Abstract Although in his earlier ethical writings Kant explains the concept of moral feeling, inherited from British sentimentalists, as a peculiar feeling respect for law that functions an incentive actions, Doctrine Virtue seems to add complexity issue. There, discusses two similar aesthetic predispositions, and respect, whose relationship is far clear. This article offers much needed elucida...

This article has two coordinate goals: to undergird the functionalist understanding of professionalism with classical normative theory and to advance the classical theory of civic virtue with the insights of modern social science. More specifically, this article seeks to connect classical theories about the care of the body and the soul with modern theories of market and government failure. The...

omission that leads to death of another is crime in criminal law of iran, whether doing it being duty of forsaker or not. in the first case, that person has not obligation or duty toward another, not for killing of victim but by virtue of first part of single-article of bill of the penal code of 1354, forsaker becomes convicted due to refrain from help to injuries and body hazards removal. in s...

Most of the essays gathered in this Symposium were submitted to the Special Workshop on Economics, Ethics, and Law at the 22nd IVR World Congress in Granada, Spain.1 The papers selected address promises and commitments, their rational or moral grounding, and their relationship to various kinds of contracts and agreements. While the duty to fulfill promises is uncontroversial, the nature of prom...

In this paper, we propose a coding algorithm for High Dynamic Range Images (HDRI). Our encoder applies a tone mapping model based on scaled μ-Law encoding, followed by a conventional Low Dynamic Range Image (LDRI) encoder. The tone mapping model is designed to minimize the difference between the tone-mapped HDRI and its LDR version. By virtue of the nature of the μ-Law model, not only the quali...

As the greatest thinkers and educators in ancient China, Confucius created Confucian doctrine most of his thoughts have still practical value at present. In this paper, one core “Governing a country with morals” is discussed mainly on contemporary way for practice. The analysis shows that we should absorb good ideas such as “cultivate oneself”, “people-centered”. Some self-discipline virtue ser...

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...

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 ...