scholarly journals Socrates and Business Ethics. Considerations on the ethical origins of responsibility

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (8) ◽  
pp. 7-18
Author(s):  
Ewa Podrez
Keyword(s):  
Practical Wisdom ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
The Awakening ◽  
Global Responsibility ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Socratic Ethics

The presented work attempts to show a link between business and global responsibility, and the Socratic idea of self-knowledge. Today’s ethics discusses the fundamental issues of man’s place in the world. The human existence is one of the causes of the contemporary crisis. This crisis between man and the world obliges us to raise a radical question of the ethical origins of individual and global responsibility for the quality of life and the future of human generations. This question requires going back to the historical and ethical considerations about the Socratic project of the good life. The starting point for Socratic ethics is an inter-personal and inner-personal dialogue; the subsequent result is man’s practical wisdom of how to build his life with others. Socrates argues that the key issue of responsibility is the awakening of self-awareness and the way to achieve this objective is through dialogue.

scholarly journals Pakistan’s Economy: Potential and Challenges (Patron’s Address)

2000 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 287-292
Author(s):  
Shahid Amjad Chaudhry
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Water Systems ◽  
Indus Basin ◽  
Wheat Crop ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
The People ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World ◽  
Poverty Elimination

Mr President, Distinguished Delegates, Excellencies, Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen: Assalam-o-Alaikum. The Annual Conference of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists has traditionally provided the people of Pakistan—both practising economists and ordinary citizens—with a forum to debate in a rigorous analytical framework the major economic issues facing the country. In this context, the theme of the current conference “Growth, Poverty and Decentralisation” is particularly appropriate as Pakistan begins the 21st century. Many important issues will be discussed by the honourable participants during the Conference and an excellent start reflecting the quality of the debate has been made by the paper just presented by Dr Kemal. I, on my part, would like to take this opportunity to talk about Pakistan’s economy in an overall poverty elimination perspective and particularly the potential and challenges facing it in this regard. As a starting point, a summary of the potential of the Pakistan economy is in order. First, Pakistan is the home of the oldest and largest integrated land and water systems in the world. The world’s other old river basins—the Nile and the Tigris/Euphrates—have remained relatively minor, while Pakistan’s Indus Basin is still vital and robust. Last year, Pakistan’s record wheat crop again showed the world the potential of the Great Indus Food Machine.

THE REFLEXIVE COMPETENCE OF A FUTURE TEACHER: ESSENCE, STRUCTURE, LOGIC OF REFLEXIOGENESIS

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Zhelanova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Future Teacher ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Individual Student ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Higher Education Institution ◽  
Personal Quality ◽  
Self Knowledge

The article analyzes the reflective paradigm of education as a promising strategy for Ukrainian higher education reforming. Its mission, purpose, objectives, content, functions and criteria are disclosed. Proved the priorities of the reflexive education paradigm related to the reflexive competence formation of the personality, represented by a set of components, adequate to reflective activity. The structure of reflexive competence which contains motivational-value (motives, needs, personal interest, desire, tendency to engage in reflexive activity, approach to pedagogical reflection as a value); cognitive (system of reflexive knowledge, which is the theoretical basis of reflective competence and represent a system of concepts and ideas associated with self-knowledge, self-awareness, understanding and perception of the individual student, interaction with students); operational-activity (system of reflexive skills connected with self-knowledge and understanding of another, with self-assessment and evaluation of other people, with self-interpretation and interpretation of another, with analysis and development of pedagogical technologies) components, was grounded on the basis of structural-activity trait and types of reflection. According to the structure of reflexive competence, the criteria of its formation are defined (stimulating-axiological, cognitive, praxeological). Adjusted diagnostic toolkit containing standardized and proprietary methods. The genesis of the reflective competence of future teachers in the period of vocational training in higher education is revealed. The concept of “reflexiogenesis” as a process of gradual development of reflexive competence components in the direction of their complication and extension of the range of realization of different types of pedagogical reflection synthesized in contextual reflection is introduced into scientific circulation. Proved that the initial stage of formation of reflective competence (the first course of study at a higher education institution) associated with the formation of reflection not as a professional quality, but as a basic personal education; with in the next step (the second, the thirdcourse of study at a higher education institution), there is a formation of pedagogical reflection as a professional-personal quality of the teacher; in the process of educational and professional activity (the fourthcourse of study at a higher education institution) the formation of reflexive competence as a holistic, integrated professional-personal quality of the future teacher.

