Volume & Issue: Volume 3, Issue 11.10, Summer 2007, Pages 7-197 
Research Paper

Morality and Literature (Charles Dickens and his English Contemporaries)

Pages 1-30

https://doi.org/10.22054/wph.2007.6966

vasil ghalouchan

Abstract Examiningg the lilemry works of Charls Diceens, William Makepmce Thacktrqy, George Elliot and Thomas Harq)•, the a11thor produces a momic of the Victorimr morality in 19th centery E11gla11d. The author comes to tbe concluion that the Viaorian age was not as pnritan as it is usually imagined and tlu moral problems that bumankind deals with in the cosrse of its developmml art in their e.mnce 1111iverso/, though not identical. Thry differ in their individual forms produced lry the individual periods ofhuman history

Research Paper

The American Cultural Identity: Philosophical Reflections on the Existing Controversies over its Nature

Pages 31-58

https://doi.org/10.22054/wph.2007.6967

seyed alireza hoseyni beheshti

Abstract Since the la.st two decades of the last centery, the American cosiaty has witnessed that emergence of a social movement could "multiculturalism". It has challenged the dominated moniestic view which prescient for a long time the American culture as more or less homogeneus with little (if any at all) respect for different concerning divers cultural identities of the citizens. The first section of the present paper will deal with exploring the main features of the debate over the challenges to sight in details. The second section will attempt to explore the philosophical assumptions behind each view. The third section is design to offer a better understanding of the issue at bands in the debate which shall mainly rely on Alasdair MacIntyre’s conception of traditional of moral enqurity and will be follow by some concluding points to the arguments of this paper.