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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...ka Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2007 Not for Sale! Non-commercial edition. © 2004-7 Cop... ... or duties of third parties towards the right-holder. One has a right AGAINST other people. The fact that one possesses a certain right - prescribes... ...rights and duties as two sides of the same ethical coin - creates great confusion. People often and easily confuse rights and their attendant dutie... ...ight to have one's life terminated IA. The Right to be Brought to Life Only living people have rights. There is a debate whether an egg is a living... ...y and intentional fertilization. If a woman knowingly engages in sexual intercourse for the explicit and express purpose of having a child - then th... ...as the right not to be killed unjustly. What constitutes "just killing" is a matter for an ethical calculus in the framework of a social contract. ... ...chiatry, kleptomaniacs feel "pleasure, gratification, or relief when committing the theft." The good book proceeds to say that " ... (T)he individua... ...(through redistributive taxation) and, on the other hand, prohibiting and punishing theft and looting. Euthanasia involves a few such finely-balanc... ...mistaken belief that she could thus slow down the aging process. Her servants were executed, their bodies burnt and their ashes scattered. Being ro...

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Crime Its Cause and Treatment

By: Clarence Darrow

...e and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the... ...ciated with the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electr... ...ve treated are such as have al- ways held my interest and inspired a taste for books that discuss the human machine with its manifestations and the ca... ...andment could not be meant to for- bid killing animals. Yet there are many people who believe that it does, or at least should. No Christian state mak... ..., if conscience has been placed in man by a divine power, why have not all peoples been furnished with the same guide? There is no doubt that all men ... ...he lives; it grows with his teachings, his hab- its and beliefs. With most people it takes on the color of the community where they live. With some pe... ...ge part of these 97 crimes are now obsolete. Doubtless more men have been executed for crimes they did not commit and could not com- mit than for any... ... of this class are put to death. I am inclined to think that most of those executed are either insane or serious defectives; and those who say that su... ...een able to meet that 123 responsibility in any way. Aside from the boys’ thefts it has played a great part in crime. The doctor, the real estate age...

...ars spent in court. Aside from the practice of my profession, the topics I have treated are such as have always held my interest and inspired a taste for books that discuss the human machine with its manifestations and the causes of its varied activity. I have endeavored to present the latest scientific thought and investigation bearing upon the question of human conduct. ...

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The Varieties of Religious Experience

By: William James

...e and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the... ...- ciated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electr... ...opathic tem- perament when a superior intellect goes with it— es- pecially for the religious life. LECTURE II CIRCUMSCRIPTION OF THE TOPIC Futility of... ...nging places with Scotsmen lecturing in the United States; I hope that our people may become in all these higher mat- ters even as one people; and tha... ...f lowly origin be asserted is seen in those comments which unsenti- mental people so often pass on their more sentimen- 19 William James tal acquaint... ...ing persons whose states of mind we regard as overstrained. But when other people criticize our own more exalted soul-flights by calling them ‘nothing... ... goes out of acquaintance with his own being. Charac- ter is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone ... ...eroic, and from out of which the greatest deeds which it ever performs are executed. Through all the different forms of communion, and all the diversi...

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Magnum Bonum or Mother Careys Brood

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...e and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the... ...sociated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electr... ...Well, Joe?” “If you would have the little teacher at the Miss Heath’s here for the holidays. After all the rest, she has had the measles last and wors... ... seemed to charm her above all. “I always did want to know what was inside people’s windows,” she said. And in the same way it was a feast to her to g... ...en, you know. It will be always warm about my heart to know there are such people.” Mrs. Brownlow happened to overhear this little colloquy while her ... ...her for long drives, shown her everything, introduced her to quantities of people; but, oh dear! was it absolutely only three weeks since she had been... ...re, poor Mr. Barnes ever had sus- tained power enough to have drawn up and executed a will without my assistance, or that of any legal gentleman.” “It... ...pe you did not know what you were doing!” “You don’t mean that it has been executed?” “Here are witnesses,” said Caroline—her eyes swam too much to se... ...ed in the galleries. She had once or twice amused the household by figures executed by her dexterous fingers in pastry or in butter; and in the empty ...

...s sad and hard to bear.? --Scott ?MOTHER, you could do a great kindness.? ?Well, Joe?? ?If you would have the little teacher at the Miss Heath?s here for the holidays. After all the rest, she has had the measles last and worst, and they don?t know what to do with her, for she came from the asylum for officers? daughters, and has no home at all, and they must go away to hav...

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...e and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the... ...sociated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electr... ...ry far more essentially different from England than many parts of America; for, in a sense, the first of these men re-created Scotland, and the second... ...clerks, bears witness to a dreary, sterile folly, – a twilight of the mind peopled with childish phantoms. In relation to his contemporaries, Charles ... ...enewed and vivified history. For art precedes philosophy and even science. People must have noticed things and interested them- selves in them before ... ..., the real drift of this new manner 20 Robert Louis Stevenson of pleasing people in fiction was not yet apparent; and, even now, it is only by lookin... ...ercise was sullied. So, having said his say for once, he was led forth and executed, thirty-one years old. A military engineer, a bold traveller (at l... ...ons of the Bishop. While he still lay in durance, another job was cleverly executed by the band in broad daylight, at the Augustine Monastery. Brother... ...un of contemporaneous drawing-room verses, those of Charles of Orleans are executed with inimitable lightness and delicacy of touch. They deal with fl...

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