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Ordinary Morality Implies Atheism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
I present a "moral argument" for the nonexistence of God. Theism, I argue, can’t accommodate an ordinary and fundamental moral obligation acknowledged by many people, including many theists.
Maitzen, Stephen
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Factors Influencing Morality [PDF]

open access: yesOvidius University Annals: Economic Sciences Series, 2020
Morality is a psychic trait specific to each individual. Morality was reflected by a morality test, and the variables followed were gender, age, school, occupation, families, condition and causes that led to involvement in volunteering.
Amelia Boros   +2 more
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Gendered Morality

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 2020
Since the 1990s, the field of Islamic studies has seen a veritable flood of scholarship addressing issues of gender in the pre-colonial Islamic past.
Marion Holmes Katz
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Morality and Practical Reasons [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
As Socrates famously noted, there is no more important question than how we ought to live. The answer to this question depends on how the reasons that we have for living in various different ways combine and compete. To illustrate, suppose that I've just
Portmore, Douglas W.
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Historical, contemporary, and philosophical-religious perspective on the relationship between religion and morality: Complementarity or contradiction [PDF]

open access: yesUniverzitetska Misao
This paper explores the complex relationship between religion and morality from a historical, philosophical, and contemporary perspective. The author shows how moral norms have often been linked to religious beliefs throughout history, from ancient ...
Pramenković Almir   +2 more
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Internal goods to legal practice: reclaiming fuller with macintyre [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Lon Fuller rejected legal positivism because he believed that the ‘procedural morality of law’ established a necessary connection between law and morals. Underpinning his argument is a claim that law is a purposive activity grounded by a relationship of
Retter, Mark
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Enteropathogenic E. coli shows delayed attachment and host response in human jejunum organoid‐derived monolayers compared to HeLa cells

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) infects the human intestinal epithelium, resulting in severe illness and diarrhoea. In this study, we compared the infection of cancer‐derived cell lines with human organoid‐derived models of the small intestine. We observed a delayed in attachment, inflammation and cell death on primary cells, indicating that host ...
Mastura Neyazi   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Plasmodium falciparum gametogenesis essential protein 1 (GEP1) is a transmission‐blocking target

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
This study shows Plasmodium falciparum GEP1 is vital for activating sexual stages of malarial parasites even independently of a mosquito factor. Knockout parasites completely fail gamete formation even when a phosphodiesterase inhibitor is added. Two single‐nucleotide polymorphisms (V241L and S263P) are found in 12%–20% of field samples.
Frederik Huppertz   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Relationship between Religiosity Level and Emotional Responses to Artificial Intelligence in University Students

open access: yesReligions
This article aims to analyze the correlations between the level of religiosity and emotional responses to artificial intelligence (AI). In these times marked by the growing penetration of artificial intelligence into people’s everyday lives, it is ...
Jaroslaw Kozak, Stanislaw Fel
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An approach for the accurate measurement of social morality levels. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2013
In the social sciences, computer-based modeling has become an increasingly important tool receiving widespread attention. However, the derivation of the quantitative relationships linking individual moral behavior and social morality levels, so as to ...
Haiyan Liu, Xia Chen, Bo Zhang
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