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Frankowsky, Maximilian, and Dan Ke. "Humanness and classifiers in Mandarin Chinese." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-224789.
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Mandarin Chinese numeral classifiers receive considerable at-tention in linguistic research. The status of the general classifier 个 gè re-mains unresolved. Many linguists suggest that the use of 个 gè as a noun classifier is arbitrary. This view is challenged in the current study. Relying on the CCL-Corpus of Peking University and data from Google, we investigated which nouns for living beings are most likely classified by the general clas-sifier 个 gè. The results suggest that the use of the classifier 个 gè is motivated by an anthropocentric continuum as described by Köpcke and Zubin in the 1990s. We tested Köpcke and Zubin’s approach with Chinese native speakers. We examined 76 animal expressions to explore the semantic interdepen-dence of numeral classifiers and the nouns. Our study shows that nouns with the semantic feature [+ animate] are more likely to be classified by 个 gè if their denotatum is either very close to or very far located from the anthropo-centric center. In contrast animate nouns whose denotata are located at some intermediate distance from the anthropocentric center are less likely to be classified by 个 gè.
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Goulden, Murray S. "Excavating humanness : palaeoanthropology at the human-animal boundary." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2009. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/10967/.
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The human-nonhuman animal boundary marks the interchange between human and animal, culture and nature, the social and the natural. This powerfully symbolic site has traditionally been structured via religion-based ideas of humanity's origins, that in the West have been used to maintain a strictly impermeable boundary: humans, created in God's own image and blessed with a soul on one side, on the other the senseless, soulless beast. This image is one which has come under threat from work in multiples branches of the natural and social sciences; in the humanities; and from animal rights activists and other social movements. Such culturally contested territory makes fertile ground for the study of interactions between science and popular culture, framed via Gieryn’s concept of 'boundary-work' (1983), and Bowker & Star’s sociology of classification (2000). Using the fossilised figures of palaeoanthropological research as a prominent site at which the aforementioned boundary is constructed, the thesis considers both how such “missing links” are positioned within the popular human-nonhuman animal dichotomy, and how the boundaries between science and nonscience culture are negotiated during this process. The project makes use of two case studies - the infamous Piltdown Man (discovered 1912) and the recent Flores ‘hobbit’ (2004). Both received huge scientific and popular attention at the time of their respective discoveries, and it is a critical discourse analysis of relevant scientific and popular news media that provides the research data. The thesis addresses how missing links create connections far beyond simply their antecedents and descendants. Indeed, their emblematic position sees them use to explore fundamental notions of humanness, becoming tied to all manner of socio-political ideologies in the process. It is through this process that their ‘natural’ position is made culturally meaningful. Such actions requires repeated transgression of the science-nonscience boundary, a lesson which is used to critique ‘canonical’ and ‘continuum’ models of science communication, and to suggest a more complex, multi-directional ‘hydrological’ model in their place. The thesis concludes by drawing attention to the gaps between formally recognised categories, and how these are utilised by scientists and journalists alike, both in the translation of these missing links between different systems of meaning, and in their role as a creative space for all parties to think with.
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Höjdestrand, Tova. "Needed by nobody : homelessness, humiliation, and humanness in post-socialist Russia /." Stockholm : Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-747.
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Frankowsky, Maximilian, and Dan Ke. "Humanness and classifiers in Mandarin Chinese: a corpus-based study of anthropocentric classification." Language and cognitive science (2016) 2, 1, S. 55-67, 2016. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A15634.
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Mandarin Chinese numeral classifiers receive considerable at-tention in linguistic research. The status of the general classifier 个 gè re-mains unresolved. Many linguists suggest that the use of 个 gè as a noun classifier is arbitrary. This view is challenged in the current study. Relying on the CCL-Corpus of Peking University and data from Google, we investigated which nouns for living beings are most likely classified by the general clas-sifier 个 gè. The results suggest that the use of the classifier 个 gè is motivated by an anthropocentric continuum as described by Köpcke and Zubin in the 1990s. We tested Köpcke and Zubin’s approach with Chinese native speakers. We examined 76 animal expressions to explore the semantic interdepen-dence of numeral classifiers and the nouns. Our study shows that nouns with the semantic feature [+ animate] are more likely to be classified by 个 gè if their denotatum is either very close to or very far located from the anthropo-centric center. In contrast animate nouns whose denotata are located at some intermediate distance from the anthropocentric center are less likely to be classified by 个 gè.
