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‘Clinging Together Against the Dark’: A Pragmatist Reading of Sustainability Conversations

Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we present a typology of managers' interpretations of sustainability as ‘narrative fields’ derived from a qualitative multi‐site study and offer a Pragmatist reading of the results. Pragmatism is grounded in an ethic of meliorism, the belief in the possibility of gradually improving the world through human effort and ...
Barry A. Colbert, Elizabeth C. Kurucz
wiley   +1 more source

ADAM SMITH'S VIEW OF HISTORY: CONSISTENT OR PARADOXICAL? [PDF]

The conventional interpretation of Adam Smith is that he is a prophet of commercialism. The liberal capitalist reading of Smith is consistent with the view that history culminates in commercial society.
Alvey, James E.
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A Kantian Analytic of the Ugly [PDF]

, 2017
Kant’s theory of taste, as expounded in the Critique of Judgment, deals exhaustively with judgments of beauty. Rarely does Kant mention ugliness. This omission has led to a debate among commentators about how judgments of ugliness should be explained in ...
Buckman, Christopher
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Kinship Beyond Borders: Relational Sovereignty and the Limits of Liberal Statist Secession

Constellations, EarlyView.
Elliot Goodell Ugalde
wiley   +1 more source

Out There No One Has a Right to Die

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The eventual goal of space exploration is to colonize exoplanets and their moons outside our solar system. This is a dangerous and immoral endeavour. The extraterrestrial life forms encountered would be hostile, vulnerable or both, and the descendants of the original pioneers would be involuntarily exposed to hazardous conditions and ...
Matti Häyry
wiley   +1 more source

Interpretarea, instrument de atenuare a bias-ului algoritmic în contractele electronice/ Interpretation, a Tool for Mitigating Algorithmic Bias in Electronic Contracts

Analele Ştiinţifice ale Universităţii "Al.I. Cuza" din Iaşi. Ştiinţe Juridice
This article analyzes the role of legal interpretation in mitigating algorithmic bias within electronic contracts. In a digital era where algorithms increasingly influence the formation, interpretation, and execution of contracts, algorithmic bias can ...
Sebastian ANTOCE
doaj   +1 more source

Analogical Reflection as a Source for the Science of Life: Kant and the Possibility of the Biological Sciences [PDF]

, 2016
In contrast to the previously widespread view that Kant's work was largely in dialogue with the physical sciences, recent scholarship has highlighted Kant's interest in and contributions to the life sciences.
Nassar, Dalia
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Why Biology is Beyond Physical Sciences? [PDF]

, 2016
In the framework of materialism, the major attention is to find general organizational laws stimulated by physical sciences, ignoring the uniqueness of Life.
Muni, Bhakti Vijnana, Shanta, Bhakti Niskama   +1 more
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Provincializing Frankfurt: A Postcolonial Rereading of Habermasian Theory

Constellations, EarlyView.
Floris Biskamp
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Negated Identity: Mediating the World History Classroom through Adorno's Negative Dialectics

Educational Theory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article centers on Adorno's negative dialectics to account for experiences of alienation and marginalization within the world history classroom. It begins with the problem of how marginalization occurs in high school world history classrooms with predominantly Black and Latinx students.
Tadashi Dozono
wiley   +1 more source