How Lives Form Leaders: Plutarch’s Tripartite Theory of Leadership Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-302
Author(s):  
Michael E. Promisel
Keyword(s):  
Public Life ◽  
Moral Character ◽  
Leadership Education ◽  
The Third ◽  
Parallel Lives ◽  
Leadership Instruction

Abstract Plutarch’s Parallel Lives was once considered a preeminent source of ethical and leadership instruction. But despite generations turning to the Lives for leadership education, we lack clarity concerning how the Lives cultivate leadership. In fact, Plutarch offers the key to this puzzle in a tripartite theory of leadership education evident throughout his corpus. Leaders should be educated through: 1) philosophical instruction, 2) experience in public life, or 3) literary synthesis – and, ideally, some combination of all three. Plutarch’s Lives, this article contends, exemplifies the third form of education, literary synthesis, which exhibits the influence of philosophical principle and moral character on political conduct. Understanding the Lives as a model of literary leadership education reveals the conditions for written works to cultivate virtuous leaders – the closing consideration of this article.

scholarly journals True Grid: Three Case Studies of Moral Accounting

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-330
Author(s):  
Harro Maas
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Moral Character ◽  
Broad Definition ◽  
The Third ◽  
Moral Improvement ◽  
Moral Conduct ◽  
Late Ming ◽  
First Case ◽  
Adult Lives ◽  
Definition Of

Abstract This article examines and compares three grids that were designed to serve explicit moral accounting goals: the calculation and improvement of character. The examples are tables which fall under a broad definition of diagrams. The examples follow another in time, but it is not the article’s intention to suggest a historical lineage between them. Rather, it is the intention to clarify the interplay between grids and the precepts or keys to their use. The first case is the so-called ledger of merit and demerit that was propagated by Yuan Huang, a scholar and bureaucrat of the late Ming-period, who recommended its use for moral improvement in four letters to his son, of which the most famous letter was on the improvement of one’s own fate. The second is Benjamin Franklin’s Art of Virtue, which Franklin in his autobiographical letter to his son equally described as a tool of moral improvement. The third is the so-called moral thermometer, or biometer, a tool developed by the French revolutionary and pedagogical innovator Marc-Antoine Jullien, who described this tool as a moral mirror and compass that would be especially of use in preparing and educating adolescents for their adult lives. All three represent generic methods of producing knowledge about an individual’s (moral) character, knowledge on which the users of these tables could act. Their differences have to do with the perceived relation of moral conduct to other spheres of life, religious, social, and economic, or all of these combined, but also with the different precepts to their use.

scholarly journals Selection of mother tongue on ethnic Osing family (Sociolinguistic and ethnographic communication studies)

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-78
Author(s):  
Memmy Dwi Jayanti
Keyword(s):  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Rural Districts ◽  
The Third ◽  
Language Selection ◽  
Education And Employment ◽  
The Village ◽  
Descriptive Method ◽  
Selection Of

The purpose of this study to describe the language selection mom used ethnic Osing Giri in the distric, the village of Penataban, Banyuwangi-East Java. The language used is the language communities in Banyuwangi Osing, Java, and Madura for the third ethnic coexistence. Womg Osing or Lare Osing is a native of Banyuwangi, Osing language is a direct descendant of the ancient Javanese language yet very different dialect. The method used is descriptive method of providing data refer capably involved (SLC), consider ably involved free (SBLC), and interview. The results showed that the choice of language on ethnic family Osing Indonesian in there is an influence in terms of education and employment. Indonesia introduced the use of language in children is the language used in everyday family. Such circumstances indicate that the Indonesian experience growth in public life, expecially in rural districts Penataban Giri, Banyuwangi

scholarly journals The Hour of Jesus and the Wedding Feast at Cana (John 2:1-11)

Verbum Vitae ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernadeta Jojko
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Public Life ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The Third ◽  
Son Of Man ◽  
The Cross

