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Good Representatives and Good Representation [PDF]
PS: Political Science & Politics, 2018 This article should be read as an ongoing dialogue between Suzanne Dovi and ourselves about a common concern: the quality of representation in general and, in particular, the good substantive representation for women (SRW). We strongly share Dovi’s concern that democratic institutions and processes can favor those in positions of power and can be used ...
Celis, Karen, Childs, Sarah
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Perspectives on “Good” in Blockchain for Good [PDF]
Frontiers in Blockchain, 2021 Blockchain projects have been developed to extend the reach of distributed ledger technology (DLT) beyond cryptocurrency to achieve “good” in the world. Such projects may make a claim for moral, ethical, and responsible intent, but many researchers have not critically examined what good means in context.
Glenn C. Parry, John P. Collomosse
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The Place of Flawed Pleasures in a Good Life. A Discussion of Plato’s Philebus
Plato, 2021 The Philebus describes the “good” that enables human eudaimonia as a “mixture” in which cognitive states have to be combined with certain types of pleasure.
Jan Szaif
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Relaxing Goodness Is Still Good [PDF]
, 2008 Polygonal hybrid systems (SPDIs) are planar hybrid systems, whose dynamics are defined in terms of constant differential inclusions, one for each of a number of polygonal regions partitioning the plane. The reachability problem for SPDIs is known to be decidable, but depends on the goodnessassumption -- which states that the dynamics do not allow a ...
Pace, Gordon J. +2 more
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Frontiers in Oncology, 2015 Background: The optimal technique for performing lung IMRT remains poorly defined. We hypothesize that improved dose distributions associated with normal tissue sparing IMRT can allow for safe dose escalation resulting in decreased acute and late ...
Johnny eKao +4 more
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Studia Gilsoniana, 2020 This article defends the teaching of Mortimer J. Adler that human education must aim at the betterment of human beings by forming good habits in us; and that, if intellectual and moral virtues, or good habits, are the same for all human beings because ...
Peter A. Redpath
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Is it better to be good or to do good?
South African Dental Journal, 2021 People have contemplated what it entails to be good and to do good. Philosophers propose that being good is an idea about yourself or others, while doing good is an action, towards yourself or others. Other theorists feel that those who want to ‘be good’ actually want to ‘be seen as good’, while those who strive to ‘do good’ are more concerned with ...
Leanne Sykes +2 more
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Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice on Menstrual Hygiene Management among School Adolescents
Journal of Nepal Health Research Council, 2018 Background: Menstrual hygiene management remains a taboo in many communities in Nepal. Cultural beliefs about menstruation such as food taboos and untouchability have negative impact on dignity, health and education of adolescent girls. The objective of
Ram Naresh Yadav +3 more
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Solidarity as a Challenge and a Task
Religions, 2023 Towards the end of the 20th century, the word “solidarity” became one of the most important and famous words, not only in the sphere of Euro–Atlantic civilization but the word was also readily used in political milieus.
Jarosław Jagiełło
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The akin vs. the good in Plato’s Lysis
Archai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental, 2023 The two most compelling accounts of the friend in Plato’s Lysis are that the neither good nor bad is friend of the good and that the akin is friend of the akin.
David Jennings
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