readers from “the educated stratum”, at time exactly corresponded to off icial ide...