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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9004984 | Economic justice
Justice in economics is a subcategory of welfare economics with models frequently representing the ethical-social requirements of a given theory, whether "in the large", as of a just social order, or "in the small", as in the equity of "how institutions distribute specific benefits and burdens".... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9098865 | Midrash Aseret ha-Dibrot
Midrash Aseret ha-Dibrot (Hebrew: מדרש עשרת הדיברות) or Midrash of the Ten Statements is one of the smaller midrashim which dates (according to A. Jellinek) from about the 10th century, and which is devoted entirely to the Shavuot holiday; a Vatican library manuscript in fact calls it "a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9105516 | Nigger in the woodpile
Nigger in the woodpile or nigger in the fence is a figure of speech originating in the United States meaning "some fact of considerable importance that is not disclosed—something suspicious or wrong".
Commonly used in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, usage has declined since th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9132580 | Institute of All Nations for Advanced Studies
The Institute of All Nations for Advanced Studies, Inc. (IAN) was established by Dr. Rama C. Mohanty and others in 1964. Mohanty, IAN’s General Secretary, is a Professor of Physics at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He moved to found the organization a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9162934 | Arthur Schafer
Arthur Schafer is a Canadian ethicist specializing in bioethics, philosophy of law, social philosophy and political philosophy. He is Director of the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics, at the University of Manitoba.
He is also a Full Professor in the Department of Philosophy and an Ethi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9195524 | Toi Te Taiao: The Bioethics Council
Toi te Taiao: the Bioethics Council was a government-sponsored council of New Zealand that was established in December 2002 and disestablished in 2009.
The Goal of the Bioethics Council is: "To enhance New Zealand's understanding of the cultural, ethical and spiritual asp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9210161 | Civilian Reserve Corps
The creation of a Civilian Reserve Corps was called for in both the 2006 National Security Strategy and in the 2007 State of the Union Address. According to the State of the Union Address, "It would give people across America who do not wear the uniform a chance to serve in the defining st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9267682 | Texas Ethics Commission
The Texas Ethics Commission was established in 1991 to "provide guidance on various public ethics laws" within the state of Texas. The agency is headquartered on the 10th Floor of the Sam Houston State Office Building at 201 East 14th Street in Downtown Austin.
The Commission was cre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9302322 | Ethics and Public Policy Center
The Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) is a conservative Washington, D.C.-based think tank and advocacy group. Founded in 1976, the group describes itself as "dedicated to applying the Judeo-Christian moral tradition to critical issues of public policy", and advocacy of foundi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9353504 | Free Representation Unit
The Free Representation Unit is a charity, and is the largest single provider of pro bono representation in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1972 by several law students at bar school, with the aim of relieving the impact of poverty by providing representation in tribunals to those ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9362854 | Cesare Cremonini (philosopher)
Cesare Cremonini (; 22 December 1550 – 19 July 1631), sometimes Cesare Cremonino, was an Italian professor of natural philosophy, working rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism. His Latinized ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9366283 | Prudence and the Pill
Prudence and the Pill is a 1968 British comedy film made by Twentieth Century-Fox. It was directed by Fielder Cook and Ronald Neame and produced by Kenneth Harper and Ronald J. Kahn from a screenplay by Hugh Mills, based on his own novel. The music score was by Bernard Ebbinghouse and the c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9368161 | Kala pani (taboo)
