Psychologists and philosophers have recently argued that our concepts of ‘person’ or ‘self’ are plural. Some we should also adopt a corresponding pluralism about the metaphysics self. The aim this paper is twofold. First, I sketch motivate an approach to personal identity supports inference from facts how think self nature On proposed view, self-concept partly determines This provides new justi...

Buddhism currently enjoys the reputation of being one of the leading voices in a chorus that sings the praises of religious tolerance and perhaps even of pluralism. It is open to question, however, whether this reputation is deserved. The purpose of the present article is to examine whether the teachings of classical Buddhism have a contribution to make to the jubilation over religious pluralis...

Using a mixed methods design, we examine the role of self-evaluations in influencing support for environmental issues. In Study 1—an inductive, qualitative study—we develop theory about how environmental issue supporters evaluate themselves in a mixed fashion, positively around having assets (self-assets) and negatively around questioning their performance (self-doubts). We explain how these on...

criticizing the drawbacks of modern societies, lyotard glorifies the changing of meta-narration to show lack of such narrations totally. for him such a condition or changing of sub-narrations to periphery ones gives him an opportunity to self-expression and survival chance, which by intention to solidarity, stability, etc. they have been deprived of their identity, but keeping eternality of suc...

The recent popularity of legal pluralism has now reached the area of European private law. In this paper I scrutinize the concepts of legal pluralism used by three of its most prominent proponents: Pierre Legrand, Jan Smits, and Thomas Wilhelmsson. I do not offer fully-fledged criticism of their theories (each of which are among the most fascinating and helpful in the European private law debat...

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An approach to support learning for digital inclusion has been developed which situates learning for digital inclusion in the social context of communities. Central to this approach is a commitment to a view of learning that emphasises the role of the context in learning and points to the importance of learning in authentic situations. While digital inclusion programs tend to focus more specifi...