<p>The aim of this research was to examine whether a significant relationship exists between ethical decision-making had an impact on HR employees within a retail organisation. The questionnaire for the South African Board for People Practices, and the Ethical Position Questionnaire was administered to a sample of 150 employees in a large retail organisation within the Western Cape &ndash / South Africa. The researcher used a non-probability sampling technique specifically, a convenience sampling approach. The results of this study indicate that there is a statistically significant correlation between moral awareness and decision-making amongst HR employees. However with regards to gender there seems to be no statistical significant relationship amongst HR employees and ethical decision-making. Similarly results also indicated that there was no significant relationship between ethical ideology and ethical decision-making. Notwithstanding the limited generalisability of this study, implications for research and practice are suggested and recommendations are made to facilitate improved functioning.</p>

This dissertation makes the argument that the Franklin Roosevelt administration (1933-1945) embarked upon a global hegemonic project to transform the United States into a world empire and bring about the "New World Order." In addition, the expansion of U.S. commercial and military air routes was seen as instrumental to the realization of this project.

In this thesis it is argued that Kant's Copernican turn depends on his doctrine of the imagination, and that by understanding the role of imagination as symbolic rather than schematic, the resources are provided to show that his critical philosophy has more radical possibilities than those of his post-Kantian critics. To display this, it is first pointed out that the crucial role the imagination plays in Kant's Copernican turn is not fully developed in his first Critique. Next, it is argued that Kant's doctrine of the imagination is not fully realized until the third Critique in which Kant radicalizes his notion of constructivism by introducing a distinction between determinative and reflective judgments. Finally, it is suggested that while Hegel believes that Kant?s idealism is not dynamic enough to support a full-fledged constructivism, in fact, when Kant?s mature doctrine of the imagination is taken into account, this is no longer the case because Kant believes that our particular experiences of the world unfold artistically and creatively according to the work of the imagination. It is suggested, therefore, that in many ways Kant anticipates the developments of thinkers such as Hegel and other post- Kantians and may even continue to lie beyond them.

Στην παρούσα μεταπτυχιακή εργασία επεξεργαζόμαστε τη σχέση της φύσης και της τέχνης στη φιλοσοφία του πρώιμου Schelling. Στο έργο του Friedrich Schelling η καλλιτεχνική δραστηριότητα αποτελεί τον συνδετικό ιστό του ανθρώπινου πνεύματος με τη φύση. Αυτή η ενεργός σχέση φύσης και πνεύματος εκφράζεται πληρέστερα στο κοινό τους προϊόν, το έργο τέχνης. Στόχος μας είναι, μέσω διαδοχικών σταδίων μελέτης, ξεκινώντας από τη διείσδυση στο εσωτερικό της Φυσικής Φιλοσοφίας του Schelling και καταλήγοντας στην παραγωγή του καλλιτεχνικού προϊόντος στη Φιλοσοφία της Τέχνης του, να αναδειχθεί ο τρόπος με τον οποίο η φύση συναντά το ανθρώπινο πνεύμα στη σφαίρα της καλλιτεχνικής δραστηριότητας. / Our main objective with this postgraduate thesis is an attempt to process the relationship between nature and art in Friedrich Schelling's early philosophy. In Schelling's work, artistic activity is perceived as the connective tissue between the human spirit and nature. This active relationship is better expressed through their common end product, the work of art. Our goal therefore is, through a multi-level analysis which begins with an in depth view of Schilling's Natural Philosophy and ends with the production of the work of art in his Philosophy of Art, to shine a light on the ways in which nature meets the human spirit within the sphere of artistic activity.

