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Epistemological Implications of a System—Theoretical Understanding for Sustainability Models

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the sense of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), global efforts to create a sustainable society will not be sufficiently successful under the current geopolitical and socio‐economic trends. For this reason, recent sustainability research has increasingly focused on systemic coherence, the subject of cognition, and psychological and ...
Stefan Stumm
wiley   +1 more source

Who Is the System? On the Externalisation and Depersonalisation of Responsibility for Abuse

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the externalisation and depersonalisation of responsibility in the institutional communication of the Roman Catholic Church in the context of sexualised violence. Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems is used to show how semantic constructions such as ‘systemic causes’ rhetorically blur responsibility and contribute ...
Thomas Kron
wiley   +1 more source

Determining Conformity to Islamic Ethical Principles in Economic Practices: A Case of Pakistan [PDF]

open access: yes
The paper discuses sources of income permitted and prohibited in the faith of Islam. Under ethical constraints i.e. the allowed framework in which an individual or group of individuals can undertake economic pursuits, the Islamic teachings relating to ...
Shaikh, Salman
core   +1 more source

Ab Initio Benchmarking on Unsupported and Coronene‐Supported Silver Atomic Clusters: Interplay Between Jahn–Teller Distortions and Fluxionality

open access: yesSmall Structures, EarlyView.
The article presents a benchmark study using state‐of‐the‐art high‐level ab initio methodologies to predict infrared and Raman frequencies of subnanometric metal clusters. The importance of characterizing conical intersections in their potential energy landscapes is also highlighted, with the associated (Pseudo‐)Jahn–Teller distortions of cluster ...
Katarzyna M. Krupka   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ideologías justificatorias y pensamiento progresista.La corta vida y la funesta importancia de las postverdades relativistas

open access: yesCambios y Permanencias, 2017
The practiced Marxism, in its Leninist version (and many similar), has not actually represented the doctrine of the revolutionary proletariat, but the legitimating ideology of intellectual sectors which try to impose
Hugo Celso Felipe Mansilla
doaj  

I—The Virtues of Relativism

open access: yesSupplementary volume - Aristotelian Society, 2019
M. Baghramian
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Commensurable freedoms in the capability approach [PDF]

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The basis of the capability approach (CA) was recently attacked by a paper by Prasanta Pattanaik and Yonghseng Xu: the CA is strongly committed to two substantial principles, dominance on the one hand, and relativism on the other hand.
Antoinette Baujard
core  

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