Fundamental Views Research Articles

Responsible Leadership - Knowledge Status and Future Research Agenda

The present review article deals with the highly relevant and rich research field of responsible leadership (RL). It summarizes existing literature using a wide scope of 96 peer-reviewed journal articles and subsequently provides recommendations for future research paths. The current state of knowledge is depicted in relation to five knowledge areas: In the first area, the conceptualisation of RL, works addressing fundamental views on RL, the development of frameworks and the application of specific philosophies or theories are introduced. In the second area, the operationalisation of RL, results of studies dealing with the development of measurement instruments or applying quantitative empirical study designs in order to test specific research questions are presented. The third area, RL antecedents, covers the depiction of empirically investigated antecedent variables pertaining to either a personal or a contextual level. In the fourth area, RL consequences, empirically examined impacts of RL at a micro, meso and macro level are summarised and further works dealing with effects of RL on relationships between other variables discussed. Finally, the fifth area of RL promotion presents works that are empirically testing RL development interventions that take place either in the context of higher education or work. Derived potential lines of research relate to these five areas of knowledge and address identified research gaps of content-related, empirical and methodological nature.

СУЧАСНИЙ СТАН НАУКОВОГО ДОСЛІДЖЕННЯ ТА ПЕРСПЕКТИВИ РОЗВИТКУ КРИМІНАЛЬНО-ПРАВОВОЇ БІОГРАФІСТИКИ В УКРАЇНІ

The article analyzes the current state of scientific research in criminal legal biography in Ukraine. The author defines criminal legal biography as a branch of biographical science which studies the peculiarities of formation, formation and development of fundamental criminal law doctrines, ideas, views and concepts of leading criminalists, taking into account their life biography, in particular, public, state, political, scientific and scientific-pedagogical activities. The author identifies the main areas of development of criminal law biography, in particular, writing dissertations, preparing monographic studies, compiling (organizing) editions of selected works and biographies (bibliographies) of leading criminalists. The first area in criminal law biography – conducting dissertation research on the criminal law (including criminological and criminal executive) heritage of prominent representatives of Ukrainian legal science. The second area in criminal legal biography – conducting monographic studies of the peculiarities of the formation and development of individual scientific schools in Ukrainian criminal law, criminology and criminal executive law. The third area in criminal legal biography is the compilation (arrangement) of publications (selected works, selected works, biographies (bibliographies), etc.) covering generalizations of the criminal legal (including criminological and criminal executive) heritage of certain leading representatives of Ukrainian legal science, in particular, containing both the full content and certain fragments of abstracts, articles, monographs, manuals, scientific and practical commentaries, textbooks, etc. The author outlines the prospects for the development of criminal law biography in Ukraine. Key words: biography, science, biographical method, law, research, criminal law heritage, doctrine, ideas, views, concepts, criminal law, criminology, criminal executive law.

THE FILM 'PESANTREN' AND RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE IN INDONESIA: REALITY, REPRESENTATION AND IDEOLOGY

This article aims to explain the form of religious tolerance values in the documentary film 'Pesantren' which was released in 2022. This film is interesting because it reveals the educational side of religious tolerance in Indonesia, which shows another side of pesantren, which is considered by some to be a hotbed of indoctrination of radical and fundamental religious views. Through descriptive qualitative method, this article focuses on the value of religious tolerance in the film presented through verbal and non-verbal signs. The data is analyzed using John Fiske's semiotic theory that explains the codes of television, namely the level of reality, the level of representation and the level of ideology. This theory is useful to reveal the meaning behind each scene. This article shows that in the film Pesantren, the value of tolerance is more dominant after reading the ideology stage. The value of tolerance in the film is present in the frame of inter and intra-religious tolerance. The value is instilled in three major narratives, namely: respecting differences of opinion, avoiding fanaticism because God's love is also unlimited, preaching with good words and staying away from discrimination against people of different beliefs.

