Human dignity: social movements invoke it, several national constitutions enshrine it, and it features prominently in international human rights documents.
Dieses interdisziplinäre Handbuch rekonstruiert Optimierung als ein Phänomen, das konstitutiv in aktuelle Entwicklungen der Gegenwart eingeschrieben ist.
Several years ago I came across a marvelous little paper in which Hector-Neri Castaneda shows that standard versions of act utilitarian- l ism are formally incoherent.
The study of the ethical issues related to computer use developed primarily in the 1980s, although a number of important papers were published in previous decades, many of which are contained in this volume.
Diffraction patterns in quantum physics evidence the fact that the behavior of matter is the result of its entanglements with measurement, or as Karen Barad suggests, the entanglement of matter and meaning.
Originally published in 1949, this book covers both psychological and sociological aspects of moral life in Western society in the first half of the 20th Century and the historical influences on its thinking and way of behaviour.
Während "das gute Leben" in der antiken Ethik noch im Zentrum des Philosophierens steht, erfolgt mit der Moralphilosophie Kants eine Abkehr der philosophischen Ethik vom Glück des Individuums – zugunsten einer reinen über-individuellen Moralität.
That Kant's ideas remain vitally present in ethical thinking today is as impossible to deny as it is to overlook their less persisting aspects and sometimes outdated idiom.
The French philosophe Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) was a political and social thinker of enormous depth, range, originality, and influence.
While applied epistemology has been neglected for much of the twentieth century, it has seen emerging interest in recent years, with key thinkers in the field helping to put it on the philosophical map.
The Europiiische Akademie is concerned with the study of scientific and technolog- ical advances for the individual, society and the natural environment.
Constanze Wilkes geht der Frage nach, unter welchen rechtlichen und diagnostischen Bedingungen das Selbstbestimmungsrecht psychisch kranker Erwachsener im allgemeinpsychiatrischen Kontext eingeschränkt wird und wie die Beteiligten in der Praxis damit umgehen.
The Proactionary Imperative debates the concept of transforming human nature, including such thorny topics as humanity's privilege as a species, our capacity to 'play God', the idea that we might treat our genes as a capital investment, eugenics and what it might mean to be 'human' in the context of risky scientific and technological interventions.
