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Why Death Is Most in One's Self-Interest, and Necessarily So. [PDF]
BioethicsABSTRACT Most of us think that death is usually not in the self‐interest of the one who dies. Let us momentarily put this belief aside and examine death in a new light. This paper presents a two‐step argument to show why death is most in one's self‐interest, necessarily.
Kriska V.
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Thoughtful Accompaniment in Life's Final Stages: Philosophical Practice as a Complement to Ethics Consultation. [PDF]
BioethicsABSTRACT 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 +3 more
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Omental metastases from uveal melanoma-An interesting intraoperative omental pattern appearance. [PDF]
Clin Case RepKey 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 +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 SciVisual 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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L’epicureismo nell’opera di Leo Strauss
Philosophy Kitchen, 2020 This essay aims to arrange and expose chronologically the references to Epicurus, Lucretius and the influence of their ideas contained in the works of Leo Strauss.
Raimondo Cubeddu
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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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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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Pleasure and Happiness Relationship in Ibn Sina and Epicureans [PDF]
حکمت سینویThe 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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KANT AND THE «SPIRIT OF EPICURUS» (IN KANT’S PRE-CRITICAL AND CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY)
Концепт: философия, религия, культура, 2018 In the first part of the article, the relation of the ethics of Epicurus to Kant's practical philosophy is considered. Analyzing the principles on which the notion of the supreme good of the ancients was built, Kant paid special attention to the ...
V. A. Ter-Arakeliantz, A. V. Yukhno
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