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The Vicissitudes of Common-Sense Virtue Ethics, Part I: From Aristotle to Slote
(Kluwer, 1998)
In a treatise on methods of applied ethics, Abraham Edel, Elizabeth Flower, and Finbarr O'Connor distinguish between three traditional families of terms, “the family of right and wrong, duty and moral law, rights and responsibilities; the family...
Student Initiated Sexual Advances: A Survey of Choral Directors in Missouri Secondary Schools
(1995)
A considerable amount of research has been done concerning sexual harassment in the
business work place, health care professions, and in higher education. The occurrence of
student-initiated sexual advances toward secondary ...
Fearing Fear : Communication about Agricultural Biotechnology
(AgBioForum, 1998)
This article, based on a presentation at the National Agricultural Council's meeting (Chess, 1998), nudges the agbiotech field to look at its communication practices by examining (1) the assumption that education will ...
Peter Ramus, Walter Ong, and the Tradition of Humanistic Learning
(1987-01)
and Talon Inventory (1958b), which listed for the first time over one thousand printings of books by Ramus in the fields of grammar, rhetoric, logic, mathematics, physics, optics, ethics, and theology. Thirty years on, as we settle down firmly...
Biotechnology in the global economy : beyond technical advances and risks
(AgBioForum, 1999)
Agricultural biotechnology is the subject of extensive public debates in many countries.
This article presents a summary of the results of the International Conference onBiotechnology in the Global Economy held in September 1999 at Harvard...
Biotechnology : an essay on the academy, cultural attitudes and public policy
(AgBioForum, 1999)
Biotechnology is the latest historical example of a scientific discipline creating enormous cultural, social, and public policy controversies. By comparing biotechnology to these past controversies, and by comparing biotechnology to present...
Conversations on the good death
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 1995)
"Should health care workers help their patients to die? MU doctors, nurses and philosophers discuss one of the hottest moral topics of the day -- physician-assisted suicide. Also the Alumnus takes a historical look at the issue."--Table of contents...
All fall down
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 1993)
"Research by MU faculty has led to the most sophisticated program in the United States for reviewing child deaths and preventing further tragedies."--Table of contents for issue.
Macedonian Folk Poetry, Principally Lyric
(1991-05)
Macedonian folk literature, which has its beginnings in the distant past, developed over a long period of time. Information provided by the Byzantine chronicler Nicephorus (Nikephoros) Gregoras in 1326 is one of the most ...
An early route to college
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 1996)
Can you save enough for your child's education? In a word, yes. Don't panic. Get off to a smart start. Stay on course and reap the rewards. Time is on your side.
The Rationale, Design, and Funding of a Laboratory Practicum for Graduate Conducting Students of the Conservatory of Music of the University of Missouri at Kansas City
(1980)
Primarily, the purpose of this research project is
to afford experience in grantsmanship, which will play a
role of increasing importance in all forms of music administration
in the years to come. Secondarily then, ...
A Pilgrimage to Indian Museums
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1972)
A Discussion of American Children's Songs of the Nineteenth Century
(1967)
presented in this paper is given only to lend understanding to the purpose here stated. Most of this study has been devoted to songs of the public schools, although songs of the Sabbath Schools have also been considered. Folk songs, singing games...
Philosophies of Music Education in the United States 1861-1970: Including an Historical Survey of the Philosophies of Music in Western Civilization
(1970)
The purpose of this study was to investigate pertinent
philosophies of music education from 1861 to the present.
Included was an historical overview of several significant
philosophies of music which have influenced ...
Background on Bach and the Numerology Tradition
(1981)
There may have been some influences and associations not usually mentioned which might explain Bach's numerological usage for it was not unique to himself or his era. His relatives, Johann Christoph and Johann Ludwig Bach, ...