Intellectual and moral culture. A discourse, delivered at his inauguration as president of Transylvania university, October 13th, 1828.

"A catalogue of the trustees and faculty of Transylvania University, together with the course of studies ...": 4 p. at end.

Moral culture of infancy, and kindergarten guide...

"Songs" (with music): 10 p. at end.

Cencerradas, cultura moral campesina y disciplinamiento social en la España del Antiguo Régimen

Este artículo analiza cencerradas y rituales populares análogos, así como sus significaciones y vitalidad en sociedades rurales del Antiguo Régimen, con el objeto de participar en el debate historiográfico sobre las formas y concreciones del disciplinamiento social en los siglos de la Edad Moderna. Una perspectiva comparativa permite reconstruir prácticas populares de control moral en sociedades tradicionales, analizar su variedad y dinamismo en el tiempo y espacio, mostrando opciones de disciplinamiento ejercidas desde abajo-que articulaban culturas morales plebeyas-, así como la tensión entre los proyectos civilizatorios gubernativos y la cultura campesina en el Antiguo Régimen

Cencerradas, cultura moral campesina y disciplinamiento social en la España del Antiguo Régimen

Este artículo analiza cencerradas y rituales populares análogos, así como sus significaciones y vitalidad en sociedades rurales del Antiguo Régimen, con el objeto de participar en el debate historiográfico sobre las formas y concreciones del disciplinamiento social en los siglos de la Edad Moderna. Una perspectiva comparativa permite reconstruir prácticas populares de control moral en sociedades tradicionales, analizar su variedad y dinamismo en el tiempo y espacio, mostrando opciones de disciplinamiento ejercidas desde abajo-que articulaban culturas morales plebeyas-, así como la tensión entre los proyectos civilizatorios gubernativos y la cultura campesina en el Antiguo Régimen

Cencerradas, cultura moral campesina y disciplinamiento social en la España del Antiguo Régimen

Este artículo analiza cencerradas y rituales populares análogos, así como sus significaciones y vitalidad en sociedades rurales del Antiguo Régimen, con el objeto de participar en el debate historiográfico sobre las formas y concreciones del disciplinamiento social en los siglos de la Edad Moderna. Una perspectiva comparativa permite reconstruir prácticas populares de control moral en sociedades tradicionales, analizar su variedad y dinamismo en el tiempo y espacio, mostrando opciones de disciplinamiento ejercidas desde abajo-que articulaban culturas morales plebeyas-, así como la tensión entre los proyectos civilizatorios gubernativos y la cultura campesina en el Antiguo Régimen

Procedimentos de jogadores no jogo virtual Colheita Feliz: a virtude e a regra

This study based on moral culture research and the theoretical Piagetian perspective aims to investigate the relation between virtue and rules in the procedures of participants in the Internet game Colheita Feliz (Happy Harvest) – an Orkut application. By means of descriptive qualitative analysis, the behavior of 60 participants in the game was observed during two months. The participants’ performance ranking was analyzed according to the procedures they used. The results showed predominance of the crop stealing procedure in comparison with the crop cultivation procedure and allowed to consider that the action of stealing of the participants was not guided by the universal principles of virtue, honesty or lack of it (moral domain) but by the playing convention for the game (social domain) favoring the stealing procedure, and also by personal domain (choices) and mutual agreement among the subjects participating in the game. The data did not indicate connections between the participants’ actions inside and outside virtual and real fields with regard to stealing, and reinforced the idea that rules are conventionalized in the domain of a group and depend on social interactions by which mutual respect among peers must prevail. The data also shows that morality is not the regulatory actions in the game. The results also showed the importance of carrying out research on procedures used by computer game players since such procedures can demonstrate cognitive, moral, affective and social aspects perceived during playful interaction situations.

