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Private Revenge and its Relation to Punishment
In contrast to the vast literature on retributive theories of punishment, discussions of private revenge are rare in moral philosophy. This paper reviews some examples, from both classical and recent writers. It detects, both in the philosophical tradition and in contemporary moral discourse, uncertainty and equivocation over the ethical significance of acts of revenge, and in particular over their possible resemblances, in motive, purpose or justification, to acts of lawful punishment. A key problem for the coherence of our ethical conception of revenge, it suggests, is the consideration that certain acts of revenge may be just (at least in the minimal sense that the victim of revenge has no grounds for complaint against the revenger) and yet be generally agreed to be morally wrong. It argues that the challenge of explaining adequately why private revenge is morally wrong poses particular difficulty for purely retributive theories of punishment, since without invoking consequentialist reasons it does not seem possible adequately to motivate an objection to just and proportionate acts of revenge. The paper concludes by identifying some of the directions in which further reflection on the moral and political significance of revenge might proceed
Newport--Those were the days
It is a great misfortune that our military schools should be established in connection with the watering places characterized ... in scenes of social disÂplay and dissipation. Surely the students will be wasted ... on the giddy maidens who disport themselves on the rocks in sun bonnets! These were the words of Congressman William McAdoo as he described the relationship between NewÂport and the Naval War College in 1892. In 1974, though giddy maidens no longer wear sunbonnets and the social display is less conspicuous, Newport still offers a wide variety of entertainÂment and cultural activities for the family and enterprising bachelor
Scale-up in laminar and transient regimes of a multi-stage stirrer, a CFD approach
A multi-stage industrial agitator system adapted to the mixing of a mixture whose viscosity varies during the process has been
characterized by using CFD. In the entire study the mixture is supposed to have a Newtonian behavior even though it is rarely the case. It
is shown that the well-adapted propeller is able to e7ciently blend high viscous media provided the Reynolds number is not too low. A
scale-up study of the agitated system has also been carried out by respecting the classical scale-up rules such as the geometrical similarity
and the conservation of the power per volume in the particular case of viscous media.
Using an Eulerian approach, the hydrodynamics of three di9erent scales with geometrical similarity have been numerically characterized
by the energy curve (power number versus Reynolds number) and by the Metzner and Otto constant in which both are required for
scale-up procedure. Experimental power measurements have been carried out at the smaller scale so that simulations have been partially
validated. New hydrodynamic criteria have also been introduced in order to quantify the =ows in the case of a multi-stage stirrer running
at low Reynolds number. It has been shown how this hydrodynamic di9ers dramatically from one scale to another when scale-up at
constant energy per volume is applied. From the CFD results, recommendations about the widely used scale-up rules have been suggested
and modi>cations of stirring geometry have been proposed in order to reduce the =ow pattern variations during scale-up.
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OUT OF THE FRYING PAN INTO THE FIRE: HEIGHTENED DISCRIMINATION & REDUCED LEGAL SAFEGUARDS WHEN PANDEMIC STRIKES
To Boldly Go Where No Signatory Has Gone Before: How the Military Commissions Act of 2006 Has Rewritten the United States\u27 Obligations under the Geneva Conventions
Blood Banks in Kumasi, Ghana: Social Barriers Preventing Volunteer Blood Donations
Articlehttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/97003/1/UMURJ-Issue09_2012-AHHarrington.pd
To Boldly Go Where No Signatory Has Gone Before: How the Military Commissions Act of 2006 Has Rewritten the United States\u27 Obligations under the Geneva Conventions
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