Introduction. Contemporary challenges to the development of education imply search and understanding highly effective approaches management methods. Experts who have conducted PISA studies in Western educational systems identified a direct correlation between autonomy an institution results its activities. The extrapolation Russian system is possible only with unified theoretical conceptual uni...

This paper considers the justifications for adhering to a principle of confidentiality within medical practice. These are found to derive chiefly from respect for individual autonomy, the doctor/patient contract, and social utility. It is suggested that these will benefit more certainly if secrecy is rejected and the principle of confidentiality is removed from the area of health care.

The recent report by Barnhill and King about obesity prevention policy raises important issues for discussion and analysis. In response, this article raises four points for further consideration. First, a distinction between equality and justice needs to be made and consistently maintained. Second, different theories of justice highlight one additional important source of disagreement about the...

Administrative issues are of vital importance to organizations adopting distributed database technology. Most research systems and emerging commercial DDBMSs have assumed site autonomy as a guiding principle. This paper presents some general problems associated with autonomy and administration in a DDBMS, and discusses the incompatibility between replication transparency and site autonomy. In a...

Abstract In his early writings, Kant regarded the autonomy of will as supreme principle morality, well sole all moral laws and duties conforming to them. Nevertheless, this impressively sounding gradually disappeared from later Kant’s texts, there is not much in literature explain why. Pauline Kleingeld’s purpose, two articles I consider here, address lacuna show that are good philosophical rea...

The author highlights the importance of emotions in all ethical reflections. He describes the most common positions of ethicists employing duties and rights as the basis for ethical thought. The author, goes to Freudian theory as viewed by the utilitarians, stating that the 'quest for pleasure' is not necessarily egocentric, especially for adults. For example, the feeling of solidarity emerges ...

We present LUiGi-H a goal-driven autonomy (GDA) agent. Like other GDA agents it introspectively reasons about its own expectations to formulate new goals. Unlike other GDA agents, LUiGi-H uses cases consisting of hierarchical plans and semantic annotations of the expectations of those plans. Expectations indicate conditions that must be true when parts of the plan are executed. Using an ontolog...

Mental health legislation has received enormous attention internationally in the era of deinstitutionalization, particularly as societies become more risk averse. The response has been framed within a libertarian tradition and the language is almost exclusively about autonomy and partnership. Apart from risk, patient autonomy has gone from being one of the principles in the discourse surroundin...