scholarly journals Chinese Philosophy of Life, Relational Ethics and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Asian Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-340
Author(s):  
Jana S. Rošker
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Philosophy ◽  
Social Ethics ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Relational Ethics ◽  
Ethical Theories ◽  
Philosophy Of Life ◽  
Solution Strategies ◽  
Intercultural Interactions ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
New Strategies

This paper investigates the relation between different models of ethics and their impact upon crises solution strategies. Because COVID-19 is a global-scale crisis, it has to be solved on the global level. In this framework, it is important to consider knowledge and ethical theories from different cultures. The paper outlines some theoretical groundworks for alternative models of social ethics from the perspective of traditional Chinese, particularly Confucian, philosophies. Among other issues, this perspective is meaningful because in the Sinitic areas the pandemic has so far been brought under control much quicker and more effectively than in other regions of the world. First, the paper introduces the Chinese philosophy of life and highlights its current relevance; then, it presents traditional Chinese models of relational and anti-essentialist concepts of the self and investigates their impact to the Confucian models of social ethics. On this basis, it illuminates some new ways of understanding interpersonal and intercultural interactions that might help us develop new strategies against current and future pandemics.

Feng Youlan and Greek Philosophy

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 55-73
Author(s):  
Jiyuan Yu
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Philosophy ◽  
Greek Philosophy ◽  
Philosophical Thought ◽  
Philosophy Of Life

The article is to examine Feng Youlan’s views about the differences and similarities between Chinese and Greek philosophy, to show the role of Greek philosophy in his effort to establish the study of Chinese philosophical thought as a modern discipline. It starts with a discussion of how Feng argues for what he thinks to be the two major features of Chinese philosophy: (a) China is weak in metaphysics/epistemology, and (b) Chinese philosophy concentrates on the philosophy of life. It proceeds to examine to what extent they are really in contrast to Greek philosophy, and it ends up with a reconsideration of the relation of these two features.

Durkheim, Tarde and beyond

2002 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Karstedt
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Epistemic Communities ◽  
Loosely Coupled ◽  
Criminal Justice Systems ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
New Strategies ◽  
Institutional Regimes

Exchange, transport and import of crime policies takes place on a global scale. New strategies of crime prevention, models of institutions and interventions rapidly spread around the globe. Knowledge is increasingly shared among the `epistemic communities' of criminologists, and criminal justice and policing experts and practitioners. Notwithstanding the global scale of exchange, criminal justice systems and policies are definitely local, and embedded in traditions, culture and the particular institutional regimes of national states. This article explores how crime policies travel within a globalized world of nonetheless local legal and institutional cultures, and how we can conceptualize the routes of travelling they take. The article starts by analysing what exactly travels when crime policies are `en route'. Next, overarching concepts and convergence theories, which have played such a decisive role in analysing the globalization of crime policies are discussed. These are contrasted with loosely coupled concepts like actors, mechanisms and principles, following suggestions by Braithwaite and Drahos (2000). `Modelling' seems to be a mechanism that is most useful in describing present exchange and transport of crime polices.

scholarly journals Tragedy and the Tragic: A Study of Ernst Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms and Naguib Mahfouz’s The Beginning and the End

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Rania Khelifa Chelihi ◽  
Mohd Nazri Latiff Azmi ◽  
Hardev Kaur ◽  
Ayaicha Somia
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Moral Dilemmas ◽  
Arabic Literature ◽  
Philosophy Of Life ◽  
Tragic Vision ◽  
Personal Philosophy ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Farewell To Arms ◽  
Naguib Mahfouz

This paper is a comparative study between Ernst Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms and Naguib Mahfouz’s The Beginning and the End, paralleled with the authors’ concepts of tragic vision; based on the development of the theory of tragedy from Aristotle to Hegel as well as the personal philosophy of life as tragedy of both authors. Based on the researcher knowledge, tragedy concept in the selected novels is rarely and insufficiently highlighted by few scholars and critics. Moreover, it is a comparison of novels from different cultures—Arabic literature and literature in English—in order to bridge the gap between them. The novels are stories where every day moral dilemmas often present profound paradoxes with which heroes and heroines must deal. Tragedy, in the same vein, is such a paradoxical story where we have to deal at any rate with our everyday moral dilemmas, where we are sometimes called upon to make difficult choices not between right and wrong, but between what we might define as two rights. Hegelian concept of tragedy focused on dissension and war of dichotomies between good and bad, as well as what is right and what is wrong. The tragic elements in the two novels make them Hegelian tragedies par excellence.

