...r prolongs his life ONLY by violating the rights of others and these other people object to it - then A must be killed if that is the only way to ... ... result and there is no other way to save their lives. Despite strong philosophical objections to some of the premises of utilitarian theory - I ag... ... a community and subject to the rules and the ethos of said community. It has no "objective" or ontological weight. Events and actions are classif... ...ssive, coercive, or bureaucratic." (Honderich, Ted, ed. - The Oxford Companion to Philosophy - Oxford University Press, New York, 1995 - p. 31) A... ...aused them. It is also not clear whether our moral percepts are conditioned on the objective existence of pain, on the reported existence of pain, ... ...or does it all really depend on interpretation? If we, humans, cannot separate the objective from the subjective and the cultural – what gives us t... ...ed: Natural Selection IS the vital power itself. Modern Physics is converging with Philosophy (possibly with the philosophical side of Religion as ... ...ors and, lately, by (neuronal) network metaphors. Metaphors are not confined to the philosophy of neurology. Architects and mathematicians, for inst... ...ck to the future", communism was surely "forward to the past". Competition A. THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMPETITION The aims of competition (anti-trust) l...

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...at define prop- erty in the information age. It is that problem, its history, philosophy, and politics that I try to sketch out in the pages ahead. Ack... ...onally tiny benefits. (And all without much complaint from those who normally object to inefficient gov- ernment subsidy programs.) Worst of all, we hav... ...o writers, even if this would dramatically raise the price of books. What he objects to is dramatically raising the price of books written by long- de... ...- pressing circumstances, and I am quite willing to pay the price of such an object, heavy as that price is. But what I do complain of is that my circ... ...efferson and Macaulay focused do not disappear merely because one embraces a philosophy of moral rights—if anything, they become more pressing, partic... ...us? From the early days of intellectual property as we know it now, the main objections raised against it were framed in the language of free trade an... ... ___ 37278_u01.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 36 als had been nurtured on the philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment and the history of the struggle ... ...r innocuous tasks, as well as others about tasks that most readers would find objectionable and rightly think to be illegal. But the anonymous voluntee... ...Gates, General Partner, Micro-Soft.” The hyphen would disappear in time. The philosophy stuck around. Though there are quibbles about the facts in Gat...