Zygomatic fixed rehabilitation – are all individual good candidate?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Filipe Tovim
Keyword(s):  
Individual Good

scholarly journals Interpersonal Comparisons of the Good: Epistemic not Impossible

Utilitas ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 288-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
MATHEW COAKLEY
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Choice ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Interpersonal Comparisons ◽  
Individual Good ◽  
Level Information ◽  
Action Policy ◽  
Social Mind ◽  
The Individual

To evaluate the overall good/welfare of any action, policy or institutional choice we need some way of comparing the benefits and losses to those affected: we need to make interpersonal comparisons of the good/welfare. Yet sceptics have worried either: (1) that such comparisons are impossible as they involve an impossible introspection across individuals, getting ‘into their minds’; (2) that they are indeterminate as individual-level information is compatible with a range of welfare numbers; or (3) that they are metaphysically mysterious as they assume the existence either of a social mind or of absolute levels of welfare when no such things exist. This article argues that such scepticism can potentially be addressed if we view the problem of interpersonal comparisons as fundamentally an epistemic problem – that is, as a problem of forming justified beliefs about the overall good based on evidence of the individual good.

Human Flourishing Versus Desire Satisfaction

1999 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard J. Arneson
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Surprising Result ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
Prudential Value ◽  
Desire Satisfaction ◽  
Individual Good ◽  
Helping Others ◽  
Good For

What is the good for human persons? If I am trying to lead the best possible life I could lead, not the morally best life, but the life that is best for me, what exactly am I seeking?This phrasing of the question I will be pursuing may sound tendentious, so some explanation is needed. What is good for one person, we ordinarily suppose, can conflict with what is good for other persons and with what is required by morality. A prudent person seeks her own good efficiently; she selects the best available means to her good. If we call the value that a person seeks when she is being prudent “prudential value,” then an alternative rendering of the question to be addressed in this essay is “What is prudential value?” We can also say that an individual flourishes or has a life high in well-being when her life is high in prudential value. Of course, these common-sense appearances that the good for an individual, the good for other persons, and the requirements of morality often are in conflict might be deceiving. For all that I have said here, the correct theory of individual good might yield the result that sacrificing oneself for the sake of other people or for the sake of a morally worthy cause can never occur, because helping others and being moral always maximize one's own good. But this would be the surprising result of a theory, not something we should presuppose at the start of inquiry. When a friend has a baby and I express a conventional wish that the child have a good life, I mean a life that is good for the child, not a life that merely helps others or merely respects the constraints of morality. After all, a life that is altruistic and perfectly moral, we suppose, could be a life that is pure hell for the person who lives it—a succession of horrible headaches marked by no achievements or attainments of anything worthwhile and ending in agonizing death at a young age. So the question remains, what constitutes a life that is good for the person who is living it?

Neoliberalism, Genre, and “The Tragedy of the Commons”

PMLA ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 127 (3) ◽  
pp. 593-599 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Nixon
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Structural Adjustment ◽  
Tragedy Of The Commons ◽  
Think Tanks ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
Individual Good ◽  
The Commons ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The International Monetary Fund

In december 1968 the journal science published “the tragedy of the commons,” a slender tract by the ecologist and geneticist garrett Hardin that became one of the twentieth century's most influential essays. Hardin's thinking resonated in particular with policy makers at the International Monetary Fund, at the World Bank, and at conservative think tanks and kindred neoliberal institutions advocating so-called trickle-down economics, structural adjustment, austerity measures, government shrinkage, and the privatization of resources. Although Hardin's paramount, Malthusian concern was with “overbreeding,” his general critique of the commons has had a far more lasting impact. He memorably encapsulated that critique in a parable that represented the commons as unprofitable and unsustainable, inimical to both the collective and the individual good.1 According to this brief parable, a herdsman faced with the temptations of a common pasture will instinctively overload it with his livestock. As each greed-driven individual strives to maximize the resource for personal gain, the commons collapses to the detriment of all. Together, Hardin's pithy essay title and succinct parable have helped vindicate a neoliberal rescue narrative, whereby privatization through enclosure, dispossession, and resource capture is deemed necessary for averting tragedy.

Plato and Pericles on Freedom and Politics*

1983 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.M.E. Moravcsik
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Main Claim ◽  
Human Motivation ◽  
Individual Good ◽  
Adequate Understanding ◽  
The Relationship

The main claim of this paper is that Plato's views on social and individual good as well as his criticism of democracy can be best understood as a conscious attempt to contrast with Periclean conceptions of freedom and democracy a new point of view. It will be argued that it is a mistake to see Plato's view as either democratic or authoritarian. An adequate understanding of Plato will focus on some difficult questions concerning the relationship between freedom and knowledge; questions that are rarely if ever faced clearly today. The Platonic conception and its clash with Pericles raises also some important and still unresolved questions about human motivation.

scholarly journals Universal Evil and Individual Good: From Chaos to Cosmos

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Buccola
Keyword(s):  
International Terrorism ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Individual Good ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Good And Evil

We often allocate evil to ‘others’; when the ‘others’ are simply different, far away, evil is partially projected outside or hidden in the unconscious. Mankind tends to reject the idea of taking on the responsibility for evil itself. The borderline between good and evil separates our good from others’ evil; so, other people’s malice underlines our alleged purity. Evil comes from the outside; post-industrial society contributes to the ridiculing of evil: the Shadow is expelled, at least at first glance. Contemporary society is losing its sense of expectation and of the sacred: the sign and the symbol have become equated, with a resulting chaos that runs the risk of creating the conditions for increasing global violence and international terrorism.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Eric P. Perramond
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Private Property ◽  
The State ◽  
Property Right ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Individual Good ◽  
Property Owners ◽  
State Water

Multiple water sovereigns coexist in New Mexico. These sovereigns have different conceptions and worldviews of water, its purpose, and its role in their respective lives. The state water code of 1907 defined water as a private property right, yet many New Mexicans continue to question this notion. Adjudication was the state’s tool to find, redefine, and specify water as an individual good attached in space and time to property owners in New Mexico.

Ethical Issues in Prospective Studies in Children: The many Shades of Gray

2012 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 126-128
Author(s):  
Meenu Singh ◽  
Madhusudan LNU
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Research ◽  
Prospective Studies ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Individual Good ◽  
Heterogenous Population ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Right

ABSTRACT Children being a vulnerable, unique, yet heterogenous population, pose varied ethical questions in clinical research. These need to be actively recognized and addressed in order to strike the right balance between ‘individual’ good and 'societal’ good. Certain general principles which can be streamlined into guidelines specific for each population and study is the need of the hour. How to cite this article Singh M, Madhusudan. Ethical Issues in Prospective Studies in Children: The many Shades of Gray. J Postgrad Med Edu Res 2012;46(3):126-128.

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