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Doyle, D. John. "What does it mean to be human? humanness, personhood and the transhumanist movement." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23449.
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Mutsonziwa, Itayi. "Ubuntu : development and validation of a scale to measure African humanism." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/79761.
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Ubuntu is an African humanist philosophy described by the Nguni aphorism “umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu” which translates as a person is a person through other people. While Ubuntu has been a domain of extensive scholarly research, to date almost all of this work has been philosophical or conceptual; by contrast, there is a dearth of empirical research examining the nature of Ubuntu. Scholars provide indicator values, namely descriptive abstract nouns, of Ubuntu with no consistency in how the indicator values were derived because the concept lacks a clear definition. The challenges arising from the lack of a clear definition of Ubuntu can be attributed to the fact that there is no empirical research that has been conducted to develop a reliable and valid measure of Ubuntu.
This research operationalised Ubuntu by developing a psychometrically reliable and valid scale for measuring Ubuntu. The research established the underlying dimensions of Ubuntu. This thesis develops and validates a scale to measure Ubuntu using a mixed-methods, multiple study approach. First, a literature review identifies 82 indicator values of Ubuntu. Next, using focus groups, depth interviews, and q-sorting, three nascent components of Ubuntu emerge: humanness, interconnectedness, and compassion. Finally, across three quantitative studies, the scale is purified to seventeen items which exhibit a three-factor structure that is psychometrically reliable and valid. The Ubuntu scale has discriminant validity relative to a collectivism scale and demonstrates predictive validity in terms of charitable and altruistic behaviours.
This study contributes towards the development of theory through conceptualisation of Ubuntu. The current study utilised large sample sizes to replicate the factor structure, reliability, and construct validity of the measure including nomological validity assessment and measurement invariance.Thesis (DPhil)--University of Pretoria, 2020.
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Herrera, MoÌnica Rocha. "Legal hermeneutics and emerging customary norms in international law, with particular focus on values of humanness." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.251055.
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Rutagambwa, Elisee. "Reclaiming the Actual Humanness of the Subject of Rights: Learned Lessons from Rwanda and New Ethical Perspectives." Thesis, Boston College, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/3724.
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Thesis advisor: David HollenbachDespite the triumphalistic story of human rights progress, the twentieth century has witnessed the bloodiest human rights violation in of all of human history and the death toll of these atrocities has yet to decrease as we proceed into the new millennium. If it is evident that the egregious reality of violation of human rights is widespread and covers a large part of the globe, it is nonetheless also crucial to note that it has particularly taken on unbearable proportions on the African continent. Strangely enough, despite this extremely alarming situation, the world remains stonily undisturbed. One of the most flagrant and upsetting examples of this reality, which has distressed even the most skeptical, is the 1994 genocide of Rwandan Tutsis. In fact, nowhere else has the abstract and idealistic rhetoric of human rights, as well as the international community and the Church's commitment to human rights protection been as deeply demystified and radically questioned as in Rwanda. Hence, the present dissertation raises the question of how human rights discourse can articulate a vision of the subject of right that is not purely abstract and idealistic, but also takes into account the actual humanness of the subject of rights in his or her socio-historical condition. Furthermore, it asks how such a vision, one that is consistent with human rights exercise, can help reconstruct human rights ethics in a way that promotes greater respect for human rights for all, and how it can resolve the problem of apathy in the face of the human cry. In response to the above questions, the dissertation suggests an alternative to the inadequacy of the present human rights discourse that it articulates in two important moments. First, in a critical moment, it uses the tools of both political and liberation theologies in their respective critiques of modernity and colonial legacy of exploitative systems to formulate a threefold argument. This is an argument that challenges the epistemological assumptions, the ideological practical stance, and the perverse operation of human rights in the historical context of Africa in general, and that of Rwanda in particular. In its second moment, the argument relies on the dialogue between political and liberation theologies and, through a creative and internalized reading of their mutually constructive contributions, suggests new possible paths towards a new ethics of human rights. Such an approach not only reclaims the socio-historical conditions of the subject of rights, but it also places her suffering and its redemptive praxis at the heart of ethical concern and the struggle for human rights. Finally, it proposes an ethics that fosters a revolutionary anthropology of the suffering subject as a call to liberation and solidarity, as well as its consequential promotion of social structural transformation
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2010
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Theology
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Calhoun, Christopher Stephen. "ABI and Beyond: Exploration of the Precursors to Trust in the Human-Automation Domain." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1519815952572621.
