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\"A beautifully lyrical and inspirational picture book about being present and loving who you are, from Jessica Olien, the author/illustrator of Adrift, The Blobfish Book, and Shark Detective. What are you? You're big and small and loud and quiet. You are right now. And you are perfect.\"--Publisher's description.
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The Doxa of Dignity: Dying Well with Susan Sontag and Maria Gerhardt
This essay questions the hegemony of \"dignity\" in contemporary bioethical debates about good deaths. It does so by exploring how cultural ideals organize the affective setting of death in David Rieff's memoir, Swimming in a Sea of Death (2008), and Maria Gerhardt's novel, Transfer Window [ Transfervindue ] (2019/2017). In depicting the emotional turmoil of terminal cancer, these pathographies reveal that the very ideals adopted to ensure a sense of dignity (autonomy and family involvement) may sometimes make an impending death even more unbearable. Recognizing lack of affective stability as death's ultimate problem, I utilize the utopian imaginaries of Gerhardt's fiction to suggest \"anesthetic deaths\" as an alternative bioethical ideal that channels intellectual resources from the Nordic welfare regimes into discussions otherwise marked by liberalism and conservatism.
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BETTER DIGITAL CONTRACTS WITH PROSOCIAL FRICTION-IN-DESIGN
Contract law is supposed to enable people to reach genuine agreements and cooperate. If this ideal was ever a reality, the rise of mass market contracts and boilerplate rendered it pure fiction. Modern consumer contracts are incomprehensible to most people. No one reads them anyway.
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Team taekwondo. #2, Baeoh and the bully
As Buddy Day at the dojo approaches, Baeoh will need the help of his friends to deal with the bullies in his life.
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Anti-corruption Law as a Fiction: The Illusion of Serving Morality by Controlling It through Rules and Regulations with an International Reach
According to the Corruption Perception Index of Transparency International, corruption is still far more prevalent in “non-Western” countries. The search for more effective anti-corruption legislation has shifted from preventing and combating bribery to preventing corruption in a broader sense. Consequently, anti-corruption law has obtained a more far-reaching scope. However, this does not work sufficiently. Up till now, we do not know why. This article focuses on why we should consider revising anti-corruption legislation. The research is a qualitative theoretical analysis based on empirical insights from preliminary anthropological fieldwork conducted in Gabon (Feikema 2015). One of the reasons for the challenge seems to be that the implicit institutional setup—namely, of a national state with a rule of law, which forms the point of departure of anti-corruption law—is not self-evident in countries where this democratic rule of law is not an experienced reality. For example, in the so-called hybrid political orders (Boege 2008), these developments of anti-corruption law may have a confusing and alienating impact, as demonstrated by a case study. Therefore, the effectiveness of these laws could be doubted. Even more importantly, respect for human dignity, the rationale of these laws, seems to be seriously at stake. We could understand recent developments in anti-corruption law as an illusion of control. Even more vitally, anti-corruption law could be considered a symptom of derailment. What we experience as evil may occur as the disturbance of the ecological cohesion of society: derailment.
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“Love and Self-Love”: The Balance between Sympathy and Self-Respect in Louisa May Alcott’s Early Fiction
This paper explores one of the early short stories by Louisa May Alcott in order to offer an example of a problem that plagued women in 19th century America, wanting to thrive both in the domestic and in the public spheres. By focusing on “Love and Self-Love,” an early short story, the paper highlights one of the major concerns at the time of the emergence of the first proto-feminist movements: the balance between women’s inclination to sympathy for others and their own self-esteem. The plot revolves around self-respect and stages forms of female empowerment by using fiction as a form of education oriented towards creating awareness in the public sphere.
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When are you dead enough to be a donor? Can any feasible protocol for the determination of death on circulatory criteria respect the dead donor rule?
The basic question concerning the compatibility of donation after circulatory death (DCD) protocols with the dead donor rule is whether such protocols can guarantee that the loss of relevant biological functions is truly irreversible. Which functions are the relevant ones? I argue that the answer to this question can be derived neither from a proper understanding of the meaning of the term “death” nor from a proper understanding of the nature of death as a biological phenomenon. The concept of death can be made fully determinate only by stipulation. I propose to focus on the irreversible loss of the capacity for consciousness and the capacity for spontaneous breathing. Having accepted that proposal, the meaning of “irreversibility” need not be twisted in order to claim that DCD protocols can guarantee that the loss of these functions is irreversible. And this guarantee does not mean that reversing that loss is either conceptually impossible or known to be impossible with absolute certainty.
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Histories of Wonder, Futures of Wonder
[...]the fears that Hurao expressed in his speech began to manifest, because Chamorros began to believe that their ancient past was filled with nothing more than empty fables and fiction. For young activists these tales offer an opportunity to conceptualize cohesion among multiple groups in the common struggle against the U.S. imperial hegemony, a terrifyingly large and destructive predator that, in the words of many, is destroying their island and their children's future.
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MOZI'S TEACHING OF \JIANAI\ (IMPARTIAL REGARD): A LESSON FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY?
In response to the waste, violence, and destruction of his times, Mozi began teaching jianai⽾⿆ (impartial regard), a reflection on Confucius' Silver Rule (SR) and teaching of ren iZ (humaneness). Mozi regarded the negative ⼖ formulation of the SR as too passive, and the concomitant expressions of ren conduct as circumscribed by the li ⿆ (ritual action) that supported hierarchical elite clans and courts. Accordingly, it is argued here that SR and ren practice contributed to harmony and stability within the elites but not among them.Jianai thus reflects a positive Golden Rule (GR) and enjoins a mutual concern that crosses hierarchical levels and clusters, involving a notion of justice as fairness and equity. As an ethical precept of both intrinsic validity and practical efficacy for Mozi's chaotic world, jianai sits well with our human intuition of fairness and equity, and empirically is shown conducive to fair and positive outcomes. Today, we are increasingly aware of other peoples around the world but also know that our interconnected global village is radically imbalanced.Most of the wealth entering impoverished areas is siphoned off to elites and does not contribute adequately to disadvantaged communities. Could jianai, as corollary of the GR, provide a missing link in contemporary arguments for viewing justice as equity? It expresses a dear and compelling moral truth that encourages empathy and consideration toward others, and the sort of human intuition that economic and business theory attempt to conceal, to the advantage of the vested interests. Mozi saw jianai as a moral theme conducive to a harmonious, win-win society and world.
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