弘扬现代大学精神增强高校道德建设

高等学校作为人类文明历史发展的产物,是传承文化和培养人才的重要场所。高等学校所培养的人才不仅需要掌握较扎实的专业知识,更重要的是还应具备高尚的思想道德情操。文章从当前高校道德建设方面入手,结合大学精神的特征、内容与功用等,探析了其对高校道德建设的重大作用,以期通过培养与构建现代大学精神来引领高校道德建设。     

卢梭自由思想探析

自由思想是卢梭政治哲学的重要组成部分。卢梭认为,人的自由包括自然自由、社会自由和道德自由三种形态。人类历史发展的进程,就表现为由自然自由到自由的丧失再到社会自由和道德自由归复的梯级发展过程。这三种自由涉及到人类社会的两种状态,即自然状态和社会状态。     

论新加坡的道德教育及对我国的启示

新加坡注重培育国民＂新加坡人＂的国家意识,弘扬民族精神;大力推行儒家伦理教育;注意多重德育方法的运用,法德结合,以法律促道德;构建了学校、社会、家庭三位一体的德育网络,在道德教育上取得了显著成效。我国可以借鉴新加坡成功的道德教育经验,并在道德教育的目标、内容、方法、途径等方面得到一些有益的启示。     

论建筑物抛掷物、坠落物致害道义补偿责任——兼论建筑物抛掷物、坠落物强制责任保险制度的建立

《侵权责任法》第87条规定的建筑物抛掷物、坠落物致害补偿责任的性质不是侵权责任,也不是公平责任,而是道义补偿责任。该道义补偿责任的适用范围,受到“建筑物”、“抛掷物”或者“坠落物”和“难以确定”三个方面的限制。其责任限制又主要通过抗辩举证、数额确定及责任分担来实现。另外,建议将该道义补偿责任纳入强制责任保险的范畴,并由法定责任主体通过物业费代为征收的方式予以缴纳。     

论“以德为先”选用干部思想的发展沿革

选用干部"以德为先"思想经历了一个发展沿革的过程。在这个过程中,毛泽东提出了"任人唯贤"、"德才兼备"、"又红又专"思想,陈云提出了"德才并重、以德为主"思想,周恩来提出"政治上可以信任是挑选干部的先决问题",邓小平提出干部队伍建设的"四化"方针并强调"首先是要革命化",江泽民提出以"讲学习、讲政治、讲正气"促使干部立德,胡锦涛明确提出坚持"德才兼备、以德为先"用人标准。     

Dimensions of Chinese foreign conflict and cooperation: A research note

Key mediation attributes, such as mediating actors, the strategy they choose, and previous mediation experiences, are widely thought to influence the nature of a conflict management outcome. But how and when these features shape outcomes is not a straightforward matter, and a standard analysis of these factors does not lead to their widely anticipated results. Why? We develop a new analytical framework that argues that a dispute's intensity alters the conflict management processes. Furthermore, in order to observe this variation, we also need to expand the traditional, dichotomous notion of conflict management outcomes (success or failure) to include a fuller range of observed results. Using the most recent International Conflict Management data set and our new analytical framework, we analyze the effect on conflict management outcome of mediator (a) identity, (b) strategy and (c) history. We find that directive strategies and international mediators are effective in resolving high intensity conflicts, procedural strategies and regional mediators are effective in resolving low intensity conflicts, and that mediation history always affects resolution. Our results have implications for both the study and practice of international dispute mediation.     

Geographic Opportunity and Neomalthusian Willingness: Boundaries,Shared Rivers,and Conflict

International conflict has been analyzed extensively through the framework of opportunity and willingness. Opportunity has mainly been operationalized as physical proximity. Willingness has been measured in a number of ways, and remains a somewhat more elusive concept. Several scholars have called for boundary length to represent opportunity. Heeding such calls, Harvey Starr has used GIS methods to generate boundary length for 1993 and has found it to be associated with increased propensity to conflict. A number of his measures of willingness were not. Using a new and much more extensive dataset on boundary length for the entire Correlates of War period, this article finds very different results. We study the relationship with shared rivers and water scarcity as measures of neomalthusian factors in willingness over a 110-year period. The results indicate that the neomalthusian factors are significant although not dramatic in their effects. Boundary length, while associated with conflict in a bivariate analysis, fades into insignificance when the neomalthusian willingness measures are introduced.     

Emotional responsiveness in convicted fraudsters: a study on baseline activation of the anterior insula and its influence on moral decision-making

Low emotional responsiveness promotes utilitarian decision-making on moral dilemmas. Based on the assumption that fraudsters use their emotional competence to deceive their victims, their emotional responsiveness is not expected to be protective against utilitarian decision-making. The present study investigates the key role of emotional responsiveness in relation to moral decision-making in 11 imprisoned fraudsters, 10 imprisoned violent offenders, and 11 non-offenders. Participants’ neural baseline activation of bilateral anterior insula (AI) was used as an indicator for emotional responsiveness. Results indicate that fraudsters and non-offenders have a higher right AI baseline activation than violent offenders. Yet, fraudsters and violent offenders show a stronger tendency towards utilitarian decisions than non-offenders. The predictive power of AI baseline activation on moral decision-making reaches significance only for fraudsters. Results give evidence that fraudsters are highly sensitive to their emotional state of mind, which, contrary to our expectation, exerts a strong influence on their moral decisions.     

Leadership Styles,Workplace Politics and Moral Identity of Ugandan Public Procurement Staff

The study predicts the moral identity of Ugandan public procurement staff using situational factors like leadership styles, social interactions, organizational politics and personal isomorphism, largely ignored in documented empirical literature. This study builds upon previous studies which assert that much remains to be learned about moral identity. Data were collected from staff handling the public procurement function in 105 randomly selected procuring and disposing entities (PDEs). Data relating to the study constructs were collected using self-administered questionnaires and an interview guide. The study established that workplace factors singularly and/or interactively predict moral identity of procurement staff in PDEs in Uganda. These findings have both policy and managerial implications which we discuss and present in this article.