Terrorist organizations are one of the non-state armed actors that threaten national and international security. The approach towards terrorist has gained a new momentum especially after attacks which were carried out on September 11, 2001 have started to gain seat more frequently in relations security studies.Classical realism is most cited traditional theories case studies relations. Accordin...

Houellebecq’s fiction isdiscussed, contested and critiqued, not only as a series of aesthetic objects but alsoin political, ideological or moral terms. This contribution is an invitation to thinkabout the centre gravity inthe triangle realism-fiction-authority in Submission, Michel Houellebecq’smost controversial novel. We advancethe hypothesis that Islam Submissionhasa fictional function analo...

In the wake of organizational scandals associated with corporate America servant as well transformational leadership are seen approaches capable engendering a type morality—on part leaders and followers—based on shared values, universal moral principles an orientation towards pro-social behavior serving common good. However, recent critiques have highlighted tendency in relevant literature to o...

Building on foundations from the cognitive science of religion, this chapter synthesizes theoretical insights and empirical evidence concerning the processes by which cultural evolutionary processes driven by intergroup competition may have shaped the package of beliefs, ritual, practices, and institutions that constitute modern world religions. Five different hypothesized mechanisms are presen...

J. L. Mackie argued that if there were objective moral properties or facts, then the supervenience relation linking the nonmoral to the moral would be metaphysically queer. Moral realists reply that objective supervenience relations are ubiquitous according to contemporary versions of metaphysical naturalism and, hence, that there is nothing especially queer about moral supervenience. In this p...

Figure 1: The affect model used by the agent Through simulations, we tested these models for internal consistency and were successful in establishing the relationships among the factors as suggested by the earlier user studies [3]. We confronted our agent system with real users to check whether users recognize that our agents function in similar ways as humans do. Through a structured question...

Abstract This paper discusses the meta-ethical implications of Wittgenstein’s later moral philosophy. According to Lovibond and Brandhorst, Wittgenstein provided a novel conception facts, properties objects by adopting deflationism. argues that seamless language together with his non-foundational epistemology non-transcendent understanding rationality involves change perspective towards plausib...

Abstract The paper explores the interplay among moral progress, evolution and realism. Although it is nearly uncontroversial to note that morality makes progress of one sort or another, far from define what constitutes progress. In a minimal sense, occurs when subsequent state affairs better than preceding one. Moral realists conceive “it than” as something like more adequately reflects facts”;...