The kala pani (lit. "black water") represents the proscription of the over reaching seas in Indian culture. According to this mindset, crossing the seas to foreign lands causes the loss of one's social respectability, as well as the putrefaction of one’s cultural character and posterity.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9384857 | XXXchurch.com
XXXchurch.com is a non-profit Christian website that aims to help those who struggle with pornography. It targets porn industry performers and consumers. The organization describes itself as a "Christian porn site designed to bring awareness, openness and accountability to those affected by pornogr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9404091 | Reflections on the Guillotine
"Reflections on the Guillotine" is an extended essay written in 1957 by Albert Camus. In the essay Camus takes an uncompromising position for the abolition of the death penalty. Camus's view is similar to that of Cesare Beccaria and the Marquis de Sade, the latter having also argued... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9454568 | Christian egalitarianism
Christian egalitarianism (derived from the French word égal, meaning "equal" or "level"), also known as biblical equality, is egalitarianism based in Christianity. In theological spheres, egalitarianism generally means equality in authority and responsibilities between genders, in contra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9467115 | Bordel militaire de campagne
Bordels Mobiles de Campagne or Bordel Militaire de Campagne (both abbreviated to BMC) were mobile brothels used during World War I, World War II and the First Indochina War to supply prostitution services to French soldiers fighting in areas where brothels were unusual, such as at th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9516581 | Mordechai Halperin
Mordechai Halperin is an Israeli rabbi, physician and scientist. He is chief officer of medical ethics for the Israeli Ministry of Health and director of the Falk Schlesinger Institute for Medical-Halachic Research in Jerusalem, Israel. Halperin is also a member of the Bioethics Advisory Commi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9559298 | David P. Gushee
David P. Gushee is a Christian ethicist and public intellectual.
David P. Gushee has been the Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics and Director of the Center for Faith and Public Life at Mercer University since 2007. He was formerly the Graves Professor of Moral Philosophy ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9642550 | Utility monster
The utility monster is a thought experiment in the study of ethics created by philosopher Robert Nozick in 1974 as a criticism of utilitarianism.
A hypothetical being, which Nozick calls the "utility monster," receives much more utility from each unit of a resource they consume than anyone e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9671330 | Birth Control (film)
Birth Control (also known as The New World) is a lost 1917 American documentary film produced by and starring Margaret Sanger and describing her family planning work. It was the first film banned under the 1915 ruling of the United States Supreme Court in "Mutual Film Corporation v. Industri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9728362 | Charity (practice)
The practice of charity means the voluntary giving of help to those in need, as a humanitarian act. There are a number of philosophies about charity, often associated with religion. Effective altruism is the use of evidence and reasoning to determine the most effective ways to help others
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9743199 | Aesopian language
Aesopian language is communications that convey an innocent meaning to outsiders but hold a concealed meaning to informed members of a conspiracy or underground movement. For instance, if Person X is known for exposing secrets in an organization, the organization leaders announce that "any memb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9881205 | The Science of Good and Evil
The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule is a 2004 book by Michael Shermer on ethics and evolutionary psychology. The book was published by Henry Holt and Company.
In discussing Shermer's approach to ethics, a review by Ian ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9903002 | Joseph Margolis
Joseph Zalman Margolis (born May 16, 1924) is an American philosopher. A radical historicist, he has published many books critical of the central assumptions of Western philosophy, and has elaborated a robust form of relativism.