Cross-Cultural and Intercultural Pragmatics

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Istvan Kecskes
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Common Language ◽  
Communicative Process ◽  
First Languages ◽  
Intercultural Pragmatics ◽  
Intercultural Interactions ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Cultural Pragmatics

This chapter discusses the differences between cross-cultural and intercultural pragmatics. While cross-cultural pragmatics compares different cultures, based on the investigation of certain aspects of language use, such as speech acts, behaviour patterns, and language behaviour, intercultural pragmatics focuses on intercultural interactions and investigates the nature of the communicative process among people from different cultures, speaking different first languages. Cross-cultural pragmatics analyses the differences and similarities in the language behaviour of people representing different languages and cultures. Intercultural pragmatics, however—a relatively new discipline—is interested in what happens when representatives of different first languages and cultures communicate using a common language.

Dynamics of Human Resource Strategies and Cultural Orientations in Multinational Corporations

2019 ◽  
pp. 80-99
Author(s):  
Isaac Idowu Abe ◽  
Ethel N. Abe
Keyword(s):  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Return On Investment ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Cultural Adaptations ◽  
Legal Obligations ◽  
Cultural Orientations ◽  
Market Opportunities ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
New Strategies

The search for new market opportunities in order to expand operations has been on the increase globally, and organizations are progressively pouring their resources into these expansions probably because of the huge turnover and return on investment derived from new market explorations. Multinational corporations (MNCs) that seek the market expansions in other developing countries transfer specific advantages and benefits to the emerging markets in order to operate effectively. The MNCs are required by law to comply with the legal obligations, local regulations, and cultural adaptations in the bid to transfer specific advantages. The situation becomes more complex because of the different cultures in different countries. New strategies are introduced to resolve the new challenges that each new market entrance offers. These strategies pose tremendous risk to expanding markets and their operations, especially to developing markets. Recommendations are suggested to HRM practitioners and scholars, and issues are considers for future research.

scholarly journals Intercultural dialogues in times of global pandemics: The Confucian ethics of relations and social organization in Sinic societies

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 206-216
Author(s):  
Jana S. Rošker
Keyword(s):  
East Asian ◽  
Social Ethics ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Confucian Ethics ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Global Ethics ◽  
Crisis Resolution ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Traditions

Abstract Since COVID-19 is a global-scale pandemic, it can only be solved on the global level. In this context, intercultural dialogues are of utmost importance. Indeed, different models of traditional ethics might be of assistance in constructing a new, global ethics that could help us confront the present predicament and prepare for other possible global crises that might await us in the future. The explosive, pandemic spread of COVID-19 in 2020 clearly demonstrated that in general, one of the most effective tools for containment of the epidemics is precisely human and interpersonal solidarity, which must also be accompanied by a certain degree of autonomous self-discipline. The present paper follows the presumption that these types of personal and interpersonal attitudes are—inter alia— culturally conditioned and hence influenced by different traditional models of social ethics. In light of the fact that East-Asian or Sinic societies were more successful and effective in the process of containing and eliminating the virus compared to the strategies of the Euro-American regions, I will first question the widespread assumption that this effectiveness is linked to the authoritarian political traditions of the Sinic East and Southeast Asian areas. Then, I will critically introduce the Confucian ethics of relations, which in various ways has influenced the social structures of these regions, and clarify the question of whether and in which way the relics of this ethics had an actual effect on the crisis resolution measurements. The crucial aim of this paper is to contribute to the construction of theoretical groundworks for a new, transculturally grounded global ethics, which is more needed today than ever before.

