SOVIET HERITAGE AS ETHICAL IMPERATIVE FOR CONTEMPORARY LITHUANIAN ARCHITECTURE

Cultural Continuity as an Ethical Imperative Clifford

Mainstream Western ethics defines humans as rational beings. Ethics is a system of rules external to society and culture. Qualitative inquiry defines humans in holistic terms—as cultural beings, and cultures are value centered. The master norm for qualitative research, therefore, ought to be cultural continuity. Decisions for change are controlled by cultural groups themselves. Research ought t...

Richness in Architecture as Defined by Contemporary Iranian Television Series

Today, mass media act like a magic mirror, not only reflecting the reality of societies, but also projecting a variety of images onto people’s thoughts. Because of this great ability to produce, reproduce and disperse images, mass media have acquired considerable influence on people’s lives. Among the different media, the television in particular has become an inseparable part of most Iranian h...

Death competence: an ethical imperative.

The authors argued that death competence, defined as specialized skill in tolerating and managing clients' problems related to dying, death, and bereavement, is a necessary prerequisite for ethical practice in grief counseling. A selected review of the literature tracing the underpinnings of this concept reveals how a robust construct of death competence evolved. Using the vehicle of a case stu...

ISLAM AND CONTEMPORARY ETHICAL CHALLENGES

Contemporary Master’s Architecture: New Architectural Heritage. Approaches for Surveying and Representation

We are used to consider as architectural heritage that part of architecture belonging to “historical” periods and events. It is obvious that this classification, through the years, is always growing and the architecture “of interest” appears to be closer to our times. The different conception of architecture reflected in XX century’s buildings appears even through a different cognitive approach...