Dans ce mémoire, nous nous proposons de montrer que le concept kantien de chose en soi est à la fois un concept métaphysique et un concept critique. En ce sens, la chose en soi doit être comprise comme un objet transcendantal réel qui existe à titre de cause des phénomènes. Si, contrairement à ce que soutenaient F.H. Jacobi (1787) et G.E. Schulze (1791), cela ne suppose pas de sortir du criticisme, c'est qu'une telle affirmation prend la forme d'une connaissance analogique qui respecte les limites de la connaissance humaine. De fait, la connaissance analogique permet de pointer en direction de quelque chose dont la nature (Beschaffenheit) peut demeurer problématique, tout en permettant d'affirmer son existence (Dasein). Nous serons dès lors conduite à montrer que la Critique de la raison pure fournit bel et bien les outils nécessaires permettant de rendre compte de l’existence des choses en soi à titre de causes des phénomènes. / In the following thesis, we will claim that Kant’s concept of a thing-in-itself is both a metaphysical and a critical concept. Accordingly, the thing-in-itself must be understood as a real transcendental object that grounds phenomena. Thus, we maintain – contrary to F.H. Jacobi’s (1787) and G.E. Schulze’s (1791) harsh objections – that this assertion does not violate the structures of critical philosophy. Indeed, this particular claim is arrived at through analogical cognition, which does not transgress the boundaries of human knowledge: as a matter of fact, analogical cognition allows us to point towards and assert the existence (Dasein) of something the nature (Beschaffenheit) of which may remain problematic. Thus, we believe that Kant’s metaphysical commitment with regard to the existence of the thing-in-itself as ground of phenomena can be fully justified within the Critique of Pure Reason.

<p>The aim of this research was to examine whether a significant relationship exists between ethical decision-making had an impact on HR employees within a retail organisation. The questionnaire for the South African Board for People Practices, and the Ethical Position Questionnaire was administered to a sample of 150 employees in a large retail organisation within the Western Cape &ndash / South Africa. The researcher used a non-probability sampling technique specifically, a convenience sampling approach. The results of this study indicate that there is a statistically significant correlation between moral awareness and decision-making amongst HR employees. However with regards to gender there seems to be no statistical significant relationship amongst HR employees and ethical decision-making. Similarly results also indicated that there was no significant relationship between ethical ideology and ethical decision-making. Notwithstanding the limited generalisability of this study, implications for research and practice are suggested and recommendations are made to facilitate improved functioning.</p>

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / In Australian Aboriginal affairs, the acculturative strand of assimilation developed in large part from Elkin’s religious and Idealist commitment, for which in the years 1928 to 1933 he won social-scientific authority. In competition with both an eliminationist politics of race and a segregationist politics of territory, Elkin drew upon religious experience, apologetics, sociology, and networks to establish a ‘positive policy’ as an enduring ideal in Aboriginal affairs. His leadership of the 1930s reform movement began within the Anglican Church, became national through civic-religious organs of publicity, and gained scientific authority as Elkin made religious themes a central concern in Australian anthropology. But from the 1960s until recently, most scholars have lost sight of the centrality of Idealism and religion in our protagonist’s seminal project of acculturative assimilation. This thesis aims to show how Elkin dealt with problems fundamental to twentieth century Aboriginal affairs and indeed to Australian modernity more generally – problems of faith and science, morality and expediency – in developing his positive policy towards Aborigines.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2008. / Title from title screen (viewed November, 11, 2008) Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Dept. of History, University of Sydney. Degree awarded 2008; thesis submitted 2007. Includes bibliographical references.