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Farrelly, Ann Dillon. ""It depends on the fella. And the cat." negotiating humanness through the myth of Irish identity in the plays of Martin McDonagh /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1086104442.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2004.Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 189 p. Advisor: Joy Reilly, Theatre Graduate Program. Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-187).
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Koval, Peter. "Our flaws are 'Only Human' : the role of the human concept in group protection /." Connect to thesis, 2009. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/6753.
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Haerens, Timothy. "Defining Moments / A Life Portrait." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/914.
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Defining Moments / A Life Portrait
In his MFA Thesis Exhibition, Defining Moments / A Life Portrait, Timothy Haerens explores and celebrates our connectedness to one another as members of the human race. “We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness.” Haerens chose this quote from the Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist, Thich Nhat Hanh, as the inspiration for his show because it affirms his belief that we are linked to one another by virtue of our humanness.
Through his abstract paintings on canvas and plexiglass, as well as through his prints and collagraphs, Haerens reflects on many facets of life – the sweet and sour moments we experience as part of the human condition. His art elicits an internal dialogue in an attempt to better understand himself and the world around him.
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Allen, Francine LaRue. "Reclaiming the Human Self: Redemptive Suffering and Spiritual Service in the Works of James Baldwin." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2006. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/6.
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James Arthur Baldwin argues that the issue of humanity—what it means to be human and whether or not all people bear the same measure of human worth—supersedes all issues, including socially popular ones such as race and religion. As a former child preacher, Baldwin claims, like others shaped by both the African-American faith tradition and Judeo-Christianity, that human equality stands as a divinely mandated and philosophically sound concept. As a literary artist and social commentator, Baldwin argues that truth in any narrative text, whether fictional or non-fictional, lies in its embrace or rejection of human equality. Truth-telling narrative texts uphold human equality; false-witnessing texts do not. Baldwin shows in four of his novels the prevalence of the latter narrative type. Within the fictional societies of Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), Giovanni’s Room (1956), If Beale Street Could Talk (1974), and Just Above My Head (1979), Baldwin reveals how society’s powerful bear false witness against the marginalized through stereotyping social narratives. However, Baldwin uses his novels to show the humanity of the marginalized. In so doing, he connects his works, as well as the works of contemporary black literary artists, to the concept of Christian spirituality.
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Swiderska, Aleksandra Verfasser], Arvid [Akademischer Betreuer] Kappas, Ulrich [Akademischer Betreuer] Kühnen, Michał [Akademischer Betreuer] [Bilewicz, and Eva [Akademischer Betreuer] Krumhumber. "Objectified humans and humanized objects: Perceived humanness of real and artificial representations of in-group and out-group members / Aleksandra Swiderska. Betreuer: Arvid Kappas. Gutachter: Arvid Kappas ; Ulrich Kühnen ; Michal Bilewicz ; Eva Krumhumber." Bremen : IRC-Library, Information Resource Center der Jacobs University Bremen, 2015. http://d-nb.info/108731559X/34.
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Favarato, Claudia. "This child is not a person. Criança-irân infanticide cultural practice and the challenges to human rights." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/15057.
