{"title":"Some European reflections about individualism","authors":"J. Kerkhofs","doi":"10.2143/EP.5.2.563090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/EP.5.2.563090","url":null,"abstract":"Comparaison de la reception par l'opinion publique americaine et par l'opinion publique europeenne de l'evolution de la societe actuelle vers l'individualisation et la secularisation. Examinant le partage entre liberte, egalite et fraternite realise par differents pays et groupes en 1981 et 1990, ainsi que les statistiques etablies sur l'importance de la vie de famille, du developpement personnel, de l'engagement dans l'Etat, de la justice et des garanties sociales, du progres scientifique et de la religiosite (in «European Values Studies», 1991), l'A. conclut a la meme fragmentation des valeurs en Europe et aux Etats-Unis, malgre leur difference d'appreciation de la societe","PeriodicalId":54109,"journal":{"name":"Ethical Perspectives","volume":"5 1","pages":"102-108"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2005-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67976763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Literature as Challenge to Catholic Theology in the 20th Century","authors":"K. Kuschel","doi":"10.2143/EP.7.4.503812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/EP.7.4.503812","url":null,"abstract":"L'A. traite de la theologie catholique du XXeme siecle et de son debat avec la grande litterature en prenant les exemples de Hans Urs von Balthasar et Romano Guardini. Il montre que lorsque la theologie a commence a proposer un nouveau paradigme d'interpretation du monde au XXeme siecle, cela a ete inspire par la litterature et la poesie, et decrit dans un second temps les tâches d'une theologie catholique moderne prenant au serieux le defi de la litterature.","PeriodicalId":54109,"journal":{"name":"Ethical Perspectives","volume":"7 1","pages":"257-268"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2005-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2143/EP.7.4.503812","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67981194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Public health, well-being and reciprocity.","authors":"Yvonne Denier","doi":"10.2143/ep.12.1.583362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/ep.12.1.583362","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Public-health measures are very effective and efficient means of improving health, yet public health is either neglected by the literature or fraught with unease, mainly due to the combination of the aggregate-distributive tension with the element of compulsion. I argue that this unease can be decreased by 1) a pluralist-holistic view of health, situating the normative value of health in its effect on well-being, incorporating both the objective and subjective source of the value of health; and 2) by a rich concept of reciprocity. This article supports Martha Nussbaum's critique of social-contract thinking for placing too much weight on the scale of normal functioning and productive reciprocity, as well as Sen's distinction between well-being and agency freedom. To reach an adequate understanding of the value and goal of public health within the general setting of health care, a pluralist conception of health, well-being and reciprocity is necessary.</p>","PeriodicalId":54109,"journal":{"name":"Ethical Perspectives","volume":"12 1","pages":"41-66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2005-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2143/ep.12.1.583362","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25978543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Professional ethics and collective professional autonomy: a conceptual analysis.","authors":"Asa Kasher","doi":"10.2143/ep.12.1.583363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/ep.12.1.583363","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the first section, it is argued that a professional activity involves systematic knowledge and proficiency, a form of continuous improvement of the related bodies of knowledge and proficiency, as well as two levels of understanding: a local one, which is the ability to justify and explain professional acts, and a global one, which involves a conception of the whole profession and its ethical principles. The second section is devoted to a conceptual analysis of professional ethics. It is argued that it consists of a general conception of professionality, a particular conception of the profession under consideration, and a conception of the normative requirements made by the societal envelope of the professional activity, in particular basic norms of democracy. The third section draws conclusions with respect to the nature and limits of professional autonomy. It is shown that such autonomy is much more restricted than its apparent extent. Examples from engineering and other professions are provided.</p>","PeriodicalId":54109,"journal":{"name":"Ethical Perspectives","volume":"12 1","pages":"67-97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2005-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2143/ep.12.1.583363","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25978546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The saving power of biotechnology: on public perceptions of a field of technology.","authors":"Lars Reuter","doi":"10.2143/ep.12.1.583360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/ep.12.1.583360","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Biotechnology emerges in the nexus of academic, political and economic interests. With its strong reliance on a human individual capable of changing matter or organisms in accordance with anticipated goals, biotechnology is closely linked with a modern notion of human agency. In this article, it is argued that in contemporary European societies, biotechnology is perceived in three distinct ways, namely as an agent, as pluripotent, and as salvific. Similar to other forms of technologies, it provides a foil for human activity and projection, but it supersedes them in a quasi religious fashion. The great fascination with the biotechnological enterprise might, thus, express a more fundamental longing for narratives providing coherence and meaning.</p>","PeriodicalId":54109,"journal":{"name":"Ethical Perspectives","volume":"12 1","pages":"3-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2005-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2143/ep.12.1.583360","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25978542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joerg Flecker, H. Witte, Gudrun Hentges, P. Catellani, Y. D. Weerdt, Patrizia Milesi
