Building ethical virtual classrooms: Confucian perspectives on avatars and VR by Chi-Ming Lam

“…By integrating Confucian ethics with contemporary ethical frameworks, including deontology, utilitarianism, and virtue ethics, this paper argues for more robust and comprehensive ethical guidelines. …”
Get full text

A comparative study of Mencius's thoughts through human nature and harmony by Meng Xiaohong, Yunrui Zhong

“…Then, using cross-cultural comparison methods, the similarities and differences between Mencius and Machiavelli in ethical concepts, social utilitarianism and human nature are analyzed. Finally, by delving into the two thinkers’ core viewpoints and their influence on modern philosophical discourse, the universality and uniqueness of Mencius' thought can be better understood. …”
Get full text

A Critique on the Book Ethnicity and Ethnocentrism in Iran: Myth and Reality by Siavash Gholipour

“…The three factors of the centralist and authoritarian state, the utilitarianism of the elites and the international forces played a role in the emergence of these conflicts and the formation of ethnicity. …”
Get full text

Indonesia's Land Bank Authority: Aligning with Agrarian Law or Facilitating Land Grabbing? by Nur Hidayani Alimuddin, Dyah Ayu Widowati, Riezka Eka Mayasari, Rizki Febrisari, Jusafri Jusafri

“…The study's novelty lies in its focus on assessing the compatibility of land bank policies with Indonesia's agrarian legal framework through the lens of legal utilitarianism. By employing normative research methods, including theoretical and regulatory analysis, the study identifies significant legal flaws in both the legislative process and the content of the regulations. …”
Get full text

Mitigating climate change with financial investments: exploring sustainable investment strategies in a novel experimental investment paradigm by Hulda Karlsson-Larsson, Arvid Erlandsson, Joakim Sandberg, Daniel Västfjäll

“…Preliminary evidence suggests that participants primarily using the exclusion and inclusion strategies differ in their moral reasoning. Utilitarianism better predicted the inclusion strategy, whereas high self-importance of moral identity better predicted the exclusion strategy.…”
Get full text

The Pattern of the Relationship between Ethical Philosophies and Information Technology with the Ethical Behavior of Auditors: An Actors Network Theory (ANT) App by Hossein Rajabdorri, Hamidreza Vakilifard, Hojatolah Salari, Ali Amiri

“…Action-based theories also include duty-based (duty-oriented), outcome-based (utilitarianism and otherism), divine-based (benevolence), and justice-based (justice-oriented). …”
Get full text

Medical Assistance in Dying for Persons Suffering Solely from Mental Illness in Canada by Chloe Eunice Panganiban, Srushhti Trivedi

“…However, it is imperative that there are sufficient resources and support available to healthcare professionals to ensure that they feel prepared and supported to provide MAiD, should they wish to do so. Utilitarianism: Minimizing Intolerable Suffering and Dying with Dignity Overall, utilitarianism is largely concerned with the greatest happiness principle—to increase the amount of happiness for the greatest number of people. …”
Get full text

Identification and validation of occupational stress factors for employees of the electricity distribution company of Ilam province by Ardeshir Shiri

“…The final research model was confirmed with 7 main dimensions.In the dimension of individual factors, the results showed that employees are under psychological pressure at work in terms of the role burden, lack of experience, and the expectation of activities outside the job description, which corresponds with the research of Hosseinzadeh and Salimi (2023) and Flanagan &Flanagan (2023), In the context of group and interpersonal factors, research results confirm the effect of intragroup conflict, utilitarianism of individuals in the group, and intragroup norms on employee stress. …”
Get full text

UTILITARUS SVEIKATOS PRIEŽIŪROS IŠTEKLIŲ SKIRSTYMO MODELIS by Sigita Jakutytė

“…The third part of the article discusses utilitarian conception of the value of life. The identification of the value of life with its economical value shows some inner inaccuracies of the utilitarian theory. …”
Get full text

