Thesis (M.A.)--Guo li Taiwan da xue, 1965. / Reproduced from typescript, on double leaves. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--Guo li Taiwan da xue, 1965. / Reproduced from typescript, on double leaves. Includes bibliographical references.

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Thesis (doctoral)--University of Chicago, 1999. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

This research is to discuss the Chinese pre-Qin legalist school, Shang Yang's political thought. First, the purposes of the research are as follows: 1.To understand the background of Shang Yang¡¦s political thought and analyze the foundation of his political thought. 2.To discover the principles of Shang Yang¡¦s political thought. 3.From the principles of Shang Yang¡¦s political thought, analyze his political objectives. 4.To analyze Shang Yang¡¦s actual policies of agriculture and fight. 5.To sum up this research results to comment on Shang Yang's political thought. Therefore, based on the purposes of the research, the principles of Shang Yang¡¦s political thought is rule by law, attempt to achieve the powerful nation. The concrete method is the policies of the agriculture and fight. So, the following are the results of the analysis of this research: 1.Shang Yang advocates ¡¥rule by law.¡¦ 2.Shang Yang promotes anti-wisdom. 3.Shang Yang advocates despotism. 4.Shang Yang contends that clear reward and hard punishment can make the monarch rule smoothly. 5.Shang Yang proposes that the monarch rules by the system, rather than by man.

Intrinsic Spirituality has been linked to lower rates of depression and anxiety and higher positive mental functioning (Pargament, Exline & Jones, 2013). This may be due in part to beliefs which foster values that are important to positive outlook, such as faith, forgiveness, humility, love and community. It is also possible for strongly religious individuals to have maladaptive beliefs that may be problematic for their happiness and adjustment. Understanding how beliefs influence mental health can be helpful to therapists; particularly to those who deal with religious clients who are heavily influenced by their spiritual beliefs. This study looks at the important religious concepts of grace and legalism to identify how they interact with intrinsic spirituality to influence five different positive psychology measures: gratitude, self-esteem, meaning in life, satisfaction with life and optimism. Roughly 560 students from a religious university participated in a self-report survey looking at various spirituality and mental health measurements. Structural Equation Modeling was used to determine if experiencing grace or legalistic beliefs mediated the relationship between spirituality and each of five “life outlook” measures. Moderator analysis was used to identify any interaction effects of grace and legalism on the life outlook variables. Intrinsic spirituality was predictive of belief in grace and negatively predictive of belief in legalism. Belief in grace was also predictive of all five positive mental health measures, and legalism was negatively predictive of gratitude. Interestingly, grace-legalism interaction effects were found for self-esteem, gratitude and satisfaction. Gender differences were significant. Implications for therapy and directions for future research are discussed.

In Christianity, there are two major perspectives of how one attains eternal life: by faith in Jesus Christ alone, or by necessary additional works/ordinances, such as baptism, or obedience to commandments. Though beliefs about salvation may reasonably be thought to have an influence on mental health and behavior, research on the subject has been slow to accumulate. This project examined the association between beliefs about salvation and mental health, as well as whether this association is mediated by other variables, including Religious Involvement, Scrupulosity, and Perfectionism. A sample of 1,556 Protestants/Evangelicals and Latter-day Saints (who generally hold distinct views about salvation) completed a survey assessing beliefs about salvation and other religious and mental health variables (including Well-Being, Anxiety, and Depression). A scale assessing beliefs about salvation was generated for use with this sample and evaluated by exploratory factor analysis. A correlation matrix indicated beliefs about salvation did not have significant relationships with most variables, with the exception of religious Legalism (negative correlation with Faith, positive correlation with Works). This broadly contradicts theoretical data suggesting potential deficits due to beliefs about salvation by faith alone (e.g., lack of religious involvement) or by additional works (e.g., higher perfectionism). A mediation model was also tested, showing significant path strength between Faith/Works and Legalism; other significant paths were observed between the mediating variables and mental health variables (especially Spiritual Transcendence and Well-Being). Implications for future research on the cognitive dimension of religion are discussed.

Thesis advisor: Shep Melnick / Most of the literature on the separation of powers in the war on terror vastly overstates the power of the presidency and pays little attention to the respective roles of Congress, the courts, and the bureaucracy in prosecuting that conflict. Scholars – especially those in the legal academy – have consistently failed to appreciate the ways in which the president has been, and continues to be, checked and constrained by a variety of forces. In my dissertation, I engage in highly detailed case studies of U.S. law and policy with respect to detention and military commissions in the war on terror. I pay special attention to the complex interactions that occurred within and between our governing institutions in these policy areas. There are two central arguments that come out of my research and run through my case studies. First, the political scientist Robert Kagan’s work on “adversarial legalism” is no longer simply applicable to the domestic policy realm. The proliferation of legal rules and extensive litigation has increasingly come to characterize foreign affairs as well, with important consequences for how the U.S. implements its national security policies and fights its armed conflicts. In short, adversarial legalism has gone to war. Second, loose talk about the “unitary” nature of the executive branch is misleading. The executive branch is a sprawling bureaucracy made up of diverse actors with different perspectives, preferences, and norms, and that bureaucracy has interacted with Congress and the courts in surprising ways to constrain the presidency in the war on terror. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2016. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Political Science.