{"title":"Experiences in working life and the attraction of the extreme right: Empirical findings of a European study.","authors":"Joerg Flecker, H. Witte, Gudrun Hentges, P. Catellani, Y. D. Weerdt, Patrizia Milesi","doi":"10.2143/EP.12.2.630047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/EP.12.2.630047","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54109,"journal":{"name":"Ethical Perspectives","volume":"12 1","pages":"141-170"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2143/EP.12.2.630047","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67960186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nations, boundaries and justice: on Will Kymlicka's theory of multinationalism","authors":"H. D. Schutter","doi":"10.2143/EP.12.1.583361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/EP.12.1.583361","url":null,"abstract":"Will Kymlicka’s theory of minority rights has been most influential. Kymlicka distinguishes two types of ethnocultural minorities: national groups in a multinational state and ethnic groups in an immigrant society. This article focuses on the ‘multinational’ aspect of this paradigm. It investigates the extent to which Kymlicka’s justification of self-government rights for nations can offer a just guideline for the way in which we should accommodate cultural diversity generated by a plurality of national groups within one state. Should we regulate the cultural and linguistic market-place, and, if so, should we justify a right for all nations to a distinct societal culture with its own political and territorial boundaries? The answer the article develops is a moderate ‘yes, but’. We should recognize and protect cultural identities, since, as Kymlicka rightly argues, cultures provide us with constitutive contexts of choice. But there seems to be an inability in Kymlicka’s theory to deal with strongly multinational and multilingual situations. Kymlicka explicitly recognizes the fact that national cultures can be pluralistic (i.e., diverse with regard to beliefs), but he neglects diversity within the cultural structure itself. Nevertheless, our cultural world is full of such instances of vague boundaries, gray zones, minorities within minorities, bi-and multilingualism, etc. Consequently, the article attempts to supplement Kymlicka’s mosaic form of multiculturalism with a hybrid extension. It is highly commendable to recognize and protect cultures, provided we incorporate cultural hybridity into our multicultural theory.","PeriodicalId":54109,"journal":{"name":"Ethical Perspectives","volume":"12 1","pages":"17-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2143/EP.12.1.583361","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67959869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Right To Explain, A Qualitative Study On The Receptiveness Of Flemish Workers To The Extreme Right","authors":"Y. D. Weerdt, H. Witte","doi":"10.2143/EP.12.2.630048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/EP.12.2.630048","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we will look at evidence from qualitative interviews with Flemish workers to explore possible links between experienced changes in their working environment and their receptiveness to (the ideas of) the extreme right. In doing so, we attempt to go beyond election research, which narrows down the concept of ‘receptiveness to the extreme right’ to voting behaviour only. We broaden this scope by looking at elements of how people become receptive to extreme right-wing ideas, possibly as a reaction to experienced adverse changes in their working life. For this purpose we interviewed people who feel threatened in their working life because of recent worldwide economic changes or people who have experienced an actual decline in their socio-economic and professional situation. We chose (the threat of) decline because we thought decline might evoke the ’clearest‘ reactions. We further interviewed both people who were receptive to the extreme right and people who were not. This design enabled us to look for possible schemes of interpretation that people use to make sense, socially and politically, of the changes they experience in their everyday working life. A right to explain A qualitative study on the receptiveness of Flemish workers to the extreme right","PeriodicalId":54109,"journal":{"name":"Ethical Perspectives","volume":"12 1","pages":"171-203"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2143/EP.12.2.630048","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67960205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Religious Dimension of Cultural Initiation","authors":"K. Williams","doi":"10.2143/EP.11.4.519088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/EP.11.4.519088","url":null,"abstract":"This article considers the role of religion in general cultural initiation. The thrust of the argument pursued here is that, even in secular environments, schooling should offer some level of initiation into religious sensibility. Without this initiation, young people will not be in a position to engage with the religious dimension of general culture.","PeriodicalId":54109,"journal":{"name":"Ethical Perspectives","volume":"11 1","pages":"228-237"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2004-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2143/EP.11.4.519088","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67958708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}