Towards Improved Music Recommendation

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-51
Author(s):  
Remco Snijders ◽  
Marco Spruit
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Perceived Quality ◽  
User Evaluation ◽  
Expert Interviews ◽  
Music Recommendation ◽  
Long Tail ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World

With the explosive growth of the World Wide Web and the rise of social media, new approaches in Music Recommendation evolve. The current study investigates how blogs and micro-blogs can improve the perceived quality of music recommendation. A literature review and expert interviews are conducted to identify important topics regarding (micro-) blogs and Music Recommendation. Subsequently, the prototype Songdice is built and tested in a user-evaluation. Songdice uses music blogs to recommend songs and rationalize those recommendations. The authors' results show that (micro-) blogs can improve the perceived quality of recommendations by creating trust, using personalization and exploiting the quality of music in the long tail. Additional research is required to determine the most effective way to use information from blogs and micro-blogs. The authors' research explores a new area in music recommendation literature and provides a starting point for further research concerning the combination of (micro-) blogs and music recommendation.

scholarly journals <i>Liber chronicarum</i>, <i>Carta marina</i> and other mappae mundi

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Beata Fijołek-Soska
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Cognitive Level ◽  
Old Maps ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World ◽  
Everyday Problems ◽  
Shed Light

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Published in 1493, <i>Liber chronicarum</i> by Hartmann Schedel contains one of the most unique maps of that period. It shows a pantheon of monsters who were believed to inhabit the lands at the edge of the world known to people back then. Olaus Magnus, author of <i>Carta marina</i>, which was printed in 1539, adorned the water areas on his map with a variety of sea creatures, from those posing as islands to mythical creatures, such as the unicorn or Charybdis. Both these maps originate in the medieval mappae mundi tradition &amp;ndash; illustrated compendia of the regions they present. A curious reader would perceive that they are heavily influenced by the works of antique and medieval cartographers: Pomponius Mela, Pilny the Elder, Bede the Venerable and Vincent of Beauvais. The phantasmagorical quality of the creatures on these maps is an interesting starting point from which to reflect on the following question: why, on a cognitive level, do these old maps &amp;ndash; just as in fairy tales about the unknown, the mysterious and the dangerous &amp;ndash; give their warnings in the metaphorical form of monsters? The similarity between mappae mundi and fairy tales is no accident. According to Marina Warner’s <i>Once upon a Time</i>, nannies told children fairy tales to familiarise them with everyday problems and dilemmas, to shed light on the complexities of interpersonal relations, and to explain the workings of the world.</p>

scholarly journals Widok z mojego okna na świat, który nas kształtuje – czytając książkę pod redakcją Teresy Sadoń-Osowieckiej „Miejsce, przestrzeń, krajobraz – edukacyjne znaki”

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-82
Author(s):  
Maria Groenwald
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Distance ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Will ◽  
Space Distance

As a starting point for the reconstruction of pictures of places of creation of the world’s concepts, the monograph edited by T. Sadoń-Osowiecka “Place, space, landscape – educational signs” was chosen. Analyses of the works published in it was carried out on the basis of: location of the observer in an educational space, distance in the study conducted, applied techniques of recording the picture, and the preferred temporal distance in the recording of a picture. The said analysis indicated the role played in the understanding of the world by an individual through: (a) one’s association with “places” which give the status of tamed space; (b) valid and methodologically proper recognition of reality ‘from near’ and ‘from afar’, and treatment of these perspectives as mutually complementary; (c) the will not to eliminate from the pictures of the world “its” gloomy elements: the problems of school: hard situations of socially and culturally excluded people; marginalised places; (d) readiness to bear responsibility for the quality of being “among” people and “for” them, for the present and future of the life of their world.

scholarly journals Peculiarities of Forming the Mindset Under Social Stigmatisation Conditions

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Fleitlikh ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Adjustment ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual

The relevance of the study of personal self-determination is evident in a changing society, as societal crises determine personal crises. Scientific publications demonstrate a tendency to increasingly operate such a construct as ‘mindset’, the essence of which is reduced to a view of reality based on the subjective experience of the individual. Researchers describe a process of active transformation of this construct under the influence of ideas of self-awareness. In this sense, mindset becomes one of main determinants of personal identity. The research question that became the starting point of the study concerns the role of the subjectively perceived environment in the experience of human psychological well-being. Correlation, variance and multiple regression analyses as well as mathematical statistics methods were used to process the data. As a result of the study, the assumption that there are statistically significant links between the level of stigmatisation assigned and quality of life in the world-image structure of transgender people was confirmed. The sources and forms of social support that emerged as leading for the study sample determine high levels of self-stig matisation. The more deeply stigmatising attitudes permeate the personality structure and are appropriated by the individual, the lower the transgender person’s assessment of their psychological well-being. People with different levels of self-stigmatisation experience only two criteria for psychological well-being differently, rather than all of its components. Stigmatisation impairs a transgender person’s social adjustment and leads to a decreased quality of life, linked, in our view, to the basic assumptions regarding security upon which the individual relies to shape the world.

scholarly journals Ethics or Quality of Life?

