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  • The Professor of Love

    by Don Nieve ...
    (A fantastic story about masculine self-esteem, in today's environment... with some psychology, philosophy... and humor.)A young man is plunged into a terrible depression, due to his recent separation after many years of relationship with his first love. A strange message, which arrives on his laptop, challenges him to embark on a spiritual journey, which will take him to the Himalayan lands... ... Read more

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  • Why "Happy Meat" Is Always Wrong

    The “happy meat” position does not challenge our large-scale mistreatment of non-human beings, but rather serves to support it. That is among the core claims of this essay, which argues that the rejection of the "happy meat" position is critical if we are to end the extreme horrors that humanity inflicts upon other animals."Magnus Vinding argues powerfully against eating 'happy meat'."— Peter ... Read more

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  • Philosophy of a Martyr

    by Adam Richard ...
    A unique ethical system is defended here. Commonly, the moral sense is thought to arise from evolution, as a sense of duty to one’s clan. It is here argued that this sense is in fact a red herring, and that there is a true ethics less sought after which natural selection in fact selects against. The position is derived from first principles in the beginning sections. In the later sections, ... Read more

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  • In Defense of the ‘Moral Irrelevancy Position’ on IQ Group Differences

    by Max Fairness ...
    Group differences in IQ is perhaps the single most controversial topic in modern intellectual discourse. Unfortunately, the debate surrounding this topic tends to be misconceived: it often implicitly accepts the assumption that group differences in IQ would matter morally. Max Fairness argues against this assumption.Based on common sense, Fairness defends what he calls the 'moral irrelevancy ... Read more

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  • A Philosophical Examination of Social Justice and Child Poverty

    This book is open access under a CCBY license. This book investigates child poverty from a philosophical perspective. It identifies the injustices of child poverty, relates them to the well-being of children, and discusses who has a moral responsibility to secure social justice for children. ... Read more

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  • Sleep, Sparrow, Sleep

    Watching my ma crumple into the absurd vortex that is dementia, meant I spent a lot of time sitting by her bed as she-often drug induced--dreamt and jolted in and out of consciousness. As an expat Canadian, I was only able to see my old girl during the December and June breaks from the school where I work. So I was weighted by a strange guilt (of course beyond my control) and I was also afforded ... Read more

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  • Messaggi di risveglio

    Qual è il senso di tutto questo, di tutto l'immenso che ci circonda?Qual è lo scopo di cotanta perfezione?Se siamo alla ricerca della perfezione nella nostra vita quotidiana, affinché ci renda la vita migliore, perché non ci rendiamo conto che la perfezione del mondo che ci è stato donato, la perfezione della natura, è un chiaro segno che l'opportunità della vita ci è stata data per essere felici ... Read more

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  • Evolution and Ethics of Eugenics

    As eugenics is defined, it is very difficult to make a clear distinction between science (medicine, genetic engineering) and eugenics as a included field. And to set a line over which genetic engineering should not go further, according to moral, legal and religious norms. If we accept the help of genetics in finding ways to fight cancer, diabetes, or HIV, we also accept positive eugenics as they ... Read more

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  • Preuves de l'existence de Dieu

    by Rachid Maach ...
    Preuves rationnelles et philosophiques de l'existence de Dieu ... Read more

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  • The Philosophy and Psychology of Commitment

    by John Michael ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Philosophy
    The phenomenon of commitment is a cornerstone of human social life. Commitments make individuals’ behavior predictable, thereby facilitating the planning and coordination of joint actions involving multiple agents. Moreover, commitments make people willing to rely upon each other, and thereby contribute to sustaining characteristically human social institutions such as jobs, money, government and ... Read more

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  • Recommender Systems: Legal and Ethical Issues

    Series Book 40 - The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology
    This open access contributed volume examines the ethical and legal foundations of (future) policies on recommender systems and offers a transdisciplinary approach to tackle important issues related to their development, use and integration into online eco-systems. This volume scrutinizes the values driving automated recommendations - what is important for an individual receiving the recommendation ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Health Care Ethics

    The goal of this open access book is to develop an approach to clinical health care ethics that is more accessible to, and usable by, health professionals than the now-dominant approaches that focus, for example, on the application of ethical principles. The book elaborates the view that health professionals have the emotional and intellectual resources to discuss and address ethical issues in ... Read more

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  • The Virtue of Money: How Money Contributes to Peace, Happiness, and Goodness

    by Daniel Nelson ...
    Think about all the myths you’ve been taught about money. Money does not contribute to peace of mind. Material things do not contribute to happiness. We can never honor things if we use them as a means to self-enhancement.Author Daniel Arthur Nelson sweeps those falsehoods aside. He contends that money helps people achieve great things, and wanting it is an honorable desire.Money can bring ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Thoughts

