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Thoughtful Accompaniment in Life's Final Stages: Philosophical Practice as a Complement to Ethics Consultation. [PDF]

Bioethics
ABSTRACT This paper argues that philosophical practice can complement existing medical ethics structures by offering a publicly accessible space for discourse and negotiation of basic concepts that are relevant to ethical decision making. The potential of collaboration becomes particularly evident by the example of assisted dying: it raises a wide ...
Schuchter P, Radinger S, Rieger SV, Wegleitner K.   +3 more
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Omental metastases from uveal melanoma-An interesting intraoperative omental pattern appearance. [PDF]

Clin Case Rep
Key Clinical Message Uveal melanomas represent approximately 5% of all human melanomas. Omental metastases are often diagnosed as secondary metastatic sites and only a few cases have been described as the first single manifestation of distant metastasis.
Stavros S, Zikopoulos A, Potiris A, Baltogiannis D, Skentou C, Domali E, Drakakis P.   +6 more
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Contractualist Moral Cognition: From the Normative to the Descriptive at Three Levels of Analysis. [PDF]

Wiley Interdiscip Rev Cogn Sci
Visual summary of the paper. Taking inspiration from the contractualist tradition in moral philosophy is helpful to better understand morality at three interrelated levels of analysis: Its evolutionary logic, its cognitive organization, and its specific cognitive processes and forms of reasoning.
Le Pargneux A.
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Adaptation, Activism, and the Looming Climate Disaster†

Educational Theory, Volume 73, Issue 6, Page 801-821, December 2023., 2023
Abstract It is likely that the process of global climate change will continue to accelerate. There is a lack of political will to confront the problem and the consequences for humanity — including widespread suffering and institutional destabilization — will be disastrous. How should educators respond to a catastrophic future?
Bryan R. Warnick
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Non-Epicurean Desires

Filosofia Unisinos, 2016
In this paper, it is argued that there can be necessary and non-natural desires. After a discussion about what seems wrong with such desires, Epicurus’ classification of desires is treated similarly to Kripke’s treatment of the Kantian table of ...
Fabien Schang
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Schrödinger's Doctrine of Identity: On the Role of Advaita Vedānta in Erwin Schrödinger's Thought. [PDF]

Ber Wiss
Ever since Erwin Schrödinger learned about Indian thought through Arthur Schopenhauer, it occupied a visible role in both his published writings and personal books. Schrödinger called for a “blood transfusion” of Indian thought into the West and, in one notebook, construed the Upaniṣadic slogan “Brahman = Atman” as the “closest thing to the truth ...
Latten TMK.
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Cogenza e contemporaneità dell’etica epicurea a partire da una recente raccolta di studi

Lexicon Philosophicum, 2020
The following critical note aims at highlighting the liveliness and depth of three crucial thesis of Epicurean Ethics, by drawing on a recent publication, edited by Enrico Piergiacomi, of a selection of essays by Phillip Mitsis, A. S.
Chiara Rover
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THE EPICUREAN TRADITION AND ITS RECEPTION IN THE HISTORICAL, CULTURAL AND HUMANISTIC VIEWS OF THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE

Гуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021
The article is devoted to the study of the views of the representatives of the Italian Renaissance: G. Cavalcanti, F. Petrarch, L. Bruni, F. Biondo, A. Beccadelli, L. Valla, C. Raimondi, and J. Vanini.
I. A. Anuprienko
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A thematic analysis of Palahniuk’s fiction in light of Epicureanism

K@ta: A Biannual Publication on the Study of Language and Literature, 2017
Chuck Palahniuk is a contemporary American writer whose novels have been adapted into acclaimed Hollywood motion pictures. Palahniuk’s literary style is often branded as modernist with nihilistic undertones.
Hesamoddin Shahriari, Ghazal Toosi
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Pleasure and Happiness Relationship in Ibn Sina and Epicureans [PDF]

حکمت سینوی
The central issue of this paper is to explain the place of pleasure and happiness and their relationship in the thought of Ibn Sina and Epicurus, and to conduct a comparative study of these concepts.
Maryam Afshar, Mohammad Raayat Jahromi
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