His philosophical affinities include Protagoras, Hegel, C.S. Pe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31054 | Theological virtues
Theological virtues are virtues associated in Christian theology and philosophy with salvation resulting from the grace of God. Virtues are traits or qualities which dispose one to conduct oneself in a morally good manner. Traditionally they have been named Faith, Hope, and Charity, and can t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31292 | Treason
In law, treason is criminal disloyalty, typically to the state. It is a crime that covers some of the more extreme acts against one's nation or sovereign. This usually includes things such as participating in a war against one's native country, attempting to overthrow its government, spying on its milita... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31899 | Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a historic document that was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly at its third session on 10 December 1948 as Resolution 217 at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, France. Of the then 58 members of the United Nations... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34155 | Xenophon
Xenophon of Athens (; , , "Xenophōn"; BC – 354 BC) was an ancient Greek historian, philosopher and soldier. Xenophon became commander of the Ten Thousand at about 30, with noted military historian Theodore Ayrault Dodge saying of him, “the centuries since have devised nothing to surpass the
genius of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37073 | Civil disobedience
Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders or commands of a government. By some definitions, civil disobedience has to be nonviolent to be called 'civil'. Hence, civil disobedience is sometimes equated with peaceful protests or nonvio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37143 | Chrysippus
Chrysippus of Soli (; , ; ) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was a native of Soli, Cilicia, but moved to Athens as a young man, where he became a pupil of Cleanthes in the Stoic school. When Cleanthes died, around 230 BC, Chrysippus became the third head of the school. A prolific writer, Chrysippus e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1370 | Ambrose
Aurelius Ambrosius (), better known in English as Ambrose (), an Archbishop of Milan, became one of the most influential ecclesiastical figures of the 4th century. He served as the Roman governor of Liguria and Emilia, headquartered in Milan, before popular acclamation propelled him into becoming Bishop ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1557 | Agrippina the Younger
Julia Agrippina (6 November AD 15 – 23 March AD 59), also referred to as Agrippina the Younger (, "smaller", often used to mean "younger"), was a powerful Roman empress and one of the more prominent and effective women in the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Her father was Germanicus, a popular gene... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1599 | Alexander of Aphrodisias
Alexander of Aphrodisias (; ) was a Peripatetic philosopher and the most celebrated of the Ancient Greek commentators on the writings of Aristotle. He was a native of Aphrodisias in Caria, and lived and taught in Athens at the beginning of the 3rd century, where he held a position as hea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1723 | Ammonius Hermiae
Ammonius Hermiae (; "Ammōnios ho Hermeiou"; ) was a Greek philosopher, and the son of the Neoplatonist philosophers Hermias and Aedesia. He was a pupil of Proclus in Athens, and taught at Alexandria for most of his life, writing commentaries on Plato, Aristotle, and other philosophers.
Ammo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1764 | Andronicus of Rhodes
Andronicus of Rhodes (; ; ) was a Greek philosopher from Rhodes who was also the scholarch (head) of the Peripatetic school. He is most famous for publishing a new edition of the works of Aristotle that forms the basis of the texts that survive today.
Little is known about Andronicus' life... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2851 | Abraham Joshua Heschel
Abraham Joshua Heschel (January 11, 1907 – December 23, 1972) was a Polish-born American rabbi and one of the leading Jewish theologians and Jewish philosophers of the 20th century. Heschel, a professor of Jewish mysticism at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, authored a number of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3395 | Gautama Buddha
The Buddha (also known as Siddhattha Gotama or Siddhārtha Gautama) was a philosopher, mendicant, meditator, spiritual teacher, and religious leader who lived in ancient India (c. 5th to 4th century BCE). He is revered as the founder of the world religion of Buddhism. He taught for around 45 years ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63179629 | Beechwood children's home
Beechwood children's home was a care home for children in Mapperley in Nottinghamshire, England where staff committed serious sexual and "sadistic" abuse against children spanning several decades before it closed in 2006. Some abusive staff received lengthy prison sentences.
By Jun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63192582 | Charity Intelligence Canada
Charity Intelligence Canada (Ci) is a charity assessment organization that evaluates charitable organizations in Canada.
Charity Intelligence Canada (Ci) was launched in 2007. The group "follows and rates fundraisers." CTV News described CI as is an "organization that monitors ot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63195649 | Citizens' Gavel
Citizens' Gavel (also known as Tech for Justice or Gavel) is a civic tech organization aimed at improving the pace of justice delivery through the use of technology. It was established in 2017 as Open Justice by Nelson Olanipekun, from an incubation programme of Civic Hive; the incubation and med... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63299342 | List of longest walks
This is a list of the longest walks that have occurred in groups and on solo or duo projects. Many have promoted social causes or medical conditions. Some have been done mostly for the experience.
