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Death, Deprivation, and the Symmetry Problem
ABSTRACT According to the deprivation account of the badness of death, death is bad for the one who dies because it deprives her of goods she would otherwise have enjoyed. This view faces the so‐called symmetry problem when one considers prenatal nonexistence. Scholars have proposed various solutions to this problem, but all of them encounter their own
Ryota Ishihara
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Social policy: From axiology to social acceptance
The purpose of this article is to place social policy in the axiological dimension, as well as to present the influence of axiology and social acceptance on the conceptual and real shape of social policy.
Norbert Laurisz
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Rethinking EU environmental law: Towards the ecologisation of the European legal order
Abstract This article critically examines the structural limitations of the EU's environmental legal framework in the context of the current ecological crisis and explores the potential transition towards an ecocentric paradigm. While the EU has developed one of the most advanced environmental regulatory systems globally, its effectiveness remains ...
Susana Borràs‐Pentinat
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ŚCIEŻKI AKSJOLOGICZNYCH ROZSTRZYGNIĘĆ STEFANA MORAWSKIEGO (cz. I) [PDF]
Stefan Morawski, one of the most prominent Polish esteticians, was exspecially interested in problems of axiology. He believed that proper axiology, based on empirical material and analysis, def ines the subject of estetic cognition.
Piotr J. Przybysz
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Analysing Island Change Through Infrastructures of Social Reproduction
Abstract This paper explores through a case study of Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, how the expansion of an urban environment that seemingly should accommodate women's everyday lives continues to be shaped by gendered challenges. Based on 13 life history interviews with elderly female residents, the analysis shows that (i) urban change is constituted by ...
Sissal Dahl, Leonieke Bolderman
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Efforts to Prevent the Neglect of Traditional Indigenous Medicine: Policy Insights From Bolivia
ABSTRACT Traditional Indigenous medicine has existed for centuries, but only recently has it obtained international recognition. Some countries have been working on the integration of traditional Indigenous healing practices in their national health systems.
Carlos Rosas‐Jiménez +7 more
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ABSTRACT Public communication campaigns on environmental issues rely on economic and ecological arguments, assuming that the recognition of messages is sufficient to produce adjustments in practices. Drought constitutes a specific case of this problem, as a creeping crisis: a slow‐onset hazard whose effects remain weakly visible in everyday life.
Sébastien Rouquette, Inès Bellahcene
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Philosophy, Science and Axiology [PDF]
The economic progress of any society is invariably linked up with theadvancement of science and technology. Therefore, philosophical idealism must be combined with scientific realism to create a world that is worthy of human living.
Srinivas, K.
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Abstract In fostering asset‐based literacy and language teaching in classroom and digital spaces, this study draws on OmoBerry, an educational YouTube channel, to demonstrate how educators can enact culturally inclusive digital multimodal language and literacy instructions with African immigrant youth.
Akinkunmi Oseni, Vaughn W. M. Watson
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Must Longtermists Wish Us All Dead? A Quadrilemma
ABSTRACT Longtermists assign great moral importance to making the long‐term future as good as possible, especially by ensuring the survival of humanity. We argue, to the contrary, that on assumptions that are plausible, conservative, or shared by leading longtermists, human extinction will likely augment total utility among human and non‐human animals ...
Nir Eyal, Bastian Steuwer, Shai Meiri
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