The leading theme of this article is the enigmatic “hour” as revealed in the account at Cana (2:1-11). Jesus’ words to his mother, οὔπω ἥκει ἡ ὥρα μου (2:4), are considered obscure and difficult to interpret, causing an intriguing and unresolved controversy within Johannine scholarship. Most exegetes agree that this phrase is to be taken as a denial. According to them, Jesus announces that his hour has not yet come, because this “hour” is bound to the hour when “the Son of Man is glorified”, alluding to his being lifted up on the Cross and raised up “on the third day”. However, there is another solution suggested by a significant number of scholars. They propose reading Jesus’ words οὔπω ἥκει ἡ ὥρα μου as a question, which better guarantees the overall coherence of the story in light of the wider OT context. This interpretation focuses specifically on the temporal indication of “the third day”, the biblical image of the wedding, and the abundance and high quality of the wine, a beginning of signs and of the revelation of Jesus’ glory which serve to stimulate the faith of his disciples. In this view, this multiplicity of themes indicates that the meaning of the “hour” lies in the motif of fulfillment. Jesus is the Messiah who brings to perfection all that has been foretold in Scripture. His “hour” begins “now” and continues throughout his public life until it reaches its ultimate fulfillment in the glory of his Cross and Resurrection. The present article is focused, therefore, on investigating the interrelations among the main biblical themes brought to the fore in the Cana narrative, and their meanings in relation to the “hour” of Jesus.

Biographical Monuments

2020 ◽  
pp. 461-476
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Frood
Keyword(s):  
Moral Character ◽  
Ancient Egypt ◽  
Stone Monuments ◽  
The Third ◽  
Its Analysis ◽  
Third Millennium ◽  
Set Up

This chapter surveys the genre normally referred to by Egyptologists as ‘biography’ or ‘autobiography’, comprising texts, often inscribed on stone monuments, which recount, in various forms, events in a non-royal person’s life and/or aspects of their moral character. Such biographies are attested from the third millennium bc to Roman times, making them one of the longest-lived and most characteristic textual genres known from ancient Egypt. The chapter begins by briefly summarizing issues surrounding the genre’s definition, as well as the range of approaches taken by Egyptologists to its analysis. An overview of the display contexts for biography is then given, ranging across the walls of tomb-chapels to the bodies of stone statues set up in temples. The discussion deploys a broadly chronological structure in order to give a sense of development and scope. Some potential analytical implications of these contexts are highlighted, for example around performance and audience. The final discussion centres on features of content; these texts were products of a predominantly elite male world so, unsurprisingly, are usually highly idealizing presentations of character and action. The genre’s richness and diversity in terms of themes and expression within this framework is highlighted.

2002 Draft III: Judiciary, Rights and Substantive Provisions

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Elliot Bulmer
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Judicial Review ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Economic Rights ◽  
The Third ◽  
Constitutional Level ◽  
The World ◽  
State Relations

This chapter, the third of three chapters examining the SNP’s 2002 constitutional text, addresses the judiciary, rights, and substantive provisions of the constitution. As well as examining provisions relating to the appointment and tenure of judges and the processes of judicial review, this chapter includes the draft constitution’s treatment of: nationalism and national identity, statehood, citizenship, religion-state relations, socio-economic rights, ‘fourth branch’ institutions, standards in public life, and local government. It argues that the draft constitution, as a supreme and rigid constitution enforced by judicial review, might be radical and contentious in a UK context, but would be a tried and tested model in the rest of the world, including in most other Westminster-derived polities. It also argues that the text envisages a ‘liberal-procedural’ constitution, in which the constitution acts as a relatively non-prescriptive framework for the conduct of democratic politics, allowing many unsettled issues of identity to be resolved at the sub-constitutional level.

Soteriology, Debt, and Faithful Witness: Four Theses for a Political Theology of Economic Democracy

2016 ◽  
Vol 98 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-89
Author(s):  
Luke Bretherton
Keyword(s):  
Political Theology ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Democratic Citizenship ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
Economic Democracy ◽  
Common Life ◽  
The Third ◽  
Finance Capitalism ◽  
Contemporary Context ◽  
Do So

The essay seeks to understand what is theologically at stake when challenging the power of money in shaping our common life. To do so it sets out four theses, with commentary, that are suggestive of how we might go about generating a critically constructive and theologically attuned vision of an earthly oikonomia within the contemporary context. The first thesis is that envisioning a contemporary economics of mutual and ecological flourishing necessitates teasing out how Christian doctrines of God and soteriology legitimate oppressive conceptions of debt, and, at the same time, can help dismantle capitalism as an all-encompassing social imaginary to which there is no alternative. The second thesis is that as part of reenvisioning contemporary soteriology we must reengage with scriptural, patristic, scholastic, and medieval rabbinic and Islamic conceptions of property, debt, and usury in order to generate robust theological frameworks through which to analyze finance capitalism and the forms of domination it produces. The third thesis is that a vision for a common life must move beyond notions of recognition and redistribution as the basis for a just public life. And the last thesis is that we need to recover a consociational vision of democratic citizenship and a commitment to economic democracy.

