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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Self-cultivation"”.
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What would Confucius say? Applying Confucian virtue system, moral self-cultivation, and communalism to media 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 journalism …
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Cultivating a poetic heart-mind: Yu Ji’s vision of self-cultivation, aesthetic education, and its contemporary implications
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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Exploring multiple language learning from an existential perspective: an applied philosophical inquiry of self-cultivation and aspiration in language learning
… existential identities, strong evaluation, self-cultivation, aspiration, proleptic reasons, and a hybrid account of valuing, it provides hitherto lacking philosophical distinctions and philosophical applications to the fields of applied linguistics and philosophy of education, bringing …
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Bildung : the relation between the self and culture in Schiller, Hegel, and Nietzsche.
… to the development of the concept of Bildung, or self-cultivation, in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Germany. In the second chapter Schiller is grouped with his contemporaries - Humboldt, Herder, and Goethe - as a 'Weimar Humanist'. I attempt to show how the 'Weimar Humanists' …
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THE MOTIVATION OF WORKING PRACTITIONERS SEEKING A DOCTORAL EDUCATION: FROM THE PERSPECTIVES OF CONFUCIAN LEARNING PHILOSOPHY
… compared to Confucian philosophy principles of self-cultivation illustrated in The Great Learning (DaXues`å>{t) which is considered the first of a set of Four Books (Sishusl`t). The manuscript's structure consists of a brief of three principles, followed by eight steps that promote individual …
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Walking Nietzsche's tightrope: a thesis for no one
… this text I make the case that it is a drive for self-cultivation and finding one’s own direction in life. Eternal return is presented as a mythic idea which Nietzsche thought would spur people to live each moment as if they wished it would recur eternally, rather than judging their actions by …
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Liberty for Individuality
… includes a significant role for culture and self-cultivation. Drawing on the work of Humboldt, J.S. Mill, and the Emersonians, it argues for the self-cultivation of the individual in his most individualuniqueform. The ideal for the libertarian self is supported by a regime theory, sketching …
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Between State and Body: Religious Geopolitics, Cultivation and the Falun Gong
… repression of the Falun Gong, and FLG followers’ self-cultivation and strategies of resistance to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The PhD begins with a discussion of the Party-State’s strategies of sovereignty and governmentality, drawing upon the works of Foucault and Agamben, and using a …
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The cut that cures therapeutic methods in the Platonic dialogues and the Zhuangzi Neipian
… by drawing on a well-instituted tradition of self-cultivation that itself emerges from the intersections of medical and philosophical texts. My dissertation takes its cue from these respective intellectual frameworks in ancient Greece and classical China and examines the problem of …
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Bildung, the Beautiful Soul, and the German Enlightenment Salon
… critical German philosophical concepts: Bildung (self-cultivation) and die schöne Seele (the Beautiful Soul) in the context of Berlin salon culture around 1800. It is the first systematic examination of the relationship between this philosophy and the institution of the salon. My principal goal is …
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Bridgers in the Third Space: An In-Country Investigation of the Leadership Practices of US-Educated Chinese Nationals
… construction of a new concept concerning their self-cultivation that, in the Chinese perspective, is integral to Chinese leadership. This study introduces the concept of the <em>bridger</em> as a role that some Chinese returnees take on within their Chinese organizations and the third space that …
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Cultivation and Conflict: Buddhist-Derived Meditation and Ethical Complexity among Israeli Jews
… intersect with orthodox Jewish meditators’ self-fashioning projects. In the second part, I address Engaged Dharma Israel (EDI) activists, who attempt to show solidarity with Palestinians living under Israeli military control by providing them with practical assistance. I illustrate how among …
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Architecture and the Inspiration of the Museum
… in a journey of initiation, education, and cultivation. Through design, I demonstrate a museum, which aims to initiate and encourage self-cultivation by one's experience of the objects in the museum and the space that surrounds the objects. It is perhaps through a perusal of objects …
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Becoming ‘Jewish’ believing in Jesus? Conversion, gender and ethnicity in the production of the Judaising Evangelical subject
… an austere religious style characterised by self- cultivation centred in Jewish ritual and ethos. This pious revival also involves recovering a collective past. References to a hidden Jewish heritage and a ‘return’ to Judaism are mobilised for justifying the community’s strict adherence to …
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Globalizing “Humanism”: A Comparative Framework for Understanding Ethical and Literary Revivals Across Eurasia
… ideal. Yet similar movements—grounded in ethical self-cultivation, textual engagement, and educational reform—have emerged independently across diverse historical contexts. This study offers a comparative framework for understanding four such revivals: Confucian classicism in Tang and Song China, …
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ZHAO Zi-chen’s doctrine of salvation within the praxis model of contextual theology (1920-1950)
… could attain divine morality by the efforts of self-cultivation. In the later phase (1940-1950), given his experience of imprisonment and the inspiration of Karl Barth, he changed his beliefs. With a disposition towards dogmatic theology, he developed the doctrine of salvation by affirming …
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John Dewey and an ecological philosophy of religion
… dimensions of nature and the experiencing self can capably meet the challenges posed to philosophy of religion by the ecological turn presently transforming the philosophical landscape. The driving insight of the ecological turn in contemporary philosophy is the need to reconstruct our …
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The alchemy of the dhikr ritual: South African Sufi women experiences
… the embodied ritual practices and processes of self-cultivation experienced by South African Sufi women, contextualising these within the historical, cultural, and gendered frameworks that have long shaped religious and social life in South Africa. Situated in feminist theory, the study adresses …
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Stillborn: The Libidinal Economy of Gadgetized Mediation in the Era of Socialization for Consumption; An Explanatory Political Project
… for subject-formation and possibility of self-determination. Developing new ways to conceptualize politics of youth, the project re-reads existing academic research on youth and gaming. Its main goal is to create a theoretical framework that can sustain an understanding of the importance …
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Aspiring Muslims in Russia: Form-of-Life and Political Ecoonomy of Virtue in Povolzhye's Halal Movement
… together anthropological theories of ethical self-cultivation with approaches that focus on power, social change, and political economy. In order to explore the political life of the halal movement vis-à-vis both state institutions and the market, I employ Giorgio Agamben’s notions of …
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