We propose that social psychological findings on the intuitive bases of moral judgment have broad implications for moral education. The “five foundations theory of intuitive ethics” is applied to explain a longstanding rift in moral education as an ideological disagreement about which moral intuitions should be endorsed and cultivated. The Kohlbergian moral reasoning side has sought to limit th...

T h e Lysenko case has become a symbol of the ideological dictate in science and its damaging consequences. It is often explained that in the years following World War 11, the Stalinist leadership launched an ideological and nationalistic campaign aimed at the creation of a Marxist-Leninist and/or distinctively Russian, non-Western science. Concepts and theories which were found idealistic or b...

Adopting a historical perspective, this paper examines the ideological and philosophical antecedents of current popular management approaches which advocate programs of workplace empowerment that are enacted through the implementation of teamwork. These approaches frequently assume that a propensity toward teamwork is an essential characteristic of ‘human nature’. It is argued that this is an i...

The paper presents two studies on vagueness in political discourse. The first is a qualitative analysis of the commonsense definition of vagueness and related notions in political discourse. Participants were submitted two fragments of real political argumentations and a questionnaire asking to rate them as to vagueness, sincerity, persuasiveness and other criteria. They showed that two aspects...

According to attitudinal theorists, justices on the U. S. Supreme Court decide cases largely on political preferences that fall within one dimension of ideology. The focus of this study is to test whether a unidimensional ideological model explains the voting behavior of Canadian Supreme Court justices (1992-1997). The factor analysis results in three areas of law, two of which have never been ...

This paper aims to investigate the challenges civil society organizations are facing in Algeria, with a special focus on tourism development. On basis of stakeholder approach and Gramscian notion as field ideological competition, study investigates main features associations along obstacles hindering their proper performance. The backbone is formed by detailed qualitative investigation that inc...

The flavor du jour in discussions of Islamic terrorism features a de-emphasis on the ideological component, drawing instead upon epidemiological and criminological concepts; approaching Mexican drug gangs and Islamic extremists as being more similar than they are different. This aids a network scrutiny and suggests buy-out rather than ideological deradicalization. Such new abandonments of the i...

Do legislators remain at one point on the ideological spectrum for their entire careers, or do they update their ideological positions in response to the demands of constituents? Although theories of the electoral connection predict that legislators should adapt to voter demands, most empirical studies instead show that they maintain consistent positions in the face of changing political condit...

Women's involvement in terrorism activities has increased over the past 10 years. The role of women, which was initially as supporters acts terrorism, transformed into perpetrators terrorism. This article focuses on factors women's well peace building actions to overcome it. research is a literature using an interdisciplinary approach. study concludes that not only name religion, but also due v...

one of the remarkable concerns of existing thinkers in the field of philosophy of religion is question of philosophical and epistemological approach to ideological movements. moreover, they explain their position toward reason and its epistemological value. the epistemological importance of this issue is because of its assumptions like: relation and situation of “narration and reason”, “revelat...