Moral Connotations Research Articles

Associations of Suicide Referents With Different Moral Connotation With Actual Suicides.

Background: Different words used for suicide (so-called suicide referents) have different moral connotations, and neutral referents are recommended in media reporting guidelines. Aims: To assess how different referents in media reports are related to actual suicides. Method: Austrian news articles for each month between 2000 and 2021 (n = 276 months) were obtained from the Austrian Press Agency. Time series were modeled for media items referring to suicide as a crime [Selbstmord], an act of freedom [Freitod], or neutral connotation [Suizid]. Temporal associations with suicides in the month before, during, and after the reporting were examined. Results: Terminology referring to suicide as an act of free will [Freitod] was weakly associated with increases in total, male, and female suicides and with suicides in up to 64-year-olds in the same month. No other statistically significant associations were found. Limitations: No detailed content analysis of media reports was done. Conclusion: During times of prevalent use of referents suggesting suicide to be an act of freedom, there are small-sized increases in suicides. The simultaneous occurrence of this referent and suicides might reflect effects of a societal framing present in both the media and the community rather than a sheer media effect.

The Tashbehs in Surat Al-Baqara Verses 1-18 and Its Education Implication

The aim of studying this topic is to know the implications of the tashbehs mentioned in Surah Al-Baqarah verses 1-18 related to the educational aspect. The study concluded that in Surah Al-Baqarah verses 1-18, there are methods of tashbehs, and they carry moral connotations related to the educational aspect. These indications can be extracted from methods and modalities used as a methodology for teaching. By using tashbehs in the education process, it will be better, because the education materials are easier to understand and stronger to influence. Also, the tashbeh methods enhances the emotional relationship between the teachers and the students, making the lessons more acceptable. Thus, it can be said that the use of tashbeh as an advocacy tool has a positive impact on education.

Reform and Application of "Curriculum Thinking and politics" in Steam Turbine Principle Course

Principles of Steam Turbine is the core course for energy and power engineering majors. Combining the "industry-oriented, local and application-oriented" school-running orientation of Xi 'an Aeronautical University of our University, according to the characteristics and ability quality requirements of talents training for energy and power engineering majors, and centering on the three-pronged curriculum construction goal of "thought guidance, knowledge imparting and ability improvement", the moral connotation and elements of the course are deeply explored. In ideological and political education, the education of three views, the Chinese dream, and the education of socialist core values are related to the professional values, professional ethics, and professional spirit in the Steam turbine principle course, so that students can accept the influence of mainstream values and strive to achieve the talent training goal of "global vision, family and country feelings, innovative spirit, and professional quality". To form a teaching pattern of professional basic courses and ideological and political theory courses closely combined with the same direction.

Discussing the Relationship between Father and Son, Ruler and Subjects in the Xiaojing: Based on the Dunhuang Manuscripts

It has long been accepted that the ancient Chinese ruler–subjects relationship was a metaphorical extension of the father–son relationship, where loyalty and family reverence were considered synonymous. The Confucian classic the Xiaojing is taken as a significant piece of evidence supporting this view. However, based on the annotated version of the Xiaojing discovered in Dunhuang, it is evident that during the Han Dynasty and the Six Dynasties period, Confucian scholars made clear distinctions between father–son relationships and ruler–subjects relationships. They also made a clear differentiation between the moral connotations of loyalty and family reverence. The father–son relationship is a bond of blood, while the ruler–subjects relationship is a bond of duty and appropriateness, meaning that the ethical requirements for the father–son relationship and ruler–subjects relationship are fundamentally different. Therefore, expressions such as “service to ruler with family reverence is loyalty” does not mean to unify loyalty and family reverence, but means that the governor should select people who have already cultivated the virtue of family reverence to become officials because they have learnt how to show respect in their family life.

