On Mercy in Politics

2019 ◽  
pp. 188-209
Author(s):  
Michael Blake
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Potential Utility ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Moral Value ◽  
Proper Name

This chapter offers a provisional account of the virtue of mercy and defends its potential utility for public discourse about migration. It defends, first, the thought that mercy is the proper name for the virtue under consideration. It defends, further, the thought that the appeal to mercy is neither sectarian nor perverse. It offers some reasons, finally, to think that the practice of justice is supported by the practice of mercy; a society in which the virtue of mercy is ignored loses one site at which the moral value of human beings might be reasserted.

scholarly journals Recognizing the trafficking in human beings victimization

Temida ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 69-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Biljana Simeunovic-Patic
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Trafficking In Human Beings ◽  
Relative Prevalence

In spite of relative prevalence of trafficking in human beings issues in the expert and general public discourse in recent years, recognition of victimization by various specialists that may come across with victims still is being estimated as unsatisfactory. Stereotypes about victims of trafficking in human beings are just one factor that imperils correct and prompt recognition of victims, i.e. victims' identification, as principal prerequisite of their protection and support. Today, there are various efforts to overcome that problem - primarily through the training of professionals and creating the identification guidelines, i.e. lists of indicators of trafficking in human beings victimization; however, these resolves only one part of the problem and reveal some new challenges at the same time.

scholarly journals “De-centre-ing” sexual difference in public and ecclesial discourses on marriage

2008 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yolanda Dreyer
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Sexual Intimacy ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Linguistic Expression ◽  
Biological Difference ◽  
The Public ◽  
Private Knowledge ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Heterosexual Marriage

Public and ecclesial discourses influence opinions on the institution of heteronormative marriage. The term “discourse” indicates that private knowledge and experiences are made known in the public sphere. Against this background the article focuses on three postmodern approaches to a theology of marriage with regard to the significance or insignificance of the biological difference between femaleness and maleness. The first approach is that of marriage as a linguistic expression of intimacy in a relationship. According to this view, heterosexual marriage is not seen as the only possibility for expressing the intimate relationship between God and human beings. The second approach assumes that love and caring, supposedly inherent to heterosexual marriage, can also exist in other relationships. This implies that marriage as institution should also be available to people in relationships other than heterosexual. The third approach emphasizes marriage and sexuality as being embedded in community. Such a view makes sexual difference and procreation peripheral to sexual ethics. The aim of this article is to suggest a further option for consideration, namely the “de-centreing” of sexual difference in the theology of marriage. This postmodern option pleads for a respect for privacy with regard to sexual intimacy, also in ecclesial and public discourse.

scholarly journals MORAL VALUE IN NOVEL TASAWUF LOVE KARYA M. HILMI AS'AD

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wulandari Ramadania
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Moral Value ◽  
Opposite Sex ◽  
Social Messages ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Descriptive Method

ABSTRACTThe moral value conveyed by the author to the reader through works of fiction especially novels is useful and useful to the reader. This study aims to describe the moral values associated with social messages and expose the moral values associated with the religious message contained in the novel Tasawuf Cinta by M. Hilmi As'ad. The method used in this research is analytic descriptive method. The results of this study indicate the moral values associated with social messages are: (1) social in social life; (2) relations between human beings of religion, and (3) association between the opposite sex. The moral values associated with the religious message are: (1) the relationship of man and God; (2) human nature and conscience; (3) the personal freedom that man possesses; And (4) the dignity and dignity of each individual.Keywords: moral value, novel                                                

scholarly journals The Legal Personhood of Artificial Intelligences

2019 ◽  
pp. 175-190
Author(s):  
Visa A.J. Kurki
Keyword(s):  
Moral Consideration ◽  
Legal Person ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Moral Value ◽  
Legal Personhood

The chapter scrutinizes the legal personhood of artificial intelligences (AIs). It starts by distinguishing three relevant contexts. Most discussions of AI legal personhood focus either on the moral value of AIs (ultimate-value context); on whether AIs could or should be held responsible (responsibility context); or on whether they could acquire a more independent role in commercial transactions (commercial context). The chapter argues that so-called strong AIs—capable of performing similar tasks as human beings—can indeed function as legal persons regardless of whether such AIs are worthy of moral consideration. If an AI can function as a legal person, it can be granted legal personhood on somewhat similar grounds as a human collectivity. The majority of the chapter is focused on the role of AIs in commercial contexts, and new theoretical tools are proposed that would help distinguish different commercial AI legal personhood arrangements.

