Research projects (1 - 500 of 2917)

Researchers:
• Isabelle Devos
Compassion and Sympathy: Schopenhauer and his Critics. Towards Retrieving Schopenhauers Perspective on Mitleid
(Compassion) as the Metaphysical Foundation of Ethics.
K.U.Leuven
Abstract: Schopenhauer#s perspective on Mitleid (compassion) articulates a voluntaristic virtue ethics that is founded on metaphysical monism. The
moral significance of Mitleid is viewed as the seeking of the well-being of others, which stems from a response to the apprehension of their
sufferingengendered by human egoistic agency. The metaphysical relevance of Schopenhauer#s perspective on Mitleid lies in the fact that it
essentially underscores the notion of the oneness of Being and especially, the notionof common humanity against the evil consequences of
individualism whichsome consider to be the bane of modernity. Despite the general relevance of the phenomenon of compassion to ethics,
inadequate conceptions of compassion by Schopenhauer#s critics tend to diminish its ethical import.Hence, a question that deserves much
attention in this research is how valid is Schopenhauer#s perspective on Mitleid as the metaphysical foundation of ethics given these criticisms. Of
particular interest are th
Organisations:
• Centre for Metaphysics and Philosophy of
Researchers:
• William Desmond
Language awareness raising in Flemish primary schools. An implementation study.
K.U.Leuven
Abstract: In 2011 a review study, commissioned by 'VLOR' (Flemish council ofeducation) was carried out by the Centre for Language and Education
(CLE, KU Leuven) and 'Steunpunt Diversiteit en Leren' (SDL, UGent), inassociation with the research unit Language and Education (KU Leuven)
and the network of expertise School of Education Association KU Leuven. The study reports on the concept, the use and the effects of language
awareness raising in Flemish primary and secondary education. It concludes that a well-thought implementation project can provide all those
involved (policy-makers, educational counselors , schools and teachers) with the necessary information and instruments to understand the
importance of language awareness raising as well as to put language awareness raising in practice. In order to initiate this implementation project, a
short-term study is carried out (by CLE, SDL and the Flemish educational support-services), aiming at the following goals: (1) support the
pedagogical suppo
Organisations:
• Language and Education
Researchers:
• Koen Van Gorp
• Kristiaan Van Den Branden
Social Commerce and business intelligence techniques.
K.U.Leuven
Abstract: No English Abstract
Organisations:
• Research Centre for Management Informati
Researchers:
• Bart Baesens
Understanding Chinese and European structural foreign policy at the crossroads between interculturality and diversitycomparitive
analysis andcase-study(DR Congo).
K.U.Leuven
Abstract: No English Abstract
Organisations:
• Institute for International and European
Researchers:
• Stephan Keukeleire
Unity and diversity: an investigation of managerial coaching in 'BRIC countries' - a study of Brazil, Russia, India China
from 2003to 2013.
K.U.Leuven
Abstract: No English Abstract
Organisations:
• Occupational & Organisational Psychology
Researchers:
• Martin Euwema
The eternal and the infinite in Arnold Geulincxs moral philosophy
K.U.Leuven
Abstract: Explores the significance of the concepts of the infinite and the eternal in the moral philosophy of Arnold Geulincx, in the context of his
metaphysics, physics, and the thought of his contemporaries.
Organisations:
• Husserl-Archives: Centre for Phenomenolo
Researchers:
• Roland Breeur
The origin of Platonic hylomorphism. The role of pseudo-Pythagorean textte ancient philosophy of nature
K.U.Leuven
Abstract: OT/11/003, The Explanation of Qualitative Properties in Neo¬platonic Phy of Nature and Metaphysics'
Organisations:
• De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medi
Researchers:
• Jan Opsomer
• Pieter d'Hoine
• Angela Ulacco