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Dissertação de Mestrado em Estudos AfricanosO principal objetivo dessa tese é investigar quais os valores culturais e as crenças metafisicas que subjazem à prática cultural do infanticídio de crianças-irân e os consequentes desafios aos direitos humanos internacionais legalmente definidos. A pesquisa foca-se no fenómeno das crianças-irân, especificamente entre os Pepeis (etnia maioritária no setor de Biombo, Guiné-Bissau, onde foi desenvolvido o trabalho de campo). A análise desta prática não foi alheia ao sistema metafísico animista subjacente, frisando a importância atribuída às forças sobrenaturais e às funções que são chamados a desempenhar na realidade física. O maior contributo desta pesquisa reside na apresentação dos desafios que a prática coloca aos direitos humanos internacionalmente e legalmente definidos. Primeiramente, discute-se o aparente antagonismo entre algumas práticas culturais e os direitos humanos, à luz do debate sobre o direito à cultura. Em segundo lugar, analisam-se os fundamentos dos direitos humanos, distinguindo os valores individualistas e coletivistas subjacentes; discutem-se as posições universalista e relativista, incluindo e salientando as abordagens cross-culturais e do pluralismo ético. Conclui-se, assim, que o maior desafio posto pela prática de infanticídio ritual das criançairân aos direitos humanos está baseado numa diferente conceção da natureza humana e de quem é titular de direitos.
Throughout this thesis I propose to ascertain cultural values as well as metaphysical beliefs underpinning criança-irân cultural practice and explain the challenges it poses to international legal human rights. This research is focused on criança-irân infanticide cultural practice specifically among the Pepeis (Biombo region, Guinea Bissau, where field research was conducted). The analysis of this practice could not ignore the underlying animist metaphysical system, more precisely the importance of otherworldly forces and the functions they are compelled to perform in the real world. As a general contribution of the research, I expose the challenges that this practice poses to international legal human rights. Firstly, I problematize the apparent inconsistency between human rights and given cultural practices in the framework of the right to culture. Secondly, I shed some light on human rights’ foundations, discerning the individualistic and societal values underneath. Furthermore, I discuss the universalist and relativist stances, along with the crosscultural and ethical pluralism approach. Finally, I argue that the uttermost challenge posed to international legal human rights by criança-irân infanticide cultural practice relies on a different concept of humanness and of rights-holder.
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Svenningsson, Nina. "What’s up AI?! : En undersökning kring människoliknande beteende hos chatbotar och dess påverkan på användarupplevelsen." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Fakulteten för ekonomi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-19854.
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Artificiell intelligens (AI) sprider sig genom samhället och används mer och mer inom flera olika områden. Chatbotar är en populär form av social AI som använder sig av naturligt språk för att kommunicera med användare. Det finns olika åsikter kring huruvida en chatbot ska prata och bete sig människolikt eller inte. Den ena sidan argumenterar att chatbotar ska fortsätta utvecklas för att kunna simulera mänskligt beteende och intelligens, å andra sidan argumenteras att chatbotar ska vara tydliga med att de är maskiner och att det även kan vara positivt för användarupplevelsen om chatbotar inte är alltför människolika. Dessutom finns det teorier om att ett beteende som är för människolikt kan skapa obehag hos användaren. Detta examensarbete syftar till att undersöka den diskrepans som har observerats i resultaten från vetenskapliga studier för att ge indikationer på vilka faktorer som bidrar till en positiv användarupplevelse i interaktionen med chatbotar i förhållande till hur människolika de uppfattas. Resultatet visar på att det finns en stor bredd i användares preferenser för hur en chatbot bör bete sig vilket gör det svårt att nämna specifika människoliknande faktorer som är tilltalande för en större grupp användare. Om man idag vill designa en chatbot som tilltalar så många användare som möjligt bör man ge den en officiell/formell ton samt låta den svara kort, koncist och med sofistikerade ordval och välkonstruerade meningar. För att gå vidare rekommenderas bland annat att undersöka hur chatbotar kan anpassa sitt beteende efter olika användare för att skapa en positiv användarupplevelse.
