Thesis advisor: James T. Bretzke / Thesis advisor: Andrea Vicini / This thesis argues that, in order to address adequately the ecological crisis, humanity needs to change drastically soon from ecologically harmful to ecologically friendly attitudes and practices. In our Christian understanding, this change requires a conversion from ecological vices to ecological virtues. To do so, humanity needs to move away from its overtly anthropocentric concerns to a more genuine respect for creation. Drawing from Church tradition, this thesis establishes that creation has rights, endowed by the Creator, that need to be protected, if ecological integrity is to be preserved. This thesis suggests what these rights should be and the means that would allow their protection. I then argue that, for the necessary changes in human behaviour to take places, ecological conversion needs to begin with individual conversion before social transformation is possible. This thesis, therefore, proposes the ecological virtues needed for individual conversion, and then ecological social action and advocacy. Thus, this thesis charts a course forward from principles, to motivations, and finally, to action. / Thesis (STL) — Boston College, 2017. / Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry. / Discipline: Sacred Theology.

Thesis advisor: Stephen Pope / Agendas in ethics are often set by questions raised in the wider society. The growth and flourishing of environmental ethics is a good example of this phenomenon. In recent decades, the growing concern among scientists, politicians, economists, and the media regarding the future of life on the planet has raised all kinds of questions about the origin of the so-called ecological crisis. Complex analyses and different sets of solutions have followed. Yet the problems seem far from being solved. Ethicists and theologians have joined the conversation and have also proposed interpretations and complex, often contradictory, solutions to the problems raised by this crisis. / Thesis (STL) — Boston College, 2011. / Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry. / Discipline: Sacred Theology.

Thesis advisor: James F. Keenan / Thesis (STL) — Boston College, 2015. / Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry. / Discipline: Sacred Theology.

Thesis advisor: Andrea Vicini / Thesis advisor: Richard Spinello / In this thesis, I try to make a small contribution to this search for an Order in cyberspace. In the first chapter I study some new dimensions of freedom, which arose together with the development of the internet. I present the technology and the culture of hackers as two sources of a new understanding of liberty in cyberspace. I also highlight two moral issues, which are present in cyberspace, and that, in my opinion, were caused by this redefinition of freedom. In the second chapter, I try to apply Christian moral theology to address, interpret, and suggest some possible solutions for some ethical issues in cyberspace. In order to build a theological foundation to address further considerations, I study the relation between God’s plan of creation and the rise of the internet. In the second section of this chapter, studying the issue of hate speech online and the phenomenon of Wikipedia, I present cyberspace simultaneously as a structure of sin and a structure of grace. The theology of the Trinity, and of Jesus as the Word of God, help me to give some Christian interpretation of this discrepancy. In the last section of this chapter, I study the phenomenon of video games, particularly online multiplayer games. I identify a deep relation between the video game culture and transhumanism, and I address its implications for morality. However, I also find some ethical virtues particularly present in the community of gamers. Finally, I identify some occurrences of the three theological virtues, faith, hope, and charity, in the virtual world of video games. This helps me to give some Christian moral interpretation of the virtual world of video games. / Thesis (STL) — Boston College, 2017. / Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry. / Discipline: Sacred Theology.

Thesis advisor: Stephen J. Pope / This dissertation argues that industrial food production, characterized under the term “big food,” is an environmental and social problem that requires a response from Christian theology and ethics. However, previous scholarship addressing “big food” did not confront the intransigent nature of this problem. As a result of this state of the problem, the dissertation poses the question: what is an adequate response to the intransigent problem of “big food?” In response this dissertation argues that a proper response involves an integrated Catholic ecological ethic. An integrated ecological ethic combines the methods of virtue ethics and social ethics to propose virtues within a contextually aware framework. The resources of the Catholic tradition can be utilized to develop an integrated ethic that balances the concerns of ecojustice and environmental justice. The solution proposed involves the development of ecological reformulations of the virtues of charity, prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude. The above virtues are not proposed within a theoretical vacuum, but rather within an awareness of various unjust structures in the United States that support “big food” and habituate the ecological vices of pride, fearlessness, and gluttony. The dissertation makes constructive proposals for structural change to develop structures of “big food” that can promote ecological virtue as opposed to ecological vice. In addition, the dissertation makes several recommendations for personal reforms in relation to food habits so as to move toward ecological virtues. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2016. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Theology.