Groups consist of three or more people who walked at least most of the entire distance. S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63303167 | Digital kidnapping
Digital kidnapping (DK) is the theft of a minor's photos, posing as them, or posing as their parents. DK is commonly done to reveal private or sensitive information that negatively impacts the child's life, making it difficult to gain acceptance to college, or subjecting them to bullying. In r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63321919 | Amberdale children's home
Amberdale children's home was a council run home in Stapleford in Nottinghamshire, England, where staff committed serious sexual offences against girls and boys in the 1980s. Some staff received significant prison sentences.
Amberdale, in Stapleford near Nottingham, was operated by... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63341058 | Birmingham bathing cult
The Birmingham bathing cult was an offshoot of a Christian church, based in Birmingham, England, that committed serious sexual offences against children for over 20 years. Its leader Michael Oluronbi gave children "holy baths" as cover for the abuse and was jailed for 34 years.
Micha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63351854 | Nixon Family Assistance Plan (1969)
The Family Assistance Program (FAP) was a welfare program introduced by President Richard Nixon in August 1969, which aimed to implement a negative income tax for households with working parents. The FAP was influenced by President Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty program th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63357366 | Wilhelm Dietler
Wilhelm Dietler (died 1797) was a German philosopher and early animal rights writer.
Dietler was a Master of Philosophy and in 1791 received a professorship of logic and metaphysics at the University of Mainz. He is best known for his book "Gerechtigkeit gegen Thiere" ("Justice Towards Anima... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63363388 | Witness J
Witness J, also known by the pseudonyms Alan Johns and Prisoner 123458, was a former Australian intelligence officer who was subject to a secret trial and secret imprisonment for breaching Australian national security laws in 2018. His case came to light following an Australian Federal Police raid of h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63367872 | Christine Grady
Christine Grady is an American nurse and bioethicist who serves as the head of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center.
Grady was born and raised in Livingston, New Jersey. Her father, John H. Grady Jr., was a Yale University graduate and United State... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63393876 | COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund
COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund is a global fund for supporting the work of the World Health Organization (WHO) in containing the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic. It was launched on March 13, 2020 by the Director General of WHO in Geneva, Switzerland. The purpose of the response ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63432845 | Christian Van Geloven
Christian Van Geloven (April 18, 1945 - August 6, 2011) was a Dutch kidnapper, rapist and double murderer, responsible for the murders of two young French girls on October 19, 1991 in Elne, Pyrénées-Orientales. For his crimes, he was sentenced to life imprisonment with 30 years of preventiv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63456989 | Henryk Hiż
Henryk Hiż (8 October 1917 – 19 December 2006) was a Polish analytical philosopher specializing in linguistics, philosophy of language, logic, mathematics and ethics, active for most of his life in the United States, one of the youngest representatives of the Lwów–Warsaw school.
A disciple of Tad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63479458 | Gū (surname)
Gu or Ku/Koo 辜 is a Chinese-language surname.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63489324 | Ethics Since 1900
Ethics Since 1900 is a 1960 book by the philosopher Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, in which the author provides an account of the history of ethics in the 20th century.
A. C. Ewing, Paul Welsh and James D. Bastable have reviewed the book.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63500512 | MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund
The MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund was established during the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic to provide relief to music industry professionals that lost their jobs as a result of the pandemic. It was started when both MusiCares and The Recording Academy donated $1 million. The fund r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63502838 | United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants
The Declaration on the Rights of Peasants (United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas or UNDROP) is a non-legally-binding resolution passed by the United Nations in 2018.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63505756 | George Brinkman murders
George Brinkman Jr. (born 1972) is an American murderer who took the lives of five people during a 2017 killing spree. His first victims were Suzanne Taylor, with whom he had been friends since elementary school, and her two daughters, twenty-one-year-old Taylor Pifer and eighteen-year-ol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63588825 | Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View
Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View is a non-fiction book by German philosopher Immanuel Kant. The work came as the result of successful classes instructed by Kant at the Albertus Universität in then Königsberg, Germany. While nominally detailing the nature of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63596570 | Gerald Gaus
Gerald Gaus is an American philosopher and writer best known for authoring the non-fiction book "", a critical treatise about ethical idealism in the context of heterogeneous modern cultures. Princeton University Press published the work in 2016. Gaus has additionally served as the James E. Rogers Pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63597287 | Insult of officials and the state
Insult of officials, as well including the head of state or foreign heads of state, the state itself or its symbols, is a crime in some countries.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63627231 | David Olivier
David Olivier (born 11 March 1956) is a French and British philosopher and antispeciesist activist. He is founder of the French journal "Cahiers antispécistes" (), the annual event Veggie Pride and of the annual meeting "Les Estivales de la question animal" ()"." Olivier is also the creator of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63635356 | Federico Zuolo
Federico Zuolo (born 10 October 1979) is an Italian philosopher whose work concerns political philosophy and applied ethics. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics, Philosophy and History at the University of Genova.
