Primary Investigation into Management Ethical Thoughts by Lao Tzu

an investigation into translation of cultural concepts by beginner and advance student using think – aloud protocols

this research aims at answering the questions about translation problems and strategies applied by translators when translating cultural concepts. in order to address this issue, qualitative and quantitative study were conducted on two groups of subjects at imam reza international university of mashhad. these two groups were assigned as beginner and advanced translation students (10 students). ...

The Philosopher and the Sage: Plato and Lao-Tzu on Following the Way of Nature

*** Lao-Tzu, paradoxical poet-philosopher of the mysterious Tao, father of the mysticalmeditative philosophical religion of Taoism. Plato, mathematically-minded theorizer of Forms, father of Academic philosophy and Western rationalism. What could these two foundational thinkers of East and West possibly have in common? Quite a lot, as it turns out. As we shall see, for both Plato 1 and Lao-Tzu,...

Ethical System in Allāmah Ṭabāṭabāī’s Thoughts on Anthropological Foundations

The ethical system of every school of thought is influenced by the way in which it conceptualizes man, identity, and rationality. The definitions of man, happiness, virtue, good, and pleasure are directed by this way of thinking. Therefore, this research aims to introduce the ethical system established by Allāmah Ṭabāṭabāī in the light of his anthropological foundations. Adopting a descriptive-...

Translating Thoughts Into Actions by Finding Patterns in Brainwaves

Principal Components Analysis (PCA) is often used to project high-dimensional signals to lower dimensional subspaces defined by basis vectors that maximize the variance of the projected signals. Data containing variations of relatively short duration and small magnitude, such as those seen in EEG signals, may not be captured by PCA when applied to time series of long duration. Here, PCA is appl...

Some thoughts on ethical guidelines for the neurologically-impaired elderly.