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The Relation of Conatus with spinoza`s Ethics [PDF]

Metaphysics, 2017
Conatus, the law of self-preservation, is an inherent striving of beings to persist on its own being.. Spinoza, after explaining the conatus and justifying the problem of self-destruction (suicide), rejected many of common concepts of his predecessors ...
muhammad ali abdllahi, muhammad gharibzade   +1 more
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Large Fluctuations in the Horizon Area and what they can tell us about Entropy and Quantum Gravity [PDF]

, 1999
We evoke situations where large fluctuations in the entropy are induced, our main example being a spacetime containing a potential black hole whose formation depends on the outcome of a quantum mechanical event.
Ching-Hung Woo, Daniel Sudarsky, Daughton A, Daughton A, Dowker H F, Dowker H F, Göran Lindblad, Hartle J B, Hawking S W, Isham C J, Israel W, Parker Leonard, Penrose O, Penrose R, Rafael D Sorkin, Roncadelli M, Sinha S, Sorkin R D, Sorkin R D, Sorkin R D, Sorkin R D, Sorkin R D, Sorkin R D, Sorkin R D, Sorkin R D, Sorkin R D, Sorkin R D, Sorkin R D, Sorkin R D, Sorkin R D, Sorkin R D, Wald R M   +31 more
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Towards a material‐dialogic theory of climate teacher education: A global North–South dialogue

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper develops a novel theoretical stance for reimagining initial teacher education (ITE) through genuine North–South dialogue that challenges dominant Global North paradigms in teacher education. Drawing on collaborative inquiry between researchers from England and Chile, we synthesise material‐dialogic space theory (derived from Global ...
Lindsay Hetherington, Betzabé Torres Olave   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Diversity and Social Sustainability: A Systematic Review and Integrative Framework for Advancing Socially Sustainable Diversity Management

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Diversity is essential for social sustainability, yet its role in advancing social sustainability remains underexplored. This systematic and integrative review aims to integrate diversity literature with social sustainability and two key processes driving organisational sustainability—CSR and sustainable HRM. Drawing on 461 papers across three
Claudia Díaz‐Leyva, Rosalía Cascón‐Pereira   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interpretation as a Value (RE)Construction of the Legal Norm

Baltic Journal of Law & Politics, 2016
In the context of a normative concretisation of the statute, the term “statute” is not synonymous with the law that can be repeated in light of a concrete case.
Pavčnik Marijan
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Judicial Law-Making: Unlocking the Creative Powers of Judges in Terms of Section 39(2) of the Constitution

Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2016
The law-making role of judges has always been the subject of much controversy. For a good many a year and especially during the apartheid regime, the approach to statutory interpretation that dominated the South African courts was the orthodox textual ...
Annie Singh, Moreblessing Zaryl Bhero
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Two Problems for the Political Inclusion of Animals

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent years, the field of animal ethics has taken a political turn, with scholars arguing that sentient nonhuman animals should be included in the political sphere. This article explores two key challenges arising from this turn towards the political inclusion of animals: the Conflict Problem and the Numbers Problem.
David Paaske, Angela K. Martin
wiley   +1 more source

The Empirical Foundation of Normative Arguments in Legal Reasoning

European Journal of Empirical Legal Studies
Empirical legal studies are often challenged by traditional doctrinal legal scholars as irrelevant to normative legal reasoning. This article explores, through the lens of jurisprudence and by drawing on dozens of empirical works, the junction between ...
Yun-chien Chang, Peng-Hsiang Wang
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(Il)lisibilité du mélodrame américain au xixe siècle : The Gladiator (1831) de Robert Montgomery Bird et Jack Cade (1841) de Robert Conrad

Transatlantica, 2020
The melodramatic genre gestures towards the expression of a morally and emotionally legible world (Peter Brooks). Robert Montgomery Bird’s The Gladiator (1831) and Robert Conrad’s Jack Cade (1841)—two plays that were awarded the Edwin Forrest Prize—are ...
Ronan Ludot-Vlasak
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Human as the infinite end: Elaborating on the theoretical and practical end in itself formula and the consequential interpretation of David Cummiskey [PDF]

حکمت و فلسفه, 2017
Human is an end in itself; this is Kant’s second formulation of categorical imperative, which has proved to be the most practical one for him. What is meant by "end in itself" as opposed to being "merely as a means"?
Ali Akbar Ahmadi Aframjani, Hamze Hojjat Hatampouri   +1 more
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