Zuolo was educated at the University of Pavia from 1998 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63643636 | Alexander Kekulé
Alexander S. Kekulé (* November 7th 1958 as " Alexander Urchs " in Munich) is a German doctor and biochemist. Since 1999 he has held the chair for Medical Microbiology and Virology of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and Director of the Institute for Medical Microbiology of the Univ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63684629 | Patricia A. King
Patricia A. King (b. June 12, 1942) is a Professor of Law emeritus at Georgetown University Law Center and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Hygiene and Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. Her expertise lies at the intersection of law, medicine, ethics, and public policy. In 1978, she... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63716011 | Compassionate conservation
Compassionate conservation is a scientific discipline which aims to combine the fields of conservation and animal welfare. Historically, these two fields have been considered separate and sometimes contradictory to each other. The foundational principles of compassionate conservation a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63717042 | William Howard Melish
The Reverend Wiliam Howard Melish (1910-1986) was an 20th-century American Episcopalian and social leader, driven from his Brooklyn church in the 1950s during McCarthyism in a decade-long controversy by the Episcopalian bishop of Long Island due to his association with the USSR and CPUSA.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63745522 | The Big Night In
The Big Night In is a United Kingdom telethon that was broadcast by BBC One from 7pm to 10pm on 23 April 2020, to support those affected by the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic. It is the first joint initiative between two BBC telethon charities, Children in Need and Comic Relief. By the end of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63747028 | Creality
Creality is a 3D printer-manufacturing company based in China who makes filament printers and resin printers. Their product line includes the DIY kits intended for hobby use, as well as printers intended for industrial use.
Creality gained recognition when the Ender 3 budget 3D printer was released... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35014449 | Le Beurre et l'argent du beurre
Le Beurre et l'argent du beurre is a 2007 documentary film directed by Alidou Badini and Philippe Baqué. The title, which translates to "Butter and the money from butter", derives from a French idiom equivalent to the English phrase "Have one's cake and eat it too".
Fair trad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35029774 | Deni Elliott
Deni Elliott, D.Ed. is an ethicist and ethics scholar, and has been active in ethics scholarship and application since the 1980s. She holds the Eleanor Poynter Jamison Chair in Media Ethics and Press Policy, professor in the Department of Journalism and Digital Communication and is previous Departme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35087888 | Word taboo
Word taboo, also called taboo language, language taboo or linguistic taboo is a kind of taboo that involves restricting the use of words or other parts of language due to social constraints. This may be due to a taboo on specific parts of the language itself (such as certain words, or sounds), or due ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35169892 | Human rights abuses in Kashmir
Human rights abuses in Kashmir is an issue connected to the territory's disputed and divided status with respect to the conflict between India and Pakistan. The issue pertains to abuses in both the region administered by India (Jammu and Kashmir) and the region administered by Paki... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35176347 | Compulsory heterosexuality
Compulsory heterosexuality is the idea that heterosexuality is assumed and enforced by a patriarchal and heteronormative society. In this theory, heterosexuality is seen as able to be adopted by people regardless of their personal sexual orientation, heterosexuality is viewed as the na... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35192318 | Nerija Putinaitė
Nerija Putinaitė (born 19 May 1971 in Tauragė, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian philosopher and politician, Vice-minister of the Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Lithuania.