BETWEEN RHYTHM AND SUGGESTION, A READING IN THE POETRY OF BADR SHAKER AL-SAYYAB

After that brief analysis of examples of al-Sayyab's poetry, the research concluded the importance of rhythm in its formation or establishment of the suggestive poetic semantic meaning in the poem or in the embodiment of the poetics of the text, drawing ideas and images and weaving them into musical poetic templates. It is a semantic area located between rhythm and suggestion, where the creator can move freely before reaching the completion of the semantic consistency, as deep moral connotations are achieved rippling between the rhythm and the use of the suggestive symbol. This is evident in al-Sayyab's poetry on multiple levels. Accordingly, the research was able, through those approaches between the structure of rhythm and the structure of suggestion, to reach creative foci that may not have received its due study until now, as they carry suggestive dimensions that convey the poet's experience over a successive time period, and refer to his creative sources. As a result, the research tried to focus on rhythm. In its internal and external dimensions, it is like a bridge between the creator and the recipient in communicating the intention of the writer on the one hand, and in achieving the poetry of the text on the other hand. On the other hand, the importance of the rhythmic structure was shown in showing its connection with poetic suggestion, and defining the kinetic ranges in time, space, space, image and organic unity in the poem. The poetic text, no matter how much the poet tries to renew or alienate it, as Al-Sayyab did in his abandonment of seas in many times or in the poetry of iambic, it remains rooted in its rhythmic structure as it presents the initial structure of symbols and masks leading to the suggestive structure in the poem. The internal rhythm, with its procedural tools or its formative components, contributes to a great extent in carrying the emotional charges that plot the suggestive meaning both close and distant at the same time: the close in its verbal, linguistic and synthetic image, and the far in its predictive interpretation and horizons based on symbolic imagination

Educación y conocimiento liberador.

This essay begins with an aphorism on education: "forger of the liberating forces towards the progress of the human condition", in its spiritual, intellectual, moral and convivial connotation in harmony with the planetary ecosystem (dignifying progress). It highlights the coincidence of the highest historical levels of professional education with the extreme degradation of Western culture, which reveals the role of education that favors passivity in the face of knowledge and the prevailing order. The characteristics of passive education are contrasted with those of participatory education based on the development of critical thinking. Critical thinking is defined and the type of educational environment that stimulates and channels it is argued, in particular the complex and integrative thinking alluding to the self projected to who we are and where we are, absent in reductionist science. Liberating knowledge is specified and its purpose defined as "to understand ourselves as fraternal humanity and to find our place in harmony with the infinitely diverse concert of the living world". The theoretical revolutions -now dismissed- being seeds of liberating knowledge that revealed anthropocentrism and ethnocentrisms as "prisons of the spirit" are synthesized. It is concluded that liberating knowledge fulfills the utopian role of signaling the endless walking towards dignifying human progress.

Cleansing or Licensing? Corporate Social Responsibility Reconciles the Competing Effects of Unethical Pro-Organizational Behavior on Moral Self-Regulation

Although emerging actor-centric research has revealed that performing morally laden behaviors shapes how employees behave subsequently, less is known about what work behaviors may emerge following employees’ unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB)—a unique behavior with competing moral connotations. We integrate the moral self-regulation literature with research on micro corporate social responsibility (CSR) to develop and test a theoretical framework articulating how perceived CSR initiatives reconcile the morally paradoxical nature of UPB and how people respond to such behavior. We propose that, given its dual moral nature, performing UPB simultaneously increases feelings of moral deficit (which triggers moral cleansing) and psychological entitlement (which triggers moral licensing). Importantly, perceived CSR initiatives moderate these countervailing psychological experiences by strengthening feelings of moral deficit while weakening psychological entitlement, which respectively result in increased service-oriented helping behavior and decreased deviant behavior. Results from a scenario-based lab study, an online experiment, and two field studies largely corroborate our propositions. This research provides a finer-grained understanding of the complex moral self-regulation processes that employees experience at work and highlights why and how organizations’ CSR initiatives affect employees’ moral mindsets and behaviors.