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Whetter, Lindsay. "Faith inside : an ethnographic exploration of Kainos Community, HMP The Verne." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/22974.
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In April 1997 Kainos Community in HMP The Verne, Dorset, England became the first faith-based prison unit to be established in the Western world. The foundations and ethos of Kainos are based on Christian concepts of ‘loving your neighbour’ and forgiveness. The community operates as a hybrid therapeutic community (TC) and cognitive behavioural programme (CBP). It is open to and inclusive of prisoners of all faiths and none. The aim of this study is to explore the Kainos community ethnographically, guided by the principles of grounded theory and thematic analysis, in order to investigate whether or not Kainos ameliorates some of the de-humanising aspects of prison, and if so, how it rehumanises the prison space. Theoretically, this study highlights the dehumanisation of imprisonment, and illuminates the role that a holistic, Christian-based approach can play in terms of making the prison environment ‘more human’. My findings reveal that on Kainos there are physical, liminal and spiritual spatial mechanisms, in which a family of sub-themes interact to enable flourishing to occur. Kainos has created a physical space in which spaces of architecture and design; sensory experience; movement; and home interact to enable flourishing, whereby prisoners feel ‘more homely’, ‘free’, safe, and calm. Kainos has created a liminal space in which spaces of atmosphere; identity; home; and creativity interact to enable flourishing, empowering prisoners in their self-expression; as a cathartic tool; and as a means of regaining or creating a new identity. Kainos has created a spiritual space in which spaces of Christian activism, love, and forgiveness enable self-worth, healing, transformation, and meaningful change. The implication is that Kainos has created spaces of flourishing, safety and peace within an otherwise dehumanising carceral space, and this plays an important role in the process of transformational change imperative in the desistance process. If society must have prisons, this study concludes that Kainos provides a model for how they should be.
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Henriques, Ana Patrícia Matos. "Humanness and (im)morality in group relations." Doctoral thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/5456.
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Tese de Doutoramento em Psicologia na área de especialidade - Psicologia SocialMorality is a valued dimension within and between groups (Ellemers, Pagliaro, & Barreto, 2013; Leach, Bilali, & Pagliaro, 2015), that has been consistently pointed out as part of what makes us uniquely human (Demoulin et al., 2004; Leyens et al., 2000; Haslam, 2006). On the other hand, the extent to which we see others as fully human also impacts on other’s moral status (Bastian, Laham, Wilson, Haslam, & Koval, 2011; Kelman, 1973; Opotow, 1990). The two dimensions seem to have a narrow relation, which has recently begun to capture more attention (Haslam, Bastian, Laham, & Loughnan, 2012; Khamitov, Rotman, & Piazza, 2016; Vasiljevic, & Viki, 2014). This thesis aims at analysing the relation between morality and humanness in group relations. A first research paper analysed the attribution and denial of moral traits to groups, integrating the role of humanness and valence in intergroup differentiation. By means of two studies we tested the hypothesis stating that within the moral domain, participants choose different strategies to differentiate the ingroup from the outgroup depending on trait humanness and valence. Our results support this hypothesis, as we found that participants attributed more uniquely human traits to the ingroup, but only in case these were positive; in case these were negative the uniquely human traits were more attributed to outgroups. In a second paper we analysed the relation between immorality and humanness, by using the evaluation of criminal behaviours as a proxy to address this relation. In our data, we found that Human Uniqueness and immorality did not correlate with each other. With this paper we also aimed at providing researchers with a range of validated stimuli to address these topics, which was exactly what we purposed ourselves to do in the last research paper presented in this thesis. In a third paper we analysed how ingroup members deal with ingroup deviance, integrating the role of ingroup threat. Specifically, we analysed the humanness perception of a deviant ingroup member that behaves in an immoral but uniquely human way. We found that when the deviant behaviour was less threatening, the ingroup members humanised the deviant as much as the ingroup itself. However, when the deviant behaviour represented a threat to the ingroup image, the ingroup members dehumanised more the deviant member. In a second study we analysed the dehumanisation of the ingroup deviant, regarding two different types of behaviours, which vary in humanness and immorality. In both studies we also measured the perception of moral blame of the deviant member, integrating our results with previous findings (Bastian, Denson, & Haslam, 2013). Finally we addressed the different intragroup strategies that ingroup members use to deal with threats to the ingroup image. Results are discussed in terms of their contribution to the relation between humanness and immorality, as well as the implications for dehumanisation theory. Future research is outlined.