Problems of Criminological Determination and Causation in the Scientific Doctrine of Professor Vitaliy Anatolyevich Nomokonov

A famous Russian criminologist, Doctor of Law, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Vice-President of the Russian Criminological Association, author of over 400 research works and textbooks Vitaliy Anatolyevich Nomokonov has celebrated his 75th birthday. He is a well-known figure in both Russian and foreign criminology famous for his works, his conceptual and fundamental scientific views and approaches, unfailing principles and loyalty to universal human values when developing the strategy and tactics of corruption counteraction. Being one of the founders of a highly complex problem area in the field of criminology — the theory of crime determination and causation — he also consistently studies the modern aspects of this theory. The Professor was also one of the first scientists who researched the mechanisms of counteracting organized crime and corruption. He has been studying the regional aspects of these interconnected forms of crime over a long period of time, as well as promoting the ideas of its prevention at the political and public levels. Advocating the proactive development of criminology and its methodological basis along the lines of the transforming society, the Professor has been developing new directions in criminology stressing the anticriminal and anticorruption policy. Positive criminology is a trend in his works, he argues for the humane-personal approach in the theory of the criminal’s personality and proves the importance of understanding the regularities of positive law-abiding behavior and identifying the anti-criminogenic factors underlying it. The number of his students and followers is constantly growing. Over 15 researcher, who wrote their dissertation thesis under V.A. Nomokonov’s supervision, have become the founders of the theory of cybercrime, they promote his ideas regarding anticorruption policy, drug abuse, human trafficking, etc., and have the law enforcement experience that they successfully use in their current work. The Professor’s approaches to understanding organized crime and corruption, as well as the basic and special measures of counteracting these dangerous phenomena, are a safe basis for the corresponding criminological theory, they reflect his forward-thinking and astute attitude. His scientific intuition allows the Professor to be ahead of other research in the sphere of counteracting corruption and provide highly professional predictions on the future regularities of criminal behavior, thus contributing to the development and enriching the theory of criminology and its practical significance.

在人工智能時代需要謹慎對待腦機介面技術

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in Chinese; abstract also in English.
 The essay “The Ethics of Thinking with Machines: Brain-Computer Interfaces in the Era of Artificial Intelligence” summarizes the author’s fundamental views. It points out that we need to be cautious about brain–computer interface technology. In particular, we should be cautious when dealing with forms of such technology that may threaten human autonomy, psychological identity, personal identity, and personal privacy, and standardize the development of brain–computer interface technology in accordance with the five principles of technology ethics: improving human well-being, respecting the right to life, upholding fairness and impartiality, reasonably controlling risks, and maintaining open and transparent.

INDUSTRIAL POLICY IN ASIAN NEWLY INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES: CONTROVERSIES, REVIEW AND LESSONS

The paper’s aim is to use the successful example of the newly industrialized Asian countries, as well as the countries of the East Asian region in general, to prove the need to implement industrial policy in many countries, both those lagging behind in industrial development and those that have reached the technological frontier. The paper describes the evolution of industrial policy in these countries and what distinguishes them from other developing countries that were unsuccessful in its implementation: the developmental state, which recognized timely the turning point from the strategy of import substitution to the strategy of export promotion, implemented both strategies simultaneously, picked winners, provided support to infant industries through selective interventions, but also disciplined the recipients of its support, tracked its own comparative advantages and anticipated their changes, with a strong synergy between the state and private sectors, and looking at Japan as a model of industrial development, i.e. the lead goose. Industrial policy is one of the most controversial issues in economics. There has been a long debate between two schools of thought - orthodoxy and heterodoxy - as to whether there is a need for industrial policy in general, as well as the role of the state in the process of its creation and implementation, as opposed to the free market model of development in which there is no place for industrial policy, and if it appears it can be only of a general nature, and by no means in the form of selective interventions. Over the last 10 to 15 years, there has been a revision both at the academic level and in the real world that has made industrial policy more acceptable, and thus the debate about it has become less ideologically colored and more pragmatic and nuanced. At the theoretical level, the market fundamentalist view of little theoretical justification for industrial policy has lost its dominance. Despite maintaining neoliberal orthodoxy as the advice of international financial institutions in the process of creating economic policy in developing countries, industrial policy remained important for the promotion of industrial development, especially the infant industries. It is accepted that there are many types of market failures that must be addressed through industrial policy. It is increasingly recognized that industrial policy is not just a highly idiosyncratic practice associated only with the miracle economies of East Asia, but what most of today’s developed countries used when they were in the position of the catching-up countries. As a conclusion, the paper discusses the possibility of transferring the East Asian model to other countries, and sheds light on the determinants of industrial policy success and failure. The key conclusion is that there is room for successful industrial policy even in countries that have reached the technological frontier and want to push it further, as well as in countries lagging behind in industrial development, although the global context in which industrial policy is situated has changed over time. A special commentary is referred to the economic and industrial development of the former countries of Yugoslavia.

