An ‘Ethics for the Transition’

2020 ◽  
pp. 231-248
Author(s):  
Dalia Nassar
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Philosophical Approach ◽  
Transformative Action

Over the last four decades, environmental ethics has become an increasingly significant field of philosophy. Yet, many of its practitioners question its goals and effectiveness. Above all, environmental philosophers voice uncertainty about the extent to which the field has been able to influence action, behaviour, and policy in relation to the environment. What are the reasons behind this meagre influence and what kind of contrasting philosophical approach might enable transformative action? The goal of this paper is to answer these questions by drawing on Schelling’s late philosophy. I argue that Schelling’s critique of philosophical logicism reveals the ways in which certain ways of doing philosophy fails to enable ethical and behavioural transformation. By contrast, I show that Schelling’s “positive philosophy” can offer important insights into our current situation and illuminate a way forward for a sustainable environmental ethics.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF THE STATE IN ASSURING THE FAIRNESS OF DISTRIBUTION IN VIETNAM TODAY: SOME ISSUES

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vinh Lê Thị
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
The State ◽  
Philosophical Approach ◽  
Equitable Distribution ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Planning Task ◽  
Fair Distribution ◽  
The Rich

In this article, through philosophical approach, the author focused on the role of the State in assuring the fairness of distribution. The article has three main contents: First, analyzing the weaknesses of the State in ensuring equitable distribution such as the State's unreasonable interference in the distribution relations, failure to properly implement the planning task and inspect, supervise the implementation of the distribution policy. Second, pointing out the consequences of the current situation the State has not yet properly implemented the role of managing, regulating and distributing - that is, the rich-poor gap is on the way to widening and polarizing, threatening stability and social development. Third, giving some principles that the State needs to implement more thoroughly to ensure fair distribution.

scholarly journals The Notion ‘Nature’ as Emerging from N Kazantzakis Works and School Books of Life Sciences: A Case Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Kalathaki Maria
Keyword(s):  
Science Teachers ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Environmental Science ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
Philosophical Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
School Books

<p>People struggled to explain the world around them and to build on the achievements of science and technology in order to improve the quality of life. The first questions raised for the properties and the beginnings of the external world, concerning all those perceived by human senses for the Nature. The ancient Greek spirit realized the Nature, organic or inorganic, as living, animated wholeness, as a universe. As Philosophy and Science developed, revealed the greatness of the creation of the world, cultivated the notion of the human superiority, with numerous cases of interpretation of the Nature based on the human creature. The concept of ‘Nature’ is intertwined with social choices and management practices. Environmental Ethics is education of values which allows the development of mechanisms that drive changes to attitudes and values, broaden and deepen the pedagogical dimension of theories of science and sociology. </p><p>In this paper is studied the issue of ‘Nature’ in a didactic research, through the philosophical approach of values of Educational of the Sustainable Development. The notion of Nature has significantly replaced by the term of ‘Environment’ attributing ecological, economic, scientific, aesthetic, existential, spiritual value. The research in this case study, carried out in the literature, with N Kazantzakis works and school books of Biology and Environmental Sciences, in order to clarify terms linked to the scientific and philosophical concept of ‘Nature’ and the ‘nature’ of the things. The educational intervention is a negotiation between literature and issues of the environmental science. This research materialized in the stage of preparing a seminar for science teachers on the teaching issues of ‘Nature’ and ‘nature’ of the things. In order to prepare the trainees, in a peer learning activity of N Kazantzakis works, to extract those fragments are related to the term “Nature’ from their point of view, and at the end, they co-form a theatrical lectern where they read the excerpts, in a structural and theatric way.</p>

Recommendations for Medical Informatics Training in The Netherlands

1994 ◽  
Vol 33 (03) ◽  
pp. 308-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Hasman
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Medical Informatics ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Informatics Training ◽  
Royal Netherlands Academy ◽  
And Training

Abstract:In this contribution recommendations for education and training in Medical Informatics as they have been formulated end 1987 by the Subcommittee Medical Informatics of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences are described. The current situation of education and training is presented and compared with the recommendations. It is concluded that not all recommendations have yet been followed up.

Ecological and ethical duty

1996 ◽  
pp. 16-26
Author(s):  
Dionisiy Lyahovych
Keyword(s):  
Social Behavior ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Theological Reflection ◽  
Ethical Duty ◽  
Environmental Value ◽  
The People

Ecological ethical duty is a kind of philosophical and theological reflection on environmental issues, and at the same time finding the appropriate foundation for environmental ethics. By the term "ethical duty" we mean the search for environmental value, the nature of which would have the effect of inducing the appropriate personal and social behavior and thus influenced the customs and culture of the people.

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