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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Moral principles"”.
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Educating Black Youth Moral Principles through Black Art
… examined the connection between Black youth moral behavior and the aesthetic value of Black art. Today's Black youth are impressed with elements in the media, their schools, and other social surroundings that have been a little less than upstanding. This exploration of moral relevance of self …
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Justifying Bioethical Case Decisions: Reflective Equilibrium and Mid-Level Moral Principles
… is a practical enterprise intended to produce morally acceptable solutions to clinical case problems. Although answers can be derived from deductivist or principle-driven methods of deliberation, these solutions may be too abstract to be accepted as appropriate to the circumstances, clinically …
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Percy Bysshe Shelley: vengeance as a vehicle for presenting his moral principles
… and in his poetry and prose writings, he was immoral. Regardless of what may be said against Shelley's personal life, as a writer he is profoundly moralistic in almost all of his literary works. This thesis shows, using several of his longer poetic works, selected religious and philosophical …
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Legitimacy and diversity : an examination of the problem pluralism presents to the legitimacy of democratic regimes
… and are thus superior to all other political and moral principles. John Rawls's discussion in Political Liberalism moves away from this line of argument
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Divine justice: Cosmology, ritual, and Protestant missionization in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
… and argumentation based on indigenous moral principles and empirical precedents.
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Universal Morality in Japanese Tradition
… analyses the tension persisting in the debate on moral universalism versus cultural particularism by reassessing two common assumptions: 1) that traditions are either universal or particular, and 2) that persuasion is the appropriate method of cross-cultural conversation. Examining Japan?s Shinto, …
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The implementation of literacy lab classrooms as a form of professional learning for teachers
… the researcher needed to reach to her guiding moral principles. Building leadership capacity and exploring the transparency of leadership were identified as important aspects of leading change.
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The Role of Moral Exemplars in Stanley Hauer's Ethics
… Hauerwas, with particular focus on the role of moral exemplars in his theory. Hauerwas emphasizes the role of what are called "moral exemplars" in his virtue ethics. These are people or characters of narratives that best exemplify virtue. A theory is exemplarist if the moral concepts of the …
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"What's the matter with bigamy?" : the American family in the wartime comedies of Preston Sturges.
… revealed a pessimistic viewpoint that defied the moral principles of the Production Code and the typical representations of American society in popular wartime films. Sturges' depiction of the family is one of disunity and deception, in contrast to the cheerful surfaces of his narratives.
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Public Unreason: Essays on Political Disagreement
… political philosophers answer by pointing to moral pluralism and the complexity of relevant non-moral facts. In Chapter 1, I argue that this answer is seriously inadequate. Drawing on work from psychology, political science, and evolutionary anthropology, I argue that an adequate explanation …
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Socio-moral expectations in infants and toddlers
… toddlers would have early expectations of socio-moral norms. In particular, we asked whether and how children’s expectations about reciprocity would be modulated by considerations of ingroup loyalty. Chapter 2 focused on the idea of “escalation” and provided evidence that infants expect an …
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Justice and Ethics in Penal Practice.
… for (and possibility of) an alliance between moral principles and effective practice the complexity of ‘penality’ - both in terms of the influences that shape it and of its many meanings, functions and consequences. The commentary concludes with an attempt to identify the original …
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Thoreau's Confucianism in The Dial, Walden, and Civil Disobedience.
… Chinese sages' ideal of life and Confuicus' moral principles. It will also show the direct connection between Confucian scripture and Thoreau's passive resistance. The influences of Romanticism and Emerson will receive attention as I draw the similarities and differences among Confucian …
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Adventuring Men and Changeable Women in Early Modern Drama
… of landed properties, social statuses, and moral principles. The following Chapters likewise continue to explore the way in which the period's discourse on woman's changeability contributes to man's self-identity, but in an added context of racial difference. Chapter 3 reads Shakespeare's …
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Preserving Human Autonomy in AI-Mediated Negotiations
… irreconcilable “sacred” values (non-negotiable moral principles) alongside transactional “mundane” interests. This thesis investigates whether generative AI can be designed to recognize and respect important values and beliefs while preserving human agency in decision-making. Drawing on datasets …
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Truth Telling Beyond Borders: An African Perspective
… cultures that do not regard them as primordial principles? In some communities, truth-telling is one of the moral principles unquestioningly inherited from the West. The dissertation will try to compare African and Western perspectives. The African perspective has been chosen to explore through …
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Community Arts as an act of praxis and resistance.
… possibilities of political action, and to the moral principles of community arts practice in the face of repressive ideologies, is of great concern to me. Participatory action research and arts based research are the main methodologies used to investigate the impact community arts has had on my …
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Modelling Diarists: Diary-writing and Moral Anxieties in China, 1918–62
… ideology in the Maoist era but shifting moral principles and anxieties throughout the twentieth century. All in all, this thesis demonstrates the value of diaries for studying moral knowledge, epistemologies, and anxieties at the grassroots in midcentury China.
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Coercion
… of the nature of coercion, and the moral grounds, if any, for its justification. These two concerns constitute the scope of this thesis. A number of approaches are used to examine the concept of coercion and issues relating to it. These include conceptual analysis, a historical and …
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An investigation into the prevalence of unethical behaviour in a South African Municipality: A case of Vhembe District Municipality
… Municipal officials are encouraged to uphold moral principles such as impartiality, accountability and trustworthy while performing their official duties. Given this background, the research project attempted to provide explanations for the patterns of unethical conduct and also pointed out …
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