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2014
In the book Unfit for the Future Persson and Savulescu portray the problems and challenges humanity will have to cope with in the near future. Problems technological progress and demographic growth have evoked can’t be solved through common moral psychology, which was assimilated to small, nontechnological societies many many years ago. There is a need of moral enhancement for humanity to be able to cope with present problems. It is Persson and Savulsecus opinion that humanity is ‘ill-equipped’ (p. 12) through the so called ‘common-sense morality’. Moral attitudes of various societies all over the world can be brought to one common denominator, which the authors call ‘common-sense morality’. This ‘common-sense morality’ is not capable of giving us the moral psychology to cope with the problems modern societies have to face. Further in the book, Persson and Savulescu illustrate the components of this ‘common-sense morality’. For example, it is said that we care more about what happen...
Moral Enhancement: Critical Perspectives, ed. by Michael Hauskeller and Lewis Coyne (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018)
This essay addresses two aspects of Persson and Savulescu's case for moral enhancement: 1) the precise technological nature of ultimate harm, particularly as it applies to the ecological crisis, and 2) what is at stake in the solution they propose. My claim is that Persson and Savulescu's treatment of both issues is inadequate: the ecological crisis is a more complex phenomenon than they suppose, and more is at risk in moral enhancement than they claim. To make my case I draw on the work of Hans Jonas, who presciently and insightfully dealt with related questions. Jonas' philosophy unites bioethical, technological, and environmental concerns and so offers a useful contrast to Persson and Savulescu's proposal. If my analysis is correct then we have both practical and principled reasons to be sceptical about the prospect of moral bioenhancement, which I assume, for the sake of argument, to be feasible.
2012
Modernity and the modernization process are generally accepted as favourable phenomena. While on one side of the coin we see how modernity has greatly benefited mankind in areas of science, technology and economics, the other side of the coin -the costs of modernization -has often been intentionally left unnoticed or put within footnotes as inconvenient afterthoughts. One such thorny issue that has been the source of debate between pro-modernists and anti-modernists is the effect modernization has on the values and social aspects of society. Modernity and morality are deemed to be separate concerns; one can exist without the other, or, as some believe, in place of the other. The dilemma -modernity without morality, or morality without modernity -is one that can be answered through a scrutiny of the values themselves that are held by modern societies. This research note is an attempt to compare and contrast the conventional Western approach to ethics, values and social concepts, to t...
Draft Book Manuscript, 2023
Human values are important subject of matter in philosophy, yet also in very different scientific disciplines, including psychology and economy. The shared interest of both disciplines for the research of values increased in recent time in accordance with paradigmatic changes in both sciences. In psychology, the values appeared in radically new light with the paradigmatic shift toward the social, cultural and cognitive perspective. In the economics, the values became increasingly important subject of research within the evolution from classical and neoclassical economic paradigm to behavioural economics. Economic and technological progress can not be the only measure for the stability and well-being of human society. On the contrary, without the maintenance and promotion of the values and ethical standards, the economic progress and technology could vitally jeopardise the societal welfare. The knowledge, economy and technology can serve to the benefit of humanity - or they can be misused and utilised to harm the mankind. Only the values, ethics and moral standards can efficiently prevent the misuse of the economic and technological progress. Only the values and ethical standards can guarantee that our knowledge will not turn against the humanity. The stable society of the future must therefore be the society of knowledge and values, the future of ethical application of economy and technology. Only such society can be labeled the society of true wisdom and happiness.
in Law John, Mol Annemarie (eds), 2002, Complexities: Social Studies of Knowledge Practices, Durham and London, Duke University Press, pp.53-87., 2002
The Modern Society and Its Ethical Dilemmas Researcher Cornelia Găşpărel, PhD Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch The world today is faced with a lack of current moral models, so moral principles are often used as weapons for labeling and balancing certain social, political and economical circumstances existing in society. The presence in the social pace of such problems conducts to and brings dilemmatic interpretations, susceptible of overshadowing the discipline and the model of social coexistence on which the entire legal system is based on. The deontological codes that exist in the diversity of academic and institutional communities, are just a brief insight into the meanings of the ethical principles. We note however that despite the emergence of new human rights, codes of conduct existing in the Romanian space remain the same, and the institutions that create and apply them remain tributary to limited and time dependent interpretations. In this context the notion of ethics is often misunderstood because there is an exaggeration of certain limitations of actions and the interpretation can be guided by criteria that have no connection with the internal standard, ie the principles of the Deontological Code . Contextuality can be the solution to a part of the ethical dilemmas, but it does not lead to the logical indicators. One cannot bring too much criticism upon contextuality and therefore upon its relativity of interpretation, as long as reality shows this can be the only viable solution. Human habit is to reduce novelty to what he knows, in the idea of assimilation, which explains the reluctance to everything that is new or requires the effort of thinking. Once assimilated, the novelty becomes active, so the ethical reform in psychosocial research and practice consists in the removal of what is old and needs recontextualized, because we face new problems - genetic inventions, reordering of health insurance system, creation of new legal codes, etc. We therefore believe that Martin Cohen’s 101 ethical dilemmas, Philip Zimbardo's failed experiment, joining a stream or another, whether it is utilitarianism, consequentialism or professional ethics, configure only at a descriptive level the topics regarding the understanding of the purpose and of the ethical interpretation in the scientific society area which itself includes the contemporary one. The basis of this scientific paper is built on a series of psycho-philosophical coordinates which are focusing on the philosophical, hereditary and neurological unconscious. Repositioning and analysing the theories concerning unconscious have conscience as a starting point (in terms of moral and spiritual virtues), followed by the importance and the role of memory, which may indicate or not the resources of will. In other words, we are talking about a different perspective on scientific and applied ethics, but the individuality of our demarche brings the idea of enhancing morality by reconsidering the ontological structure (conscience) which may justify or not the equity in human relations.
Academia Letters, 2021
L. M. de Araújo, J. das Candeias Sales (eds.), Novos trabalhos de Egiptologia Ibérica, 2012
Review of Mülke, Markus, Aristobulos in Alexandria. Jüdische Bibelexegese zwischen Griechen und Ägyptern unter Ptolemaios VI. Philometor (Untersuchungen z. antiken Literatur u. Geschichte (UaLG) ; Bd. 126; De Gruyter, 2018)
RTE Brainstorm, 2019
Pedagonal : jurnal ilmiah pendidikan, 2023
BHM Berg- und Hüttenmännische Monatshefte, 2014
Arquivos Brasileiros de Endocrinologia & Metabologia, 2013
Acta horticulturae, 2020
Minerals Engineering, 2010
Integration of Data Mining in Business Intelligence Systems
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2015
European journal of computational mechanics, 2011