scholarly journals NILAI MORAL DARI ASPEK HUBUNGAN MANUSIA DENGAN MANUSIA DALAM KUMPULAN CERITA RAKYAT DAERAH JAMBI KARYA THABRAN KAHAR

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 136
Author(s):  
Abdoel Gafar ◽  
Nurul Sarah
Keyword(s):  
Moral Values ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Moral Value ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Living Together ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

The research is aimed at describing the moral value aspects of human-to-human relationships in Kumpulan Cerita Rakyat Daerah Jambi by Thabran Kahar. The moral value consists of aspects (1) caring for others, (2) helping, (3) deliberation, (4) living together, (5) forgiving, (6) keep on promise, (7) appreciating others. This research includes descriptive qualitative types. Qualitative descriptive describes an event with words or images of objects with actual circumstances. The data sources in this research are words, sentences, quotations or expressions that can be found in the dialogue of the characters in Kumpulan Cerita Rakyat Daerah Jambi by Thabran Kahar. Based on the results of this research, it can be concluded that aspects of the moral value of human relationships with other human beings are contained in the Kumpulan Cerita Rakyat Daerah Jambi by Thabra Kahar. The data showed that there are 60 expressions that are divided into seven aspects of moral values including: caring for each other as many as 14 quotations, please help as many as 12 quotations, deliberation as many as 9 quotations, living together as many as 8 quotations, forgiving as many as 6 quotes, keep on promise as many as 4 quotations, and respect others as many as 7 quotations.

"There's Something in the Water": Salmon Runs and Settler Colonialism on the Columbia River

2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsey Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Columbia River ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Sea Lions ◽  
Indigenous Epistemologies ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Indian Tribes

This paper seeks to decentralize the human and interrogate the ways in which settler colonialism shapes the land itself by engaging with indigenous epistemologies that take seriously notions of place, relationship with the land, and the spatially located lifeways of non-human beings. Analyzing public discourse around the ongoing lawsuit filed by the Humane Society against the states of Oregon and Washington and the Columbia River Indian tribes over the "humane" trapping and euthanizing of sea lions that endanger salmon populations, I reveal that the dominant rubric for human/"nature" relationships in the Northwest—shared natural resource management—has become ossified. By deconstructing the hegemonic notions of "nature" and the commons and to whom they belong that are encoded within the lawsuit, this paper demonstrates that the conquest of Native peoples and conquest of the land are co-constitutive, and that processes of settler colonialism must be considered in light of their geographically specific locations.

Environmental ethics

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Brennan
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Environmental Ethic ◽  
Specific Aspect ◽  
Central Feature ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Moral Value ◽  
Living Things ◽  
In The Wild ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Moral Respect

Theories of ethics try to answer the question, ‘How ought we to live?’. An environmental ethic refers to our natural surroundings in giving the answer. It may claim that all natural things and systems are of value in their own right and worthy of moral respect. A weaker position is the biocentric one, arguing that living things merit moral consideration. An ethic which restricts the possession of moral value to human persons can still be environmental. Such a view may depict the existence of certain natural values as necessary for the flourishing of present and future generations of human beings. Moral respect for animals has been discussed since the time of the pre-Socratic philosophers, while the significance to our wellbeing of the natural environment has been pondered since the time of Kant and Rousseau. The relation of the natural to the built environment, and the importance of place, is a central feature of the philosophy of Heidegger. Under the impact of increasing species loss and land clearance, the work on environmental ethics since the 1970s has focused largely on one specific aspect of the environment – nature in the wild.

Revelation as apologetic category: a reconsideration of Karl Barth's engagement with Ludwig Feuerbach's critique of religion

2015 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-60
Author(s):  
Richard Paul Cumming
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Theological Anthropology ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Eternal Life ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Church Dogmatics ◽  
Protestant Christianity ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Critique Of Religion

