after 11 september attack, anticipatory self defense has obtained specific situation in the doctrine ,of western states. these countries with financial and military power are seeking to justify this doctrine. this type of defense is contrary to article 51 of the charter of united nations that expresses the concept of self defense. in this paper, the authors are going to verify and show that thi...

The fall of man into sin has made fail to understand God's truth about creation the universe. Humans seek uncover with secularism, which focuses on their thought and rejects God as creator. Worldview that opposes Creator become philosophical issues in Christian education must be criticized Biblical truth. teachers have responsibility shape students' worldview based Bible. This paper purpose exa...

In this paper, we consider three arguments for the irrelevance of the doctrine of double effect in end-of-life decision making. The third argument is our own and, to that extent, we seek to defend it. The first argument is that end-of-life decisions do not in fact shorten lives and that, therefore, there is no need for the doctrine in justification of these decisions. We reject this argument; s...

Mainstream geographical economics propagates the free trade doctrine, presenting capitalism as entailing, but capable of overcoming, uneven geographical development. Geographers have failed to engage with the international trade theories that rationalize this, or develop alternatives. Beginning with the entanglements through which trade happens, I examine how theories rationalizing the free tra...

Recently, I’ve championed the doctrine that fundamentally different sorts of things exist in fundamentally different ways. On this view, what it is for an entity to be can differ across ontological categories. Although historically this doctrine was very popular, and several important challenges to this doctrine have been dealt with, I suspect that contemporary metaphysicians will continue to t...

The doctrine of consideration, with its emphasis upon exchange, and its general rejection of 'more for the same', seems inadequate for the modern environment in which flexible rewards may reflect the employer's concern that the importance of individual staff to an enterprise may not remain constant and may alter as the commercial context in which their work is performed fluctuates. Although ver...

Gyula Klima, Review of A. Kenny: Aquinas on Mind (New York: Routledge, 1995) in Faith and Philosophy 15 (1998) 113–17. In this essay I will only deal with Kenny’s charges against Aquinas’s doctrine that directly concern Aquinas’s doctrine of being, namely, the charge of his failure to distinguish “specifi c existence” from “individual being” à la Frege, and the charges against Aquinas’s doctrin...

In this paper, we consider three arguments for the irrelevance of the doctrine of double effect in end-of-life decision making. The third argument is our own and, to that extent, we seek to defend it. The first argument is that end-of-life decisions do not in fact shorten lives and that therefore there is no need for the doctrine in justification of these decisions. We reject this argument; som...