This article explores three core elements of citizenship – right, responsibility, and act their implications for the rise Confucian activists in revival education present-day China. Adopting an empirical research approach, author draws from two sets resources: public speeches by a leader contemporary classical education, interviews with teachers parents at school. A critical discourse analysis ...

This paper seeks to investigate the phenomenon of Livonian werewolves from early modern era (1500-1700s). Noting their uniqueness in comparison contemporaneous hailing other geographic areas, suggests that werewolf is a metaphor for society at time, one which was characterized by social turmoil and strict class hierarchy. utilized different classes establish own interests society, thus conclude...

Research on ethical leadership in organizations has been largely based Western philosophical traditions and tended to focus corporate experiences. Insights gained from such studies may however not be universally applicable other cultural contexts. This paper examines the normative grounds for an alternative Confucian virtue-based ethics of China. As with corporations, organizational practices C...

as shiites we must know our imams. by understanding their deeds under different  conditions, we can modify our behavior to match theirs. by following their example we can be sure of the righteousness of our deeds and can promulgate their way of life in our social lives. among our imams, because of special period of time, imam ali and imam hossein (peace be upon them) are distinguished. their fo...

the word veil has different meanings in the locution including the curtain, delimiter, barrier, and being covered by the clothes, and in the specialized meaning of the word, it is a special covering, which covers the women’s head, neck and their bodies’ protuberances and also covers her jewelries according to the islamic standards; it a matter which emphasizes the consolidation of chastity, the...

This essay briefly evaluates the ongoing controversy between LIU Qingping and GUO Qiyong (and their followers) about the “moral heart” of Confucianism in order to draw a comparison with Islamic ethics for mutual illumination of the two traditions (see Guo 2007: 21). Liu argues that Confucianism is basically consanguinism and, as such, it lands into an “embarrassing paradox” in its moral thinkin...

Abstract The assassination of the dictator Park Chung Hee by his intelligence chief Kim Chae-gyu was a momentous events in South Korean history, which garnered two feature-length filmic depictions released fifteen years apart first decades twenty-first century. President's Last Bang , 2005, an irreverent black comedy all those involved that fateful evening were villains their own right. Man Sta...