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About: Doctrine is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 21901 publications have been published within this topic receiving 204282 citations.


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01 Aug 2013
TL;DR: Gentile and a group of dissident officers and defence analysts have questioned the efficacy of COIN - essentially armed nation-building as mentioned in this paper, drawing on Col Gentile's experiences as a combat battalion commander in Iraq and his research into the application of counterinsurgency in a variety of historical contexts.
Abstract: While US war strategies have been dominated by the doctrine of counterinsurgency (COIN), Col Gian Gentile and a group of dissident officers and defence analysts have questioned the efficacy of COIN - essentially armed nation-building Drawing on Col Gentile's experiences as a combat battalion commander in Iraq and his research into the application of counterinsurgency in a variety of historical contexts, Wrong Turn is a brilliant summation of Gentile's views of the failures of COIN, as well as a searing re-evaluation of the current state of affairs in Afghanistan

67 citations

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TL;DR: This article argued that the true and fair view doctrine does not serve the interests of the public or the profession, and that the profession should consider compliance with generally accepted accounting principles as its test for the quality of financial reporting.
Abstract: This paper examines the true and fair view doctrine as currently employed by British accountants. It argues that the doctrine lacks a satisfactory explication; that the use of ‘professional judgement’ cannot provide an acceptable substitute for explication; that the unexplicated doctrine does not serve the interests of the public or the profession; and that the profession should consider using compliance with generally accepted accounting principles as its test for the quality of financial reporting, either instead of or as an explication for the true and fair view doctrine.

67 citations

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TL;DR: Stoicism forms the "preparation of the gospel" with regard to the law of nature in Christian theology and ethics as discussed by the authors, and it was the Stoic doctrine of natural law that decisively influenced both the rationalization and universalization of Roman law and medieval political theory.
Abstract: “Christian Natural Law is the acceptance and reinterpretation according to Christian and ecclesiastical principles of Stoic Natural Law. …” Thus runs Troeltsch's classic and influential formulation of the view that Stoicism forms the “preparation of the gospel” with regard to the law of nature in Christian theology and ethics. Historians of political theory similarly assume that it was the Stoic doctrine of natural law that decisively influenced both the rationalization and universalization of Roman law and medieval political theory.

67 citations

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01 Nov 2005-Utilitas
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose an analysis of the sufficiency doctrine and show that it is anti-egalitarian: most comparative facts expressed by statements of the type "x is worse off than y" have no moral significance at all.
Abstract: This article proposes an analysis of the doctrine of sufficiency. According to my reading, the doctrine's basic positive claim is ‘prioritarian’: benefiting x is of special moral importance where (and only where) x is badly off. Its negative claim is anti-egalitarian: most comparative facts expressed by statements of the type ‘x is worse off than y’ have no moral significance at all. This contradicts the ‘classical’ priority view according to which, although equality per se does not matter, whenever x is worse off than y, at least some priority should be assigned to helping x. Section I elaborates and defends this reconstruction of the doctrine of sufficiency, and section II shows that the privileged utility level presumed within the sufficiency framework exists.

67 citations

Book
01 Jan 1979
TL;DR: O'Malley as discussed by the authors studied sermons at the High Renaissance papal court and found that humanists' attention to form reveals deep concern for content and the problem of conveying it; they considered medium and message inseparable.
Abstract: In this specialized study of sermons at the High Renaissance papal court, O'Malley creates an intersection for two principal avenues of research. Following the insistence of Kristeller on the rhetorical concerns of Renaissance humanism, he chose a controlled body of oratory influenced by the new rhetoric. Pursuing interest in the distinctive character of Renaissance theology and piety awakened by himself, Trinkaus, and others, he read a gauge of religious atmosphere at the heart of Christendom. Fulfilling desiderata of these varied fields, he uncovered a wealth of sermons by 70 preachers, gathered in collections or scattered in manuscripts in over 20 libraries. Yet reviewers can but gild this lily; shortly after publication, it received the American Historical Association's Marraro Prize. Central to O'Malley's analysis is the conviction that humanists' attention to form reveals deep concern for content and the problem of conveying it; they considered medium and message inseparable. Accordingly, he addresses both the formal development of the preaching and its dogmatic and moral issues. After describing the papal liturgies (chapter 1) and the new rhetoric (chapter 2), he shows how papal preachers abandoned scholastic forms often concerned with quaestiones disputatae, and adapted the epideictic genre of praise and blame to celebrate central Christian mysteries. Moving from Formkritik to Formgeschichte, O'Malley suggests how and why epideictic preaching only gradually influenced papal circles (chapter 3). In chapters 4-6, he demonstrates how praise of God led to the humanistic emphasis on human dignity, which was intended to incite listeners to personal and institutional reform. The sermons reflected reforming ideals current at Rome, which O'Malley and his students have studied extensively elsewhere. He carefully concludes that the sermons expounded traditional ideas and conservative ideals. This leaves one questioning whether humanist rhetoric, often innovative in republics, courts, and universities, became in papal Rome more strictly decorative several generations before its time.

67 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20231,274
20222,944
2021388
2020578
2019615
2018677