Abstract The indoctrination debates have been a key feature of the philosophy education over past 50 years. While it is generally acknowledged that pejorative associations only emerged last 100 years, those normative are widely taken to be an essential part concept itself as positive connotations education. I explore some problems assuming term must refer something negative and essentialism thi...

TOPIC 1 : CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT ................................ 1 TRENDS AND VARIATION IN MONTHLY RAINFALL AND TEMPERATURE IN SURINAME ....................................................................2 EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTS OF ENSO TELECONNECTION ON CLIMATIC PARAMETERS FLUCTUATIONS IN KHORASAN PROVINCE I.R. OF IRAN..........................................................................

The interpretability of Machiavelli’s political thought relates, in the most part, to the concept of virtue and its dimensions. In Western thought, this concept has had continuity and has reached the Renaissance and Machiavelli’s times. In the Roman and Medieval tradition, philosophical, verbal, religious and even literary and historical approaches were dominant in the clarification and explana...

Graduate student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Research Associate, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; and Vice President and Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. The views expressed in this paper represent those of the authors, and not necessarily those of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston or the Federal Reserve System. The authors’ acknowledgments appear at the end of the article...

Kevin L. Kliesen is an economist and John A. Tatom is an assistant vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. James P. Kelley provided research assistance. This article was written while Tatom was a visiting economist at the Austrian National Bank Tatom received useful comments in seminars on this paper at the Bank of the Netherlands, the Swiss National Bank and the institute of A...

Abstract We examine the two-way interplay between organizational cultures and design, where culture is modeled as prevailing social identities among workplace groups that can affect project choices. In a setting cultural dynamics depend on expected relative payoffs of holding different identities, we investigate how tribalism charismatic leadership shape steady-state cultures. show strong be vi...

The current article presents the results of a study which developed an Italian adaptation of Podsakoff, Mackenzie, Moorman, and Fetter’s (1990) questionnaire, measuring organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) by referring to the following dimensions: Altruism, Conscientiousness, Sportsmanship, Courtesy, and Civic Virtue. The original questionnaire was translated into Italian and modified in o...

since the publication of anscombe’s famous paper “modern moral philosophy” (1958), virtue ethics has become a matter of discussion among scholars. at least four charges have been raised against virtue ethics, one of which is the charge of promoting undue enthusiasm regarding the moral fitness of human beings. this article explores the limits of virtue ethics with regard to the frailty of human ...