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Shlozberg, Reuven. "Moral Performance, Shared Humanness, and the Interrelatedness of Self and Other: A Study of Hannah Arendt's Post-Eichmann Work." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/33829.
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This thesis is a critical discussion of political thinker Hannah Arendt’s moral thought, as developed in her works from EICHMANN IN JERUSALEM onwards. Arendt, I argue, sought to respond to the moral challenge she saw posed by the phenomenon of banal evildoing, as revealed in Nazi Germany. Banal evildoers are agents who, under circumstances in which their ordinary moral triggers and guides (conscience, moral habits and norms, the behavior of their peers, etc.) are subverted, commit evil despite having no evil intent. Such subversion of ordinary moral voices would appear to absolve these agents from moral responsibility for their acts, which led most commentators to reject claims to such subversion by Nazi collaborators. Arendt, who sees the phenomenon of banal evildoing as factually substantiated, set out to show that such agents possessed other mental capacities (namely, critical and speculative thinking, reflective judging, and free willing), more appropriate for moral decision-making, on which they could have relied even under Nazi conditions. It is for their disregard of such capacities that banal evildoers can be held morally responsible.
In this thesis I critically engage with this Arendtian argument. I show how the Nazi subversion of German agents’ ordinary moral voices was achieved. I then exegetically explicate Arendt’s (unfinished) analysis of the above mental capacities and of their moral role. I then argue for the addition of the capacities of empathetic perception and practical wisdom to this understanding of moral performance. In the course of this analysis I show that in responding to this challenge, Arendt develops a powerful argument regarding the moral dangers of overreliance on mental shortcuts in decision-making, a strong argument regarding the interconnectedness between morality and humanness, and implicitly, a novel conception of selfhood that sees otherness as interrelated and interconnected with selfhood, such that concern for others is part of what constitutes, and therefore is inscribed into, care for the self. I end by critically assessing the applicability of Arendt’s moral analysis to more ordinary decisional circumstances than those of Nazi Germany, and the insight this analysis points to regarding the relationship between moral and political decision-making.
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Belaïd, Loubna. "Étude ethnographique des rapports sociaux en milieu obstétrical au Burkina Faso." Thèse, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/7300.
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Belaid, Loubna. "Étude ethnographique des rapports sociaux en milieu obstétrical au Burkina Faso." Thèse, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/7300.
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Robb, William McCall. "Adulthood as an existential-ethical continuum in andragogic perspective and its implications for education." Thesis, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17623.
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This philosophical, anthropological study within a fundamental agogic perspective, employed an existential phenomenological approach to find out what adulthood is, fundamentally. Adulthood as being-ethical, is a more adequate description than chronological, biological, psychological and sociological descriptions of adulthood. Finding out what being-ethical is, required investigating what it means to be human. Only humans exist, and must participate effectively in agogic-dialogic relationships to alleviate existential yearning and experience dignifiedness. A code of effective agogy is presented. This code is the basis for a universal, fundamental code of ethics which transcends
particular moral codes and professional codes of ethics. The words "ethicals", "ethicalness" and "ethicality" are employed to name, respectively, individual requirements in the code; acting according to the code; and the inescapable interrelatedness of experiencing dignifiedness and adhering to ethicals. Detailed explanations are given of what it means to respond fundamentally ethically. Adultness, humanness and ethicalness are different perceptions of the same continuum. All humans, whether aware of it or not, have an unattainable ideal of perfect humanness, to which they must perennially progress in order to experience dignifiedness, and
humanness entails perennially becoming more human. Since no human can become perfectly human, the ideal of perfect humanness can be called "God". This means that the code of humanness is also the code of Godliness and the word "spiritual" is used to distinguish fundamental God from religious Gods. Spiritual responsibility is the interrelatedness of being-questioning and being-questioned.
