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Research on the History of Chinese Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy’s Creation
This title requires an explanation. Adding “China” before “History of Philosophy” is easy to understand.
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History
For the first time in 4.54 billion years, Earth, flora, fauna, and climate are unrectifiably affected by the sum of human actions. As a result,...
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Limits of Debate: Governance of Human Embryo Research and the Making of the Fourteen-Day Rule
This chapter focuses on a limit that was defined in the early days of IVF and which for nearly four decades was widely affirmed and adopted. This is...
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Research on Human Subjects: Nurses Roles and Responsibilities
Nurses encounter the human subjects of research in many different settings and their relationships with the person who is on a research protocol may...
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Meaning and Purpose: Using Phylogenies to Investigate Human History and Cultural Evolution
Phylogenies are increasingly being used to investigate human history, diversification and cultural evolution. While using phylogenies in this way is...
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Freedom of Scientific Research and Primacy of Human Being: Practical and Epistemological Tensions
Conducting science, especially nowadays, when biotechnological inventions seem like reaching their pinnacle, encompasses different nuances related to...
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Concreteness of the Subject: The Monad
The chapter makes the case for considering the notion of monad or concrete subject as Husserl develops it in the Cartesian Meditations as the actual...
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To donate or not to donate? Future healthcare professionals’ opinions on biobanking of human biological material for research purposes
BackgroundOver the last few decades biobanks have been recognised as institutions that may revolutionise biomedical research and the development of...
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Schiller’s Philosophy of History
Schiller’s philosophy of history has received comparatively little attention. This is partly because Schiller is perceived as a poor imitation of...
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History: Morally Heavy or Morally Light?
This chapter raises the question of whether, granting that historical moral judgements are perfectly legitimate in principle, it comes within the...
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Foucault’s Archaeological History
In this chapter, I provide an overview of FoucaultFoucault, Michel’s major works from the 1950s and 1960s and discuss their approach to...
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Research Involving Humans
Research involving humans takes place in many fields. This is usually sensitive research that is subject to a comprehensive set of laws, procedures...
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Understanding the Human Person
The past century has brought about a gradual reevaluation of the human element of business from a production factor to a human resource. Today,...
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John Bell on ‘Subject and Object’: An Exchange
This three-part paper comprises: (i) a critique by Halvorson of Bell’s (
1973 ) paper ‘Subject and Object’; (ii) a comment by Butterfield; (iii) a... -
Capital Logic and Subject
Capital operations are propelled by the modern factory system, expanding endlessly like a whirling spiral that absorbs everything into its own.
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Concreteness of the Subject: Dasein
The chapter focuses on Heidegger’s account of the concreteness of Dasein in the opening paragraphs of Being and Time, and lays strong emphasis on his...
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The “Hard Psychologica” of Human, all too Human
One more reference to a biographical confession gives us a sense of Nietzsche’s experience during one of the definitive periods in his life as he...
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History and Dialectics of Intellectual Property
In Chap. 2 , the common association of intellectual property and the abstract right is challenged. When...
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What Makes It the History of Thought: Xu Fu-Guan’s Thinking Tendency and Research Approach
Very few scholars can produce such profound and impressive works in thinking and study as Xu Fuguan.