"Legitimacy, Performance, and China's Democratic Future—Navigating between Prudential Pragmatism and Moral Idealism"

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 177-186
Author(s):  
Gang Lin
Keyword(s):  
Moral Idealism

scholarly journals II.—LOTZE'S MORAL IDEALISM

Mind ◽  
1890 ◽  
Vol os-XV (58) ◽  
pp. 191-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. SANTAYANA
Keyword(s):  
Moral Idealism

scholarly journals Welfarism, Socialism and Religion: on T. H. Green and Others

1993 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 639-662 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Bevir
Keyword(s):  
Religious Faith ◽  
Moral Idealism ◽  
Social Reformers

Scholars often link the emergence of welfarism and socialism to a loss of religious faith. Yet an examination of the beliefs of secularists who had lost their faith suggests that the loss of faith did not result in an emotional need that social reformism sometimes met. Nonetheless, an examination of welfarists and ethical socialists such as T. H. Green suggests that there was an intellectual or rational link between faith and social reformism. Here many Victorians and Edwardians responded to the dilemmas then besetting faith by adopting immanentist theologies, and this immanentism often sustained a moral idealism that inspired various social reformers.

scholarly journals La vivencia del ideal anarquista en la España de los años treinta

2018 ◽  
pp. 134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Lora Medina
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Ethical Behavior ◽  
Main Issue ◽  
Social Revolution ◽  
Moral Idealism ◽  
The Social ◽  
Special Relevance ◽  
The Ideal

Resumen: El presente artículo tiene como objetivo analizar la vivencia del ideal y la importancia que adquiere la moral ácrata como modeladora del carácter del militante de la CNT en la España de los años treinta. El compromiso debía demostrarse a través de un estricto comportamiento ético que condujera al fiel a abandonar su identidad para luchar por el advenimiento de la revolución y el triunfo del colectivo. La propaganda por la conducta adquiere una especial relevancia en el anarquismo, tanto por alentar al trabajador a adquirir una cultura y educación propias, como por servir de atractivo a personas ajenas al colectivo a engrosar sus filas. Esta responsabilidad definía al seguidor de las ideas anarquistas frente a otros colectivos, pero también frente a muchos militantes que no seguían este estilo de vida "libertario". De este modo, la cuestión principal a resolver es si hubo realmente una vivencia práctica de los ideales defendidos.Palabras clave: España, anarquismo, militante, moral, idealismo.Abstract: The present article aims to analyze the experience of the ideal and the importance acquired by the anarchistic moral as a modeler of the character of the militant of the CNT in the Spain of the thirties. The commitment had to be demonstrated through a strict ethical behavior that led the faithful to abandon their identity to fight for the advent of the social revolution ant the triumph of the collective. The propaganda for the behavior acquires a special relevance in the anarchism, as much to encourage the worker to acquire its own culture and education, as to serve as attractive to people outside the collective to swell its ranks. This responsibility defined the follower of anarchist ideas in front of other groups, but also in front of many militants who didn´t follow this "libertarian" lifestyle. In this way, the main issue to resolve is whether they really lived according to the ideals defended.Keywords: Spain, anarchism, militant, moral, idealism.

The Literary Representation of the Czechoslovak ‘Legions’ in Russia

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert B. Pynsent
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Literary Representation ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Moral Idealism ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Foundation Stone

This chapter focuses on the role of the legionaries in creating the state of Czechoslovakia. It shows how the legionaries and their activities, while often romanticised, dramatised and vulgarised, were awkwardly harnessed to the needs of the new establishment. They could be cast in the mould of earlier Czech heroics, especially those of the Hussite warriors; they regularly served as avengers of the great defeat on the White Mountain in 1620. Yet their deeds proved hard to reconcile with the peaceable and democratic traditions which many Czechs also prided themselves upon. The legionaries, especially those in Russia, were, according to the propaganda, meant to be pictures of moral idealism and a foundation stone in the creation of the Czechoslovak Republic. Indeed, the legions had made the liberation of the Czechoslovaks from Austria-Hungary possible. This chapter looks at some of the motifs of legionary literature, paying particular attention to the works of Josef Kopta and Rudolf Medek. It examines the portrayal of Jews, for the works of Medek and Kopta provide an exemplary crop of Czech inter-war anti-Semitism.

