Kantianism and Emile Durkheim`s Ethical Theory
... All practical principles which presuppose an object (material) of the faculty of desire as the determining ground of the will are without exception empirical and can furnish no practical laws. (Kant, 1956, p. 19) What Kant is implying here is that when one's principle, or ...
... All practical principles which presuppose an object (material) of the faculty of desire as the determining ground of the will are without exception empirical and can furnish no practical laws. (Kant, 1956, p. 19) What Kant is implying here is that when one's principle, or ...
The Natural Law Foundations of Modern Social Theory
... problem of universalism as the core component of the natural law tradition as a whole. For its part social theory is here conceived as the modern intellectual programme that, over the past two hundred or so years, has sought to understand the rise and main features of a number of socio-historical tr ...
... problem of universalism as the core component of the natural law tradition as a whole. For its part social theory is here conceived as the modern intellectual programme that, over the past two hundred or so years, has sought to understand the rise and main features of a number of socio-historical tr ...
Module 4_1
... understanding in general, then theological hermeneutics is about faith seeking such understanding. Just as it is legitimate for a literary hermeneutics to presume the role of the aesthetic attitude in understanding a literary work of art, so too it is legitimate for a theological hermeneutics to pre ...
... understanding in general, then theological hermeneutics is about faith seeking such understanding. Just as it is legitimate for a literary hermeneutics to presume the role of the aesthetic attitude in understanding a literary work of art, so too it is legitimate for a theological hermeneutics to pre ...
Universal Values, Contextualization and Bioethics: Knowledge
... example, or about their »societal robustness.« What is interesting for us here in relation to bioethics is the fact that bioethics is not only a discipline about (bio)technology, but due to its engagement with regulatory and policy related issues it has the power to make possible (or impossible) cer ...
... example, or about their »societal robustness.« What is interesting for us here in relation to bioethics is the fact that bioethics is not only a discipline about (bio)technology, but due to its engagement with regulatory and policy related issues it has the power to make possible (or impossible) cer ...
SOCIAL IDENTITY, SECOND EDITION
... Too much contemporary writing about identity treats it as something that simply is. This pays insufficient attention to how identity ‘works’ or ‘is worked’, to process and reflexivity, to the social construction of identity in interaction and institutionally. Understanding these processes is central t ...
... Too much contemporary writing about identity treats it as something that simply is. This pays insufficient attention to how identity ‘works’ or ‘is worked’, to process and reflexivity, to the social construction of identity in interaction and institutionally. Understanding these processes is central t ...
Time and the Biological Consequences of Globalization
... affecting local clock time, does affect one’s relationship to the temporal markers of dawn and dusk and to seasonal changes. In many animals, humans included, the farther one is from the equator, the greater the seasonal variation in hormonal cycles, particularly melatonin (Schwartz et al. 2001; Weh ...
... affecting local clock time, does affect one’s relationship to the temporal markers of dawn and dusk and to seasonal changes. In many animals, humans included, the farther one is from the equator, the greater the seasonal variation in hormonal cycles, particularly melatonin (Schwartz et al. 2001; Weh ...
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... addition, people believe that the world today has hit a moral low point where greed, falsity and vanity are now considered value-neutral. Sometimes they even look like positive social values and norms. Yet more serious than that, modern society is becoming not only immoral, but rather—insensitive to ...
... addition, people believe that the world today has hit a moral low point where greed, falsity and vanity are now considered value-neutral. Sometimes they even look like positive social values and norms. Yet more serious than that, modern society is becoming not only immoral, but rather—insensitive to ...
Postmodernism and Sociology: From the - CJ
... classical paradigms and to create new concepts to better describe contemporary society, culture, economics, and politics. I call this new postmodern sociology empirical postmodernism to differentiate it from the period before. The contributions of this article are three. The first is to locate the p ...
... classical paradigms and to create new concepts to better describe contemporary society, culture, economics, and politics. I call this new postmodern sociology empirical postmodernism to differentiate it from the period before. The contributions of this article are three. The first is to locate the p ...
Untitled - sikkim university library
... His research is interdisciplinary in nature and explores the ambiguous status of non-humans in the social sciences and other modern knowledge-practices. This often leads him to focus on exploring the constitution of ‘the social’ within material, ecological and interspecies relations, networks and fl ...
... His research is interdisciplinary in nature and explores the ambiguous status of non-humans in the social sciences and other modern knowledge-practices. This often leads him to focus on exploring the constitution of ‘the social’ within material, ecological and interspecies relations, networks and fl ...
The Formula of the Universal Law
... original usage. Next, I will show (at some length) how it might be applied to Kant’s practical reasoning. I will conclude this section by evaluating the dualism argument and showing whether it—similar to the fanciful murder maxim that I previously described— plausibly exposes certain weaknesses that ...
... original usage. Next, I will show (at some length) how it might be applied to Kant’s practical reasoning. I will conclude this section by evaluating the dualism argument and showing whether it—similar to the fanciful murder maxim that I previously described— plausibly exposes certain weaknesses that ...