Repairing Character Traits and Repairing the Jews

2018 ◽  
pp. 15-42
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Claussen
Keyword(s):  
Character Traits ◽  
The World ◽  
Jewish School ◽  
Talmud Torah ◽  
German Universities

THE talmud torah in Kelm (Kelmė) was a yeshiva regarded by many of its students and admirers as offering a model of education that was unique in the world. Their pride in this model is well illustrated by the story that some told about a conference of German university chancellors at which one admitted that there was an important subject that was not taught in German universities: ‘the repair of human character traits’. In fact, the chancellor noted, the repair of human character traits was taught seriously in only one place in the whole world: at a Jewish school in the small Lithuanian town of Kelm....

scholarly journals American Soft Power Through Hollywood Superhero Movies: The Case of the Trilogy of Captain America

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Lalita Suwankaewmanee
Keyword(s):  
Soft Power ◽  
Careful Analysis ◽  
Character Traits ◽  
Military Power ◽  
Political Scientist ◽  
Captain America ◽  
American Values ◽  
The World

The Captain America trilogy exemplifies American ideals: individuality, democracy, liberty, equality, and patriotism through the life and identity of its protagonist Steve Rogers. From the blatant display of American cultures to American values to the artistic imitation of American policies, the Captain America trilogy incorporates all mentioned elements and presents the world the compelling stories where heroes are created, sacrifices are made, damages are done—all for the protection of humanity. As the curtain closes, superheroes always emerge as the saviors—to all. The assertion of power, as the trilogy demonstrates, is no longer through the brutal force of military power but wielded through soft power, namely culture, values, and policies. Only through careful analysis of the storyline, character traits, dialogues, and images, one may discover hidden messages in the art that imitates life. As stated by Joseph Nye (1990), a political scientist, “the best propaganda is not propaganda”.

Shaftesbury, Third Earl of (Anthony Ashley Cooper) (1671–1713)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David McNaughton
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Moral Sense ◽  
Character Traits ◽  
Happy Life ◽  
The World ◽  
Personal Qualities ◽  
Century Thought ◽  
Platonic Tradition

Shaftesbury, whose influence on eighteenth-century thought was enormous, was the last great representative of the Platonic tradition in England. He argued that by natural reason we can see that the world is an intelligible, harmonious system. In reflecting on our character traits we will inevitably approve of those which contribute to the good of humanity and of the whole system. These same personal qualities are also needed for a happy life, so virtue and happiness go hand in hand. Shaftesbury is often seen as the founder of the moral sense or ‘sentimentalist’ school in ethics, whose members held that morality was based on human feeling rather than on reason. Although leading sentimentalists, such as Hutcheson and Hume, made use of many of his ideas, Shaftesbury himself has more in common with the rationalists, who held that there are eternal moral truths which we can know by the use of reason.

Bad Faith and Character in Jonathan Webber’s Sartre

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-60
Author(s):  
Ronald E. Santoni
Keyword(s):  
Human Freedom ◽  
Character Trait ◽  
Character Traits ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Bad Faith ◽  
Traditional Account ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Human Reality ◽  
The Way

I have two aims: to analyze Jonathan Webber’s analysis of bad faith and compare it to my own, traditional, account and to show that Webber’s focus on character, as a set of dispositions or character traits that incline but do not determine us to view the world and behave in certain ways, contributes further to understanding Sartre’s ‘bad faith’. Most Sartre scholars have ignored any emphasis on ‘character’. What is distinctive and emphatic in Webber’s interpretation is his insistence ‘on bad faith’ as a ‘social disease’ distorting the way one views, interprets, and even thinks about the world. (Matt Eshleman also moves in this direction). But, again, this pattern is not deterministic. Early in his work, Webber tells us that Sartre does not claim that we have bad faith by ‘ascribing character traits where there are none but by pretending to ourselves that we have ‘fixed natures’ that e.g. preclude the behaviour or character trait of which one is being accused.Though hardly disagreeing radically with Webber (or he with me) I do offer critical considerations. While Webber focuses on character, I focus on Sartre’s contention that the ‘most basic’ or ‘first act’ of bad faith is ‘to flee from what [the human being] cannot flee, from what it is’, specifically human freedom. And I disagree partially with Webber’s articulation of the ‘spirit of seriousness’, and strongly with both Sartre’s and his supporting claim that bad faith cannot be cynical. I also demur from Webber’s overemphasis on the ‘social’. For me, the root of all bad faith is our primitive ontological condition; namely, that at its very ‘upsurge’, human reality, anguished by its ‘reflective apprehension’ of its freedom and lack of Being, is disposed to flee from its nothingness in pursuit of identity, substantiality - in short, Being.

Narrative Features of the Book of Revelation

2020 ◽  
pp. 35-52
Author(s):  
James L. Resseguie
Keyword(s):  
Character Traits ◽  
Book Of Revelation ◽  
People Of God ◽  
New Jerusalem ◽  
Promised Land ◽  
Road Signs ◽  
The People ◽  
The World

Four narrative features of the book of Revelation are the focus of this article: masterplot, characters and characterization, architectural and topographical settings, and numerical symbolism. Masterplots are skeletal stories belonging to cultures and individuals that clarify questions of identity, values, or the understanding of life. The masterplot of Revelation is a quest story of the people of God in search of the new promised land, the new Jerusalem. Characters either aid or hinder the questers’ sojourn. Hybrid characters, which blend character traits from the world below with characteristics of this world, or combine the human with the inhuman, underscore the dangers the exodus-people, the followers of the Lamb, encounter on their trek. Other characters—such as the angel of Rev 10—advance their quest with a MacGuffin. Architectural and topographical settings—such as Babylon, the new Jerusalem, the desert, and the sea—amplify peril and solace on the journey. Symbolic numbers are road signs that warn the exodus-people of dangers or proffer divine succor and protection.

