Introduction This paper develops a literature review of the flexicurity discourse as this has been developed in the European Union's debates and policies. The analysis of the European Employment Strategy and the flexicurity principles developed by the European Commission will be crucial factors for the development of this review. Furthermore, the chapter aims to review the literature concerning...

If philosophical moral reflection improves moral behavior, one might expect ethics professors to behave morally better than socially similar non-ethicists. Under the assumption that forms of political engagement such as voting have moral worth, we looked at the rate at which a sample of professional ethicists-and political philosophers as a subgroup of ethicists-voted in eight years' worth of e...

I submit that epistemic progress in key areas of contemporary academic philosophy has been compromised by politically correct (“PC”) ideology. First, guided by an evolutionary account of ideology, results from social and cognitive psychology and formal philosophical methods, I expose evidence for political bias in contemporary Western academia and sketch a formalization for the contents of beli...

This paper presents pluralism as a historical process. The term pluralism frequently appears not only in the field of political philosophy but also in social sciences. In one sense, the growing literature is stimulating and enriching, nevertheless the abundance of material attempting to explain the various interpretations of pluralist theory can be convoluted and overwhelming. Despite the const...

The paper is to explain linguistical image of Rudyard Kipling in the poetry “The Ballad East and West” relate with family language over world. It found, words “west” “east” refer different location but it from similar pronunciation. like “atala” Sanskrit, “od” Greek, has relation word “Atlantic” English. data will be approached by philosophy language, particularly perspective fixed thing (Greek...

the eighteenth century enlightenment is one of the most important foundations of the modern culture and thecontemporary western philosophy can be regarded as a dialogue between the enlightenment and its critics. although the roots of the enlightenment can be traced to the late middle ages and even before, but it is in kant’s “what is enlightenment?” (and implicitly in his critical trilogy and p...