...Islam, it is often noted, has no concept of the legal person. Having culturally fractionated the self, Western polities can more readily ask whether an arbitrary age or ritual passage marks one as capable of contracting, or whether a mental disease or defect renders one immune from liability...

... and to the whole of real life. It may be felt by many that these two worlds do become one in regard to some issues, especially those that focus on ethics and morality. Psychoanalysis demands a personal analysis, most other disciplines ask for some form of therapy, and almost all require supervision of cases...

...This chapter expands on the basics of personalist theory. It clarifies that critical realist personalism’s center and touchstone is the human person. Then, basic beliefs underlying personalist theory are explained, such that human persons are real entities with ontological being that exist...

...This chapter shows how children acquire the ergative person marking system in the Mayan verb complex. English pronouns have different forms that distinguish between the nominative, accusative, and genitive cases. The nominative case applies to pronouns when they occur in the context of sentence...

... deficiency” of juridical discourse in conceptualizing legal persons. But a merely “fictional person” was not considered capable of committing crimes. In diametrical contrast, other legal theorists such as von Gierke and von Liszt regarded the corporation as an invisible yet real organism that could compel...

... person of color identity US Census Bureau demographic trends In the year 2000, fully one-third of America’s total population will consist of people of color—Latinos, Asian-Americans, Pacific-Americans, American Indians and African Americans. The fastest-growing groups in this country are people...

... marginalization control groups Survey Sampling International SSI commitment Native Americans racial identity Prolific rudeness conflict resources salience Chinese Cubans Puerto Ricans conceptual issues education Haley J L racism slurs “wetbacks” slur person of color identity I Feel Your Pain...

... Nagot Zambia demographics majority minority nation Muslims Native Americans resources competition out groups social competition social creativity social scientists Tajfel Henri Turner John unity person of color identity intergroup conflict intergroup cooperation group identity group...

.... Focusing on accounts of his renunciatory practices, chapter 3 examine links narrators make between Khunu Lama’s identity as a Himalayan border person, his perceived and actual connections to India, his non-sectarianism, and his expertise as a literary scholar of Sanskrit and Tibetan grammar and poetics. I...

...The second chapter explores some analytical consequences of Proust’s use of the first person—partly through a consideration of his interest in Dostoevsky’s The Idiot, a novel fascinated by aberrant forms of speech. Proust’s compositional practices produce a framework in which his hero’s speech can...

... phenomenal experience is always from a first-person perspective, we can’t know what another person’s experience is like because we can’t share his or her perspective on it. It then examines and responds to several counterarguments, from physics and physiology, psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy, all...

...In a number of his opinions, Justice Scalia invoked some variant of the rhetoric that “no reasonable person” could disagree with his judgment. While frequently raised in cases where he determined that he did not need to defer to agency rulings, the language is also invoked more broadly to dismiss...

... was not a legal person and therefore could not “own” any of the intellectual property that led her to those achievements or that resulted from them. Curie Eve accompanied Curie to U S “Les Grands Hommes de France” series Pierre Curie and Curie’s “Autobiographical Notes” coining of term radioactivity Atlantic...

... science experiments with minority adults, content analyses of newspapers and congressional archives, and in-depth interviews with minority individuals, Pérez makes two key points. First, a person of color’s identity does exist, and we can reliably measure it, as well as distinguish it from other...

...The fourth chapter argues that Catullus harnesses the intimacy of first person poetic translation as a powerfully transformative tool that facilitates his elaboration of novel voicings and postures. This argument is made through a reading of two poems (Catullus 50 and Catullus 65) that serve...

... Cognitive Behavioral Therapy person true self false self pedophile impression management ritual process ritual rehab East Germany the state Rehabilitation is the official goal of the German penal system. As stated in the Penal Code, amended on March 16, 1976, rehabilitation aims “to enable...

... there have to be signs, objects of some sort that are about something, objects whose function is reference rather than presence. Thus, information has to be a relation of at least four terms, that is, a PERSON is informed by a SIGN about some THING within a certain CONTEXT. Part of the cultural context...

... he has reached. At first, he strives for the standards of liberal publicity, presenting himself to the anthropologist as knowledgeable, responsible, and engaged in debate. Slowly, though, he lets hearsay take over. Liberal publicity’s “we” of stolid “I”s melts into the anonymous third person...

... the practical theory of the self and considers a reflection that is cognitive in nature. It also discusses the issues of obligations, avowals and first-person authority and explores the relevance of the Cartesian model. commitment reflection authority first person avowals Descartes René Henrich Dieter...

...When the early Hindu scriptures evoked the rise of persons who were dying—whether of natural causes or through one or another type of self-willed death—they often employed the term raśmi to denote the reins or rays that conveyed them to their final destination, regardless...