Post-conventional Political Cultures via Processes of Direct Democracy: Theoretical Considerations Based on Jurgen Habermas and Lawrence Kohlberg

In this article, it is proposed to differentiate political cultures in two dimensions. First, inspired by Habermas' distinction of the contents of discourse, a distinction is suggested between moral, ethical-political and pragmatic elements of political culture as well as of an element of culture of balancing interests. Second, inspired by Kohlberg's stage models for the development of the individual moral consciousness and for moral culture, a distinction is similarly suggested between two pre-conventional, two conventional and two post-conventional collective stages of political culture. It can be shown that from a normative point of view, only deliberations made in a post-conventional political culture can produce reasonable or at least fair results. Conceptual considerations indicate processes of direct democracy as the method for promoting post-conventional political cultures. The more liberty that the citizens have to formulate and trigger processes of direct democracy, the more one can expect from them to generate post-conventional political cultures.

The Periscope.

Editor: 1878,R.Stoddard Gee.

Thoughts on moral and spiritual culture /

Mode of access: Internet.

Self-culture : physical, intellectual, moral, and spiritual : a course of lectures, /

Mode of access: Internet.

The moral instructor, or, Culture of the heart, affections, and intellect : while learning to read.

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Aims and aids for girls and young women, on the various duties of life, including physical, intellectual, and moral development; self-culture, improvement, dress, beauty, fashion, employment, education, the home, relations, their duties to young men, marriage, womanhood and happiness.

Mode of access: Internet.

Self-culture : physical, intellectual, moral, and spiritual; a course of lectures /

Mode of access: Internet.

Toothless tiger, sleeping dragon : implied freedoms, internet filters and the growing culture of internet censorship in Australia

The internet by its very nature challenges an individual’s notions of propriety, moral acuity and social correctness. A tension will always exist between the censorship of obscene and sensitive information and the freedom to publish and/or access such information. Freedom of expression and communication on the internet is not a static concept: ‘Its continual regeneration is the product of particular combinations of political, legal, cultural and philosophical conditions’.

Integrity, attribution, and exploitation : contractual and normative moral rights protection in open licensing

Over the last twenty years, the use of open content licenses has become increasingly and surprisingly popular. The use of such licences challenges the traditional incentive-based model of exclusive rights under copyright. Instead of providing a means to charge for the use of particular works, what seems important is mitigating against potential personal harm to the author and, in some cases, preventing non-consensual commercial exploitation. It is interesting in this context to observe the primacy of what are essentially moral rights over the exclusionary economic rights. The core elements of common open content licences map somewhat closely to continental conceptions of the moral rights of authorship. Most obviously, almost all free software and free culture licences require attribution of authorship. More interestingly, there is a tension between social norms developed in free software communities and those that have emerged in the creative arts over integrity and commercial exploitation. For programmers interested in free software, licence terms that prohibit commercial use or modification are almost completely inconsistent with the ideological and utilitarian values that underpin the movement. For those in the creative industries, on the other hand, non-commercial terms and, to a lesser extent, terms that prohibit all but verbatim distribution continue to play an extremely important role in the sharing of copyright material. While prohibitions on commercial use often serve an economic imperative, there is also a certain personal interest for many creators in avoiding harmful exploitation of their expression – an interest that has sometimes been recognised as forming a component of the moral right of integrity. One particular continental moral right – the right of withdrawal – is present neither in Australian law or in any of the common open content licences. Despite some marked differences, both free software and free culture participants are using contractual methods to articulate the norms of permissible sharing. Legal enforcement is rare and often prohibitively expensive, and the various communities accordingly rely upon shared understandings of acceptable behaviour. The licences that are commonly used represent a formalised expression of these community norms and provide the theoretically enforceable legal baseline that lends them legitimacy. The core terms of these licences are designed primarily to alleviate risk in sharing and minimise transaction costs in sharing and using copyright expression. Importantly, however, the range of available licences reflect different optional balances in the norms of creating and sharing material. Generally, it is possible to see that, stemming particularly from the US, open content licences are fundamentally important in providing a set of normatively accepted copyright balances that reflect the interests sought to be protected through moral rights regimes. As the cost of creation, distribution, storage, and processing of expression continues to fall towards zero, there are increasing incentives to adopt open content licences to facilitate wide distribution and reuse of creative expression. Thinking of these protocols not only as reducing transaction costs but of setting normative principles of participation assists in conceptualising the role of open content licences and the continuing tensions that permeate modern copyright law.