Ce travail propose une réévaluation du schisme phénoménologico-analytique à la lumière des textes de Husserl et de Carnap qui en constituent l’un des fondements et qui cependant émergent d’un contexte philosophique et scientifique similaire. L’idée carnapienne de constitution comme « reconstruction rationnelle » et arbitraire du monde peut en effet paraître s’opposer terme à terme au «se-constituer» des choses que déploie la phénoménologie husserlienne, mais l’emploi par Carnap du vocabulaire de la constitution nous impose d’interroger le lien que l’entreprise de l’Aufbau entretient avec la constitution idéaliste transcendantale. La thèse de ce travail revient à affirmer que l’opposition Husserl/Carnap ne peut être interprétée dans les termes d’une opposition entre phénoménologie et analyse logique, ni non plus sur la base des concepts d’idéalisme transcendantal, de logicisme ou de phénoménalisme. Comprendre l’opposition entre les deux auteurs (et donc plus lointainement entre les deux mouvements dont ils endossent, au moins partiellement, la paternité) implique de se pencher sur les textes de jeunesse où l’un et l’autre élaborent leur concept respectif de constitution, en s’intéressant notamment au modèle logico-mathématique du formel dont ils héritent, et dont leur système de constitution présente le déploiement. Cette confrontation nous amène à définir la constitution comme l’élaboration d’un modèle continu de la discontinuité atteinte par la description phénoménologique pré-constitutive du monde – ce qui nous conduira à interroger la pertinence du modèle topologique pour la constitution. / In this PhD thesis, I attempt to reevaluate the opposition between analytical and phenomenological philosophy through the study of Husserl’s and Carnap’s systems of constitution. Carnap’s idea of constitution as a “rational” and arbitrary “reconstruction” of the world seems to be radically antithetical to Husserl’s descriptive account of the “self-constitution” of the things themselves. Yet, Carnap’s use of the language of constitution, as well as his attempt to translate it into the language of logistics, lead us to question the links between his own enterprise and Husserl’s transcendental idealist constitution. What I am trying to demonstrate in this work is that the opposition between Husserl and Carnap cannot be interpreted either in terms of “phenomenology” and “analytical philosophy” or in terms of transcendental idealism, logicism and phenomenalism. In order to understand the opposition between Husserl and Carnap (and therefore, between continental and analytical philosophy), it is necessary to ask how and why, in their very first works and articles, they both conceived philosophy as a system of constitution. This leads us to give an account of Husserl’s and Carnap’s logico-mathematical models of the formal dimension of experience, and to define constitution as the elaboration of a continuous model for the discontinuity of the world – this discontinuity being given by the phenomenological and pre-constitutive description of the world. Would this imply then that topology is a suitable model for the construction of the world ?

Notre travail questionne l'assise temporelle de Cyrano de Bergerac d'Edmond Rostand. En effet, depuis 1897 et encore aujourd'hui, l'œuvre a la réputation d'être le dernier drame romantique français, au mépris des plus grandes évidences chronologiques. Notre approche allie littérature, histoire et sociologie. Notre travail s'applique dans un premier temps à éclairer cette impression d'anachronisme en explorant les pistes du romantisme, du cape et d'épée et des liens entretenus avec la comédie héroïque ainsi que la commedia dell'arte. Nous cherchons ensuite à montrer l'ancrage de la pièce dans son temps, en exhibant notamment ses rapports avec l'idéalisme fin de siècle et la modernité de sa proposition dramatique, qui tient du théâtre total, recourant par exemple fortement aux arts dits « mineurs ». Nous accordons toute leur place aux composantes du nez et du panache qui font l'originalité de l'œuvre rostandienne. Enfin, nous tâchons de saisir la constitution de Cyrano comme mythe littéraire et culturel en étudiant sa réception par la presse, la critique théâtrale, les artistes et la population, tout en soulignant le tournant qu'a représenté la Première Guerre mondiale. Nous interrogeons les tentatives de récupérations politiques en abordant l'aspect national de l'œuvre. Par là même, nous insistons, d'un point de vue littéraire, sur les spécificités du drame qui allie efficacement gauloiserie et préciosité. Nous soulignons finalement le passage du littéraire au moral, de l'esthétique à l'idéologique, pour montrer que Cyrano de Bergerac, loin de n'être qu'une simple pièce de théâtre, est devenue un véritable objet social. / This PhD dissertation queries the context in which Edmond Rostand wrote Cyrano de Bergerac. Since 1897, this play has been considered as the last French romantic drama, despite obvious chronological facts. Combining literature, history and sociology, this PhD dissertation throws light on this impression of anachronism by considering the entries of romanticism, cloak-and-dagger, heroic comedy and commedia dell'arte. Then, it shows that the work is deeply rooted in its time : first, because of its links with the "fin de siècle" idealism ; then, because it is an attempt of "total theatre" and because it includes arts that are often seen as "minor". Of course, we attach great importance to Cyrano's nose and panache which are key components of the play. Finally, studying how the newspapers, the dramatic critics, the artists and people apprehend the play and its heroe, this PhD dissertation considers Cyrano de Bergerac as a literary and cultural myth. Highlighting World War One as a turning point, we show that the play was used in a political way. Cyrano de Bergerac is supposed to be a national play but truly in a literary manner because of the alliance of "gauloiserie" and preciosity. Therefore, this dissertation shows how Rostand's work moves from a matter of literature to a matter of ethics, from an aesthetic aspect to an ideological one. Indeed, Cyrano de Bergerac is not just a play but a real social object.