Ultimately, a person's humanness is assessed against the ideal of perfect humanness, by his or her own spiritual conscience. Humanity is the interrelatedness of the realities of existentiality, agogicality, ethicality, and spirituality and humanness is the inseparability
of the continua of existentialness, ethicalness, agogicalness and spiritualness. A detailed existential-ethical description of education is given. The thesis ends with a post-scientific view of what essentially agogic orientated (educative) teaching is, and four
recommendations are offered to enhance the effectiveness of agogy in teaching and learning institutions. Despite an extensive and radical study, it is acknowledged that the mystery that is humanity, can never be totally revealed.Educational Studies
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Tinyani, Thivhulawi Eric. "Youth Moral Degeneration at Makuya area in the Vhembe District Municipality of the Limpopo Province, South Africa: An Afrocentric Approach." Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11602/1424.
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Moral degeneration is rampant among the youth across the globe. Juvenile delinquency and diversified social ills are prevalent and manifesting moral degeneration among the youth. This study sought to explore youth moral degeneration at Makuya area in the Vhembe District, Limpopo Province, South Africa. The study is qualitative and exploratory in nature. Non-probability purposive sampling technique was used to select twenty-eight research participants comprised of the parents, educators, youth, religious leaders, traditional leaders, social workers and SAPS officials. Data was collected using unstructured face-to-face interviews and focus group discussions to gain insights of youth moral degeneration challenges. The narrative analysis method was used to analyse and interpret data. The study found that moral degeneration among the youth at Makuya area is rife and is exemplified by the high rate of teenage pregnancies, teen parenthood, school dropout, alcohol and substance abuse, bullying trends, vandalism and other criminal acts committed by the youth in the Makuya area. The study recommended the use of a multi-pronged comprehensive youth moral regeneration strategy which emphasises the restoration, among the others, humanness, love, discipline, integrity, respect for authority, promotion of accountability and responsibility.
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Kandong, Mangom Jean-René. "Éthique et acculturation. Positions de Montréalais d'origine congolaise sur l'interruption de grossesse." Thèse, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/11895.
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Bergeron, Catherine. "Témoins de l'horreur, images de terreur : pour un portrait du sujet actuel." Thèse, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/21954.
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Anspach, Philip. "The indigenous rights of personality with particular reference to the Swazi in the kingdom of Swaziland." Thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1911.
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This study was undertaken to establish whether rights of personality are known in indigenous law. Since indigenous law differs not only between tribes but is also affected by the degree of exposure to Western values, a micro-study has been done in a semi-rural environment in the Kingdom of Swaziland to establish to what extent own value systems have been influenced or altered when Western legal concepts are utilised. The information, obtained by interviewing a panel of experts, was compared with the available literature. During the process of gathering information, the aims of the research were not only to describe how the legal principles function, but also to take note of those socio-cultural processes which function outside of the law.
Rights of personality were studied against a background of the culture and way of life of the peoples concerned. The importance of culture has been acknowledged in the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, wherein the recognition and application of indigenous law generally rests on a constitutionally protected right to culture.
Whilst the identifiable rights of personality may generally be classified according to specialised legal systems, the separation of rights to good name and to dignity may be inappropriate in the indigenous sphere. Dignity in indigenous legal systems is to be viewed as a comprehensive right of personality, into which should be subsumed the right to good name and reputation in the community.
It is such dignity, embracing the ubuntu quality of humanness that is protected
as a comprehensive indigenous right of personality.
Although the indigenous law of personality is showing some signs of adapting to new developments, there is also proof that the established legal principles and human values are being retained. However, these changes are unique and are neither typically traditional nor Western. The indigenous law of personality, operating in a changing social environment, has to retain its flexibility and adaptability in order to remain ”living” law for the peoples concerned.Jurisprudence
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