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Moral beacons: Understanding moral character and moral influence
Journal of Personality, 2023 AbstractObjectiveWe introduce the concept of moral beacons—individuals who are higher in moral character than their peers and prominent within their social environment—and examine the degree to which moral beacons increase the moral awareness of their peers.BackgroundUsing data from cohorts of students in graduate business education across two ...
Erik G. Helzer +4 more
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Moral Agency Conditions: Moral Agent, Limited Moral Agent, Quasi-Moral Agent
Discourse, 2023 Introduction. The concept of “moral agent” and its boundaries are not currently clearly defined. Given the connection between moral agency and moral responsibility, it seems necessary to introduce a clear definition of “moral agent”, as well as to differentiate the types of moral agency. The hypothesis of this article is that although
S. V. Glebova, N. V. Perova
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Society, 2016 In this brief response to Etzioni's paper we argue that satisfying one's preferences and seeking to live up to one's moral standards are not incompatible ways of living one's life, and that choosing to act morally need not involve self-sacrifice.
Bortolotti, Lisa, Jefferson, Anneli
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On the Geometry of Sculpting-like Gauging Processes [PDF]
, 2014 Recently, a new gauging procedure called Sculpting mechanism was proposed to obtain the M-theory origin of type II gauged Supergravity theories in 9D.
del Moral, Maria Pilar Garcia
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A Berry-Esseen theorem for Feynman-Kac and interacting particle models [PDF]
, 2005 In this paper we investigate the speed of convergence of the fluctuations of a general class of Feynman-Kac particle approximation models. We design an original approach based on new Berry-Esseen type estimates for abstract martingale sequences combined ...
Del Moral, Pierre, Tindel, Samy
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A New Mechanism of Kahler Moduli Stabilization in Type IIB Theory [PDF]
, 2006 We study the scalar potential in supersymmetric (orientifolded) Calabi Yau compactifications of Type IIB theory. We present a new mechanism to stabilize all closed string moduli at leading order in \alpha^{'} by introducing consistently fluxes.
del Moral, Maria Pilar Garcia
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Enrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofia, 2020 In this study, I have focussed on the importance of Wittgenstein in the thought of Elizabeth Anscombe. Although Anscombe detached herself from her master’s approach, her encounter with him was extremely important in her own work.
Elisa Grimi
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Gender Effect on Views of Wisdom and Wisdom Levels
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Gender differences in wisdom are an important theme in mythology, philosophy, psychology, and daily life. Based on the existing psychological research, consensus and dispute exist between the two genders on the views of wisdom and in the levels of wisdom.
Mimi Xiong +3 more
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Investigating Marcus Aurelius' Stoic Opinions Based on Statistical Analysis of the Meditations Book [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical InvestigationsIn recent years, the Stoic school, which has a moral nature, has been considered as a way of life. The opinions and beliefs of Marcus Aurelius, who is one of the most important Stoic philosophers, can be extracted from his only remaining work, the ...
Mojtaba Latifiyan +1 more
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Investigando a provocação entre pares
Educação (Santa Maria. Online), 2018 A provocação é um conflito peculiar, conceituado pela união da agressão e do humor, o que lhe confere um caráter de ambiguidade. Esse estudo, baseado nos pressupostos piagetianos, objetivou investigar as características das provocações vivenciadas por ...
Carolina Aragão Escher Marques +3 more
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