Can We Care about Nature?

2019 ◽  
pp. 86-96
Author(s):  
Gregory E. Kaebnick
Keyword(s):  
Human Enhancement ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Human Relationship ◽  
The Ideal

The debate about human enhancement turns partly on the view we take about the ideal human relationship to nature, but those views are hard to articulate and are frequently misunderstood. Often, those who raise concerns about human enhancement on grounds of beliefs about the human relationship to nature are seen as holding that human enhancement is simply “against nature” and therefore flatly wrong. But there are alternative ways of describing the ideal human relationship to nature. The belief that enhancement is against nature requires understanding moral values, nature, and the human relationship to nature in rather rigid ways. Alternative ways of understanding those things can lead to a significantly more moderate view—that the concern about nature is not about violating nature but simply about striking a balance between remaking nature or preserving it.

scholarly journals The Ideal Character of Students Based on Moral Values in Short Movie Videos

2019 ◽  
Vol 1179 ◽  
pp. 012097
Author(s):  
C. Arumsari ◽  
N. Hudha A ◽  
F. N. Isti’adah
Keyword(s):  
Moral Values ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
Short Movie

The Assault on Class

Worldview ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 15 (7) ◽  
pp. 20-25
Author(s):  
Peter L. Berger ◽  
Brigitte Berger
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
Black Americans ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Racial Justice ◽  
Racial Oppression ◽  
American Society ◽  
Martin Luther King ◽  
The Ideal

Of all evils in American society, racial oppression is the most intolerable. Of all priorities for American society, the attainment of racial justice is the most urgent. This is so because the issue of race touches on the very heart of the moral values by which the society lives. Martin Luther King understood this, and the same understanding illuminates his idea of an integrated American society.The ideal is not only the integration of black Americans in terms of all the rights and privileges promised by the society's political creed; and it is not at all integration that deprives blacks of their cultural identity, as King's detractors (including the posthumous ones) have falsely claimed.

Pranks, Tropes and Raspberries: The Dialogic Demeanour of Satire’s Creative Horizon

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-60
Author(s):  
John Baldacchino
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Nobel Laureate ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
The Political ◽  
The People ◽  
Dario Fo ◽  
The World ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
The Ideal

Abstract This essay starts off with a modern-day court jester (Nobel laureate Dario Fo) praising a Pope (Albino Luciani, who became John Paul I). Fo presents us with an historic moment: Luciani scandalises his Church by calling God “Mother.” With utmost seriousness, Fo appreciates the Pope’s kindness and warmth by which the artist perceives a way of scandalising the world out of complacency. In their idealised and situated presentations of the world, the sacred and the profane return the necessary to the contingent (and vice-versa) as moments of equal attention and distraction. Likewise, irony and satire mark our situated sense of the ideal by an inability to unlearn the certainties by which we are urged to construct our world. This is done by first presenting a situated pedagogical context that refuses to provide solutions presumed on measurement, certainty or finality. Secondly this begins to lay claim to the political, aesthetic and moral values that are gained through art’s ironic disposition. Thirdly, through our contingent states of being we begin to understand how education is culturally conditioned and why we need to shift it to another gear – that of unlearning through a weak pedagogy. An atheist, Fo suggests that thanks to Pope Luciani, we now could endear to the Holy Spirit as a spirito ridens, a spirit that laughs. Here one finds a kenotic sense that gives us a glimpse in how an ironic disposition owes its strength and effectiveness to a weak pedagogy. By dint of such weakness, the jester’s pedagogical disposition becomes a form of resistance, exiting the Court in order to be with the people and consequently transformed by the people.

The Didactic Voice: The Orations (Seven Ethico-Political Orations)

2019 ◽  
pp. 161-198
Author(s):  
Florin Leonte
Keyword(s):  
Special Kind ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
The Other ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Moral Virtues ◽  
Preceding Work ◽  
Tight Connection ◽  
The One ◽  
The Ideal

This chapter argues that, despite the differences of form, the seven orations included in this collection constituted a unitary collection and, for this reason, one should consider their interrelations as well as their distinctive features. Furthermore, the seven orations establish a tight connection with the preceding work, the Foundations, with which they share several themes. Admittedly, far from being a text focused on kingship, the Orations are rather geared towards the presentation of an individual’s acquisition of moral values. The correlation between ethics, the rulers’ virtues and rhetorical skills is framed in a tradition that originated in the writings of the rhetoricians of Hellenistic and Graeco-Roman times. Yet in Manuel’s case, through the development of the idea of a special kind of imperial behaviour, the presentation of moral virtues reflects, on the one hand, such a tradition and, on the other hand, an insight that could only have come with practical experience. Drawing on multiple philosophical sources, this formulation of imperial behaviour was based on the ideal of tolerance, with strong bonds of friendship and values such as education and moderate enjoyment of life.

