Prajñā Vihāra

CODIFICATION OF SCHOLARLY VALUES IN ACADEMIC PUBLISHING: AI GOVERNANCE AND INSTITUTIONAL TENSIONS

Anthony Le Duc — 2026-07-01

This article examines the current artificial intelligence (AI) policies by five prominent academic publishers—Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, SAGE Publishing, and Cambridge University Press— interpreting them as efforts to codify values as generative AI becomes embedded in academic communication. Through comparative qualitative analysis, the study identifies core values consistently operationalized across these policies, including exclusive human authorship, mandatory disclosure, non-delegable accountability, and confidentiality in peer review. As technological change disrupts traditional norms, these policies act as both regulatory tools and ethical anchors, stabilizing the identity and legitimacy of academic institutions. However, this codification creates structural tensions. Turning ethical principles into formal rules produces unintended consequences, from adding new layers of scholarly labor to reinforcing existing institutional inequalities. In addressing both epistemic risks and the tensions that arise from governance responses, the article advocates for AI governance that is reflexive, inclusive, and context-sensitive. Such models should preserve institutional integrity while respecting the evolving partnership between humans and machines in the production of knowledge.

Submitted: 03 March 2026

Accepted: 25 May 2026

INDIGENOUS RECIPROCITY AND THE GIFT: KAREN AGRARIAN REORIENTATIONS OF GIFT THEORY

Michael Bistis — 2026-07-01

This paper reads Western gift theory through the relational and reciprocal traditions of Southeast Asia, setting the classical accounts of Marcel Mauss, Georges Bataille, and Jacques Derrida alongside the agrarian reciprocity of Karen communities in Northern Thailand. Mauss’s gift as a total social fact, Bataille’s surplus in the general economy, and Derrida’s claim of impossible gift, it argues, are constrained by anthropocentric and economistic assumptions. Drawing on secondary literature and on participatory observation carried out between 2023 and 2025, it examines Karen rice-centred practices, among them rotational farming (rai mun wian), seed sharing, rice-merit ceremonies, and the Rice–Merit Networks, in which obligation is lived less as debt or equivalence than as a continuing moral commitment that binds humans, land, spirits, and future generations. Seen in this light, Karen reciprocity widens Mauss’s total social fact into a sacred ecology, recasts Bataillean surplus as communal responsibility, and meets Derrida’s aporia with what the paper calls a conditional unconditionality: a gift that stays ethically binding without collapsing into calculation. Karen agrarian practice thus appears not as an illustration of gift theory but as a resource for rethinking reciprocity, obligation, and the gift within philosophy of religion and moral economy.

Submitted: 25 January 2026

Accepted: 02 June 2026

FAITH ACROSS THE SKIES: DESIGNING IN-FLIGHT SERVICE EXPERIENCE DURING RELIGIOUS TRAVEL

Yuanjing Xue — 2026-07-01

This study investigates the strategic integration of religious sensitivity into the aviation service design framework, positioning faith-based hospitality as a critical lever for sustainable competitive advantage. As global mobility facilitates an unprecedented rise in religious tourism, pilgrimages have transitioned from mere logistical providers to essential facilitators of spiritual experience. Drawing on the service management perspectives of Kandampully and Solnet , the research explores the transition from technical efficiency to "high-touch" emotional connectivity. By utilizing Muslim-Friendly Airline Services (MFAS) as a primary benchmark, the article delineates a multi-dimensional service model encompassing "Universal and Segmented" catering, "Flexible and Inclusive" spatial design, and "Cross-Religious Competency" in cabin crew training. Furthermore, the study examines the "Dignity Chain" in the specialized transportation of human remains (HUM), arguing that the harmonization of stringent safety protocols with spiritual rites is vital for fostering passenger loyalty. The findings suggest that by digitizing religious toolkits and fostering cultural intelligence among frontline employees, airlines can move beyond commoditized offerings to provide a personalized, inclusive environment that respects the core identity and heritage of the global traveler.

