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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Moral Self"”.
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The Good Sport: Physical Literacy and a Moral Self
… should have a well-established embodied sense of self. They are to develop as proficient movers capable of exemplary self-expression, self-presentation, and interactions with others. But this conception of ‘self’ is incomplete absent the recognition that we are not only beings-in-the-world, but …
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Three Essays on Moral Self-Regulation of Honesty and Impression Management
In study 1 an introduction to the research on moral self-regulation is provided alongside with an explanation of the two manifestations of moral self-regulation: moral licensing and moral cleansing. At the core of the first study is an experiment which was designed to identify moral licensing and …
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What would Confucius say? Applying Confucian virtue system, moral self-cultivation, and communalism to media ethics
… ethics. It brings the ideas of virtue system, moral self-cultivation, and communal perspectives from Confucian ethics into media ethics, explaining the ethical underpinnings that they can provide for media practices. Third, it offers illustrations that apply each segment of the theory to …
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The Literary Lives of Intention in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century England
… and its relationship to the idea of the moral self in late medieval England. Late medieval English writers often identified intention, as opposed to action, as the site of moral identity. Drawing on medieval legal distinctions between intended and unintended wrongdoings, penitential and …
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Moral Philosophy and the Art of Silence
… I begin with the claim that silence is part of moral life. Moral philosophy must make every attempt to bring within it all that is part of moral life. The dissertation produces a methodology for learning how to see some of the silences that I claim for moral life and it shows the importance of …
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Longing for the Good: The Growth of Moral Order in the Ethics of F. H. Bradley
… At the same time, his account of the growth of moral order in the individual offers a counterweight to excessively organicist theories of the moral self, which dissolve it into social context and undercut the possibility of non-social, non-trivial moral norms. This thesis argues that Bradley …
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Making White Guilt Fitting
… that guilt is fitting only in cases of direct moral culpability while addressing practical criticism that white guilt is at variance with the aims of social justice movements. Taking on Baldwin's perspective on whiteness as a subjective choice, I develop an Identity-Based Account of white guilt …
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"""I'm Too Good To Be Bad"": The Moderating Role of Honesty-Humility In Aggressive and Prosocial Reactions to First and Third Party Unfairness"
… specifically due to the emerging literature on moral self-regulation as a determinant of workplace behaviors for some individuals, but not others (Rupp & Bell, 2010). In this paper, I consider how first and third-party injustice interacts with honesty-humility in predicting positive and negative …
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Cleansing Our Recycling Failures: How Guilt and Outrage Lead to Different Types of Pro-Environmental Behavior
… behavioral changes? According to research on moral self-regulation, failing to act morally can threaten a person’s moral self-concept, eliciting moral emotions (i.e., guilt and outrage), and motivating compensatory behavior (such as increased recycling). Three studies examined whether watching …
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A closer look at self-image in male foster care adolescents
Using the Offer Self-Image Questionnaire this study attempted to determine what differences exist between 58 male adolescents in foster care and their peers in the normal population and to establish if there are specific characteristics of the adolescent's background or foster care experience that …
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The Role of Self on Ethical Consumption in a Religious Culture: A Case of Consumers in Thailand
This thesis explores the role of the self-concept on ethical consumption behaviour within the Thai consumer context. Religiosity has an influence on a person’s self and morality as Thai people place high importance on religious values. Ten consumers are studied through in-depth, phenomenological …
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'I'd be unhealthy if nobody wanted me anymore': a sociological analysis of the relationship between ageing and health beliefs
… tended to reflect a sense of an essential and moral self and a strong orientation towards reciprocal social relationships. The motive of community is, in large part, considered as imagined because it was often not possible to interact with other community members who included dead relatives, …
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Domestic chains, carceral lives: women’s pathways to and experiences of incarceration through the lens of love, marriage, and kinship in India
… members– it explores how socio-cultural and moral determinants surrounding love, sex, and marriage shape women’s involvement in violent crimes and their subsequent incarceration experiences. The analysis is structured around three interconnected dimensions. First, it examines how …
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The Relationship of Parental Attachment, Peer Attachment, and Self-Concept to the Adjustment of First-Year College Students
… friends, while internal resources can include self-concept. According to the authors, "these resources are assumed to moderate or buffer the effects of developmental challenges and stressful events on adjustment" (p.437). The purpose of the present study was to extend and further clarify the …
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"Taking her part in a duet" : the painful creation of the self in Austen, Gaskell, and Eliot.
… energy was channeled toward creation of a Self that makes women acceptable to man and successful in the marriage market. Most frequently, women seek a man to be mentor in their struggles; less often a woman attempts to self-create, but always with a male standard as her ensign. …
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Relational structures among worldview, self-view, moral inclusiveness, and moral orientation : a holistic and complementary perspective
… study was to develop a comprehensive model of moral development to explicate the complexities of everyday morality. Based on a holistic and complementary perspective, the model relates the constructs of “worldview” and “self-view” to represent the influence of cultural …
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A Multinational Study of the Etiology and Clinical Teleology of Moral Evaluations of Patient Behaviors
… explore a hypothesized construct of ‘moral evaluation of patient behaviors’ (MEPB) as a driver of health professionals’ readiness to interact humanistically with their patients. In these studies, ‘humanistic interactions’ refer to the non-technical, intangible skills and factors of …
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Fragments of the Prosperous Age: Living with Heritage and Treasure in Contemporary China
… practices which juxtapose the cultivation of moral self with the patination of antique objects, collectors pursue an archaic yet neoliberal custodianship which has altered the ethics and sense of moral responsibility in the domains of market exchange. These two factions in China’s heritage …
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The child's ability to form a proper balance between a pedagogic freedom and pedagogic authority constitutes an authentic pedagogic task for the pre-primary school education
… will enable him to be a free, responsible and self-determined person. The researcher of this study wanted to establish the educational proficiency of the pre-primary school educators. The essential concepts which are connected with this study were defined clearly. Method of research included …
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