This work offers the first comprehensive comparison between the philosophy of Adam Smith and that of his successor, Thomas Reid. It looks at Reid's and Smith's remarkably similar accounts of human perception and judgement, and at their different moral and economic theories. In this way, this...

In the Theory of Moral Sentiments, Smith argued against the account of human nature which views moral sentiments as deriving from self-love. This paper emphasises that Smith's understanding of human nature was not that it was either selfish or benevolent. Human nature consists of the ability to...

Financial performance research has increasingly intersected with philosophical debates on ethics, sustainability, and stakeholder value, yet a clear framework linking these perspectives to actionable financial metrics remains underdeveloped. This study aims to explore how philosophical...

This study explores how individual moral philosophies influence accountants' ethical perceptions of earnings management risk, addressing the broader question of how moral reasoning interacts with the cultural environment in shaping financial reporting decisions. Although accounting standards...

This essay examines the contemporary discourse on inflation through the lens of Wittgenstein's late work on language games. Using his concept of hinge propositions - beliefs upon which language games depend - I offer a novel perspective on the public good that is price stability. In particular,...

This article interprets Kant from an ordonomic perspective: How does Kant think, and why does he think the way he does? - Kant seeks to ground human dignity. To this end, he conceives the idea of thinking the supreme principle of morality as an end that is at the same time a duty. He thus...

This book proposes a paradigm shift in how human and nonhuman well-being are perceived and approached. In response to years of accelerated decline in the health of ecosystems and their inhabitants, this edited collection presents planetary well-being as a new cross-disciplinary concept to foster...

„A végtelen sajátosságának tűnik, hogy mindenhol és mindenben jelen legyen.” (Aquinói Szt. Tamás: Summa Theologiae)

Hans Urs von Balthasar, one of the leading theologians of the twentieth century, uses the methods and results of classical phenomenology in many ways. Balthasar’s repeated criticism of Husserl, Scheler, and Heidegger conceals the fact of his dependence on these authors in various ways. The...

Idén jelent meg magyarul a neves filozófus, Michael Sandel könyve „Az érdem zsarnoksága” címmel. Az „A válogatógép” című fejezetben egy izgalmas javaslatot tesz az amerikai egyetemi felvételi rendszer megreformálására. A Yale egy korábbi felvételi bizottsági tagjának...

E tanulmány a magyar jogfilozófia szociologizáló tendenciáit feltérképező különszám bevezetése. A tanulmány tisztázza a jelen összeállítást inspiráló eszmetörténeti megközelítés szervező fogalmait. E megközelítés szerint a szociologizáló inspiráció és...

The renewed engagement with Aristotle's concept of practical wisdom in management and organization studies is reflective of the wider turn towards practice sweeping across many disciplines. In this sense, it constitutes a welcome move away from the traditional rationalist, abstract, and...

This book invites readers on an intellectual journey where the great minds of philosophy intersect with contemporary organizational challenges.With classical and modern philosophical thought as its backbone, Philosophy and Management: Great Minds and Organizational Ideas demonstrates that the...

Digital twins have great potential for improving urban management. However, the way that they are formulated seems to vary according to the aims of the urban management taking place. For instance, digital twins are made sophisticated and innovative when the urban manager wants to demonstrate...

This chapter presents an economic approach to character and personality traits with an application to the study of virtue. Economists interpret psychological traits, including character traits and virtue, as strategies that shape responses to situations (actions) determined by underlying...

Széljegyzet Szabó Dorottya: „Miért csináljam” című cikkéhez Az ember legalább annyira a történelemszülte non bináris, infrapolitikai szerepkonstelláció, mint amennyire magát teremtő felfogás. És minthogy céljaink semmik és mozgalmaink mindazok, amik igazán kell, hogy...

A tanulmány hermeneutikai jellegű, tehát a jelenségek megértésére és értelmezésére törekszik, nem pedig arra, hogy oksági magyarázatokat adjon. Ennek megfelelően a közölt megállapítások a hermeneutika, és nem az empirikus bizonyítás célját szolgálják. A...

Ferenc pápa 2023. április 28-30. között apostoli látogatáson járt Magyarországon. A hivatalos apostoli út záró rendezvényeként a Szentatya találkozott a magyar egyetemi és kulturális élet képviselőivel. A találkozó a Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem Információs...

In this short study, I attempt to reconstruct the main conceptual components of Edmund Husserl’s concept of death following the leading clue of his late transcendental phenomenological methodology. First, I summarise his thoughts on death, from the point of view of “the natural attitude”,...

This paper discusses the two creation stories of Genesis, arguing that the theology inherent to them does not support the standard assumption of divine and political sovereignty being analogous concepts. God has endowed Man with unique faculties necessary to act as God’s vicar within creation,...

The ingenious thought of Anton Günther (1783–1863) is rarely mentioned in the annals of nineteenth-century philosophy. However, in the eyes of his contemporaries, Günther belonged to the key thinkers of his age on par with Kant, Fichte, Hegel, and Schelling. Günther was an original writer...

This paper explores the ambiguous relationship between Confucian culture and innovation based on the scholarly literature. Applying a scoping review approach, the purpose of the literature review is to uncover the reasons behind the ambiguities of empirical research results and...

Idei utolsó, évadzáró szemlénk Michael J. Knowles nemzetközi népszerűségnek örvendő könyvét, a „Reasons to Vote for Democrats – A Comprehensive Guide”-ot veszi górcső alá, mely idén nyáron „Miért is szavazzunk a libernyákokra? – Átfogó, kimerítő szakmai...

Wie lässt sich Muße ethnographisch untersuchen? Ist Muße abseits der Lebenswelten von Intellektuellen von Bedeutung? Martin Büdel beschäftigt sich mit diesen Fragen anhand einer Ethnographie der alltäglichen Arbeit von Bäuerinnen, Bauern und Handwerkern im Cantal in Zentralfrankreich. Der...

About the necessity and usefulness of developing a philosophy specific to the blockchain technology, emphasizing on the ontological aspects. After an Introduction that highlights the main philosophical directions for this emerging technology, in Blockchain Technology I explain the way the...

The evolution of history as an academic discipline began in the 19th century. The role of the German historians in making the discipline cannot be underestimated as Leopold von Ranke is deemed the ‘father of history’. The impeccable role of the father of Sociology, Auguste Comte can also not...

Adam Smith does not focus on the creation of an ideal world, but on the understanding that societal changes for the better are an unintentional product of commerce. Furthermore, as if to highlight the concreteness of these changes, he sees population growth as the way to measure this betterment...

This paper focuses on exploring the functions of education and the concept of knowledge in Islam. The importance of human intelligence compared to artificial intelligence and the importance of language in education is also discussed. This paper further examined phenomena, true concepts, the...