Word: suggestion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would suggest that it may have been a mistake in philosophy of this tradition to recognize only the rights of rational individuals. It would seem to me that the capacity for suffering also entails certain rights. Surely we would agree with Bentham and the classical utilitarian that suffering--even the suffering of animals--is bad. Suffering is related to consciousness. I think the argument should be developed that just as it misconceives the significance of purpose and rationality to view them teleologically (i.e., to maximize their realization without regard to the entities in which they reside and to which they...
...combination of things. It is a warning, a safety measure, a punishment, a specific for aberrant behavior, and often a rescue effort. An effective sentence must come from an alert and educated conscience. Sentencing is not a process susceptible to committee action or digital computation, as you seem to suggest...
...25th birthday, Israel seems less and less able to believe in any compromise with the Arabs. But how long can Israel maintain its position of superiority? "For another quarter of a century, perhaps," says one top U.S. official. "But reason and the law of averages suggest that, surrounded by a huge mass of Arabs, tiny Israel will at some point lose its supremacy...
...disturbing in the extreme to the non-partisan reader, and I would hope, to the partisan as well. Freud's egoism, his supreme indifference to anyone's work or to contributions other than his own, his condescendingly terse replies to Lou's "blithe optimism," as he terms it, suggest the reasons for the defections of Freud's less willing disciples. In the face of so little reception, of the glaring silences with which most of Salome's efforts to communicate her observations and ideas are met, her exuberance and unkillable gratitude to Freud are hard to understand. And yet Freud...
...then, doctors have found that with amniocentesis Mongolism can be detected in a fetus as early as the third month. With this knowledge, a doctor would be free (and legally justified) to advise the mother to abort. Since the incidence of Mongoloid children is higher in older women, some suggest that amniocentesis be routinely performed on pregnant women over 40. Others would like to see amniocentesis become a routine part of prenatal care for all women...