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... discussed in more depth shortly Term Moral Standing Moral standing indicates those individuals that moral agents must respect in certain separately determined ways In Western countries all human beings ... standing—the individual, though to be killed, must be managed (and killed) in a certain manner In contrast, it has been and remains common in the West to deny moral standing to anymals (Some are protected ... is an absurdity, indispensable in the design of aeroplane wings and electronic circuits, in complicated statistical analyses, in quantum theory and in the making and breaking of top secret military...

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 21:23

... understand and appreciate the minds and feelings of anymals? The epistemological difficulties inherent in human assessments of anymals must remain at the center of any discussion of other species and ... men In light of a demonstrated human tendency for those in power to be partial and unjust in assessing the moral standing of other human beings (particularly when the assessor has a vested interest), ... but incorrect information can be misleading Diligence in exploring and incorporating information from outside the field of ethics is critical to sound morality A host of disciplines shape individual...

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 21:23

... plainly stated intent and the whole point of utilitarianism Singer does not wish to increase but to decrease suffering by maximizing the satisfaction of interests “Singer is in favor of increasing ... consideration of interests Singer states that species is morally irrelevant when pain and suffering are involved He maintains that like interests ought to be treated in a like manner and asserts ... follows a long-standing and respected moral tradition of weighing harms and benefits in order to determine what one ought to Each of us weighs options in life, and the interests and pleasures we...

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 21:23

... controversial and complicated Different scholars offer different viewpoints (and often refer to inherent value) [M]utely enacted values “occur every time natural beings succeed in maintaining their functioning ... Noninterference Noninterference requires that moral agents refrain from “placing restrictions on the freedom of individual organisms” and from meddling in the natural lives of ecosystems and ... intentions and aims must be directed toward not interfering with or harming animals and plants in natural ecosystems and to preserving their wild status for their sake Having those aims and intentions...

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 21:23

... creatures of every kind: cattle and creeping things and wild animals of the earth of every kind.” And it was so God made the wild animals of the earth of every kind, and the cattle of every kind, and ... as abortion and gay rights based on church teachings and scripture Gutierrez and King reminded the Christian church of its own teachings and insisted that those teachings be enacted in daily life ... thesis, including the practices of anymal sacrifice and eating flesh, and the biblical concept of dominion Finally, Linzey examines the New Testament, focusing on the life of Christ as a model of exemplary...

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 21:23

... themselves in every other living being, and to see every other living being in themselves Inasmuch as Indians see God in humanity, they must also find the divine in anymals “Hindu belief in the cycle of ... troubled his compassionate and dedicated mind (Gandhi 455) We can rest assured that an informed Gandhi would have nothing to with the milk or flesh of Western factoryfarmed anymals Gandhi “respected ... to the institutionalized breeding and killing of animals, [including] birds, and fish for human consumption [Such] abuse and exploitation of nature for selfish gain is considered unjust and sacrilegious...

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 21:23

... containing the life and words of Mohammed teach against using the skins of wild animals, against target practice on living creatures, and against inciting animals to fight for human entertainment ... scalp Infants with this disorder are born without a forebrain (the front part of the brain) and a cerebrum (the thinking and coordinating part of the brain) The remaining brain tissue is often ... those with a mind to understand in the alternation of night and day, and in the gracious rain God sends from heaven to renew the face of the parched earth, and in the veering of the winds” (Qur"an...

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 21:23

... “managed” with this in mind Yet “hunting is considered to be the main factor in the extinction threat of 28% of bird species and 29% of mammal species The objectives of hunting are varied, and include ... Depriving them of life and freedom harms them in many of the same ways that humans are harmed when deprived of life or freedom (Norris 2) Pain and suffering are morally relevant Causing pain and ... Sentience is often considered relevant to moral standing Why be concerned with an entity that is incapable of suffering, or as in the case of Anthony Bland, an entity that is incapable of benefiting from...

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 21:23

... demand the same response to other dwindling species Rather than captive breeding, a long-standing ethic of minimizing interference and minimizing harm would likely have assured the continuance of ... intent toward individuals involved Captive breeding stems from human interest in maintaining genetic diversity Such breeding is not done for those individuals who are bred, nor on behalf of the species ... handed down from the past, a “long established or inherited way of thinking or acting,” a “continuing pattern” of customary methods This definition indicates that any significant break in continuity...

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 21:23

... of Overview • Predominant Western moral standards and practices are inconsistent and partial with regard to the moral standing of human beings as opposed to the moral standing of all other life-forms ... In light of a comparatively inclusive dominant ethic concerning human life and moral standing, and in light of the conspicuous absence of any morally relevant distinction between all humans and ... Abingdon, 1956 Cajete, Gregory “Indigenous Education and Ecology: Perspectives of an American Indian Educator.” Indigenous Traditions and Ecology: The Interbeing of Cosmology and Community Ed...

