scholarly journals Bring Your Non-self to Work? The Interaction Between Self-decentralization and Moral Reasoning

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mai Chi Vu ◽  
Nicholas Burton
Keyword(s):  
Moral Reasoning ◽  
Ethical Behavior ◽  
Strong Influence ◽  
Buddhist Philosophy ◽  
The Self ◽  
Social Outcomes ◽  
Middle Way ◽  
Novel Approaches ◽  
Common Understanding ◽  
Skillful Means

AbstractSpirituality continues to exert a strong influence in people’s lives both in work and beyond. However, given that spirituality is often non-formalized and personal, we continue to know little about how moral reasoning is strategized. In this paper, we examine how Buddhist leader-practitioners interpret and operationalize a process of self-decentralization based upon Buddhist emptiness theory as a form of moral reasoning. We find that Buddhist leader-practitioners share a common understanding of a self-decentralized identity and operationalize self-decentralization through two practices in Buddhist philosophy—skillful means and the middle way—to foreground social outcomes. However, we also find that practitioners face tensions and challenges in moral reasoning relates to agency—the ‘re-centering’ of the self as an enlightened self and the use of karmic reasoning to justify (un)ethical behavior—and contextual constraints that lead to feelings of vulnerability and exclusion. We present a model that elaborates these processes and invite further research that examines novel approaches and dynamic interpretations of the self in moral reasoning.

Symposium on Suffering, the Self, and Self-conceptions

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eyal Aviv ◽  
Bryce Huebner ◽  
Emily McRae ◽  
Tad Zawidzki
Keyword(s):  
International Society ◽  
Buddhist Philosophy ◽  
The Self ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
American Philosophical Association

The papers that are included in this symposium where initially presented during a session of the International Society for Buddhist Philosophy, which was held at the American Philosophical Association in Baltimore on January 4, 2017. And over the course of the next year, these papers were revised to be included in a special issue of the Journal of Buddhist Philosophy. That special issue was never published; and since the papers were written as symposium, we have decided to present them together here.

Moral Reasoning of Malaysian Auditor

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 942-946
Author(s):  
Hasnah Haron ◽  
Ishak Ismail ◽  
Yuvaraj Ganesan ◽  
Danizah Che Din
Keyword(s):  
Moral Reasoning ◽  
Ethical Behavior ◽  
Moderate Level ◽  
Public Confidence ◽  
Social Expectations ◽  
High Level

This study examines the level of moral reasoning of Malaysian auditors. Analysis on 79 respondents, found that Malaysian auditors have a moderate level of moral reasoning. The study found that 57% of respondents have a moral reasoning level more than 27.6% and a mean P score of 28.8%. This implies that Malaysian auditors are more concerned with social expectations and will act in accordance to it. Improved moral reasoning will lead to improved ethical behavior. This study helps Malaysian Institute of Accountant (MIA) to strategize and to increase the level of moral reasoning of auditors for a high level as to ensure sustainability and increase public confidence in the auditing profession.

Mental Illness through the Lens of Mindfulness

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Lynn Dobkin ◽  
Kaveh Monshat
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mindfulness Meditation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Self ◽  
Mindfulness Practice ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Middle Way ◽  
Western Psychology ◽  
Essential Components

The intention of this chapter is to re-envision mental illness within a paradigm that unites the biopsychosocial paradigm with a modern Buddhist spirituality, particularly associated with mindfulness. Emotion regulation, a balanced relationship with one’s self-concept, and social connection are usually regarded as essential components of well-being within both systems of thought. Western psychology and mindfulness practice have, at times, been seen to have fundamentally opposing aims: one to strengthen the self and the other to arrive at “no-self” or “emptiness.” This chapter purports that the two approaches may overlap and can be complementary both in their contribution to understanding the self and the regulation of emotions. Clinical narratives of depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and psychosis are included to exemplify the application of a whole-person outlook to understand mental illness. While an orientation to well-being through a mindfulness perspective may be generally helpful, mindfulness meditation is not a panacea: for some patients, it may be contraindicated, applied in a modified format, or used alongside medication and/or psychotherapy. This chapter presents a “middle way” between the views of suffering that informs mindfulness practice and that which is drawn from psychology and psychiatry.

scholarly journals Location Based Services for Human Self-Localization

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Gerhard Navratil ◽  
Manuel Schmitzer ◽  
Ioannis Giannopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Image Recognition ◽  
Location Based Services ◽  
The Self ◽  
Recognition Method ◽  
Anchor Points ◽  
Egocentric Representation ◽  
Novel Approaches ◽  
Position And Orientation ◽  
Empirical Experiment ◽  
The City

Abstract. Human self-localisation is an important part of everyday life. In order to determine one’s own position and orientation, the allocentric representation, usually in the form of a map, has to be aligned with one’s own egocentric representation of the real world. This requires objects (anchor points) that are present in both representations. We present two novel approaches that aim to simplify the process of alignment and thus the self-localisation. The Viewshed approach is based on visibility analysis and the Image Recognition approach identifies objects and highlights them on the map. On the basis of an empirical experiment with 30 participants in the city of Vienna, Austria, the two approaches were compared with each other as well as with a standard approach using a 2D map representation. The goal is to assess and compare aspects like efficiency, user experience, and cognitive workload. Results show that the Image Recognition method provided the best support and was also most popular among users. The Viewshed method performed well below expectations.

scholarly journals LOCUS OF CONTROL, INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS, AND UNDERSTANDING OF ACCOUNTANT ETHICS AND ETHICAL ACCOUNTANT BEHAVIOR