AbstractThis article examines Karl Barth's engagement with the philosophy of religion of Ludwig Feuerbach. InThe Essence of Christianity, Feuerbach proposes that religion is a function of human projection and that the Christian concept of God represents the crystallisation in one objectified subject of all the finite perfections of individual human beings. InChurch Dogmatics, I/2, Barth seeks to respond to Feuerbach's critique of Christianity by affirming Feuerbach's critical account of the nature of religion but arguing that, since the original impetus of Christianity issues not from human projection but from God's act of self-revelation in Jesus Christ, Feuerbach's critique of religion does not apply to the Christian faith. Glasse notes that this response, whilst satisfactory to the Christian, would be ‘not intelligible’ to those who do not accept the Christian faith. Furthermore, Barth's apologetic manoeuvre, Vogel claims, entails that Barth is unable to defend the plausibility of the Christian faith on the terms set by secular culture, and that Christian theology is therefore required to abandon any attempt to participate constructively in general public discourse. Vogel recognises that this is a drastic recourse indeed, observing that it would be judicious for Christian theology to seek to elaborate a response to Feuerbach's critique which can stand without requiring the critic to assume the veracity of the Christian faith. This article argues that, by taking into account the role of Feuerbach's earlier work,Thoughts on Death and Immortality, for constituting the philosophical impetus of Feuerbach's critique of Christianity, the Christian theologian is able, using Barth's theological anthropology, to provide a response to Feuerbach's critique on Feuerbach's own terms. InThoughts on Death and Immortality, Feuerbach argues that Protestant Christianity, as the paradigmatic expression of religion, conceives the individual as an absolute being, and that, due to the fact that everyday existence clearly counter-indicates this absolutisation of the human individual, Protestantism posits a second, eternal life, in which the limits bound up with individual existence are eradicated. Using Barth's theological anthropology inChurch Dogmatics, III/2 and III/4, this article proposes that Barth concurs with Feuerbach's critique of the absolutisation of the individual, but that he is positioned to deny that this absolutised conception of the individual has anything to do with the Christian faith insofar as he accurately represents it.

scholarly journals CRISPR/CAS και η επέμβαση στο ανθρώπινο γονιδίωμα: περί φύσης και έξης

Bioethica ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Διονυσία Χασαπάκου (Dionysia Chasapakou) ◽  
Στέλλα Προϊκάκη (Stella Proikaki) ◽  
Μαρία Μπόμπολα (Maria Bobola) ◽  
Γεώργιος Λάμπρου (George Lambrou)
Keyword(s):  
Biological Sciences ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Biological Data ◽  
Biological Engineering ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Moral Value ◽  
Engineering Technology ◽  
Life Saving ◽  
New Policies ◽  
Negative Tone

Biological sciences are progressing rapidly. New methodologies of data analysis are necessary due to methods of production of mass biological data. However, new challenges have arisen concerning the knowledge management and its probable bioethical consequences on living beings.The next step in biological sciences' advancement was the CRISPR/Cas9 method which made possible the selective genomic modification. This method is simple, effective and flexible and facilitates the genomic modification of any organism included human. It is the most impressive achievement on the path of constant advancement in biological engineering technology over the last decade. Although already widely applied in all species, it is its application on human beings that is most interesting. In literature, there is an intense debate and the new technologies are being compared to old eugenics, which gives a negative tone to these methods. On the other hand, there is the optimistic aspect which considers these methods as life-saving for human evolution. This paper aims to present and support the view that the moral value of things is not in nature but in user's habit; to give grounds for more reflection, to discuss bioethical issues arising from the application of this technology and of course to highlight that whatever the upcoming developments of genomic are, they should foster and benefit the individual.Moreover, it is essential that the scientific community is in a constant and continuous consultation with society at large. Finally, new policies and updated guidelines are of utter importance in order to ensure the respect of human existence.

scholarly journals the Ideologi dan Wacana Kognisi Keagamaan di Pondok Pesantren Tradisional dalam Gema Santri

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 276-286
Author(s):  
Nazla Maharani Umaya
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Boarding Schools ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Public ◽  
Literary Expression ◽  
The Social ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Perceptions Of Students ◽  
And Behavior

This article discusses the findings of the ideology and religious attitudes through the perceptions of students on the work of the literary expression as a form of discourse and cognition in the traditional boarding schools. Research literature this is a stage of advanced exploration and study results of mentoring, the development potential of the students in the form of an anthology of short stories, “Gema Santri”. Research methods in the form of a descriptive study ekploratory literature. The purpose of the research was elaborated the discourse ideology and cognition of the traditional boarding schools students in Semarang city, based on research, as one of the areas adjacent to the city’s guardian (kota Wali). The research benefits gives an overview on the public discourse about ideology and cognition discourse based boarding schools traditionally. And that is proven dynamic and able to co-exist with modernization. The context is the social and ideological as the concept of the nature human beings as social beings. The findings is the content of education and behavior in boarding schools far away from the traditional perception of ideology and cognition discourse, fanatics, and thus is dynamic in generating a generation of nationalists, dynamic, and multicultural.

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