scholarly journals Quantifying Airborne Dispersal Route of Corynespora cassiicola in Greenhouses

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qian Zhao ◽  
Yanxia Shi ◽  
Yuhong Wang ◽  
Xuewen Xie ◽  
Lei Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Particle Size ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Plant Diseases ◽  
Transmission Dynamics ◽  
Corynespora Cassiicola ◽  
Air Samples ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
Dispersal Route ◽  
And Control ◽  
New Strategies

Target leaf spot (TLS), caused by Corynespora cassiicola, is an emerging and high-incidence disease that has spread rapidly on the global scale. Aerospores released by infected plants play a significant role in the epidemiology of cucumber TLS disease; however, no data exist concerning the infectiousness and particle size of C. cassiicola aerospores, and the experimental evidence for the aerospores transmission was lacking. In the present study, highly effective approaches to collect and quantify aerospores were developed for exposure chamber and greenhouse studies. Quantifiable levels of C. cassiicola aerospores were detected in 27 air samples from nine naturally infested greenhouses, ranging from 198 to 5,969 spores/m3. The C. cassiicola strains isolated from air samples were infective to healthy cucumber plants. Exposure chambers were constructed to study the characteristics of C. cassiicola aerospores released by artificially infested cucumber plants. The particle size of C. cassiicola ranged predominately from 2.1 to 4.7 μm, accounting for 71.97% of the total amount. In addition, the transmission dynamics of C. cassiicola aerospores from donor cucumber plants to recipient cucumber plants were confirmed in exposure chambers and greenhouses. The concentration of C. cassiicola aerospores was positively associated with cucumber TLS disease severity. This study suggested that aerospore dispersal is an important route for the epidemiology of plant fungal disease, and these data will contribute to the development of new strategies for the effective alleviation and control of plant diseases.

Social Issues and Moral Scrutiny: Cragg and Narveson

Dialogue ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 283-290
Author(s):  
Jerome E. Bickenbach
Keyword(s):  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Capital Punishment ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Social Ethics ◽  
Applied Ethics ◽  
Biomedical Ethics ◽  
Ethical Theories ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
Moral Problems ◽  
Ethics Courses

For several years philosophy departments across this continent have offered undergraduate philosophy courses designed to acquaint students with philosophical techniques and fundamental ethical theories in the context of concrete moral problems. These “applied ethics” courses go by various names: “Contemporary Moral Issues”, “Practical Ethics”, “Social Ethics”, “Issues in Applied Ethics”, “Current Moral and Legal Problems”, “Moral Philosophy and Medicine”, “Biomedical Ethics”, and so on. I have taught several versions of applied ethics courses many times and have always enjoyed them. Typically they are popular courses, drawing students from many disciplines and backgrounds, most of whom have never taken philosophy before. The range of possible “applied ethics” topics available is limited only by the instructor's imagination, although there is a fascination for the thanatological—hence the pride of place usually given to discussions of abortion, suicide, euthanasia, world starvation, war, and capital punishment.

Methodological contexts of comparative research in reference to Chinese philosophy

Tekstualia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (54) ◽  
pp. 63-78
Author(s):  
Magdalena Filipczuk
Keyword(s):  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Comparative Philosophy ◽  
Chinese Philosophy ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
European Philosophy ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Intercultural Philosophy

The claim that modern philosophy – to be taken seriously – should be multicultural, may appear somewhat controversial. Nevertheless, it seems rather obvious that a lot of classic domains of Anglo-European philosophy need to be rethought in the context of a newly shaped contemporary philosophical canon. Some of the vital questions of modern philosophy cannot be answered without referring to the paradigms of intercultural philosophy. One of the most promising disciplines on a global scale is comparative philosophy. But if one wants to extend philosophical curriculum, one has to create a kind of new language to introduce new ideas in a mind-opening way. This paper discusses the comparisons made by scholars who became literally and metaphorically translators/transmitters of Chinese cultural works for the Western readers: David Hall, Roger Ames or François Jullien. The problems addressed in the article include the problematic status of a researcher undertaking comparative studies in philosophy and the very defi nition comparative philosophy.

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