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At present, the integration of cultural and emotional aspects in interior designs is considered to be crucial. The combined emotional and new Chinese decorative style effects of interior spaces have not been examined adequately in previous studies. Thus, this study focuses on the role of new Chinese decorative elements in influencing emotional aspects within the context of interior design in China. To fulfil this aim, a qualitative approach was utilized. For this purpose, the data is gathered in two phases. In phase I, semi-structured interviews were utilized to collect data from 5 interior designers. In phase II, data was collected from a focus group discussion with 6 experts. Nvivo 12 software was used for conducting a thematic analysis of the collected transcripts within the context of interview strategy. However, for focus group discussion, content analysis was conducted. The findings from five interior designers showed that emotional aspects in interior designs are impacted by cultural elements. Moreover, numerous challenges in interior design can be overcome by the integration of emotional strategies. The results have shown that the emotional and cultural aspects are crucial for the development of creative interior spaces. Three levels of emotional design have been identified from focus group discussion. Visual aesthetic level comprises of novelty, color conformity, order and sequence, and richness of design. Three main functional levels are usability, comfort, and privacy. Individual level consists of culture, personalization, and fashion elements. Therefore, this study can be effective in promoting the development of creative interior spaces with a comprehensive focus on the levels of emotional design in the context of the new Chinese decorative style. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article seeks to examine the use of the figure of self-defence in the practices of the Buenos Aires criminal justice system. As we will show with the analysis of some paradigmatic cases, through the use of this exceptional figure, this criminal justice system produces certain murders as non-criminal acts to, paradoxically, safeguard individual life as a hegemonic value. Moreover, we will observe that the use of this legal figure reveals that killings to protect private property may not have a criminal character either. This in turn suggests that private property is also a hegemonic value for this criminal justice system, and that the allegedly supremacy of individual life over private property in its value scale should be at least questioned.

Explores the way in which this criminal system structures the relation and hierarchies between two main values in contemporary societies: individual life and private property. To this end, we analyze how murders and attacks against property are punished. Firstly, we will consider the penalties established in the penal code. Later, since there is an important distance between what written law prohibits and the effective way in which the judiciary operates, we will analyze and compare sentences for murder and for robbery. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In his fundamental work, A Theory of Justice, John Rowle raised a series of questions regarding the meaning of social life from the perspective of ethical values and, especially, the autonomy of legal values, the philosophical principles of justice. He theoretically positions himself mainly towards utilitarianism, taking into account the intuitionist concepts in the stated fields, according to his own point of view - the contractualist vision as a social structure. Concepts and ethical-legal values are brought into discussion, in particular, justice, thought of as honesty (fairness), fundamental ethical value, but also a concept of political philosophy. Rawls considers that within a modern theory of contractualism one can give meaning (social and political alike) to the individual life starting from the principle of honesty, of free discussions, between equals, in an institutional framework. These can be stated in a system in which justice is a product of society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article aims to discuss the theme of Adorno's non-identical moral philosophy, particularly the primacy of individual life over moral laws, as based mainly on his key works like Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life, On Subject and Object, Problems of Moral Philosophy, and Negative Dialectics. The claim here is that the primacy of individual life is made through negative dialectics ("non-idealist dialectics") dealing with the antithesis between object and subject, particular and universal, individual and society under the theoretical horizon of non-identical philosophy. Meanwhile, as a private ethics, this non-identical moral philosophy based on individual life stands as a kind of negativism, which is focused on negative guidance towards the possibility of right life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Shifting from individual life to that of social is a crucial turning point in human history. The idea of law and ethics came up with this societal stage. The common denomination forced people to follow these laws and ethical codes were common aims that brought these people to live together like surviving, sheltering, etc. In this stage humans sufficed to live on what is given to them. This is necessary anthropological stage humans had do undertake. The following stage required them to go after what is not given but to be created via their faculties and capabilities. This stage necessitated them to use their rational and empirical capacities to overcome the difficulties on the one hand and to fashion novelties on the other. This phase represents shifting from communal life to social one. Consequently, saved religious culture from the hegemonic corruption of politics can only create the spirit of unity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]