Identity and Attitude: Eternal Conflict or Harmonious Coexistence

EFL Learning, EFL Motivation Types, and National Identity: In Conflict or in Coalition

The present study was aimed at examining concerns about the social effects of EFL learning, a challenging area of research which has not been discussed sufficiently. It tried to investigate the relationship between EFL learning and national identity. In addition, attempt was made to find a relationship between language motivation types and national identity. Furthermore, the role of two demogra...

Towards a harmonious coexistence of spoken and written language

Spoken and written languages, despite their different nature and function in human society, have often been in conflicts rather than in harmony for centuries. Despite the incessant efforts made by phoneticians, linguists, speech therapists and more recently speech technologists to describe the interrelations and relative merits of written and spoken languages, the written language still enjoys ...

Coexistence or Conflict in the Indian Financial Markets

This paper investigates the relationship between formal and informal financial institutions in India. Traditional views treat formal financial institutions and the informal ones as substitutes, in which case previously credit-constrained entities will replace their informal financing by formal financing eventually as they gain access to bank loans. However, in this paper, I take a close look at...

Conflict of human-wildlife coexistence.

Time and Personal Identity in Nietzsche’s Theory of Eternal Recurrence

Friedrich Nietzsche’s theory of eternal recurrence is an essential part of his mature philosophy, but the theory’s metaphysical commitments and practical implications are both obscure. In this essay I consider only the metaphysical elements of the theory, with the aim of determining whether it is possible that we live our lives infinitely many times, as the theory maintains. I argue that the po...