ʿAyn al-Quḍāt on Chivalry

Moral Chivalry

Moral perceptions of harm and fairness are instrumental in guiding how an individual navigates moral challenges. Classic research documents that the gender of a target can affect how people deploy these perceptions of harm and fairness. Across multiple studies, we explore the effect of an individual's moral orientations (their considerations of harm and justice) and a target's gender on altruis...

The “True” Romantic: Benevolent Sexism and Paternalistic Chivalry

The Representation of Chivalry in The Knight's Tale

The purpose of this paper is to determine to what exíent the contemporaneous state of chivalry has influenced Chaucer's Knight in his literary endeavor. First I analyze the Knight's personality, which evinces his militant and nonconformist nature: as opposed to the majority of knights, Chaucer's Knight, in an attempt to uphold the ideal of chivalry, is engaged in religious campaigns, while he r...

RAZI AND HIS BOOK ON AL-TIN AL NISHABURI

RAZI AND HIS BOOK ON AL- TIN AL NISHABURI