Bernays, Edward W. (1933), Propaganda, 159 pp. New York: Liverright [This is a revealing book by a nephew of Freud and a primary pioneer of modern mass-market conditioning and appeal to and control unconscious desires, and not needs, to sell commodities and engineer consent.] See Life-unconscious. Source: ‘What is Good? What is Bad? The Value of All Values… Read More
LIFE-VALUE ONTO-AXIOLOGY and HEALTH PROMOTION Glossary
Biocide
Biocide: The willful destruction of life as such, either directly, through overt killing or indirectly, by making of it a mere instrument to the growth of non-living systems. Source: ‘What is Good? What is Bad? The Value of All Values across Time, Place and Theories’ by John McMurtry, Philosophy and World Problems, Volume I-III, UNESCO in partnership with… Read More
Bioethics
Bioethics: philosophy of the ethical and moral implications of biological discoveries and medical advances. Source: ‘What is Good? What is Bad? The Value of All Values across Time, Place and Theories’ by John McMurtry, Philosophy and World Problems, Volume I-III, UNESCO in partnership with Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems: Oxford, 2004-11.
Biological Time
Biological Time: The time required for the development, maintenance and repair of processes and environments that operate on a micro-environmental level and scale. See Ecological Time. Source: ‘What is Good? What is Bad? The Value of All Values across Time, Place and Theories’ by John McMurtry, Philosophy and World Problems, Volume I-III, UNESCO in partnership with Encyclopedia of… Read More
Biophilia
Biophilia: A term coined by Erich Fromm which means “love of life” which he distinguishes from its opposite “necrophilia”, the “love of death” or repressive inflexibility. Biophilia is distinguished from life-value onto-axiology in attending only to the affective or felt side of life affirmation without principled distinctions among fields and ranges of life value and… Read More
Bourgeois equality of opportunity
Bourgeois equality of opportunity: the principle that socially constructed status restrictions on life chances, of both formal and informal kinds, are illegitimate. Source: ‘What is Good? What is Bad? The Value of All Values across Time, Place and Theories’ by John McMurtry, Philosophy and World Problems, Volume I-III, UNESCO in partnership with Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems: Oxford,… Read More
Burden of disease
Burden of disease: The burden of disease is a measurement of the gap between a population’s current health and the optimal state where all people attain full life expectancy without suffering major ill-health. Reference: Modified definition (WHO, 2000). Burden of disease analysis enables decision makers to identify the most serious health problems facing a population.… Read More