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ika Puspita Kristianti ◽  
Deranika Ratna Kristiana
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Moral Reasoning ◽  
Ethical Behavior ◽  
Educational Background ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Control Individual ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
Financial Industry ◽  
Accounting Profession

Ethical behavior is crucial in every profession, included accounting profession. The important role of the accountant in keeping stakeholders wealthy makes the accountant has to stick into high standards of ethics. The aim of this study was to analyze the difference level of moral reasoning ability in the accounting profession, measure individual ethical behavior using experimental approaches of hypothetical  situation, and empirically test the influence of locus of control, individual demographical characteristics (gender, age, educational background, work responsibility, and work tenure), and the accountant’s understanding code of ethics into the accountant’s ethical behavior measured by moral reasoning proxy.This study use the basic theoretical framework of Kohlberg’s Moral Development Theory in explaining and predicting the relationship of individual ethical behavior with its demographic characteristics. This study also tries to develop Conroy, Emerson & Pons (2009) study which analyze the relation of position level at work with individual ethical behavior, and added some variables: locus of control which referred to Rotter’s, and variable understanding of accountant’s ethical code.This study is a quantitative study using a survey method to find the effect of independent variables, partial and simultaneously to ethical behavior. We analyze sample responses to 96 respondents who works as an accountant in financial industry include banks and non-banks and the result shows that locus of control and accountant’s understanding of ethical code relates positively and significantly to accountant’s ethical behavior, while demographic characteristics are not a significant predictor of ethical behavior among accountant profession.   

scholarly journals Academic dishonesty intentions in the perspectives of higher education in Malaysia

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 7991-8000
Author(s):  
Shamshul Anaz Kassim ◽  
Nurul Farihin Mhd Nasir ◽  
Nur Rashidi Johari ◽  
Nur Fadzliani Yusrina Razali
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Moral Reasoning ◽  
Academic Dishonesty ◽  
Ethical Behavior ◽  
Behavioral Control ◽  
Subjective Norms ◽  
Perceived Behavioral Control ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
Sports Science ◽  
Business And Management

Nowadays, academic dishonesty has become an endemic academic phenomenon because students seem to be treating cheating on tests or examinations as a common thing. Therefore, this study was conducted to investigate the intentions for engaging in academic dishonesty among degree students in public higher education    in Malaysia by explaining the most prevalent predictors of academic dishonesty, which are attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, ethical behavior, and moral reasoning. A total of 346 respondents were involved in this study, composed of degree students from accountancy, surveying, plantation, applied science, marine science, business and management, computer science, and sports science programs. Results illustrate that subjective norms were found insignificantly related to the intentions to be involved in academic dishonesty because the respondents have treated cheating as common norm and considered it not weird to be involved in cheating. Attitude, perceived behavioral control, ethical belief, and moral reasoning were found to be significantly related to academic dishonesty intentions.

Novel approaches to implement the self-aligned spacer double-patterning process toward 11-nm node and beyond

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hidetami Yaegashi ◽  
Kenichi Oyama ◽  
Kazuo Yabe ◽  
Shohei Yamauchi ◽  
Arisa Hara ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Novel Approaches ◽  
Double Patterning

Subject, Object, Improv: John Cage, Pauline Oliveros, and Eastern (Western) Philosophy in Music

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracy M McMullen
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Buddhist Philosophy ◽  
The Self ◽  
Western Philosophy ◽  
John Cage ◽  
Intellectual Tradition ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Western Intellectual ◽  
Philosophical Understanding ◽  
Pauline Oliveros

This essay investigates composers Pauline Oliveros and John Cage, their use and abuse of Buddhist philosophy, and how these (mis)understandings influenced and were reflected in their attitudes toward improvisation. While John Cage famously claimed to remove his “self” from his work, I argue that his practices (informed by a mis-reading of Zen through a Protestant ideology) served to further instantiate a self that mastered the body. Oliveros’s interest in meditation, improvisation, and corporeal practices demonstrates an understanding of the “self” as intersubjective and de-centralized. I argue that the ideology of the subject/object, self/other split within the Western intellectual tradition has functioned to attenuate the radical elements within these artists’ work that challenged Western conceptions of the self, influencing Cage’s own philosophical understanding, and marginalizing the improvisatory and corporeal practices of Oliveros.

Dyeing Procedures of Polyester Fiber in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Using a Special Dyeing Frame

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 155892501501000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laijiu Zheng ◽  
Huanda Zheng ◽  
Bing Du ◽  
Ju Wei ◽  
Shihui Gao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Strong Influence ◽  
The Self ◽  
Artificial Light ◽  
Color Fastness ◽  
Dyeing Performance ◽  
Dyeing Process ◽  
Polyester Fibers ◽  
Color Yield ◽  
New Type ◽  
Zero Discharge

Supercritical CO2 fluid dyeing, a new type of anhydrous dyeing technology, has the advantage of high uptake rate, short dyeing process, recycling of dyes and CO2, and zero discharge. This study investigated a dyeing technique of loose fibers using supercritical CO2 as solvent to replace water. Based on the existing characteristics of the self-developed supercritical CO2 dyeing equipment, a special dyeing frame of loose fibers was designed. Using the dyeing frame and inner and outer dyeing processes, polyester fibers were dyed with disperse red 153# maternal dyes at temperatures of 80–140?, pressures of 17–29MPa and time of 20–80min, respectively. The experimental results revealed that the dyeing performance of fibers was good on the dyeing frame, as well as with a favorably increased temperature, pressure and time. Dyeing temperature had a strong influence on the color yield. The dyeing results were compared with those of polyester fibers dyed with disperse red 153# dyes. With the special dyeing frame of loose fibers, color fastness to washing and artificial light was generally similar to conventional aqueous medium methods.

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