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 21:23

... between all pairs of nodes in the inverted index XKeyword [9] extends the work of DISCOVER by materializing path indices It reduces the number of joins in the generated SQL queries and provides fast ... operator of two nodes v1 and Chapter Related Work 10 v2 is implemented efficiently using joins on relations, where the number of joins is the number of edges of the shorter one of the paths from v1 and ... joins Chapter Related Work 11 Although both of the concept of MLCAs and that of interconnection in XSearch are designed to capture the meaningful fragments of the XML document based on tag names...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2015, 19:02

... apartments and talked Talked all morning and all afternoon Talked some more and partied in the evenings I came back home because I know now what I want to Go to college Get a teaching credential And ... couple of times." Dad says, "And I tried to get your mother interested Have you read any of the stuff?" He tries to appear casual in asking, but something, a restless movement of his fingers, ... right.) Since I came back, Dad and I have been part of a tight domestic scene: Breakfast together in the mornings if I get up on time, dinner together in the evening Nothing really special for dinner...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 17:33

... member of editorial board of Indian Journal of Science and Technology and as Referee of AMSE Journal, France; Central European Journal of Physics; International Journal of Medicine and Medical ... degree in Physics from Berhampur University, Orissa (India) in 2002 and won a gold medal as a topper in the subject She served as a Faculty of Physics in Gandhi Institute of Engineering and Technology, ... inclusion in Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering of New Jersey, USA for the year 2011-2012 (11th Edition) for his outstanding contribution to research in Science and Engineering E-mail...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 15:28

... commitment of time and efforts Teachers and learners of languages in general, of English and Vietnamese in particular should make eclectic studies of the modality in the language being learned In our ... complicated problem in both English and Vietnamese It has been the subject of various studies in teaching and learning foreign language 2 From my teaching and translating experience, I find it ... collected 3.2 Research Procedures The procedures are as follows: - Identifying the research topic by reviewing previous studies - Choosing the approach to the research - Collecting data related to...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:21

... “strategy” and “procedure” have not been distinguished clearly by any translation scholars In this research, we stand on the point of view of John Kearns (2009) in Routledge Encyclopedia or Translation ... to English in Trinh Cong Son’s songs - Investigate the linguistic and non-linguistic factors influencing the choice of using each strategy in translating the lexicon and phrases and sentences from ... procedures Employing these methods as a framework, we investigated the reality and practice of translating word and phrase from Vietnamese into English as manifested in published translated works...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:23

... standard in training programs, in administrating and especially in training quality and equivalent conditions to ensure that training quality so that the process of integration, globalization and ... 4-year training course and are streamed according to their levels of attainment and knowledge on the subject of their choice into high-quality students and standard students Different kinds of students ... CLT In the classroom, the language is introduced in a teacher-fronted manner with little input from the learners, analyzed and explained in depth in Vietnamese The teachers most of the talking in...

Ngày tải lên: 05/02/2014, 21:52

... to go to bed and toss about and speculate The next morning it rained Dorothy and I visited our dingue-trap but found nothing in it We were inclined, however, to stay out in the rain behind a big ... five times during the evening The next day it rained again, more or less Professor Smawl complained of the cooking, demanded my resignation, and finally marched out to explore, lugging the reluctant ... was tugging at the rudder, twisting and jerking it until the tiller strained and creaked in my hand All at once it snapped; the tiller swung useless and the boat whirled around, heeling in the...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 09:20

... In Search of Burningbush This page intentionally left blank In Search of Burningbush a story of golf, friendship, and the meaning of irons Michael Konik Copyright ... charms, is, in our bedazzled eyes, something of a holy shrine And today we are here accepting its blessed sacraments— beauty, ingenuity, honesty—standing upon the same closely mowed rectangle of ground ... metallic reminders of a lifetime of broken ankles, cracked knees, shattered elbows, mangled hands, splintered fingers, and degenerating toes His right leg is three inches shorter than his left And his...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 08:20

... has maintained financial intermediation in Reais, it has created a system of unusually short duration financial contracts The legacy of indexation to the overnight interest rate has created institutional ... transmission channel of monetary policy (see Medina Cas and others, 2011a,b) Indeed, muted inflationary pressures and tightening financial conditions have been observed in some of these countries ... Subsidized lending has resulted in credit market segmentation, pushing up market-determined interest rates Other factors that might keep the nominal neutral interest rate high include an inflation...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 14:20

... learning environments Free download from www.hsrcpress.ac.za Principals should receive training in managing and leading for diversity xii Department of Education and Training DoE Department of Education ... the research process aimed at investigating issues of diversity and social cohesion within the school context; Carolyn McKinney, in injecting the necessary energy at the point of conception; and ... also expressed an interest in continuing the research dialogue Individuals and institutions are currently carrying out a number of research activities around a variety of dimensions relating to diversity...

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