IT SHALL BE OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS, DEUTERONOMY 6:25: A SUGGESTED TRANSLATION

The term righteousness in Christian tradition has always been understood as bearing a moral nuance. At time this Christian thinking influences the understanding the term in certain contexts where the nuance could be different. This article explores the meaning of the term righteousness in Deuteronomy 6:25. The study attempts to undertake a contextual study of the term righteousness as used in Deuteronomy 6:24-25. The cluster of verbs used in Deut 6:24-25 reveal a word field within which the phrase “our righteousness” is situated, which is a context of the blessing of life, especially physical life. The parallel between the term sedaqah (righteousness) and tob (good) in the phrases “it shall be our righteousness” and “it shall be good to us” is pivotal for understanding the usage of the term righteousness in this passage. This relationship reveals that these two terms, righteousness and good, mirror each other. The clause “it shall be good to us” in 6:24 is a used in connection with the clause “to preserve your life.” The term good in this passage refers to the preservation of physical life. Because these two terms, righteousness and good are employed in the context of preservation of the physical life, it can be deduced that the term righteousness points to the blessings of physical life. Lexically, sedaqah conveys the nuance to justify, vindicate, deliver and prosper. Though the term righteousness may have a moral connotation, in this context it is not used in connection words that could suggest a moral aspect. Therefore, translating sedaqah as prosperity is congruent to the thoughts expressed in the rest of Deuteronomy 6.

Jonáš Záborský — ethical-philosophical thoughts

The main aim of the submitted paper is to present the relationship of Jonáš Záborský to philosophy, religion and to everyday ethical-social issues. All these aspects are closely interconnected in his work. Even though Záborský stood aside from the main Slovak national movement of the 19th century, his work is intrinsically linked to the struggle associated with this turbulent period of Slovak history. Záborský is described by many authors as the most prominent figure on the field of morality during the 19th century in our cultural space. Such affirmative judgement is mostly based on his work ‘The Wisdom of Life in Temple Speech’. This work is used to examine the aims of the presented paper. Although it is impossible to characterize his relationship to philosophy and the connection between philosophy and religion explicitly, the present paper describes changes in this field during his life. At the same time, the paper presents the practicality of Záborský’s thinking. We demonstrate his struggle and effort to help his nation and to help common people through education and day-to-day work. In this context, the article briefly presents his (moral) attitudes towards such issues as work, usury, lending, and justice. In the context of these social issues with strong moral connotation, the present paper shows how Záborský’s life attitude connects love for the nation with the necessity of education. At the same time, the paper uses these issues as an example to demonstrate how, in Záborský’s understanding, material improvement can be connected to moral improvement.

Corruption and Human Rights in the Case Law of Inter-American Human Rights Treaty Bodies

The first attempts to combat corruption date back to ancient times and had mainly moral connotation. Despite being an old phenomena, nowadays it takes new shapes and becomes a more common feature of social life, especially in the Latin America region. Corruption is a complex, and multidimensional phenomenon that negatively impacts human rights on many levels. Therefore, serious effort have long been made at global, regional and state levels to combat corruption. The United Nations and regional organizations have adopted numerous non-binding and binding documents with a view to stifling this phenomenon but none of them refer to the issue of impact of corruption on human rights. But it should be stressed that it is very hard to establish a link between corruption and human rights violations. Some efforts has been made by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IAComHR). This article considers whether and how the IACHR and the IAComHR establish the link between corruption and violation of human rights in the inter-American system. It also determines which groups of people are, according the IACHR and the IAComHR, particularly affected by corruption, what measures should be taken to protect those exposed to acts of corruption, what obligations are incumbent on States with a view to preventing, combating and eradicating corruption.

