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Confronting The Threat of Relativism : Views from Islamic Philosophy

open access: yesKanz Philosophia: A Journal for Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism, 2011
Today the issue of ethics and most importantly moral values are being seen as merely based upon opinions and emotions. This has led towards a relativisation of moral values and thus towards the erosion of values amongst societies.
Moh. Nasrin Nasir
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Machiavelli’s The Prince: How to Refute Virtue Ethics in Three Steps

open access: yesStudia Philosophiae Christianae, 2023
This article examines Niccolò Machiavelli’s account of virtues in his famous work The Prince. The Italian philosopher uses three different stages or steps of argumentation. All these steps are analyzed in this paper.
Mindaugas Stoškus
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Developing a critical caste analysis within information science and technology: A research review: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
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Historical Virtues in U.S. Schooling: How to Refine Character Education? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This article includes current issues of character education in American public schooling as findings indicate character education has little long-term influence in the development of virtues for students Next I trace the historical roots of virtues ...
Melissa Brevetti
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The Hazards of Role Modelling for the Education of Moral and/or Virtuous Character

open access: yesPhilosophical Inquiry in Education, 2023
In contrast to both behaviourist and cognitive approaches to moral development, neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics has had recent fairly distinctive impact on thought about the practice of moral education.
David Carr
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Leaving children behind for cross‐border education: Unveiling the emotional agency of international post‐graduate student mothers

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite growing interest in the internationalisation of higher education, the experiences of international student parents, particularly international student mothers, remain largely marginalised in research and policy. This paper examines the emotional agency of international student mothers who leave their children behind in their home ...
Anh Ngoc Quynh Phan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Educational Analysis of Moral Virtues in Higher Education from the Perspective of John Nixon [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Ethics and Society
Introduction: The primary aim of this article is to explicate the key role of universities in cultivating moral virtues and promoting a moral culture within society.
Faramarz Muhammadipouya   +1 more
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No other choice: The fracturing of reflexivity in families' pathways into (non‐)elective home education in England

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In England, education is compulsory, but schooling is not: it is legal for families to home educate their children. This form of education is officially termed by the Department for Education as ‘Elective Home Education’. As this designation implies, many families home educate as a positive and preferential ‘choice’.
Katherine Davey   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Socrates’ Moral Epistemology: The Connection between Theory and Practice in Plato’s Early Writings [PDF]

open access: yesحکمت و فلسفه, 2016
The early writings of Plato center based on a kind of knowledge which its object is moral virtues. According to the epistemology of these writings, theory is tied up with practice; since in its perspective, being aware of the moral virtue makes one moral
iman shafibeik
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Connecting Virtues: Introduction

open access: yes, 2018
This article introduces the special issue “Connecting Virtues,” which aims to advance virtue theory by bringing into a conversation works on the virtues in epistemology, ethics, and political philosophy.
Vaccarezza M. S., Croce M.
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