More than 700 years ago, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) wrote an epic poem about a man's journey through the afterworlds of Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. In his Divine Comedy, he catalogued the vices and virtues of people who had passed into those spiritual domains, in part to provide a valuable insight to us, the living. Dante described hell as a very unhappy and inhospitable place that had differe...

al-ghazali was one of the islamic scholars who was concerned to revival of religious teachings. in ihya’ ‘ulum al-din, he tried to provide a pattern in this regard for the believers of his time. in this article, authors attempt to discuss effects of religiosity with emphasis on psychological views of al-ghazali. for this purpose, al-ghazali’s ideas which has been expressed in four parts of ihya...

The use of equilibrium models in economics springs from the desire for parsimonious models of economic phenomena that take human reasoning into account. This approach has been the cornerstone of modern economic theory. We explain why this is so, extolling the virtues of equilibrium theory; then we present a critique and describe why this approach is inherently limited, and why economics needs t...

This paper applies a virtue epistemology approach to using the Internet, as to improve our information-seeking behaviours. Virtue epistemology focusses on the cognitive character of agents and is less concerned with the nature of truth and epistemic justification as compared to traditional analytic epistemology. Due to this focus on cognitive character and agency, it is a fruitful but underexpl...

Abstract This paper, while not presenting a general discussion of authority in education, attempts to uncover some the anomalies, paradoxes and tensions concept. It will argue for revaluation as an educational virtue, form participatory guidance that is aid growth. The paper intends help provoke continued debate over our perceived virtues vices. I virtuous exercised from point view larger exper...

Abstract Education is astonishingly simple. We have all been through it, whether as children or later in life—indeed, many of us are still going it some form other; we know what works; and committed to realising its individual social potential. Such a view the matter might dispense with need for philosophy education altogether problems seen little more than puzzles be solved. (or think that kno...

northwestern.edu), and David Gal is Assistant Professor of Marketing (e-mail: [email protected]), Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. The authors thank Andrea Bonezzi, Aaron Brough, Pierre Chandon, Ryan Hamilton, and the anonymous JMR reviewers for their suggestions and comments. Ravi Dhar served as associate editor for this article. ALEXANDER CHERNEV and DAVID GAL*