論文(博士)--香港中文大學歷史系,1994. / 參考文獻: p. i-xxi(3rd group) / 游子安. / 論文提要 --- p.i / Chapter 第一章 --- 善書與社會文化變遷的界定 --- p.1 / Chapter 第一節 --- 善書的界說 --- p.1 / Chapter 第二節 --- 社會文化變遷與善書的論題 --- p.6 / Chapter 第三節 --- 善究綜述及本文研究的取向 --- p.12 / Chapter 第二章 --- 淸代社會文化對善書發展的影響 --- p.22 / Chapter 第一節 --- 淸代的社會敎化與宣講善書 --- p.22 / Chapter 第二節 --- 民間宗敎的盛行與關帝、呂祖善書的傳播 --- p.37 / Chapter 第三節 --- 淸代學術風氣下善書的編纂和整理 --- p.52 / Chapter 第三章 --- 淸代善書編著人物及區域的研究 --- p.63 / Chapter 第一節 --- 功過格等善書反映明末淸初社會經濟的問題 --- p.63 / Chapter 第二節 --- 出入三敎的家族--江蘇長洲彭氏家學、 善書與善舉 --- p.91 / Chapter 第三節 --- 從余治及其《得一錄》論淸後期善書與善舉 --- p.111 / 附：余治年表 --- p.122 / Chapter 第四節 --- 淸末湖南善書與反敎書刊 --- p.126 / Chapter 第四章 --- 淸代善書流行的社會文化意義 --- p.142 / Chapter 第一節 --- 善書流通地域與傳播方式 --- p.142 / Chapter 第二節 --- 官紳士人各階層與善書的編刊 --- p.157 / Chapter 第三節 --- 善書特定的勸戒對象 --- p.169 / Chapter 第四節 --- 善書與世變 --- p.195 / Chapter 第五章 --- 結論 --- p.205 / 附錄 書影 / 主要徵引書目

鄧小虎. / "2000年6月" / 論文 (哲學碩士)--香港中文大學, 2000. / 參考文獻 (leaves 104-109) / 附中英文摘要. / "2000 nian 6 yue" / Deng Xiaohu. / Lun wen (zhe xue shuo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2000. / Can kao wen xian (leaves 104-109) / Fu Zhong Ying wen zhai yao. / Chapter 一. --- 緒論 --- p.1 / Chapter 二. --- 第一章 --- p.3 / Chapter 1.1 --- 啓蒙運動的失敗 --- p.4 / Chapter 1.2 --- 啓蒙運動爲何註定失敗？ --- p.8 / Chapter 1.3 --- 情感主義及其源起 --- p.11 / Chapter 1.4 --- 現代文化就是情感主義式的文化 --- p.15 / Chapter 1.5 --- 提出德性倫理學以回應情感主義的挑戰 --- p.19 / Chapter 三´Ø --- 第二章重建德性倫理學（一） --- p.22 / Chapter 2.1 --- 如何建構有理據的德性倫理學？ --- p.23 / Chapter 2.2 --- 重建德性的第一階段：實踐體系 --- p.24 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- 內在價値 --- p.25 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- 共同設立的合作性活動 --- p.30 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- 傑出標準 --- p.32 / Chapter 2.3 --- 對於德性的初步瞭解及其不足 --- p.34 / Chapter 四´Ø --- 第三章重建德性倫理學（二） --- p.36 / Chapter 3.1 --- 第二階段：有整體性的人生 --- p.36 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- 可理解性與敘述 --- p.36 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- 兩類背景：社會性場景與個人歷史 --- p.37 / Chapter 3.1.3 --- 人生有敘述的整體性？ --- p.43 / Chapter 3.1.4 --- 統一的自我 --- p.46 / Chapter 3.1.5 --- 有敘述整體性的人生 --- p.49 / Chapter 3.2 --- 人生的目的（telos)與德性 --- p.51 / Chapter 3.3 --- 第三階段：傳統 --- p.55 / Chapter 3.4 --- 小結 --- p.59 / Chapter 五´Ø --- 第四章德性倫理學成功嗎？ --- p.63 / Chapter 4.1 --- 重建德性倫理學所必須克服的三項困難 --- p.63 / Chapter 4.2 --- 社會目的論 --- p.65 / Chapter 4.3 --- 價値衝突的悲劇處境 --- p.67 / Chapter 4.4 --- 共同目的和社群 --- p.78 / Chapter 4.5 --- 傳統和理性 --- p.86 / Chapter 六´Ø --- 總結啓蒙運動與德性倫理學 --- p.96 / 書目 --- p.103