Freedom Issues in Abay's Works

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (118) ◽  
pp. 54-63
Author(s):  
G.I. Nýsıpova ◽  
◽  
Á.E. Abýov ◽  
N.B. Mansurov ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Future Generation ◽  
Character Traits ◽  
Virtuous Person ◽  
Ethical Guidelines ◽  
Moral Improvement ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Moral Nature ◽  
Main Thing

The article considers the moral nature of the principle in the worldview of Abay Kunanbayev «Be a man!», which is a spiritual value of the Kazakh people. The author thoroughly analyzes the ethical guidelines and instructions of the poet, which indicate the path of humanity to the future generation. His universal advanced and ethical ideas of moral improvement, unity and peace, freedom, kindness, conscience, morality, kindness and justice, education, etc. are the main values that serve as an example for the modern generation. Based on the concept of the poet-thinker, which makes it clear that good character depends on reason and science, the article also reveals the fact that people have different character traits. And to achieve science, a special love is necessary, thanks to which the poet's creativity knows its Creator, the world around it. The authors note that the five pillars of Abay Kunanbayev's creativity are the manifestation of human self-improvement, the formation of a good character, the formation of a healthy and virtuous person who meets the needs of the time. The main thing is that the poet assumes the freedom of the future of the nation in the formation of the spiritual essence of the people.

scholarly journals Features of Linguistic and Cultural Type “Bureaucrat”: Compatibility of Adjective bureaucratic

2020 ◽  
pp. 9-23
Author(s):  
S. A. Anokhina ◽  
N. V. Pozdnyakova
Keyword(s):  
Russian Language ◽  
Character Traits ◽  
Russian History ◽  
Cultural Character ◽  
The Past ◽  
Character Type ◽  
The World ◽  
Russian Linguistic ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
National Corpus

The article is devoted to the analysis of the linguistic and cultural type “Russian bureaucrat”. The compatibility of the adjective bureaucratic is investigated according to the texts of the XIX - XXI centuries included in the National corpus of the Russian language. The novelty of the study is that to describe the character traits of the linguocultural type “Russian bureaucrat”, the authors refer to the compatibility of an adjective derived from the character type. It is noted that the connotative component in the meaning of the adjective determines an almost exclusively negative interpretation of the image: the pejorative component of the value determines the compatibility of the studied adjective with the designations of negative qualities. The authors dwell on the ideas that have developed in the Russian linguistic consciousness about the character of the Russian bureaucrat, and trace their transformations over two centuries. The analysis of the compatibility of the adjective showed that the linguistic and cultural character “Russian bureaucrat” is characterized by indifference, ignorance, cowardice, arrogance, insincerity. The authors of the article conclude that in the Russian language picture of the world indifference and cowardice are attributed to bureaucrats of different periods of Russian history, while ostentatious arrogance is noted mainly in the descriptions of officials of the past, and markers of ignorance and insincerity are more frequent in the characteristics of modern officials.

The problem of research on the socio-psychological characteristics of persons who have committed serious and heinous crimes of violence for ideological reasons

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 249-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.G. Stadnikov ◽  
A.A. Scheglov
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Hate Crimes ◽  
Psychological Characteristics ◽  
Character Traits ◽  
Psychological Traits ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Incentive Effects ◽  
The World

The article presents the results of a content analysis of the interviews of participants of radical nationalist groups who committed serious and heinous crimes of violence motivated by racial and religious hatred and enmity ("hate crimes"). The study involved 20 people aged 18 to 30 years. As the results of the interview, the subjects demonstrated the need for "black and white" perception of the world in which there is necessarily an image of an enemy to be destroyed. This makes them particularly susceptible to the incentive effects of extremist communications. We showed very similar socio-demographic and socio-psychological characteristics in respondents which suggest the presence of a common set of character traits that form a stable syndrome. We highlighted the socio-demographic and socio-psychological traits of individuals who are prone to commit "hate crimes".

The Virtues of Sustainability

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Character Traits ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Excessive Consumption ◽  
Ways Of Life

With a growing recognition of the potentially catastrophic impacts of human actions on current and future generations, people around the world are urgently seeking new, sustainable ways of life for themselves and their communities. What do these calls for a sustainable future mean for our current values and ways of life, and what kind of people will we need to become? Approaches to ethical living that emphasize good character and virtue are recently resurgent, and they are especially well-suited to addressing the challenges we face in pursuing sustainability. From rethinking excessive consumption, to appropriately respecting nature, to being resilient in the face of environmental injustice, our characters will be frequently tested. The virtues of sustainability—character traits enabling us to lead sustainable, flourishing lives—will be critical to our success. This volume, divided into three parts, brings together newly commissioned essays by leading scholars from multiple disciplines—from philosophy and political science, to religious studies and psychology. The essays in the first part focus on key factors and structures that support the cultivation of the virtues of sustainability, while those in the second focus in particular on virtues embraced by various non-Western communities and cultures, and the worldviews that underlie them. Finally, the essays in the third part address further particular virtues of sustainability, including cooperativeness, patience, conscientiousness, and creativity and open-mindedness. Together, these essays provide readers with a rich understanding of the importance and diversity of the virtues of sustainability.

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