UTILITARUS SVEIKATOS PRIEŽIŪROS IŠTEKLIŲ SKIRSTYMO MODELIS by Sigita Jakutytė

“…The third part of the article discusses utilitarian conception of the value of life. The identification of the value of life with its economical value shows some inner inaccuracies of the utilitarian theory. …”
Get full text

The Instrumentalization of Metaphors in the Management Field: Reflections from the use of the Book “The Art of War” on Business by Luiz Gustavo Lara, Fabio Vizeu, Elizeu Barroso Alves

“…From a hermeneutic-critical perspective, we argue that the use of metaphors in managerial literature sometimes reflects a utilitarian and anachronistic distortion of the contexts originating in metaphorical symbolic forms. …”
Get full text

Unpacking the influence of flight booking websites to e-loyalty: Empirical evidence from South East Asian Millennials by Donny Susilo

“…The findings show that good utilitarian features of websites can significantly increase brand equity and positive online experience (flow) of website users while good hedonic features of websites can significantly increase positive online experience and trust of website users. …”
Get full text

EVALUATION OF INDONESIAN ENGLISH TEXTBOOK FOR THE NINTH GRADERS OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL “THINK GLOBALLY ACT LOCALLY” FROM EFL TEACHERS’ PERSPECTIVES by Sri Handayani, Bambang Suwarno, I Wayan Dharmayana

“… The purpose of the study was  to investigate the EFL teachers’ perceptions concerning the textbook of “Think Globally Act Locally” on these criteria: (1) physical and utilitarian attributes, (2) efficient outlay of objectives and supplementary material, (3) learning- teaching content, (4) language skills and aspects. …”
Get full text

Having Your Cake: Caricaturing the Business Organization in 20th-century and Contemporary American Art and Poetry by David Reckford

“…Many artists, from Henri Matisse to Marc Rothko, have turned their heads away from the business organization, although it is a cornerstone of society in the modern capitalist era; conversations with the business world have indeed been a taboo for artists of the avant-garde particularly, which explains why some artists have been taking the contrarian position of making business part of their subject. Business is the utilitarian funneling of resources into standardized and marketed output, with its hated by-products including the organization man, and the daily grind. …”
Get full text

Inscription territoriale du développement durable et responsabilité environnementale. Ecolabels et Quotas individuels transférables by François Mancebo

“…Application of sustainable development arouses an argument opposing a utilitarian standpoint and a conservationist standpoint. …”
Get full text

Santería e "salvezza". Un approccio olistico al benessere e alle relazioni interpersonali by Alessandra Ciattini

“…This theme is addressed taking into account relevant tendencies in contemporary society, which is arguably characterized by a strong and lacerating contrast – emerging in multiple variants – between utilitarian mechanistic and holistic conceptions.…”
Get full text

Late Neolithic tethering or trapping stones from Bargat el-Shab (Western Desert of Egypt). Function and meaning by Przemysław Bobrowski, Maciej Jórdeczka

“…Discovered in a variety of contexts, these originally utilitarian items with multiple functions occasionally gained importance in rituals performed by Middle Holocene pastoral communities. …”
Get full text

Dono ed economie altre: per un nuovo contratto sociale by Antonietta Di Vito

“…The article is meant to show that the renewed interest is rooted in the contemporary crisis of relationships, of social ties, and in the effects of commodification of the utilitarian market economies. The theme of the gift is a narrative and theorethical tool to rethinking about the exchange and the social relationships throughout, both from the affective and private point of view than economical and collective too. …”
Get full text

De l’aile conventuelle à destination des convers au bâtiment agricole à fonction multiple : le cas des abbayes cisterciennes de Chaloché (Maine-et-Loire), Preuilly (Seine-et-Marne)... by Franck Tournadre

“…A scrutiny of abbey barns in Chaloché (Maine-et-Loire), Valence (Vienne), and Preuilly (Seine-et-Marne), allows us to discover how utilitarian buildings were laid out inside Cistercian abbeys and what their function was. …”
Get full text

Роль персонажа в предвыборном дискурсе by Виктория Марьянчик

“…This article offers a typology of roles which serve a utilitarian, communicative, ethical, verbal, metaphorical and mythological function.…”
Get full text