Guy Debord (1931-1994) was the director of the International situationniste journal and de facto leader of the group of artists, writers, filmmakers and political agitators who went by the same name. This thesis will consider his many articles, signed and unsigned, that he contributed to the journal alongside his films and the theoretical work for which he is best known, La Société du spectacle (1967) in order to analyse and critique his written, filmic and organisational contribution to the group. The notion of ‘Situationism’, one Debord and the Situationists disdained, will be examined in the course of an assessment of the Situationists’ enduring relevance to contemporary debates in thought and politics as well as to the theory and practice of protest. In resistance to attempts to cast the Situationists as Romantic idealists who founded their critique of society upon a notion of unalienated human nature in need of freeing from the fetters of a capitalistic spectacle, it will be argued that the Situationists presented a radical rejection of such notions in elaborating their own conception of the capacities for egalitarian political subjectivation. The first chapter deals with the formative influence of Marx and Marxism on Debord’s La Société du spectacle and Situationist theory more generally. The second chapter examines the Situationist concept of détournement, the diversion or hijacking of pre-existing cultural elements in new works, with particular reference to Debord’s films. A third chapter presents a particular conception of ethics which emerges from both the writings and the organisational practice of the Situationist International before a final chapter assessing the Situationists’ pertinence to twenty-first century emancipatory politics.

<p> The purpose of this qualitative exploratory multi-site case study was to explore how principals perceived the influence of role models in the development of ethical leadership behaviors in principals in a school district in Maryland and to elaborate on teachers and staff description of the ethical leadership behaviors modeled by principals. Research directed the need to know how principals perceived the influence of role models in the development of ethical leadership behaviors in principals, as well as teachers and staff description of the ethical leadership behaviors modeled by principals. The sample consisted of four principals and seventeen teachers from four Title 1 middle schools in a school district in Maryland. The data collection instruments used were the in-depth interview on principals and teachers; open-ended questionnaire, and focus group discussions with teachers. The qualitative exploratory multi-site case study was used to explore the research questions, and the data were analyzed, and coded using the MAXQDA software into themes and sub-themes. The findings from this study confirmed that principals&rsquo; ethical leadership behaviors were acquired from childhood through adulthood and career life. Ethical leadership behaviors modeled by principals included behaviors like supportiveness, integrity, honesty, fairness, respectfulness, utilizing rewards, open communication, accountability, trustworthiness, cooperativeness, committed to high professional standards, motivational, and modeling expectations. The findings showed some variations in the principals&rsquo; demonstration of ethical leadership behaviors as some of the principals were considered to be more ethical than others. </p><p>

This thesis addresses the question of what Nyerere’s particular version of Ujamaa (socialism) is. It answers that question by focusing on themes which surround and feed into Ujamaa, in order to provide its conceptual account. The thesis is an account of the ideology of Ujamaa in both theory and practice. Thus while the writings of Nyerere have been a primary source along with contemporary and subsequent commentators, the thesis is not about Nyerere, the person or the body of his work, but about the development and construction of the particular social, cultural, and political theory and practice. Therefore, only the elements of Nyerere’s thought which speak directly about this have been included. Data was collected from the writings of Nyerere as a primary source and supplemented with the work of other commentators in order to argue that Ujamaa was not just a development theory but it was also an ideology, a reconstruction of an imaginary relationship at the level of the state, which should be reinstated in order to free Tanzanians from the yoke of domination. Thus, as well as being interesting historically and conceptually, the thesis might also be relevant considering the contemporary political situation in Tanzania.