Submitted: 10 February 2026

Accepted: 25 May 2026

LEVERAGING VIETNAM'S HUMAN RESOURCES FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF VALUE: THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND THE HUMANITIES INTO DRIVERS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Vo Van Thang — 2026-07-01

This article proposes a conceptual and theoretical framework to investigate the role of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) knowledge in developing Vietnam's human resources through the lens of the philosophy of value. Departing from standard empirical investigations, this study develops the Axiological Transmutation Framework for Human Resource Development (ATF-HRD). By synthesizing Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of cultural capital, Jürgen Habermas’s theory of communicative action, and John Dewey's reflective thinking within the context of Marxist-Leninist historical materialism, the proposed model elucidates the mechanism by which knowledge transforms from a latent state into a material impetus across three dimensions: the individual (psychological power/mental energy), the community (social capital), and the nation (soft power). Through a conceptual research design, the paper asserts that humanistic knowledge serves as the foundational "operating system" for sustainable development. Consequently, the paper proposes strategic solutions for educational reform and the creation of a "value environment" to realize the goal of comprehensive human development in the nation's new era of ascendancy.

Submitted: 24 April 2026

Accepted: 02 June 2026

ON THE BAD STUDENT MOVEMENT IN THAILAND CONSIDERED FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF ARISTOTLE'S VIRTUE ETHICS

Siripong Rongsirikul — 2026-07-01

The Bad Student Movement (BSM) in Thailand in 2020 was a youth movement that had the aim of forcing educational reform. It advocated reforming outdated curriculum, improving the quality of teachers, updating teaching methodology, addressing educational inequality, and supporting student rights. The movement has also come under various criticisms. This research uses Aristotle’s virtue ethics framework to evaluate the movement itself and its role in building virtue and personal development. The study reveals that BSM’s strong demand for holistic education reform and social justice aligns with Aristotle’s concept of flourishing and the role of education in virtue development. Its encouragement of open discussion, collective action, and friendship helps students develop critical thinking and civic engagement. However, its weaknesses involve a lack of explicit focus on developing virtuous character among the students themselves. To remedy the BSM’s weaknesses, this paper proposes applying Aristotle’s causality and function argument as a framework for systematic character education. This can interweave well-defined ends and well-designed means for systematic character education implementation.

Submitted: 12 November 2025

Accepted: 20 January 2026

BEING-WITH, BEING WITH, AND WORLD IN BEING AND TIME

Stephen Evans — 2026-07-01

On a common reading of Being and Time the world is as it is due to Dasein’s understanding of it. Taking Dasein as the individual and given that, although Dasein is constitutively “Being-with”, it is not necessarily with others, there seems to many scholars an ontological gap concerning how there could be a single, common world on Heidegger’s account. Questioning what Heidegger may mean by “Being-with” and the related notion, “Being-in-the-world”, I argue that the singleness of the world does not depend on similar understandings but a priori on encounter that may lead to convergence of understandings. Heidegger’s account of discourse coheres with this claim and suggests an understanding of Dasein in terms of call and response into world understood as task. As response to others, Dasein is Being-with, with them in its Being, even when alone; As participation in the task of world, Dasein is in-the-world in its very Being.

Submitted: 16 December 2026

Accepted: 25 May 2026

Ryuchi Fujii, THE TRUE MEANING OF BUDDHISM

Samuel Bendeck Sotillos — 2026-07-01

Ryuchi Fujii, THE TRUE MEANING OF BUDDHISM

Submitted: 23 March 2026

Accepted: 25 May 2026

DEDICATORY EPISTLE AND EDITORIAL NOTE

John T. Giordano — 2026-07-01

Dedicated to all Esteemed University Institutions, Trusted Indexing
Services, Respected Search Engines, Illustrious Directories, Omniscient
AI Platforms, and Dearest Human Readers

A LITTLE HISTORY OF TEARS: ON THE ETHICS EXPRESSED IN ARIN RUNGJANG´S GOLDEN TEARDROP

Anders Kølle — 2026-07-01

A LITTLE HISTORY OF TEARS: ON THE ETHICS EXPRESSED IN ARIN RUNGJANG´S GOLDEN TEARDROP

Submitted: 01 February 2026

Accepted: 25 May 2026