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Existential Finitude and Ethical Relationality: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Tagore and Sartre

Through a comparative analysis of Rabindranath Tagore and Jean-Paul Sartre, this paper argues that while Sartre's model of absolute finitude fails to inherently ground ethical obligation, Tagore's framework of relational continuity successfully integrates mortality with ethical interconnectedness, demonstrating that a robust ontology of relationality is necessary for death to serve as a foundation for ethical life.

Pintu Das2026-09-07
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Strengthening Public Service Delivery through E Government Development in Somalia

This paper argues that while e-government holds significant potential to enhance public service delivery, transparency, and accountability in Somalia, realizing these benefits requires overcoming critical challenges such as fragmented institutions and weak infrastructure by prioritizing interoperable systems, capacity building, inclusive access, and robust legal frameworks.

Mahad Abdi Muhumed, Abdinasir Abdullahi Mohamed, Burhan Hassan Warsame, Abdirasak Dahir Sulub, Zakaria Mohamud Yusuf2026-09-07
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The Role of the Metaverse in Shaping the Future of E-Tourism Marketing in Zimbabwe

This qualitative study reveals that while the metaverse holds significant potential to transform e-tourism marketing in Zimbabwe through virtual experiences and blockchain transactions, its adoption is currently hindered by critical infrastructural deficits, skills gaps, and policy limitations, necessitating a phased framework involving infrastructure investment, capacity building, and regulatory support to ensure sustainable digital transformation.

Yvonne Madongonda, Mercy Dube, Hope Hogo, Delight Rufaro Hungwe2026-09-07
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Scourge or Source of Opportunity?The Double-Edged Effect of AI Disruption Awareness on Employees’ Thriving at Work

Drawing on conservation of resources theory and a three-wave survey of 600 employees, this study reveals that AI disruption awareness acts as a double-edged sword for thriving at work by simultaneously triggering resource-gain and resource-loss pathways through knowledge acquisition and hiding, respectively, with job crafting styles further moderating these opposing effects.

Shu Yu, Ling Xiao2026-09-07
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AI-assisted Egyptian hieroglyphic reading in scholarly practice: workload, usability, and acceptance in a pilot feasibility study

This pilot feasibility study evaluates the impact of the AI tool PyThoth on Egyptologists' workload, usability, and acceptance during hieroglyphic reading, revealing that while the tool improves task completion rates, it does not necessarily enhance accuracy and elicits complex, experience-dependent shifts in user perception.

Ekaterina Aleksandrova, Maksim Golyadkin, Innokentiy Humonen, Ilya Makarov, Alexandre Loktionov2026-09-07
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Whose story gets told? ChatGPT, collective memory, and ethical narratives in the age of Artificial Intelligence

This paper argues that while AI tools like ChatGPT can democratize access to historical knowledge, they risk distorting collective memory through algorithmic biases and factual inconsistencies, necessitating ethically grounded human oversight to ensure historical narratives remain products of critical reflection rather than automated representation.

Nuno Moniz, Jasna Ćurković Nimac, Ivana Brstilo Lovrić, Valentina Petrović, Paula Zujić2026-09-07
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Authentic Love after Conflict: A Beauvoirian Ethics and the Foundations of Couple Repair

This paper proposes a Beauvoirian ethics of couple repair that argues authentic love, defined as reciprocal recognition, is structurally prone to conflict and infidelity, and suggests that while only consensual non-monogamy preserves authenticity, repair toward an I–Thou relationship is only possible through disclosed non-consensual infidelity when the offending party engages in repair, provided that cognitive-existential foundations for mutual recognition are re-established before communication skills training.

Wing Chung Ho2026-09-07