A Gestalt account of human behavior is supported by evidence from switching between single and dual actions

The question of how behavior is represented in the mind lies at the core of psychology as the science of mind and behavior. While a long-standing research tradition has established two opposing fundamental views of perceptual representation, Structuralism and Gestalt psychology, we test both accounts with respect to action representation: Are multiple actions (characterizing human behavior in general) represented as the sum of their component actions (Structuralist view) or holistically (Gestalt view)? Using a single-/dual-response switch paradigm, we analyzed switches between dual ([A + B]) and single ([A], [B]) responses across different effector systems and revealed comparable performance in partial repetitions and full switches of behavioral requirements (e.g., in [A + B] → [A] vs. [B] → [A], or [A] → [A + B] vs. [B] → [A + B]), but only when the presence of dimensional overlap between responses allows for Gestalt formation. This evidence for a Gestalt view of behavior in our paradigm challenges some fundamental assumptions in current (tacitly Structuralist) action control theories (in particular the idea that all actions are represented compositionally with reference to their components), provides a novel explanatory angle for understanding complex, highly synchronized human behavior (e.g., dance), and delimitates the degree to which complex behavior can be analyzed in terms of its basic components.

Typology of 21st Century Islamic Boarding School Education (Pesantren) in Indonesia

This research examines the dynamics of Islamic boarding schools in Indonesia with a focus on typology and development. Through a qualitative descriptive approach and library research, this research identified three developing typologies of Islamic boarding schools: Salaf Islamic Boarding Schools, Modern Islamic Boarding Schools, and Radical Islamic Boarding Schools. Salaf Islamic boarding schools, which are traditional Islamic boarding schools, maintain the teaching of classical Islamic books without adding to the general curriculum. The case study of the Tarbiyatun Nasyi'in Islamic Boarding School in Jombang provides an illustration of the sustainability of the Salafist model which still exists today. Modern Islamic boarding schools, represented by Pondok Modern Gontor, show transformation by incorporating a general curriculum, emphasizing Arabic and English language teaching, and managing Islamic boarding school management neatly. This phenomenon illustrates the adaptation of Islamic boarding schools to the demands of the times and general education. Radical Islamic boarding schools reflect a conservative and scriptural Islamic ideology, often involving fundamentalist views and radicalism. Case studies of Islamic boarding schools in Lamongan and Ngruki highlight the negative impact of radical thinking in the students' thinking patterns and the involvement of some alumni in acts of terrorism. This research describes the variations in educational approaches and religious views in Islamic boarding schools, reflecting the dynamics of Islam in Indonesia. With a deeper understanding of Islamic boarding school typology, this research contributes to detailing the development and role of Islamic boarding schools in shaping Islamic society in Indonesia

Aquinas On Being, Goodness, And Divine Simplicity

AbstractAquinas's virtue-based ethics is grounded in his metaphysics, and in particular in one part of his doctrine of the transcendentals, namely, the relation of being and goodness. This metaphysics supplies for his normative ethics the sort of metaethical foundation that some contemporary virtue-centered ethics have been criticized for lacking, and it grounds an ethical naturalism of considerable philosophical sophistication. In addition, this grounding has a theological implication even more fundamental than its applications to ethics. That is because Aquinas takes God to be essentially and uniquely being itself. Consequently, on Aquinas's view, God is also essentially goodness itself. Aquinas's metaphysical grounding for his ethics is thus meant to be understood in connection with his more fundamental views regarding God's nature, and in particular his views of God's simplicity. This metaphysical grounding confers significant philosophical and theological advantages on his ethics.

