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The main objective is to show how relations of virtuous friendship are an effective strategy for teaching peace. The basis for this assertion is the Aristotelean proposal that differentiates between perfect friendship, which is virtuous and seeks what is good for the friend, and secondary friendships whose goal is utility and pleasure. Virtuous friends seek to help the friend acquire virtue. Moreover, it highlights the need to accept that we are people with a nature that needs refinement and to accept the innate characteristics each person is born with. This two-fold acceptance is necessary to accept and love the friend as oneself, and whom to help be virtuous. Thus, it also requires understanding the importance of inner personal harmony to avoid conflicts as a condition of virtuous friendship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Every people, every nation with a history lasting for many millennia, with a powerful and rich past, has its own national values. National values are the best qualities that distinguish peoples, nations, societies from others. The national values of our people, which have a national root and a national foundation, are sufficient. In the aesthetic culture of medieval Azerbaijan and Nakhchivan, architecture, decorative applied art, and miniature art are a valuable resource as carriers of socio-philosophical meaning. Among the peoples of the world, the people of Azerbaijan, known for their national and spiritual values, occupy a unique place with their national characteristics, the human ideas and traditions that they live and propagate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the first volume of his systemic series, German theologian Jürgen Moltmann begins his systematics with a musical metaphor; "The eschatological is not one element of Christianity, but it is the medium of Christian faith as such, the key in which everything is set ..." Moltmann then goes on to propose that the eschaton is a temporal event, which breaks the logic of his initial metaphor of the key signature. This essay will explore the differences between understanding the eschaton explicated as the key that Christian hope is set as opposed to a temporal alternative, such as the time signature. Jeremy Begbie is brought into the conversation to explicate how "harmony" can guide our conversation of music theory, and Miguel De La Torre illuminates how Moltmann's claim, which while revolutionary in many aspects, continues to rely on Eurocentric understanding of salvation history, just as music theory tends towards Eurocentrism. We also examine what we lose out on when we leave this uninterrogated. To conclude, we explore how Moltmann's proposal about Christian hope becomes more coherent within the metaphor of key signature and right relationship instead of time signature and temporality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]