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		<title>Drug Companies, Avandia, and the First Law of Robotics</title>
		<link>http://michaelbrennen.com/2010/07/24/drug-companies-avandia-and-the-first-law-of-robotics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 05:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first law of robotics is simply this: "A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm."  Might it be too much to require the management of drug companies to adhere to the first law of robotics?]]></description>
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		<title>In ogni rapporto&#8230; / In every relationship&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://michaelbrennen.com/2010/07/05/in-ogni-rapporto-in-every-relationship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In ogni rapporto umano, ogni dinamica interpersonale... / In every human relationship, in every encounter with another person...]]></description>
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		<title>Abraham, Ishmael and Isaac Redux</title>
		<link>http://michaelbrennen.com/2010/01/03/abraham-ishmael-and-isaac-redux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much contemporary teaching holds that in having Ishmael by Hagar Abraham took it on himself to make God's promises happen.  The Genesis text does not support that.]]></description>
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		<title>Karol Wojtyla, Person and Act: Introduction, part four: the person as transcendent yet integrated agent</title>
		<link>http://michaelbrennen.com/2009/12/21/karol-wojtyla-person-and-act-introduction-part-four-the-person-as-transcendent-yet-integrated-agent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Person And Act]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the final section of the introduction Wojtyla outlines the stages of phenomenological analysis of the person as a transcendent yet integrated agent.]]></description>
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		<title>Altruistic Products: a contradiction?  Muhammed Yunus doesn&#8217;t think so.</title>
		<link>http://michaelbrennen.com/2009/11/29/altruistic-products-a-contradiction-muhammed-yunus-doesnt-think-so/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Muhammed Yunus, the Bangladeshi economist who started the now global micro-lending movement, has a new business idea he is pitching to a few global companies: altruistic products.]]></description>
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		<title>Karol Wojtyla, Person and Act: part three: stages of comprehension</title>
		<link>http://michaelbrennen.com/2009/09/27/karol-wojtyla-person-and-act-introduction-part-three-stages-of-comprehension/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Person And Act]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the third section of the introduction to <i>Person and Act Wojtyla considers induction and reduction as practical methodologies in developing a theory of the person.</i>]]></description>
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		<title>Karol Wojtyla, Person and Act: part two, the understanding of &#8220;person&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://michaelbrennen.com/2009/09/06/karol-wojtyla-person-and-act-part-two-the-understanding-of-person/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Person And Act]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the second half of the second section of the introduction to Person and Act, Wojtyla considers that the intellectual vision of the person formed in the observation of acts derives not only from the acts themselves, but also from the moral value of those acts]]></description>
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		<title>Un contrasto tra Wojtyla e Lévinas sul rapporto con l&#8217;altro</title>
		<link>http://michaelbrennen.com/2009/08/30/un-contrasto-tra-wojtyla-e-levinas-sul-rapporto-con-laltro/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Person And Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Un constrasto tra Wojtyla e Lévinas sul rapporto etico simmetrico / asimmetrico con l'altro che potrebbe portare ad esiti diversi.]]></description>
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		<title>Tadeus Styczen: Being Oneself and Transcending Oneself</title>
		<link>http://michaelbrennen.com/2009/08/23/tadeus-styczen-being-oneself-and-transcending-oneself/</link>
		<comments>http://michaelbrennen.com/2009/08/23/tadeus-styczen-being-oneself-and-transcending-oneself/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Person And Act]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Am I myself when, by an act of free choice, I deny the truth that I have established as such, having ascertained it as an eyewitness?]]></description>
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		<title>Karol Wojtyla, Person and Act: the understanding of &#8220;person&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://michaelbrennen.com/2009/08/20/karol-wojtyla-person-and-act-the-understanding-of-person/</link>
		<comments>http://michaelbrennen.com/2009/08/20/karol-wojtyla-person-and-act-the-understanding-of-person/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Person And Act]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For Wojtyla, the act reveals the person; his will be a study of the act as revealing the person, a phenomenology of the person by means of his or her actions.]]></description>
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