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Showing 1 to 20 of 166 for “"Morals"”.
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Limited Conventions about Morals
In this thesis I describe how conventions specify how to put normative principles into practice. I identify a class of recurring situations where there are some given normative principles in effect, but they underdetermine what each individual should do, and what is best for an individual depends …
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An objectivist account of morals
ix, 226 leaves ; 30 cm.
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Morals Education in the Public Schools
… feel very strongly about teaching values and morals education in the classroom. An overwhelming majority of the teachers teach values in a normal classroom setting. Indirect methods of instruction are more favorable than direct methods.
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Towards a theory of animal rights: Adventures in metaphysics and morals
At this time, we have a century of jurisprudential and philosophical discussions on the metaphysical nature of rights. We have almost half a century of moral theory arguing for the moral rights of animals. Surprisingly, these two literatures have not intersected much. This leaves open whether the …
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The Promotion of Refinement of Manners, Morals, and Taste in The Spectator
No abstract prepared.
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Blue Vaudeville: Sex, Morals, and the Mass-Marketing of Amusement, 1895-1915
<p>Vaudeville was the most popular form of entertainment in the United States, from roughly the 1890s through World War I. In fact, it can reasonably be called the first truly mass form of entertainment in the United States, and perhaps the world. This dissertation examines how vaudeville grew as …
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Visual Culture Of The Santals And Their Image: Myth, Morals And Materiality
Many Indian tribes have a rich and diverse repertoire of material produce, and among them the Santal artistic heritage is not only little known, but also reveals deeply existential imperatives through its mythology and history. The purpose of this thesis has been two-fold – firstly, to …
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The Good, The Bad, and The Taxed: How Taxes Shape Morals in Markets
This study addresses the effects of the new tax on sweetened beverages, which has been gaining currency across the United States and beyond. I use evidence from a factorial survey to show how taxing a morally debated commodity influences people’s moral evaluations of consumption. I also …
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To be prosecuted, banished, and shot : motives, morals, and the modern American hero
<p>Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn contains three character types which serve as models for the protagonists of certain twentieth century writers. The distinguishing characteristics of Tom, Jim, and Huck reappear in the central figures of later American novels, novels dealing explicitly …
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Educational Leaders' Decision-Making: Presence, Influence, and Strength of Personal Values, Morals, and Ethics
… the degree to which the personal values, morals, or ethics of educational leaders enter into their decision making processes. A review of the literature suggests that leadership preparation programs for educators do not adequately equip aspiring administrators for the ethical challenges in …
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NEW GO- AND RGO-BASED MORALS AND CARBENE-FUNCTIONALIZED GOLD NANOPARTICLES FOR HETEROGENEOUSLY CATALYZED REDUCTIONS
… two main classes of materials. The first one is MORALs, an acronym for Metal-ORganic ALloys, a class of materials composed of organic molecules embedded in metal particles. In previous studies, this class of materials has been reported to exhibit improved catalytic properties compared to the …
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The Relationship of Attitudes and Morals Between Parents and Their Eleven and Twelve-Year-Old Children
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Limits on state autonomy in regulating services trade: regional and international trade liberalization commitments and public morals
… trade in areas that concern their public morals and analyses whether the indeterminacy of the public morals exceptions in supranational trade regimes reveals fundamental flaws in the design of those regimes as they apply to trade in services with reference to their experiences with …
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Of meat, morals, and masculinity : factors underlying the consumption of non-human animals, and inferences about another’s character
Previous psychological research on vegetarianism has focused primarily on participants' health and weight concerns, and the process by which people adopt a vegetarian diet. The present studies broaden this research by exploring the differences in the way omnivores and vegetarians perceive animals …
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A Study of the Education, Morals, Salary and Controversial Movements of the Frontier Baptist Preacher in Kentucky from Its Settlement until 1830
Th. D. Southern Baptist Theological Seminary 1952
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Did Harriet Martineau's sociological methods influence Emile Durkheim's sociological methods?
… Martineau (1802-1876) published How to Observe Morals and Manners in 1838. The book was perhaps the first sociological methodology text. Emile Durkheim (1855-1917) published The Rules of Sociological Method (1895) 57 years later. Durkheim's book has traditionally been labeled as the first …
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The stories people play : the gender relationship in story recall from newcomers in an organization.
… two basic kinds of stories, stories with morals, and stories without morals. Male and female subjects did not differ significantly in the stories they recalled about the workplace. However, chi-square analysis revealed a significant effect for the source of the stories, such that male …
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The promotion of moral development: a case study of teachers' perceptions and practices in a rural, primary school in the Western Cape
… perceptions and practices as mediators of morals and values. Schools have an important role to play in developing future citizens as moral beings. This is variously named citizenship education, character education, moral education, and values education.
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The use of referrals for therapeutic counseling by Catholic parish priests and the implications for clinical social workers
… there is no conflict expected between values and morals of the church and the values and moral of the professional therapist.</p>
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