The Future of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing: Observe, Reflect, and Take Action to Empower Knowledge for the Greater Good

ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is a call for action to identify areas of concern and promise for the specialty of psychiatric-mental health nursing to flourish in the twenty first century and beyond in the United States. Bits and pieces of this call for action may be relevant to other countries where psychiatric-mental health nursing has had similar trends. However, this paper focuses on the issues, barriers, and politics of education, practice, and research for nurses in the United States who gravitate to psychiatric-mental health and endeavor to rise above the value-laden past that perpetuates the marginalization of not only the specialty, but also the work that PMHN do and for the individuals that they are meant to care for in the new millennial. Much of the history of PMHN knowledge and care is value-laden, biased and riddled in patriarchy, fundamental religious views from centuries ago, and a basic fear of the unknown. It is well over due to sort through the closets and filing cabinets of the specialty’s knowledge to clear out the stigma, the myths, the unknown and the “doctor knows best” world view. If PMHN is to survive and truly heal or comfort the suffering that is observed and witnessed first-hand in the twenty first century, a deliberate and purposeful approach is needed.

NILAI-NILAI PENDIDIKAN ISLAM DALAM PEMIKIRAN FILSAFAT MOHAMMAD IQBAL

Muhammad Iqbal is a modern Muslim philosopher-poet who, conceptually and philosophically, does not have a detailed formulation of Islamic educational concepts. However, implicitly, based on his fundamental views on humanity, particularly his philosophical thoughts on the ego, a dynamic, innovative, and vitalistic concept of Islamic educational thought can be reconstructed. The genealogy of Islamic educational values in Iqbal's philosophical thought is rooted in his ideas about humanity, especially his perspective on the story of Adam, the concept of ego, and the perfect human (insan kamil). Based on this, fundamental issues in humanities studies related to education can be identified: innate potential, freedom, and the essence of humanity. The construction of Islamic educational values in Muhammad Iqbal's philosophical thought includes: values of monotheistic education, values of moral education, values of rational education (intelligence), and values of social education. All of these educational values also originate from Iqbal's view of the liberated ego, constantly progressing towards perfection, which is Allah SWT. Keywords: Values; Islamic Education; Philosophical Thought; Iqbal.

Attitudes toward Wind Power in Norway–Solution or Problem in Renewable Energy Development?

Wind power has become an increasingly important source of renewable energy in Norway. Current demand and production capacity have exceeded expectations stipulated in energy policies a few years back. Wind power affects landscape characteristics, and the rapid development has created considerable public conflict. However, knowledge to date about public attitudes toward wind power development in Norway is limited. We surveyed a representative sample of the Norwegian public to examine relationships between wind power development and place attachment, localization, and policies. We also examined if attitudes toward wind power are linked to broader environmental attitudes and meaning of place. Public attitudes range from strong support to strong opposition. We found limited support for NIMBY effects. Support versus opposition correlates with attitudes toward place attachment, localization of wind power plants and energy policies. We found evidence of a dichotomy between the more fundamental world views of eco-modernism versus de-growth influencing the more specific wind power attitudes. We argue that policy institutions have underestimated the power of attitude diversity in the wind power debate, and that social acceptability of future wind power development will depend on improved understanding of how social values of landscapes are impacted.

Gender-Inclusive Development through Fintech: Studying Gender-Based Digital Financial Inclusion in a Cross-Country Setting