2021 ◽  
pp. 263-269
Author(s):  
Hubert Österle
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Ethical Guidelines ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Digital Services ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Digital Twins ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World

AbstractGovernmental and non-governmental organizations around the world are trying to shape socio-technical development, especially the use of information technology, for the benefit of people. They are developing ethical guidelines for the creation and evaluation of digital services. The discipline of Life Engineering must combine the knowledge of several disciplines, such as psychology, machine learning, economics, and ethics, so that technology serves people, i.e., contributes to well-being. Therefore, a solid understanding of quality of life should be the starting point, explaining the patterns of human behavior and their impact on well-being. Digital services of all kinds provide increasingly detailed digital twins and give us the opportunity to operationalize ethical principles.

Sustainable business-and-industry foodservice

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 648-669 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soyoung Kim ◽  
Jihyun Yoon ◽  
Joongwon Shin
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World

Purpose This study aimed to investigate consumers’ perception on sustainable business-and-industry (B&I) foodservice and their willingness to pay a premium for it. Design/methodology/approach An online survey was conducted. Among the 978 respondents, a total of 548 respondents who used B&I foodservice equal to or more than five times a month on an average were included for analyses. Findings The result revealed that consumers tended to perceive the concept of sustainability as “equivalent to (32 per cent) or beyond (28 per cent) being green or eco-friendly”. Consumers appeared to perceive the need for and the quality of sustainable B&I foodservice highly, but their awareness was comparatively low. Consumers’ awareness was significantly different across all demographic and food-related lifestyle variables. However, significant differences in the need and perceived quality were found only among food-related lifestyle variables. The result also indicated that 66 per cent of consumers were willing to pay a premium average of USD 0.72, 21 per cent of the reference meal price (USD 3.53) proposed in the survey. Consumers’ gender and eco-friendly dietary lifestyles were the significant determinants in predicting consumers’ willingness to pay a premium. Originality/value With concerns over environmental crisis, sustainable development has been a mainstream agenda across the world. However, the issue of sustainable development appears to be relatively overlooked in the field of foodservice research. This study is meaningful, in that it calls attention to the importance and potential of realizing sustainable foodservice and provides a starting point in relevant researches.

scholarly journals Herstory in Young Adult Fiction by Joanna Rudniańska Based on the Examples of „Rok Smoka” and „Kotka Brygidy”

2019 ◽  
pp. 301-325
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Slany
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Special Kind ◽  
Young Adult Fiction ◽  
Teenage Girls ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
The World ◽  
Detailed Interpretation

The paper discusses young adult fiction by Joanna Rudniańska, whose works belong to the stream of non-conformist coming-of-age novels marked by experiences of exclusively teenage girls/women, developing in Poland since the 1990s. Both Rok Smoka and Kotka Brygidy emphasise the personal quality of teenage girls and women, and present their fates with a particular consideration of their fairly individualised processes of maturation and intentional development of their identities. The author of this paper employs feminist methodologies to emphasise the ambivalent, borderline, and negative female experiences in the analysed texts. She offers a detailed interpretation of how the protagonists of the above-mentioned novels experience the world; she applies a metaphorical and fantastic perspective of telling herstories, while searching for matrilineal traces, the phenomenon of sisterhood, drastic rituals inscribed in the feminine domain, and the special kind of coming-of-age which constitutes the starting point for personal and subjective herstories.

scholarly journals Anomalous Self- and World Experiences in Depersonalization Traits: a Qualitative Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Ciaunica ◽  
Elizabeth Pienkos ◽  
Estelle Nakul ◽  
Luis Madeira ◽  
Harry Farmer
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Core Features

This paper proposes a qualitative study exploring anomalous self and world-experiences in individuals with high levels of depersonalization traits. Depersonalization (DP) is a condition characterized by distressing feelings of being a detached, neutral and disembodied onlooker of one’s mental and bodily processes or even of reality itself (‘derealization’). Feelings of depersonalization are extremely common in the general population, yet under-acknowledged and under-examined. Our findings indicate the presence of a wide range of anomalous experiences traditionally understood to be core features of depersonalization, such as disembodiment and disrupted self-awareness. However, our results also indicate experiential features that are less highlighted in previous work, such as faster time perception and blurriness of the self/other boundaries which may play a key role in altering one’s sense of self and sense of presence in the world. Our qualitative study provides an in-depth examination of self-reported disturbances of one’s relatedness to one’s self and the world, thereby shedding further light on the nature of altered subjective experiences in DP. In doing so, this paper draws attention to key aspects yet overlooked that may prove valuable for potential diagnosis and therapy. We conclude by highlighting limitations of this study and a number of open questions that further work needs to address in the future, in order to better understand this condition and to improve the quality of life of those experiencing depersonalization.

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