Abstract This article aims to dissect the nature of exemplarity in Italian Fascism. The social and political structures that emerged Fascist Italy were highly reliant on a sense morality, largely because degree violence inherent those structures. Under Fascism, morality was founded concrete examples rather than abstract principles. Exemplars idealized sources moral strength, figures with capaci...

Unlike bioethicists who contend that there is a morality common to all, H. Tristan Engelhardt (1996) argues that, in a pluralistic secular society, any morality that does exist is loosely connected, lacks substantive moral content, is based on the principle of permission and, thus, is a morality between moral strangers. This, says Engelhardt, stands in contrast to a substance-full morality that...

Current research paper performs focused textual analysis of themes and characters the novel The Picture Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde intertwining study with pertinent references to details author’s biography thus providing essential critical insights. Peculiarity lays it considering encompass two distinct juxtaposed genres: an autobiography (decadent values) a parable (moral values). By synthetic...

A distinction is made between two forms of morality on the basis of approach-avoidance differences in self-regulation. Prescriptive morality is sensitive to positive outcomes, activation-based, and focused on what we should do. Proscriptive morality is sensitive to negative outcomes, inhibition-based, and focused on what we should not do. Seven studies profile these two faces of morality, suppo...

No-fault statutes changed divorce from an adversarial system pitting victims against victimizers, with the state acting as enforcer of marital norms, to a private decision between unhappily married but legally blameless partners. Divorce reform following no-fault primarily focused on making divorce more fair for the parties involved. Over the last several decades, divorce reform has transitione...

This research examines how (a) person information (morality vs. competence and positive vs. negative information) and (b) perceiver differences (prosocials vs. proselfs) influence active (Study 1) and more passive (Study 2) forms of information selection in impression formation. Consistent with the moralityimportance hypothesis, the majority of participants first searched for morality informati...