"Petty corruption and honesty in all health care systems" is the original title of one of the bioethics networks within the worldwide study projects of the International Association of Bioethics. As the coordinator of this network, it still puzzles me why the word "petty" is in the title when in the past few years-through interviews and questionnaires involving 18 countries-it has become eviden...

At of end his book, John Parascandola writes, “It is my hope that the reader ... acquired a broader appreciation of disease as a social as well as a medical construct and of the way in which social and cultural factors influence our understanding of and reaction to any given disease.” The social context of syphilis is nicely summarized by the title, Sex, Sin, and Science: A History of Syphilis ...

Justin Barrett and Kelly James Clark have suggested that cognitive science of religion supports the existence a god-faculty akin to sensus divinitatis. They propose God may given rise via guided evolution. This suggestion raises two theological worries. First, our natural cognition seems favor false god-beliefs over true ones. Second, it also makes us prone tribalism. If hates idolatry moral ev...

Resenha do livro: “Ponerologia: psicopatas no poder” filósofo e psicólogo polonês Andrzej Lobaczewski. O livro apresenta dez capítulos é o resultado de uma pesquisa sobre a presença personalidades perversas, psicopáticas, na política liderança religiosa. Analisa influência dos valores psicopáticos cultura, bem como fato deles serem atraídos pelo poder. também propõe criação da ciência chamada “...

This essay explores Emerson’s reflections on self-reliance with particular reference to Emerson’s understanding of the concept of self-reliance, his view of ‘conformity’ as the major obstacle to self-reliance, and the moral significance of his thought. The essay is based on the premise that Emerson’s philosophy of self-reliance, self-reference and self-responsibility has a relevance and an appl...

In this study, I analyze Maleficent (2014), the first Disney film to place a previously antagonist character into protagonist in new film. thesis, found changes personality of from good evil and back that caused her experience anxieties. Therefore, use Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory three fundamental elements human psyche (id, ego, superego), anxiety defense mechanisms. Based on my analy...

Miracles and the problem of evil are two prominent areas of research within philosophy of religion. On occasion these areas converge, with God’s goodness being brought into question by the claim that either there is a lack of miracles, or there are immoral miracles. In this paper I shall highlight a second manner in which miracles and the problem of evil relate. Namely, I shall give reason as t...

For example, all the Fermat primes are evil while all the Mersenne primes > 3 are odious. Using direct calculations up to 10 we noticed that among the primes not exceeding n the evil primes are never in majority except for the cases n = 5 and n = 6. Moreover, in the considered limits the excess of the odious primes is not monotone but increases on the whole with records on primes 2, 13, 41, 67,...