Nerija studied from 1989 to 1996 at the Philosophy Faculty of the Vilnius universitetas the bachelor's a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35193575 | Animal Welfare Labelling
Animal Welfare Labelling is a generic term which stands for schemes put in place to provide consumer information on welfare standards applied in the production of food of animal origin.
Animal welfare labels inform the consumer about the conditions applied in the production of meat,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35197210 | Tax uncertainty
Tax uncertainty is the term for the economic risk that results when future taxes and tax rates are undetermined. Similar to policy uncertainty, tax uncertainty can impact both individuals and businesses and has been shown in some studies to slow rates of economic growth.
Temporary tax measur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35245110 | 1982 Barnard Conference on Sexuality
The Barnard Conference on Sexuality is often credited as the moment that signaled the beginning of the Feminist Sex Wars. It was held at Barnard College (a private women's liberal arts college in New York City) on April 24, 1982, and was presented as the annual Scholar and Fe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35274542 | Vagina loquens
The vagina loquens, or "talking vagina", is a significant tradition in literature and art, dating back to the ancient folklore motif of the "talking cunt". These tales usually involve vaginas talking due to the effect of magic or charms, and often admitting to their unchastity. Another tradition i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35333788 | On What Matters
On What Matters is a three-volume book of moral philosophy by Derek Parfit. The first two volumes were published in 2011 and the third in 2017. It is a follow-up to Parfit's 1984 book "Reasons and Persons". It has an introduction by Samuel Scheffler.
Parfit defends an objective ethical theor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35348527 | Dandelion Community
Dandelion was a rural intentional community near Enterprise, Ontario, active in the 1970s, and disbanded around 1990. It was a member of the Federation of Egalitarian Communities, meeting all requirements for full membership.
Dandelion was the birthplace of singer/songwriter Devon Sproul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35376449 | Static (Eclipse Comics)
Static is a fictional comic book hero created and owned by writer-artist Steve Ditko.
The character first appeared in a namesake feature in the omnibus title "Eclipse Monthly" #1-3 in 1983. In 1985, Charlton Comics retitled an existing series as "Charlton Action Featuring Static" #11... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35450072 | Winston Damarillo
Winston Damarillo is a Filipino-American businessman.
Winston Damarillo was born in Bohol, in the Philippines. He completed a BS in industrial and mechanical engineering from the De La Salle University in 1990.
He moved to the US, and went to work at Intel in Hillsboro, Oregon in 1992. A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35455696 | Pete Moore (science writer)
Pete Moore is an English science writer, author, speaker and facilitator. His work aims to convey scientific concepts in layman's terms to enable public debate. Many of his books look at aspects of what it is to be human, and how the technological implementation of scientific discover... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35546539 | Index of BDSM articles
This is an index of BDSM articles. BDSM is a variety of erotic practices involving dominance and submission, role-playing, restraint, and other interpersonal dynamics. Given the wide range of practices, some of which may be engaged in by people who do not consider themselves as practicing ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35551135 | Invincible ignorance (Catholic theology)
Invincible ignorance is used in Catholic moral theology to refer to the state of persons (such as pagans and infants) who are ignorant of the Christian message because they have not yet had an opportunity to hear it. It is the opposite of the term vincible ignorance. The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35557994 | Gernot Böhme
Gernot Böhme (born 3 January 1937 in Dessau) is a German philosopher and author, contributing to the philosophy of science, theory of time, aesthetics, ethics, and philosophical anthropology. He is the main pioneer of German ecocriticism, the study of the relationship between culture and the environ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35590381 | Justice and the Market
Justice and the market is an ethical perspective based upon the allocation of scarce resources within a society. The allocation of resources depends upon governmental policies and the societal attitudes of the individuals who exist within the society. Personal perspectives are based upon o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35652051 | Lori Gruen
Lori Gruen is the William Griffin Professor of Philosophy, and Professor of Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Science in Society, at Wesleyan University.
