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Exploring Relationships Between Nonprofit Participation and Political Participation in Asian Context

participation in political activities in Asian countries. Specifically, we ask how nonprofit engagement fosters active political activities in Asia. Using the Asian Barometer Survey, which provides information on ... Barometer Survey, which provides information on NPO participation, political contact, and political participation activities, this study empirically examines the correlation between nonprofit participation

The Future of Confucian Political Philosophy

On February 14, 2017, Joseph Chan and Stephen Angle convened a Roundtable on the Future of Confucian Political Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. Eight invited speakers each offered thoughts ... Comparative Philosophy Volume 2151-6014 THE FUTURE OF CONFUCIAN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY Edited by STEPHEN C. ANGLE 0 0 INVITED SPEAKERS (alphabetical order): A On February 14, 2017, Joseph Chan and

Securing Moral Authority: A Cross-National Analysis of Protestant Engagement in the Implementation of Morality Policies in Western Europe

Churches have a hard time defending their moral values in the political sphere of an ever more secular and liberal Western Europe. A largely neglected means of navigating this crisis is through the ... these social services are related to moral issues. Welfare state; Religion; Morality policy - Geschwister Scholl Institute of Political Science, LudwigMaximilians-University Munich (LMU), Munich

Hallmarks of the Political in Community Organizing: An Arendtian Perspective

Drawing upon Hannah Arendt’s adherence to existential phenomenology, the article advances a political understanding and interpretation of community organizing. Arendt, it is maintained, offers ... ). The sociological imagination . Harmondsworth: Pelican. Mouffe , C. ( 2005 ). On the political . Routledge. Parekh , B. ( 1981 ). Hannah arendt and the search for a new political philosophy . Macmillan

Sino-African Philosophy: A Re-“Constructive Engagement”

“Constructive-Engagement” is a meta-philosophical and meta-methodological “strategy” suggested by Chinese and comparative philosophy scholar Bo Mou for analyzing and enriching philosophical exchange ... REFLECTIVE STUDIES TO SINO-AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY The relations between the African continent and China have shown unprecedented economic, political and social growth over the past three decades. Yet as the study

On Mexican Philosophy, For Example

of such thinking the work of Luis Villoro. The second part discusses the disagreement between Manuel Vargas and Robert Sánchez on philosophy as a cultural resource. The third part explores the genuine ... could do so, given different economic and political circumstances.4 I do not consider that this is a specific way of doing Latin American philosophy—or, for example, Mexican philosophy. Critical thinking

CLASSICAL INDIAN SKEPTICISM: REFORMING OR REJECTING PHILOSOPHY

skepticism about philosophy, motivating the project of reading the three pillars as strictly committed to the latter enterprise. In Mills' framing of the contrast, epistemological skeptics have an agenda which ... response on ordinary matters (see Mills 2018, xxiii) . By contrast, his skeptics about philosophy take philosophy itself as a target, jousting against various specific philosophical theories without the

THE QUEST FOR RECOGNITION: THE CASE OF LATIN AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY

Latin American philosophy has long been concerned with its philosophical identity. In this paper I argue that the search for Latin American philosophical identity is motivated by a desire for ... itself a political task about identity. As a result, we appreciate how the metaphilosophical debate of Latin American philosophy is informed by a desire for recognition through Euro-American philosophical

Engaging with Colonial Knowledge on African Associational Life: Angola Case Study from 1860 to 1974

exercise of citizenship while illustrating the strategies used by native people to overcome legal and political constraints to associationism. ... expense of those that promote political participation (Pacheco, 2009) as the most critical limitations to its development and civic intervention. Although the overall assumption is that the long colonial

Deliberate One-sidedness as a Method of Doing Philosophy: Reflections on Rosemont’s View of the Person

deliberate. His theory is not intended to be a balanced account. I will illustrate that Rosemont’s way of conceiving the human self is not peculiar to him, but characteristic of those who take philosophy as a ... metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, social and political philosophy, philosophy of language, of science, and of religion. Rosemont is not shy in admitting that his view is asymmetrical and one-sided. He states

Pragmatic Approach or Constructive-Engagement Strategy?—A Methodology in Comparing Chinese and Western Philosophy

