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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to lif... ...he pregnancy (and the resulting fetus) are discussed in terms normally reserved to natural catastrophes (force majeure). At times, the embryo is co... ... life threatening should or could, morally, be terminated. Using the transactional language: the contract was not entered to willingly or reasonabl... ...e. But there is no denying that in both cases, no finished product was eliminated. Naturally, this becomes less and less so (the severity of the te... ...ture consequences of their actions. In other words, their attention and information processing faculties are distorted, skewed in favour of the here... ... them the same cognitive interpretations and the same emotional resonance ('private languages"). The same words, or symbols, often have different me... ...itself in response to data. In most man-made machines, the data is external to the processing unit. It enters and exits the machine through design... ...d this, precisely, seems to be the problem. The informational clutter obscures the outlines of the more pertinent elements. The futurologist has t...

...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

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