Recent findings indicate that events in video games, as well as players' perceptions of game characters, moderate well-established video game effects. This includes the level of identification with game characters, and players' interpretation of whether or not the actions of the characters are conceived as moral. In the present study, it was tested whether manipulating empathy for well-known ga...

The view of evil human nature is important in Chinese and western cultures. The thesis chooses evil human in St. Augustine’s thoughts and Hsun Tzu’s thoughts to compare and analyze evil in these two. St. Augustine, who is called “the Saint of God”, views the definition of evil, the resource of it, and salvations of it from the aspect of religious beliefs. He considers that evil is the privation...

Moral enhancement, outlined in the well-elaborated typology by John Shook (2012), is the most recent strain in the enhancement debate that unfolded in the last decade—but the ideal of “becoming a morally better person” is probably among the oldest topics in practical philosophy and pedagogy. However, the topic of “moral enhancement” offers the new idea that knowledge of the biological foundatio...

Abstract This paper argues that the reason why political leadership often involves dirty hands is because of its relationship with violence. To make case, it maintains violent means create and assert a form dominating power in tension proper ends action. casts wide shadow, frequently large numbers non-targets empowering unscrupulous agents. On other side balance, characteristically justificatio...

This paper attempts to present the Taoist understanding of evil. In the Taoist tradition, especially in Tao Te Ching, evil is divided into two categories: causal evil and consequential evil. Causal evils are those evils that are said to be the causes of other evils; consequential evils are those that are said to be the consequences of the causal evils. Causal evils originate from human will, an...

The article examines the formation of a culture reading among young people - as well spiritual and ideological factor in implementation state youth policy Uzbekistan.In modern conditions globalization, relevance fostering loyalty to national idea, patriotism, high moral views, immunity broad masses population, especially people, is increasing. Because information attacks, threats are growing wo...

The logical argument from evil, generally thought to have been defused by Alvin Plantinga’s free will defense, has reinvigorated James Sterba’s exposition and defense of a new version the that draws on recent work in moral philosophy. Whereas J.L. Mackie’s uses what can now be seen overly simplistic principles try establish incompatibility between existence God any evil at all, more sophisticat...