Comparative Philosophy Volume 2151-6014 CONSTRUCTIVE-ENGAGEMENT DIALOGUE (1.2) PRAGMATIC APPROACH OR CONSTRUCTIVE-ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY?-A METHODOLOGY IN COMPARING CHINESE AND WESTERN PHILOSOPHY 0 SUN ... WEI: Associate Professor, Institute of Philosophy, Beijing Academy of Social Sciences In the midst of rising interest in cross-cultural comparative philosophy, the methodology of comparisons between

Negotiating State-Civil Society Relations in Turkey: The Case of Refugee-Supporting Organizations

How do nonstate organizations carry out their programs in political contexts hostile to civil society activity? This paper examines the case of refugee-supporting organizations in Turkey, which hosts ... ; Wiktorowicz, 2000) . A state may also strategically delegate tasks to nonstate actors—even potentially oppositional groups—to preserve its fiscal and political strength (Brooke, 2019; Cammett & MacLean, 2014

Learning from Bad Teachers: Leibniz as a Propaedeutic for Chinese Philosophy

One of the challenges facing instructors of Chinese philosophy courses at many Western universities is the fact that students can often bring orientalizing assumptions and expectations to their ... surveys four pedagogical approaches to confronting it in the context of undergraduate Chinese philosophy curricula. After showcasing some of the inadequacies of these approaches, I argue in favor of a fifth

Organizational or Individual? The Effect of Social Networks on Volunteer Activities in Japan

6 (= never). Enrollment in a membership association is a binary variable reflecting enrollment in a political association, trade association, social service group, citizen movement, religious group ... %), the second largest to cooperative associations (18.4%), and the third largest to hobby groups (15.5%). Citizen movements (2.3%) represented the smallest portion, political Volunteering for protection of

Institutionalizing Experimental Places for Inclusive Social Innovation: From Utopias to Heterotopias

in this cognitive change and bringing up, as recently pointed out by Mair et al. (2023) and by Battilana and Casciaro (2021) , the political nature of social innovation. The notion of heterotopias ... ., 2019, p. 890) .’ Clearly, being social innovation an umbrella concept and a ‘‘deeply political boundary object’’ (Pel & Bauler, 2014) , it is important to clarify the position and perspective taken

How to Understand the Identity of an Object of Study in Comparative Philosophy

Comparative Philosophy Volume 2151-6014 CONSTRUCTIVE-ENGAGEMENT DIALOGUE (1.1) HOW TO UNDERSTAND THE IDENTITY OF AN OBJECT OF STUDEY IN COMPRATIVE PHILOSOPHY SORAJ HONGLADAROM 0 HONGLADAROM, SORAJ ... : Professor of Philosophy, Chulalongkorn University , Bangkok Bo Mou has presented a list of methodological principles concerning how to maintain adequate methodological guiding principle in doing philosophy

Volunteering and Policy Makers: The Political Uses of the UK Conservative Party’s International Development Volunteering Projects

motivates a political party to develop overseas development volunteering projects for members? How do such activities affect individual volunteers and the party, more broadly? To address these questions, this ... develop a framework for analysing drivers and effects of party-supported volunteering. We argue that political parties are under-researched sending communities, and that development volunteering constitutes

Communal Labor in Ecovillages: Contradictions, Impasses, and Possibilities within the Notion of Self-sufficiency

Our goal is to outline the concept of communal labor in ecovillages of Brazil. To do that, we considered three elements: (1) political orientation for self-sufficiency; (2) technical-productive ... rationality and a political ecology nature that go beyond conventional disciplinary areas, and approach a new scientific paradigm (Boeira, 2002) . We addressed the ecovillage organizational arrangement under

Book Review on New Frontiers of Chinese Philosophy (edited & trans. by Nevad Kahteran)

ROŠKER, Jana S.: Professor of Sinology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana Whenever sinologists speak of Chinese philosophy, we are unavoidably confronted with the question of the suitability ... of this term. Scholars trained in Western philosophy, on the other hand, have only limited access to the general theory and genuine philosophical aspects of Chinese thought. Hence, for the majority of

COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY VOL 2 NO 2 WHOLE SET

By Comparative Philosophy, Published on 07/15/11 ... Comparative Philosophy Volume 2151-6014 - OPEN ACCESS / ISSN 2151-6014 / http://www.comparativephilosophy.org EDITOR Bo Mou, San Jose State University, USA INTERNATIONAL EDITORIAL BOARD Robert