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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Hedonism"”.
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Quality and Competence: An Analysis of the Role of Mill's Qualitative Hedonism on his Conception of Representative Democracy
Traditionally, John Stuart Mill has been described as a transitional thinker who fails to fully understand the values he espouses. Critics contend that he cannot simultaneously espouse both utility maximization and the protection of individual choice-making as a non-trumpable value. Like his moral …
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The nature, value and paradoxes of pleasure
… of the most important objections to Prudential Hedonism. Prudential Hedonism is a theory of wellbeing⎯the good life for the one living it. Substantively, Prudential Hedonism consists in the claim that pleasure is the only intrinsic prudential good for the subject’s life and pain the opposite. …
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Value education of youth
… Schüler/innen der nicht-religiösen Schulen gaben Hedonism als höchsten, und Tradition als niedrigsten Wert an. In den religiösen Schulen waren Benevolence und Self-Direction die meist geschätzten Werte, während Power die niedrigste Priorität besaß. Die Veränderung der Werte Conformity, Hedonism …
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John Piper: The Making of a Christian Hedonist
… professor who planted the seeds of Christian hedonism and who gave him a love for exegetical biblicism. It was during these seminary days and into his time of doctoral study that Piper discovered Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), whose affectional Calvinism would go on to shape Piper's theology …
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Examining the influence of religiosity and consumer perceived value on brand sensuality, brand experience, consumer hedonism and repurchase intention: a study of consumers’ perception in the context of fashion retailing – the case of Turkey
… brand sensuality, brand experience and consumer hedonism and how that, in turn, affects the repurchase intention of consumers. Building on environmental psychology theory and the Stimulus-Organism-Response model, the study shows that sensorial stimuli from atmospheric surroundings have an effect …
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Philodemus' ''peri poiematon'' and Horace's ''Ars Poetica'': Adapting Alexandrian aesthetics to Epicurean and Roman traditions
… Alexandrian poetic ideals: poetry should aim at hedonism, delighting the public with elegant and laboriously refined verses, and should have no other practical purpose, such as educating or influencing public morals.
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A motivational analysis of Chinese tourists to the United States: Push and pull motivations of travel to Las Vegas
… and the most important pull factors were hedonism, image and natural conditions, convenience, and cleanliness. The derived push and pull factors were compared to the previous studies. Suggestions for future studies were presented.
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Measuring values with the Schwartz Values Survey at a university in the Western Cape, South Africa
… is consistent with a high degree of religiosity. Hedonism is consistent with a low degree of religiosity.
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An explorative study of luxury consumption in Korea
… aesthetic appearance seeking, personal hedonism seeking, practicality seeking, and difference seeking. This study also offers findings related to the relationship between demographic characteristics (for Korean consumers) and luxury consumption behavior. The study achieves two things: …
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Foreign branding and its effects on product perceptions and attitudes : a reassessment
… appeared to increase levels of perceived product hedonism among males but to have the reverse effect on females. The findings also seemed to suggest that foreign branding was more effective than COO information in influencing product evaluations.
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The role of values, norms and affect in relation to water-scarcity risk perceptions and water conservation behaviours in the Western Cape
… by showing that fear, self-transcending values, hedonism, and descriptive and prescriptive norms were important factors in shaping water scarcity risk perceptions and water conservation behaviour during the drought. In future drought contexts, the revised framework and the risk perception …
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Hedonistic deconsumption and upcycling: active, emotional and pleasurable engagement with waste
… consumption, and specifically upcycling, hedonism was used as a lens for this study. To understand the intricacies of the active, emotional and pleasurable nature of upcycling, a longitudinal immersive study was required. A blended-ethnography, consisting of traditional ethnographic data …
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Going in Circles: Male Cyclic Automobility in U.S. Fictions 1950-1970
… such as choosing between breadwinning and hedonism, between wartime and post-war movement, between economic mobility and self-expression, and between destructive autonomy and constructive conformity. In this thesis, I examine John Cheever’s “The Swimmer” and “The Housebreaker of Shady …
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Seeking God by strange ways : cults and societies in fin de siècle literature
… self, the existing social order and “the new hedonism”.The novels and authors featured here have been chosen to illustrate this thesis because they describe alternative religious cults and societies and spiritual rites of passage, while exploring social and cultural transitions. This …
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The Gender Role perceptions of adolescent girls
… terms of social stereotypes and sociability and hedonism) were more clearly defined than perceptions of femininity (construed mainly in terms of social stereotypes). Whilst respondents' self constructions generally conformed to stereotypical conceptions of femininity a reluctance to construe the …
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Understanding how to make physical activity pleasurable
… practically to PA situations: psychological hedonism (intensity), music, principles of flow theory, playfulness (through choice), and social interaction. A list of recommendations to professionals in the health and fitness industry was provided. Results from Study 2 indicated that university …
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The gerontic turn : re-imagining the metropolitan collective of the centennial generation
… endorse the outlived paradigm of monastic hedonism. Instead of rationalizing the burden of distributing resources to take care of the elderly, how can we transform our urban environments to enable the motivated elders as proactive contributors of society? What are the programmatic …
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Investigating the Roles of Time Perspective and Emerging Adulthood in Predicting Driving Behavior
… and characteristics associated with fatalism and hedonism (Zimbardo & Boyd, 1999). Third, the role of positive driving behaviors seemed important given its recent focus in the literature. Thus, both risky and positive driving behaviors were investigated (Özkan & Lajunen, 2005). Based on previous …
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