Specializing in animal ethics, Gruen is the author of several books, including "Ethics and Animals: An Introduction" (2011) and "Entan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35672322 | How to Start a Revolution
How to Start a Revolution is a BAFTA Award-winning British documentary film about Nobel Peace Prize nominee and political theorist Gene Sharp, described as the world's foremost scholar on nonviolent revolution. The 2011 film describes Sharp's ideas, and their influence on popular uprisi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35689914 | The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm
The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm is a feminist essay on women's sexuality, written by Anne Koedt, an American radical feminist, in 1968 and published in 1970. It first appeared in a four-paragraph outline form in the "Notes from the Second Year" journal published by the New York Radi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35777998 | Access 2 Advocacy
Access 2 Advocacy is an independent advocacy service based in Rhyl, Denbighshire in North Wales. They work with people living in the county over the age of 50, but will soon be assisting those aged 11-25 too. The service aims to ensure that people have the opportunity to make their voice heard,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35789777 | Fair trade bananas
e organization]] which focuses on increasing the price paid to small banana growers and the wages of agricultural workers. This is not a commercial brand, but a marketing strategy. Fair trade is based on higher prices paid by consumers that allow an equitable distribution of gains from trade o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35803281 | The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas
The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas is a book by the Finnish philosopher Edvard Westermarck, published between 1906 and 1908. One of his main works, it is a monumental study and a classic in its field, though now antiquated.
Westermarck, in the preface... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35803421 | Ethical Relativity
Ethical Relativity is a 1932 book by the Finnish philosopher Edvard Westermarck, one of his main works.
Westermark attacks the idea that moral principles express objective value, writing "I am not aware of any moral principle which can be said to be self-evident," and asserting that (no) ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35806318 | Hate media
Thomas Kamilindi, author of "Journalism in a Time of Hate Media", describes hate media as a form of violence, which helps to demonize and stigmatize people that belong to different groups. This type of media has had an influential role in the incitement of genocide, with its most infamous cases perhap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35807665 | Food Assistance Convention
The Food Assistance Convention is an international treaty relating to food assistance. It was adopted on 25 April 2012 in London. The treaty aims at "addressing the food and nutritional needs of the most vulnerable populations" and includes mechanisms for information sharing and regist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35829746 | Jadav Payeng
Jadav "Molai" Payeng (born 1963) is an environmental activist and forestry worker from Majuli, popularly known as the "Forest Man of India". Over the course of several decades, he has planted and tended trees on a sandbar of the river Brahmaputra turning it into a forest reserve. The forest, called ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35835781 | Al-Jawbari
'Abd al-Rahman ibn 'Umar Zain al-Din al-Dimashqi, commonly known as Al-Jawbari (; fl. 619/1222) was a medieval Syrian and scholar known for his denunciation of alchemy. Born in Jawbar, Syria, Al-Jawbari traveled extensively throughout the Islamic Empire, including visits as far as India. Among other l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35843586 | Duke Xiang of Qi
Duke Xiang of Qi (; died 686 BC) was from 697 to 686 BC the fourteenth recorded ruler of the State of Qi, a major power during the Spring and Autumn period of ancient China. His personal name was Lü Zhu'er (呂諸兒), ancestral name Jiang (姜), and Duke Xiang was his posthumous title.
Although un... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35851069 | 5 Broken Cameras
5 Broken Cameras ( "Khamas Kamīrāt Muḥaṭṭamah"; "Hamesh Matslemot Shvurot") is a 94-minute documentary film co-directed by Palestinian Emad Burnat and Israeli Guy Davidi. It was shown at film festivals in 2011 and placed in general release by Kino Lorber in 2012. "5 Broken Cameras" is a first-ha... |
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