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The Slippery Slope of Green Deeds: A Scoping Review of Moral Licensing in Studies on Proenvironmental Behaviors

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The moral licensing theory (MLT) has been increasingly used to explain why proenvironmental behaviors (PEBs) sometimes lead to a decreased interest in sustainability (moral licensing), or how polluting actions might be followed by PEBs (moral cleansing). To shed light on how the MLT has been used in the studies on PEBs, this scoping review: (1)
Alexander Yuriev
wiley   +1 more source

Secure Enough? Sufficiency and Security in the New Geological and Geopolitical Reality

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article advances sufficiency theorizing by examining its relationship with security in the contemporary geopolitical context. It engages three contextually situated discourses: sustainable development, ecological civilization, and degrowth, to explore how concerns over ecological limits intersect with emerging geopolitical and security ...
Pasi Heikkurinen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modelling Suicide‐Related Communication Dynamics: A Socio‐Cybernetic Framework for Governance

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Suicide‐related phenomena (SPS) are often approached through individual‐level risk factors or moral framings, yet their population‐level dynamics depend critically on how ‘suicide’ becomes observable, circulates and is governed across functionally differentiated systems.
Enrique Fernández Vilas, Juan R. Coca
wiley   +1 more source

Semester in Dialogue: A Systems Thinking Approach to Dialogue‐Based Higher Education at Simon Fraser University

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper addresses a gap in the application of systems thinking to higher education programme design. We use the Complexity Theory of Outcome Creation (CTOC), a structured model for working in complexity, to analyse Simon Fraser University's Semester in Dialogue (SiD)—an innovative undergraduate programme applying the ideas of dialogic ...
Diane T. Finegood   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The problem of morality in the Manichaean cosmological and soteriologic system

open access: yesAnales del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía, 2004
Manicheism is founded in two world originating ontological principles: Good or Light, presented by the sun and Evil or Darkness, personinified in the matter.
Marcos Roberto Nunes Costa
doaj  

Formation of Distance‐Based Orientation: Political Identity through Relational Positioning in Israel

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Distance‐based orientation describes how pejorative labels may serve as anchor points for political identity. Existing research on political labeling has largely emphasized stigmatization, overlooking how labels may acquire durability and orienting capacity without losing pejorative force. Drawing on publicly circulating discourse, we trace positioning
Tammar Friedman, Asaf Saadon
wiley   +1 more source

Five Decades of Dispute: A Triptych. E. J. Corey

open access: yesThe Chemical Record, EarlyView.
In his 2004 Priestley Medal address, E. J. Corey stated, “On May 4, 1964, I suggested to my colleague R. B. Woodward a simple explanation involving the symmetry of the perturbed (HOMO) molecular orbitals for the stereoselective cyclobutene/1,3‐butadiene and 1,3,5‐hexatriene/cyclohexadiene conversions that provided the basis for the further development ...
Jeffrey I. Seeman
wiley   +1 more source

Ugliness or Evil? Notes on a Moral Wobble in Aristotle and the Xunzi

open access: yes
1st chapter of Part 1: Wavering on Evil: Comparative ApproachesRichard King, in his “Ugliness or Evil? Notes on a Moral Wobble in Aristotle and the Xunzi,” points to a first ambiguity we meet in both the Chinese and the Greek traditions.
King, R.A.H.
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Madrasa Ideologies of English in Bangladesh: Questioning ELT‐Aid and Post‐9/11 De‐Islamization

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract External donors increasingly promote English as a notionally value‐neutral language of socioeconomic advancements in the Muslim South, overlooking local ideological diversities. Furthermore, national and Western forces deploy English as a tool to de‐Islamize madrasas (Islamic educational institutes) in the post‐9/11 world for global peace ...
Qumrul Hasan Chowdhury
wiley   +1 more source

CFP - International Medieval Society - Evil

open access: yes, 2016
EVIL Paris, 29 June- 1 July 2017 For its 14th Annual Symposium, the International Medieval Society invites abstracts on the theme of Evil in the Middle Ages.
Ninon Dubourg (sharing info)
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