This study explores a significant and little studied aspect of the pioneering doctrinal work of the Fajia tradition, the Book of Lord Shang 商君書 (ca. 260 B.C. -‐233 B.C.): its system of rewards. In contrast with previous scholarship that has questioned the existence of a coherent Legalist political vision and even its idea of law fa 法 or that has focused strictly on penalty, this study considers Fajia law and discipline not only viable categories for analysis, but also important conceptual products of the intensely competitive, bellicose political climate of the Warring States period. The central concern is with the character fa 法 in Fajia texts. Beginning with an analysis of the Book of Lord Shang’s system of rewards, the study then examines how the use of the character fa 法 in this text distinguished itself from earlier usages and, hence, represents an important distinctly shared characteristic across Fajia texts generally. This shows that the Fajia system of rewards includes an important pedagogical aspect that requires the ruler’s subjects to develop themselves for the sake of state development. Therefore, this study also evaluates the pedagogical value of Fajia rewards based on social scientific research on organismic learning. This pedagogical aspect of Fajia governance, the study argues, is the means through which the Fajia notion of law reinforces its cultural ideals of the state. / 本文企圖考察在商君書(ca. 260 B.C. ‐ 233 B.C.)重要之一的方面：賞賜。以前的研究已經質疑連貫法家的政治思想，甚至其法律觀念鮮明特點的存在，或集中於嚴格刑罰的方面。可是這項研究認為法家的法律紀律的方面不只是可行的類別分析，還有法治觀念是戰國時期的競爭激烈，好戰的政治氣候的重要概念產品。最重要關注的是“法”字的意義在法家的文本。在開始本文分析商君書的獎勵系統。然後它探討如何在商君書中使用的“法”字，從早期的用途區分，以及它如何代表所有“法家”文本之間的一個重要的明顯特徵的共享。這表明，“法家”獎勵的系統包括一個重要的教學方面。它需要統治者的臣民來發展自己，為了國家的發展。因此，本文基於社會科學研究機體學習評估“法家”獎勵系統的教學價值。其實上，法家政治思想有這種教學方面的證明是強化了國家的文化理想的手段。 / King, Brandon Russell. / Thesis Ph.D. Chinese University of Hong Kong 2015. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 415-424). / Abstracts also in Chinese. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on 11, October, 2016). / Detailed summary in vernacular field only.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / A presente pesquisa aborda a construção do conceito de santificação a partir do desenvolvimento histórico da Igreja Adventista do Sétimo Dia, principalmente sob o prisma dos escritos de sua co-fundadora, Ellen Gould Harmon White, entre 1844 e 1915. O primeiro dos quatro capítulos trata das origens do movimento precursor do adventismo pelo fazendeiro William Miller. Este, a partir de sua interpretação bíblica concluiu que o fim do mundo com a culminante volta de Cristo sob forma literal seria iminente e a preparação para o encontro com Ele foi o mote principal de seu trabalho, constituindo a mais cara esperança dos crentes mileritas e, posteriormente, dos adventistas do sétimo dia. O segundo capítulo aborda de forma sintetizada a biografia de Ellen White e sua participação efetiva na construção doutrinária da denominação estudada, enquanto o terceiro aborda especificamente as origens da Igreja Adventista do Sétimo Dia e seu esforço para se constituir enquanto denominação dentro dos pressupostos do protestantismo histórico. Finalmente, o quarto capítulo examina os anteriores a partir do conceito de santificação, constituído ao longo do processo de formação da identidade adventista. / This research approaches the background of the concept of sanctification from the historical development of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, mainly under the view of its co-founder's writings, Ellen Gould Harmon White, between 1844 and 1915. The first of the four chapters deals with the origins of the movement that preceded Adventism by farmer William Miller. From his interpretation of the bible, he concluded that the end of the world with the culminating literal return of Christ would be imminent and the preparation for the encounter with the Lord was the main subject of his work, establishing the dearest hope of the Millerite believers and, later, of the seventh-day adventists. The second chapter approaches in a summed way Ellen White's biography and her effective participation in the doctrinal construction of the studied denomination, while the third approaches specifically the origins of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church and its effort to establish itself as a denomination in the purposes of historical protestantism. Finally, the fourth chapter examines the preceding ones from Ellen White's concepts of sanctification, established during the long background process of the Adventist identity.