    This is a brief mental digression covering the essential struggle of life and the importance of wisdom, often to be found within a spiritual framework. The key to life is setting the right mental disposition for a consideration of life's essential value, and indeed perceiving some of the mystery of things. ... Read more

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  • Eradicating Barriers in Religion

    Creating Unity through Cultural Diversity

    by Apurva Dixit ...
    This book highlights the similarities between various religions and depicts how it is only the stereotypes in society which differentiate them from each other. Through exploring the thrilling evolution of cultures and representing how the religions’ difficult pasts can be transformed into a bright future ahead, individuals get a sense of the importance of unity.The primary purpose of this piece is ... Read more

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  • Isaac Newton vs Robert Hooke sur la loi de la gravitation universelle

    L'une des controverses les disputées sur la priorité des découvertes scientifiques est celle de la loi de la gravitation universelle, entre Isaac Newton et Robert Hooke. Hooke a accusé Newton de plagiat, de reprendre ses idées exprimées dans des travaux antérieurs. J'essaie de montrer, sur la base d'une analyse précédente, que tous les deux scientifiques avaient tort: Robert Hooke parce que sa ... Read more

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  • Contemplate

    by Saqib Hussain ...
    A book of poetry on the human condition, both insightful and inspiring, on issues including relationships, character, life, death and love. ... Read more

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  • Moral Teleology

    A Theory of Progress

    by Hanno Sauer ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory
    This book develops a unified theory of moral progress. The author argues that there are mechanisms in place that consistently drive societies towards moral improvement and that a sophisticated, naturalistically respectable form of teleology can be defended.The book’s main aim is to flesh out the process of moral progress in more detail, and to show how, when the right mechanisms and institutions ... Read more

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  • Phor Mae Phu Sadaeng Lok พ่อแม่ผู้แสดงโลก

    พ่อแม่คือผู้แสดงโลกให้ลูกเห็น พุทธพจน์นี้มีความหมายอย่างไร? พระธรรมเทศนาโดยพระอาจารย์ชยสาโรพระอาจารย์ชยสาโร ชยสาโร ภิกขุ ชยสาโรภิกขุ ชยสาโร อาจารย์ชยสาโร โรงเรียนทอสี ทอสี ปัญญาประทีป มูลนิธิปัญญาประทีป เทศน์ ธรรมะ ธรรมเทศนา เทศนา เทศนาธรรม พุทธ พุทธศาสนา ศาสนา ศาสนาพุทธ พระธรรม เถรวาท หินยาน พระป่า วัดป่า หลวงปู่ชา อาจารย์ชา หลวงพ่อชา พระโพธิญาณเถร พระสงฆ์ บ้านไร่ทอสี บ้านบุญ ปากช่อง Ajahn ... Read more

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  • Lost Dreams

    by Raul Aguilar ...
    Series Book 1 - Observations on the Human Condition
    Observations on the unraveling of a young woman’s dreams. A too common decision to ameliorate loneliness results in a forced change of direction and precipitates a young woman abandoning her dreams. Adult decisions have consequences. ... Read more

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  • 2021

    Wer wir sind, wo wir stehen und wohin wir gehen

    Wie leben wir? Und warum tun wir es gerade so und nicht anders? Und wieso bringen Fortschritt und Entwicklung offensichtlich weniger Glück, aber mehr Unzufriedenheit, Krankheit und Stress in unser Leben. Diese und andere Fragen werden in diesem Buch gestellt und nicht nur das System, sondern das Leben in seiner Gesamtheit zur Beantwortung kritisch hinterfragt. Dabei zeigt die Autorin einen klaren ... Read more

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  • Künstliche Intelligenz in der Forschung

    Neue Möglichkeiten und Herausforderungen für die Wissenschaft

    Series Book 48 - Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment
    Dieses Buch ist eine Open Access Publikation.Der lange gehegte Traum von künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) wird in unserer Alltagswelt zunehmend Realität. Damit verbinden sich hohe gesellschaftliche Erwartungen, aber auch Sorgen hinsichtlich einer schleichenden Entmündigung des Menschen. Am Beispiel des Forschungssektors lotet dieser Band die Optionen, Entwicklungschancen und Risiken von KI-Techniken ... Read more

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  • Vermin, Victims and Disease

    British Debates over Bovine Tuberculosis and Badgers

    This open access book provides the first critical history of the controversy over whether to cull wild badgers to control the spread of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in British cattle. This question has plagued several professional generations of politicians, policymakers, experts and campaigners since the early 1970s. Questions of what is known, who knows, who cares, who to trust and what to do about ... Read more

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  • The Philosophy of Online Manipulation

    Series series Routledge Research in Applied Ethics
    Are we being manipulated online? If so, is being manipulated by online technologies and algorithmic systems notably different from human forms of manipulation? And what is under threat exactly when people are manipulated online?This volume provides philosophical and conceptual depth to debates in digital ethics about online manipulation. The contributions explore the ramifications of our ... Read more

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