The Prepositions and their Phonetic and Semantic Effect in the Quranic context: A Grammatical Empirical Study Applied on the First Qarter of the Holy Quran

Prepositions in general are used to represent, disclose and express ideas as they are closely related to clarifying the significance of the context in all its forms. The study of their meanings is of great importance to grammarians and commentators. Therefore, the interpretation of the meaning of these prepositions need from the researcher to go deeper to reveal how to be used to give the desired meaning، and then elicit the required result and the intended purpose as well. These facts inspired the researcher to select the current study under the title (Prepositions and their verbal and moral impact in the Qur’anic context - a semantic grammatical study on the first quarter of the Holy Qur’an). This study, therefore, dealt with the verbal and moral impact of prepositions in the context of the Holy Qur’an in the selected verses that have been chosen from the first quarter, in which these prepositions were mentioned. The purpose behind choosing the first quarter of the Holy Qur’an was that because it contains the most preposition types as well as the jurisprudent perspective، doctrinal، and ethical rulings that are the basic foundations of human life. Also because of the impact it contains in clarifying the aesthetics of the context and Qur’anic expression، which thus led to enriching the moral connotations that are one of the aspects of the miracle of the Holy Qur’an. Finally, extracting the final result of those prepositions that were mentioned in the first quarter of the Holy Qur’an in terms of their usage. indications and the number of occurrences.

Practice of Ideological and Political Education in Electrical Engineering Courses

Electrical practical training is an important practical course of majors of electric automation, electromechanical integration and applied electronics. The paper works out the ideological and political elements, and makes clear the moral connotation in the course. With the course assessment as the research focus, it is recommended to integrate ideological and political elements into the formative and summative assessment. Exploring the paths to combine the basic practical training with ideological and political education, the paper aims at cultivating students’craftsmanship of pursuing perfection and better quality and further enhancing students’professional accomplishment.

An Analysis of Fetishism in Hegel's Philosophy of Religion

In Hegel's system of religious philosophy, fetishism is considered religion’s starting point, representing the beginning of the objectification of self-consciousness. Fetish can be subdivided into direct and indirect witchcraft. Hegel analyzes in detail the African religions representing plain witchcraft and the Chinese religions of the Qing dynasty representing indirect witchcraft. Hegel revealed the structure of the emperor's sacrifice to heaven in Chinese indirect mysticism in the Qing Dynasty and used the "religion of degree" to explain the moral connotation of "Tian" and "Dao.” On the one hand, Hegel's fetishism represents a very integrated reflection on the significance of "fetish worship" in the history of philosophical thought. On the other hand, because it is confined within the methodological framework of Hegel's spiritual, intelligent system, it has the boundaries of an innovative design with an intense color of "Eurocentrism.”

Power, Belonging, and Respectability

Power, Belonging, and Respectability

Beyond debt and equity

A recurring theme in academic, moralizing, and religious discourses laments the individual and societal perils of debt and praises equity. Contemporary Islamic banking and finance is one conspicuous example. This article recontextualizes this conversation by demonstrating that since the 1980s financial practitioners have been interpreting debt and equity as increasingly illegible cognitive schemas that nonetheless retain their historical and moral connotations. This line of argumentation suggests that normatively contrasting debt and equity is a red herring—a literary device and theoretical construct that misleads and distracts from the fundamental discussion of what constitutes salubrious or odious finance. Little will change in social life if we seek to replace “debt” with “equity.” Rather, since all financial instruments describe social relationships, our conversation should turn to normatively proscribing the kinds of financial instruments that match our normative values for contractual relationships.

Indulgent citizens: Bribery in Mexico's bureaucratic procedures

AbstractThis article offers evidence of the embedded nature of bribery in Mexico. Drawing on three theoretical frameworks that deviate from standard individualistic rational‐choice approaches, the paper examines a shared assertion: systemic corruption is a regime so deeply engrained in social relationships and norms that prevents people from attributing a moral connotation to their behavior. Based on individual‐level data from two waves of a national survey on government performance, I find that users of government procedures in Mexico are indifferent to bribery, as the occurrence of petty corruption acts does not influence their appraisal of various administrative transactions. By demonstrating that everyday acts of bribery are, in general, immune to social disapproval in a setting of high corruption like Mexico, this article contributes to understanding better the complexity of such phenomenon and why anti‐corruption policies are not likely to succeed if they do not design ways to cope with the social normalization of corruption.