Uncivil Mirth

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross Carroll
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
David Hume ◽  
Moral Panic ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Mary Wollstonecraft ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Religious Toleration ◽  
Age Of Reason ◽  
The Third ◽  
Patriarchal Power

The relaxing of censorship in Britain at the turn of the eighteenth-century led to an explosion of satires, caricatures, and comic hoaxes. This new vogue for ridicule unleashed moral panic and prompted warnings that it would corrupt public debate. But ridicule also had vocal defenders who saw it as a means to expose hypocrisy, unsettle the arrogant, and deflate the powerful. This book examines how leading thinkers of the period searched for a humane form of ridicule, one that served the causes of religious toleration, the abolition of the slave trade, and the dismantling of patriarchal power. It brings to life a tumultuous age in which the place of ridicule in public life was subjected to unparalleled scrutiny. It shows how the Third Earl of Shaftesbury, far from accepting ridicule as an unfortunate byproduct of free public debate, refashioned it into a check on pretension and authority. The book examines how David Hume, Mary Wollstonecraft, and others who came after Shaftesbury debated the value of ridicule in the fight against intolerance, fanaticism, and hubris. Casting Enlightenment Britain in an entirely new light, the book demonstrates how the Age of Reason was also an Age of Ridicule, and speaks to our current anxieties about the lack of civility in public debate.

Evo Morales, the ‘Two Bolivias’ and the Third Bolivian Revolution

2007 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAMES DUNKERLEY
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
Recent Experience ◽  
Recent Period ◽  
The Third ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Made In

This essay, written in September 2006, considers the first months of the MAS government headed by Evo Morales in the light of the virtually constant political crisis in Bolivia since 2000. The first part asks why the turbulent course of public life in Bolivia has proved so difficult to explain. It seeks to show that the recent period has been depicted in rather narrow interpretations that stress institutional failings, poverty and oppression, or civic heroism, but do not try to find the linkages between these phenomena. The second section proposes an alternative approach, treating the recent experience of conflict as a revolutionary episode in which the idea of ‘Two Bolivias’ needs to be qualified by appreciation of past revolutionary experiences. The final sections suggest that the ardour and complexities of the current conflict might seem more comprehensible if the MAS and its supporters are viewed as essentially plebeian in both condition and ideological disposition. Such a classical and early modern allusion provides a fuller analytical palate for understanding the current conjuncture and the socio-political propositions being made in a ‘semi-modern’ environment.

scholarly journals Islam and the Three Waves of Globalisation: The Southeast Asian Experience

ICR Journal ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 666-684
Author(s):  
Osman Bakar
Keyword(s):  
Eleventh Century ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Third ◽  
Indonesian Archipelago ◽  
History Of ◽  
Second Wave

This article is intended to comment on the civilisational history of Islam in Southeast Asia. The history is explained and accounted for in terms of the three major waves of globalisation that have impacted the region since the arrival of Islam as early as the eleventh century. The first wave, itself initiated and dominated by Islam, was responsible for the introduction and establishment of Islam in the region to the point of becoming its most dominant civilisation. The expansion of Islam and its civilisation was in progress when the second wave hit the shores of the Malay-Indonesian Archipelago with the arrival of the Portuguese and other Western powers resulting in the colonisation of the region. The third wave, an American-dominated one, manifests itself in the post-colonial period which witnesses Southeast Asian Islam reasserting itself in various domains of public life. The author sees Southeast Asian Islam as the historical product of centuries-long civilisational encounters with the pre-Islamic indigenous cultures and civilisations and later between ‘Malay-Indonesian Islam’ and the newly arriving religions and cultures brought by both the colonial and post-colonial West, arguing that Islam in the region has been significantly impacted by each of the three waves.

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