Financial inclusion (FI) for vulnerable populations, such as women, is critical for achieving gender equality, women’s empowerment, and thereby, inclusive growth. Sustainable development goal 5 considers gender equality as a fundamental right and views the empowerment of women as a necessary step. Access to finance is a significant means to empower a person. In this regard, the use of digital financial services is of particular significance for women as it allows them easier access to financial products for business and household needs. For implementing policies to reduce financial exclusion of women, it is necessary to first measure the extent of FI in society. While there are several attempts to measure FI for the general population, there is limited literature on the gender-based measurement of FI. This paper fills this important research gap by developing a gender-based FI index (GFII) focusing particularly on digital services and evaluating the performance of countries across the globe (by considering 109 countries based on data availability) in terms of a gender-based FI measure developed by us. This index is developed using two separate indices, a digital financial service usage index (DFI) and a conventional financial service usage index (CFI). We calculate it for different countries for 2011, 2014, 2017, and 2021 using the Global Findex databaseIt helps us to investigate the performance of different countries over the years in ensuring the financial inclusion of women and how digital services are penetrating over the years. One contribution of the paper is to relate the Gender Development Index (GDI) and Gender Inequality Index (GII) of countries, two well-known measures of inclusive and sustainable development, with GFII and DFI for female (DFIF). This exercise shows that while there is a positive correlation between these two sets of indicators, there are a number of countries that are high (or low) in gender development (or inequality) that need to improve their digital FI. Interestingly, using the Global Findex database and the Feasible Generalized Least Squares (FGLS) and instrumental variable panel data model, we show that health, education, labour force participation rate, and political empowerment of women significantly impact the digital financial inclusion of women. The paper brings out relevant policy suggestions for improving women’s digital financial access and thereby enhancing gender empowerment for faster and more inclusive growth.

Unexpected iron corrosion by excess sodium in two-dimensional Na–Cl crystals of abnormal stoichiometries at ambient conditions

At ambient conditions, we found salt crystals formed from unsaturated solutions on an iron surface; these salt crystals had abnormal stoichiometries (i.e. Na2Cl and Na3Cl), and these abnormal crystals with Cl:Na of 1/2–1/3 could enhance iron corrosion. Interestingly, we found that the ratio of abnormal crystals, Na2Cl or Na3Cl, with ordinary NaCl was relative to the initial NaCl concentration of the solution. Theoretical calculations suggest that this abnormal crystallisation behaviour is attributed to the different adsorption energy curves between Cl−–iron and Na+–iron, which not only promotes Na+ and Cl− adsorbing on the metallic surface to crystallise at unsaturated concentration but also induces the formation of abnormal stoichiometries of Na–Cl crystals for different kinetic adsorptionprocess. These abnormal crystals could also be observed on other metallic surfaces, such as copper. Our findings will help elucidate some fundamental physical and chemical views, including metal corrosion, crystallisation and electrochemical reactions.

Simplicity and Complexity in Law and in Markets

Richard Epstein’s Simple Rules for a Complex World is true to its title and to the author’s demonstrated genius over a long career. It is a libertarian-oriented enterprise in that it requires the reader to share in the belief that government programs are often wasteful and subject to unattractive interest group pressures and corrupt bureaucracies. More generally, Simple Rules is framed against a background in which the reader must share the libertarian view that individuals can and should be trusted to look after themselves and to make their own choices. Epstein likes “simple” rules; these include strict liability, a flat tax, fee simple, and so forth. He argues that more complexity invites errors and corruption, and arguments for complexity undervalue individuals’ ability to bargain and otherwise fend for themselves. People know what is good for them far more than lawmakers. Anyone who does not share these fundamental views might be frustrated when reading this important book, unless perhaps the belief in redistribution and market failures is so great that one is willing to set aside the enormous costs of government failure. In any event, an insightful and friendly (and terrific) critique of the book has already been written by John Harrison, who thinks of Epstein’s book as a myth: What role should law play if the world were as Epstein (and perhaps Harrison and others among us) wishes it to be? As such, this Essay is neither a review nor a reaction, but instead offers the following two ideas that are stimulated by the book.

Critical Pragmatics: Nine Misconceptions

In this paper, we focus on some misconceptions about Critical Pragmatics, what it is, what it assumes and what it proposes. Doubtless, some of these misconceptions are due to clumsy writing on our part; perhaps others are due to inattentive reading. And some may be due to an effort to shield us from the apparent implausibility of what we said—and in fact meant. It does not matter much. We focus on those misunderstandings that most matter to us, either because, by repetition, they have ended up being annoying, even if they are not, perhaps, that important; or because they are substantial enough to represent a distortion of the basic picture of Critical Pragmatics and its theoretical foundations, namely, Critical Referentialism—also known as the Reflexive-referential Theory—and, more generally, Perry’s fundamental views on meaning and content(s).

