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Creative Discretion on the Frontline of Public Services: A Longitudinal Qualitative Digital Diary and Interview Study

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT “Creative discretion”—defined as street‐level bureaucrats' use of their discretion to generate novel and useful ideas for customizing services to meet the needs of service users, superiors, and themselves—is vital as governments shift from traditional public management to a more user‐centered approach, emphasizing responsiveness over ...
Liesbeth Faas   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Immorality or Immortality? An Argument for Virtue [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In the 5th century a number of sophists challenged the orthodox understanding of morality and claimed that practicing injustice was the best and most profitable way for an individual to live.
Anderson, Merrick
core   +1 more source

Toward a “strong” normativity of fear in Hans Jonas and Aristotle

open access: yesThe Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract What does it mean to say that one “ought” to undergo an emotion? In The Imperative of Responsibility, Hans Jonas provocatively asserts that twentieth‐century citizens “ought” to fear for the well‐being of future generations. I argue that Jonas's demand is not straightforwardly reducible to claims about the fittingness, expedience, or aretaic ...
Magnus Ferguson
wiley   +1 more source

Los sofistas, Wittgenstein y la argumentación en filosofía

open access: yesTópicos, 2013
In this paper I suggest that an interesting (although rather dim) parallel may be drawn between the sophists' and Wittgenstein's views conceming the role of philosophy.
Alejandro Tomasini Bassols
doaj   +1 more source

The Unity of Aristotle\u2019s Metaphysics: Book \u395 according to the Interpretation of the Ancient Commentators [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper discusses the three ancient commentaries on Book E of Aristotle\u2019s Metaphysics, that have been handed down to us. It aims to demonstrate the fundamental part played by their particular interpretation of Aristotle\u2019s doctrines in the ...
Salis, RITA MARIA GAVINA
core   +2 more sources

Changes in Plasma Sphingolipid Metabolites Following Roux‐En‐Y Gastric Bypass in Women With Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes: A Pilot Metabolomic Cohort Study

open access: yesLipids, Volume 61, Issue 2, Page 195-205, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Although sphingolipids are key players in lipotoxicity and metabolic diseases, their response to bariatric surgery and their relation to metabolic improvement remain unclear. This pilot study investigated plasma sphingolipid remodeling after Roux‐en‐Y gastric bypass (RYGB) and its associations with clinical and biochemical markers of ...
Gabriela de Oliveira Lemos   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Legein to What End? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In the 5th century a number of sophists challenged the orthodox understanding of morality and claimed that practicing injustice was the best and most profitable way for an individual to live.
Anderson, Merrick
core  

Hegel and Utopia

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 133-151, March 2026.
ABSTRACT G.W.F. Hegel is usually held to be anti‐utopian in his political philosophy. I aim to challenge that standard reading, outlining and defending a more positive account of his relation to utopianism. The rational state described in Hegel's Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts (1820) is shown to fit an uncontroversial account of utopia without ...
David Leopold
wiley   +1 more source

The Greco-Roman Rhetoric Background of Sophia in 1 Corinthians 1-4

open access: yesPerichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2019
It seems that the Corinthians appreciated rhetorical eloquence and had therefore esteemed their teachers according to their rhetorical abilities.
Mihăilă Corin
doaj   +1 more source

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