THE PAN-AFRICAN IDEAL UNDER A NEW LENS: THABO MBEKI'S CONTRIBUTION

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Lopes
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Pan African ◽  
Pan Africanism ◽  
Thabo Mbeki ◽  
The Ideal

This essay is an attempt to assess the important evolution undergone by the pan-African ideology. It argues that from its inception the ideal was marked by moral values and political ambitions that were grounded on the desire to reverse the dominant views of African inferiority. This has not resolved the identity and racial connotations that have provoked the proliferation of views about what pan-Africanism really means. Yet pan-Africanism has become the most powerful magnet for generations, and remains the most solid reference for the construction of an integrated Africa. The last 10 years have witnessed large-scale affirmation of a particular brand of the pan-African ideology. Thabo Mbeki is one of the most significant architects of this development.

scholarly journals What is Positivism Today?

AJIL Unbound ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 114 ◽  
pp. 87-91
Author(s):  
Mónica García-Salmones Rovira
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
International Society ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
International Community ◽  
Global Society ◽  
Real Power ◽  
Historical Turn ◽  
Cultural Terms ◽  
The World ◽  
The Ideal

This essay focuses on the understanding of positivism in Prosper Weil's time, its trajectory since, and how that trajectory reflects changes that have occurred in global society in the intervening years. The world to which Weil spoke is neither in scientific nor in political and cultural terms the same as ours. Key positivist notions, such as neutrality or Weil's critique of the ideal of the unity of the international community and of the invocation of higher moral values, appear to chain sound normative principles while letting loose real power. At any rate, Weil's ideas have not survived globalization or the critical and historical turn taken in the discipline of international law. And yet “Towards Relative Normativity?” arguably owes its lasting significance to its grasp of the weight of the authority of law in international society.

scholarly journals ISLAMIC MORAL VALUES IN KUBAH BY AHMAD TOHARI

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cut Novita Srikandi
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Human Relationship ◽  
History Of

This study aims to explore the values of the Islamic moralism to be conveyed novelist of kubah. The study used the moral approach to analyze the Islamic moral values in Ahmad Tohari's novel. Islam is a religion that encompasses aspects of human life, aspects of life that are presented in the literature. Therefore, Islam and literature cannot be separated. Human relationship with man and man's relationship with his god is a very basic Islamic teaching. Kubah is the first novel by Ahmad Tohari tells of a character named Karman and tells about events of September 30, 1965, during which the movement of the Indonesian Communist Party that being part history of Indonesia. Within this novel, narrated about suffering, experience, and a long journey and religious life of Karman figure when he joined the communist party.

scholarly journals Czym są i gdzie bytują obiektywne wartości moralne

Etyka ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 107-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tadeusz Ślipko
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Moral Behaviour ◽  
Objective Existence ◽  
The Ideal

The answer is given here to the question about the place where moral values exist. It is based on the Augustinian and Thomist ethical tradition. The author defines moral values as the ideal patterns of human moral behaviour. Their objective existence is founded in the rational human nature treated in the metaphysical categories. Finally, author situates moral values in the sphere of the relative beings. Their essence consists in “being toward” (esse ad).

scholarly journals The Ideal Romantic Partner Morality

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryo Oda ◽  
Kanako Hayashi
Keyword(s):  
Assortative Mating ◽  
Cultural Transmission ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Mate Preferences ◽  
Romantic Partner ◽  
Moral Foundations ◽  
Moral Norms ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
Group Breeding ◽  
The Ideal

Assortative mating must be important for maintaining morality in a population, as moral principles are shared by most people in a group. Breeding by a pair with similar morals results in genetic and cultural transmission of these morals to the next generation, which maintains the moral norms of the group. In this study, we investigated absolute and relative mate preferences in relation to particular moral foundations, as represented by five general moral values. In both sexes, correlations between ratings for self and an ideal romantic partner on these factors were rather high (.67  ≤ r ≤ .84). Differences between self-ratings and ratings for the ideal romantic partner did not deviate significantly from zero for any of these factors.

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