“BASIC PROVISIONS OF PEOPLE’S MONARCHIST UNIONS” AS A STRATEGY OF NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: ON THE QUESTION OF ASTRAKHAN RIGHTISTS’ PROPOSALS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF STATEHOOD (beginning of the 20th century)

This article discusses the main provisions proposed by the Astrakhan People’s Monarchist Party in the political realities of the First World War in order to prevent a revolutionary crisis. The crisis phenomena growing in wartime conditions in the late Russian Empire required the development of a national development strategy to prevent a possible catastrophe. The Astrakhan People’s Monarchist Party, represented by the chairman N.N. Tikhanovich-Savitsky, offered the views in this direction. The document, called “Basic Provisions of the People’s Monarchist Unions”, contained the positions of the Astrakhan rightists on the main problems of the state system.
 
 The main purpose of this study is to analyze the conceptual positions of the Astrakhan People’s Monarchist Party in the context of a rather difficult war for Russia. Materials and methods. Based on the analysis of archival stock materials and programmatic sources using historical-genetic, retrospective and problematic methods, the main directions of the positions of provincial conservative forces, which carry the paradigm of further national development, are considered.
 
 Research results. The position of the Astrakhan People’s Monarchist Party on the issues of the system of supreme government, the role and place of elected representative institutions, in which the party, professing right-wing conservative views, connected the existence and further development of the Russian state with the preservation of autocratic power as meeting its spirit, was studied. The fundamental views of this party on the religious issue, the problems of education and upbringing, and foreign policy were studied. The proposals of the Astrakhan right in ensuring the country’s defense capability, determining the main directions of economic policy in the pre-revolutionary year are analyzed. The demands of the provincial right-wing conservatives to introduce universal conscription, ensure the country’s military-technical sovereignty, develop its own agricultural and industrial production, and expand the domestic market were seen as the basis of the country’s independence. Conclusions. The conclusion is made about the nature of the main provisions of the people’s monarchist unions proposed by the Astrakhan People’s Monarchist Party as measures to preserve the Russian statehood and national development strategy.

Which Threshold Model?

As outlined in the Preface (and Chap. 1 and other chapters), this book espoused two fundamental views. The first view consists of the proposal that the threshold model represents a method to address the Sorites paradox, which is a consequence of a relationship between scientific evidence (that exists on a continuum of credibility) and decision-making (that is categorical, yes/no exercises).

THE DEVELOPMENT OF ECONOMIC IDEAS

The underlying hypothesis in this paper is that there are two fundamental views of the world in which Economists operate: the participatory and the observational. A consequence of these different views is in the extent to which the world can be understood and controlled. Economics was created in a period where the scientific (observational) view was in the ascendant and has benefitted and suffered because of it. The paper examines Economic thinking in this context and illustrates by apposite examples that although there has been a move by Economists to move from a rigorous mathematical straitjacket, not enough has been done. The paper suggests that the future of Economics depends on maintaining a continuous and necessary interchange between the two views. The basic premise underlying this paper is that we experience a physical presence- we are 'embodied minds.' This creates a worldview (the Soft Systems Methodology uses the word 'weltanschauung ') that is subjective and experiential.

Prof. K. Pergelov on the Functions of Financial Accounting and Its Modern Interpretation

An important topic in the scientific works of Prof. K. Pergelov is the issue of financial accounting. According to this scholar, accounting is there to fulfill its specific purpose and in a number of publications he goes on to clarify the nature of these functions by making a detailed classification of them and via examining their interrelated manifestations and interdependence. Pergelov defines the informational, analytical and controlling functions of accounting as fundamental and the cognitive (epistemological), prognostic and educational - as their derivatives. Prof. K. Pergelov sees the development and enhancement of the functions of accounting as an objectively conditioned and historically determined social process. Viewed from this angle, and based on the works of K. Pergelov, current day special literature witnesses an ongoing wide and in depth discussion on the functions of financial accounting and its modern, up-to-date interpretation. The article is elaborated to present Prof. K. Pergelov`s fundamental views on the functions of financial accounting and explicates some of the current aspects of their interpretation.