All human relationships involve some form of cost and benefit and altruism forms the foundation upon which human relationships are built. In this paper, a taxonomy of human relationships in terms of altruism was constructed. In the proposed taxonomy, human relationships are categorized into three major groups: primary group, secondary group, and tertiary group. The primary group consists of mem...

Ilya S. Geller [email protected] Abstract. In this article I substantiate my position that a human being is a point of accumulation – that is, an object. And based on this assumption I provide a foundation for my ontological justification of Differential Linguistics: I then introduce the understanding that ‘becoming better and the best’ is what motivates an object to movement (and change). ...

Consideration was given to a model of social dynamics controlled by successive collective decisions based on the threshold majority procedures. The current system state is characterized by the vector of participants’ capitals (utilities). At each step, the voters can either retain their status quo or accept the proposal which is a vector of the algebraic increments in the capitals of the partic...

Based on Hunt and Vitell’s theory of ethics, using three vignettes, we tested intrinsic extrinsic religiosities five ethical principles (justice, deontology, relativism, egoism, utilitarianism) in the decision-making process 232 Indian business professionals. Intrinsic religiosity is positively related to recognition intent negatively vignette concerning duty care. Although predicted justice, d...