The Politics of Nordsploitation: History, Industry, Audiences

The Politics of Nordsploitation: History, Industry, Audiences

Academic Orientation as a Function of Moral Fit: The Role of Individualizing Morality

Researchers have studied academic orientation—students’ valuing of and commitment to education—as in part a function of a cultural fit between students’ cultural capital, competencies, identity, and the institutional culture of the education system. Recent research on students’ aspirations and commitment highlights the moral undertones of such cultural fit. Scholars have identified the perceived moral connotations of becoming “an educated person” and illustrated how students’ academic orientation may be intertwined with the unique moral culture of the education system. Neoinstitutional scholars have examined modern education systems’ emphasis on an individualizing type of moral culture, that is, an institutional moral culture emphasizing individual autonomy, rights, and achievement over traditional mores, knowledge, and social hierarchies. Scholars have yet to bridge these streams of research by examining the link between students’ personal moral culture and the institutional moral culture of education systems. In this study, we consider whether students whose moral orientation matches the individualizing moral culture of education systems are more academically oriented. We conceptualize this link as moral fit, and we use moral foundations theory to identify students’ personal moral culture. Analysis of a unique sample of students drawn from all secondary schools in Iceland (N = 10,525) shows (1) individualizing moral intuitions (those that emphasize the individual as the basic moral unit) are associated with a greater academic orientation, net of parental involvement, cultural capital, and other important controls, and (2) this association is only lightly moderated by differences in the school structure.

Against the ‘science of populism’: grammatical analysis of studies on populism in Italy

ABSTRACT In recent years, the study of populism has attracted considerable attention in the social sciences. However, this has highlighted certain inherent contradictions in the academic study of politics, which struggles between neutrality and value judgments. Shifting attention away from the representational content toward the actual usage of the term ‘populist’, the essay shows how part of the abundant academic literature on populism fails to address the problem of value judgment effectively. Despite its purported refusal to pathologize, academic analysis employs the term more often than not as a way to label new political parties or movements in terms of deviancy. It thus supports the political aim of incumbents who would like to dismiss such parties/movements as defective political actors. Taking the Italian literature on populism as a case study, we show not only how the moral connotation implicit in ‘populism’ is not neutralized in academic study but also how it constitutes a strategic aspect of the analysis. Our essay shows how ‘populism’ as a moral category allows, on the one hand, the collection in a single category of all the diverse actors emerging in contemporary politics and, on the other hand, the provision of an overall interpretation of these actors.

Impact Using of Continuous Improvement on Functional Plateau Strategies :Evidence From Iraq

The rapid developments taking place in the world in the technological sphere led to the emergence of competition between organizations, which requires the use of modern management methods and tools to keep up with these developments and changes and that these developments came to meet the needs of management and customer satisfaction at the same time. These methods of continuous improvement of processes and equipment, materials and work methods and devices provide services that can only be done through the support of senior management. At the same time appeared a problem experienced by most Iraqi organizations namely the career plateau and its negative effects on performance. So the aim of research to answer the questions: Is there a moral connotation, positive impact of continuous improvement strategies on the plateau in the sample of the Iraqi Government and private banks? Is there a discrepancy in the views of employees in Government and private banks in determining the impact of continuous improvement on career plateau strategies?The research community may be of (100), (50) employees in State banks) and (50) employees of private banks, And statistical analysis adopted the use of discriminatory analytical test the impact of each variable of the independent variables is represented by continuous improvement in the approved functional plateau strategies variables. As well as the analysis of variance and regression and path analysis and the researched has reached to a group of the most important conclusions need banks to design career paths and identify those that benefit within the organizational structure. And among the most important recommendations: using strategies and policies that help people overcome their problems and attention to positive evaluations and reduce the desire to quit work and strengthening organizational loyalty to employees and use the transition strategy banks can reduce the negative effects of the plateau.