Bu çalışmada İmam Mâtürîdî'nin kelam düşüncesinde ahlak anlayışı kelami bir çerçevede ele alınmaktadır. Ahlak ilmi tarihte felsefenin bir alt dalı olarak değerlendirilse de Kelam ilminin ahlak kapsamına giren bir takım konuları incelemesi ahlakın kelami bir bakış açısıyla ele al…
From the mid-nineteenth century, Britain experienced a ‘detective craze’ in popular culture. The girl detective emerged comparatively late in the first decade of the twentieth century. Despite the prominence and permeation of the girl detective in British experiences of girlhood…
This study concerns itself with the moral economy of history education, or a system of dissemination of values and moral sentiments within a national community through the teaching of history in schools. This system prescribes which emotions are the most appropriate to feel rega…
This thesis examines the deep interconnections between classical learning and modern international relations among three early-twentieth-century British internationalists, Gilbert Murray, Arnold J. Toynbee and Alfred Zimmern. These intellectuals began their careers as classical …
Within contemporary American political discourse, the right is understood as ‘owning’ morality, which allegedly confers a rhetorical and partisan power that the left lacks due to its religiously diverse and partly areligious constituency and unwillingness to make universal state…
Video games are increasingly becoming a part of people’s daily lives. More importantly, digital games have been increasingly built as products that challenge the player morally and ethically. Video games do not only demonstrate their moral and ethical influence, they also influe…
O paradigma atual da biologia da conservação reconhece a importância da inclusão da vertente das ciências sociais no planeamento, gestão e avaliação de medidas de conservação. A sua integração deixou de ser apenas um complemento e tornou-se numa componente vital de intervenções …
This study explores the events of the Dronfield school strike of 1914. In doing so it considers the personal experiences of those centrally involved and the impact of events on them. The core aim of the study is to consider how much the Dronfield events were initiated and driven…
The nature and limitations of human freedom have been discussed for millennia and continue to be widely and enthusiastically debated today. This is not surprising, as our sense of freedom is felt to be an essential part of what it is to be human and many fundamental issues, such…
Çalışma Türk düşüncesinin erken dönem eserlerinden olan Kutadgu Bilig ’de ahlak, ölüm ve ölümsüzlük arasında kurulan ilişkiyi incelemektedir. Kutadgu Bilig sahip olduğu zengin muhteva sayesinde birçok yönden incelenmeye muhtaçtır. Türk siyaset düşüncesi açısından kilit bir konum…
Ahlak, tarihi süreçte bütün toplumları ve fertleri ilgilendiren bir konu olmuştur. Bu tarihi süreç içerisinde ahlak anlayışlarının farklı olması, ahlak düşünürlerinin yaşadıkları zaman ve mekân, siyasi durum, bilgi kaynakları, dünya görüşleri, ilmi, fenni, örf ve adetlerinden ka…
The German-Jewish thinker Hannah Arendt is perhaps most famous for introducing the controversial phrase “the banality of evil” into moral discourse and for developing a conception of action that emphasizes participation in worldly affairs and respect for plurality. However, in t…
In five multi-method studies this dissertation examined how context based morality may explain increased incidence of combat related psychological difficulties among US service personnel. We were particularly interested in the relationship between causing harm to others and mora…
This dissertation explores the social and moral significance of the testimonies against war that were presented by US military veterans during Winter Soldier Iraq and Afghanistan (WSIA) in 2008. I examine how the frame and structure provided by the event organizers position the …
This study addresses the problem of whose interests the Micah story (Judg 17:6–18:31) serves, and finds that they are those of a morality teacher standing in the deuteronomic tradition. The Micah story is a morality tale that depicts the protagonists as idolatrous, immoral, fear…
The Social Life of ‘Conscience’: Rhetoric, Sacrifice and Community among Israeli Conscientious Objectors analyzes my long term ethnographic fieldwork with conscientious objectors as they realize, and live through, their refusal to serve in the Israeli Defense Forces. These consc…
This dissertation examines four eighteenth-century published travelogues by women and the ways in which the authors gain agency for their narratives. Chapter I considers the genre of the travelogue and the role of women writers within eighteenth-century culture. Examining women'…
The purpose of this investigation was to describe the perceived lived experience of moral distress among staff nurses who cared for medical/surgical telemetry patients whose health condition warranted no possible recovery and/or death was imminent. A phenomenological approach wa…
The American woman is the leader of the awakened social conscience in a country-wide crusade to build a better race, declared Progressive reformer Mabel Potter Daggett in 1912.\sp1 Between 1900 and 1960, this "country-wide crusade" to strengthen family and civilization by regula…