Examining intention of digital piracy: an integration of social norms and ethical ideologies

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Namkee Park ◽  
Naewon Kang ◽  
Hyun Sook Oh
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Critical Factor ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Digital Piracy ◽  
Injunctive Norm ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Moral Idealism ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Ethical Ideologies

Purpose This study aims to investigate the applicability of ethical ideologies reflected by two dimensions of moral idealism and relativism, together with social norms, to the context of digital piracy. Design/methodology/approach This study used data from a survey of college students and conducted a series of hierarchical regression analyses. Findings This study found that digital piracy intention was dissimilar among four different ethical groups. Injunctive norm was a critical factor that affected internet users’ intention of digital piracy, yet it was valid only for situationists and absolutists. For subjectivists and exceptionists, individual differences represented by ego-involvement and past experience of digital piracy played a more critical role than social norms in explaining digital piracy intention. Originality/value This study is the first attempt to apply the dimensions of moral idealism and relativism to the context of digital piracy. Thus, it suggests that more tailored approaches are recommended to reduce digital piracy for internet users’ varied ethical ideologies.

scholarly journals A Just and Lasting Peace After War

2020 ◽  
pp. 48-64
Author(s):  
Lonneke Peperkamp
Keyword(s):  
Just War ◽  
Just War Theory ◽  
Normative Theory ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Political Realism ◽  
Moral Idealism ◽  
Lasting Peace ◽  
Feasibility Constraints ◽  
Lively Debate

While a ‘just and lasting peace’ is the axiomatic goal of a just war, it is not clear what that means exactly. The central question of this chapter is: How should a just war theorist understand peace, insofar that peace is the goal of just war theory, taking into account the theory’s middle position between political realism and moral idealism? In the first part of this chapter, the contemporary debate is mapped and various positions on peace are made explicit. This reveals a shift towards a more positive concept of peace. How far should this shift go? The second part of this chapter places the peace continuum in a lively debate in political philosophy on the role of feasibility constraints in normative theory. This chapter argues that a ‘just and lasting peace’ must be understood as a decent peace that is ‘just enough’.

How Transformative Was the Civil War?

2018 ◽  
pp. 153-158
Author(s):  
Kristopher A. Teters
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Political Equality ◽  
The North ◽  
Moral Idealism ◽  
Military Necessity ◽  
Second Year ◽  
The Government ◽  
Policies And Programs

The process of emancipation played out in a more comprehensive way in the western theater than in the eastern. Western officers were forced to deal with huge numbers of slaves across a vast region and implement appropriate policies and programs to carry out emancipation. In particular, the Border South proved especially difficult in managing the legal and political questions surrounding emancipation. At the war’s beginning, the government in Washington had clearly stated that its goal was to preserve the Union and not free the slaves, a view shared by many western officers. But as the war dragged on into its second year, the armies and the government became more emancipationist. Many officers also came to support emancipation and even the use of black troops. However, most officers only embraced emancipation out of pragmatism and military necessity, and their policies reflected their lack of moral idealism. Officers in the western armies liberated slaves for the army’s benefit. As Reconstruction began, many in the North were not very concerned about securing political equality for former slaves. While the war had pushed Northerners to emancipate the slaves, it did not transform them into racial egalitarians.

William Carlos Williams and the Efficient Moment

Prospects ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 267-279
Author(s):  
Cecelia Tichi
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
William Carlos Williams ◽  
Psychological Change ◽  
Moral Idealism ◽  
The Face

In the face of William Carlos Williams's achievement in Spring and All (1923), In the American Grain (1925), Paterson (1946–58), and The Desert Music (1954), among other acclaimed works, readers must find it inconceivable that the young and poetically misguided Williams could have continued to labor at the genteel verse of his medical-school and interning years (1906–9). When a growing number of distinguished critics find Williams's place in twentieth-century poetics to be “revolutionary,” it seems pointless even to imagine the young Williams perennially separating his life from his vague “ideals” of beauty and ethical purpose, and thus going on to become, in maturity, another Joyce Kilmer. To date, scholars of Williams's early work, especially James Breslin and Rod Townley, have revealed the psychological change by which Williams's repressed self became free “to re-enact fully the process of release and reformation that Whitman had started” and have shown, as well, that between 1909 and 1919 Williams underwent an “agonizing process of cultural divestment” as he gradually shed his belief that poetry was a sacred trust of moral idealism and noble purposes couched in truth and beauty. Sloughing off his post-Victorian ways, and immersed in the responsibilities of marriage, mortgage, parenthood, and medical practice, Williams seems inevitably to have been prepared to “weld his artistic and psychological allegiance to the cult of experience.”

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar’s Modern Moral Idealism

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gopal Guru
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Moral Motivation ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
The Core ◽  
Moral Idealism ◽  
The Social ◽  
Lower Castes

This chapter explains why aspects of the social philosophy of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956) deserve sustained philosophical attention. Ambedkar lays bare the paradoxical relationship between the hegemony of Manu’s superman as an ideal and its logical opposite or repulsive real. Ambedkar asks the core question: if the Hindu ideal is ritually hierarchical rather than egalitarian, why is that it has so many supporters among the lower castes? The chapter’s final section discusses what constitutes Ambedkar’s conception of modern moral idealism, and what is the nature of constructivism that he seems to be invoking to envision a counter-ideal, the claim that moral and social ideals are to be constructed and are not pre-givens. Modern moral idealism is the framework within which it becomes possible for members of one group to develop a moral motivation to enter a struggle in favor of those not in that group.

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