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The Good Life, The Examined Life, and the Embodied Life
The good life and the examined life have long been advocated as key philosophical goals, and they have often been closely linked together. My paper critically examines this linkage by considering arguments both for and against the value of self-examination for achieving the good life. Because somatic self-examination has been viewed as especially problematic for the philosophical project of achieving the good life, this form of self-examination will be given special attention in the paper, and its discussion will be situated within the larger issue of the extent to which the embodied life is central to the good life.

Contents: The role of the life insurance company in health conservation programs, by L. K. Frankel; Co-operation between life insurance and trust companies, by E. A. Woods; Insurance of substandard lives, by Robert Henderson; Investment tendencies of life insurance companies, F. H. Ecker; Group life insurance, by W. J. Graham; Life insurance as an aid to education and philanthropy, by J. A. Stevenson; The modern life underwriter, by J. M. Holcombe, jr; Non-medical life insurance, by H. F. Larkin; Salary savings insurance, by R. L. Place; Inspection reports on persons as a factor in life insurance, by J. A. Fitzgerald; Beneficiary provisions under modern life insurance policies, by L. E. Thompson; Fraternal life insurance, by C. K. Knight.

Arnhart's "Aristotle's Biopolitics: A Defense of Biological Teleology against Biological Nihilism" is both a valuable and yet at the same time a problematic study. Its value for political science lies in Arnhart's reminder that for many of the most important thinkers in the history of Western political thought their efforts to discover and articulate the principles of a political order necessarily presupposed a specific understanding of the order of nature itself. Given this, the fundamental political challenge of the modern scientific and industrial revolutions not only includes the new instruments and techniques of organization and manipulation made possible by the discoveries of modern science, but also those cultural and intellectual assumptions which create that very environment within which such instruments and techniques first became possible. In illustrating this intimate relationship between modern natural science and modern political science, Grant (1976:124) has written: "What calls out for recognition here is that the same apprehension of what it is to be 'reasonable' leads men to build computers and to conceive the universal and homogenous society as the highest political goal. The ways such machines can be used must be at one with certain conceptions of political purposes because the same kind of 'reasoning' made the machines and formulated the purposes. To put the matter extremely simply, the modern physical sciences and the modern political sciences have developed in mutual interpenetration, and we can only begin to understand that interpenetration in terms of some common source from which both forms of science found their sustenance."

Since enforcement of the new Constitution of Japan (1946), the Japanese fam has become increasingly democratized. Constitutional provisions, 'based on the principle of individual dignity & sexual equality,' required reform of the patriarchal fam system & has resulted in: (1) smaller size of Pam's, (2) decreased dependency on children in old age, (3) earlier marriage registration created by women's awareness of their rights, (4) a higher divorce rate, (5) no appreciable decrease in the traditional custom of inheritance of fam properties by the eldest son, but att's are changing among the `younger generations,' & (6) increased equality of women in the fam life areas of: (a) 'soc courtesies,' (b) attending events with husband, (c) `equality of meal,' (d) fam influence, & (e) increased participation in public life. P. D. Montagna.