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Can Ethics Exist Without God? A Thomistic Critique of James Sterba’s Axiomatic Morality
This essay explores the question: can we have an objective ethics without God? This question is raised by James Sterba, who argues in the affirmative. As an atheistic ethicist, Sterba is motivated to maintain an objective morality that is not based in ...
Joseph Brian Huffling
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Evil Prevention Requirements and the God of Theism
The central argument of James Sterba’s “Is a Good God Logically Possible?” relies crucially on the notion that a good God would have to abide by various evil prevention requirements.
Adam Noel Wood
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In Answer to the Pauline Principle: Consent, Logical Constraints, and Free Will
James Sterba uses the Pauline Principle to argue that the occurrence of significant, horrendous evils is logically incompatible with the existence of a good God.
Marilie Coetsee
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Age composition, growth, and reproduction of koi carp (Cyprinus carpio L.) in the lower Waikato, New Zealand [PDF]
A total of 566 koi carp (Cyprinus carpio) from the lower Waikato region were aged from scales and opercular bones, and growth was modelled with the von Bertalanffy growth function.
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James Sterba recently presented arguments against theories which ground morality in God and attempted “to provide an account of the norms on which an ethics without God can be appropriately grounded ….” In particular, Sterba noted that “Robert Adams is ...
Adam Lloyd Johnson
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Ana Jenko Šterba-Böhm (1885-1936), prva Slovenka z doktoratom iz kemije
V članku na kratko opišemo družinsko ozadje, življensko usodo ter argumente v prid trditvi, da je bila dr. Ana Jenko, poročena Šterba-Böhm, prva Slovenka, ki je doktorirala iz kemije in verjetno iz naravoslovja na sploh.
Iztok Petrič +2 more
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Modelling understorey dynamics in temperate forests under global change : challenges and perspectives [PDF]
The understorey harbours a substantial part of vascular plant diversity in temperate forests and plays an important functional role, affecting ecosystem processes such as nutrient cycling and overstorey regeneration.
Landuyt, Dries +5 more
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Abstract Background Children with mild intellectual difficulties (MID) are at increased risk of poor mental health and functional outcomes compared to typically developing children. Previous research has primarily focused on deficit‐based comparisons. However, substantial heterogeneity exists in this population, ranging from significant impairment to ...
Foteini Tseliou +5 more
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Effect of Wort Boiling System and Hopping Regime on Wort and Beer Stale-Flavor Aldehydes
The main factor responsible for the sensory aging of beer is the increase in off-flavor aldehydes during beer storage. In pilot brews (200 L) of pale lager beer with different hopping regimes and wort boiling systems, 15 carbonyls were monitored using ...
Alexandr Mikyška, Karel Štěrba
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A laser excitation scheme for $^{229\text{m}}$Th
Direct laser excitation of the lowest known nuclear excited state in $^{229}$Th has been a longstanding objective. It is generally assumed that reaching this goal would require a considerably reduced uncertainty of the isomer's excitation energy compared
Kazakov, Georgy +6 more
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