Ethics of a Lecture. The Problem of the So-Called “Difficult Matters”

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 237-255
Author(s):  
Maciej Woźniczka
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Ethics Committee ◽  
Main Subject ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
Philosophical Education ◽  
Moral Standards ◽  
Academic Lectures ◽  
Diverse Audience

The article discusses the problem of moral issues related to giving academic lectures at universities. It shows the need for higher moral standards of lectures, related to spreading audio and visual means of communication and reaching a more diverse audience. The main subject for reflection consists of difficult matters, controversial problems and differences in opinions. In this context, the article presents the analysis of recommendations by the Ethics Committee at the Polish Academy of Science and the remarks resulting from contemporary literature on philosophical education. The analysis of lecture value points out how important philosophical historical experiences are in this area. It emphasizes that it is necessary to consider the meaning of cultural context in more detail while interpreting the problem (the principle of conducting lectures – the principle of parrhesia – Michel Foucault).

scholarly journals Russian philosophy and the formation of the Russian national and cultural canon: problems and prospects ([Review on:] Malinov A.V. Research and articles on Russian philosophy. Saint Petersburg: RHGA, 2020, 608 p.)

2021 ◽  
pp. 181-190
Author(s):  
A.B. Bocharov
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Russian Philosophy ◽  
Main Subject ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
Saint Petersburg ◽  
The Common ◽  
Evolution Of Ideas ◽  
The Russian Language

This work is devoted to the analysis of the book by A.V. Malinov “Research and Articles on Russian Philosophy”. The main subject-content and thematic-subject lines of the book are revealed: philosophy of Slavophiles; historical, cultural and philosophical contexts of V.S. Solovyov and V.V. Rozanov; professional philosophy in Russia. Points to the variety of genres published in a collection of articles and materials of historical and philosophical articles, teaching materials (lectures and paragraphs from the textbooks), archival materials, methodological reflections. The author considers the interpretations of A.S. Khomyakov, the Slavophil ideas of O.F. Miller, the evolution of ideas about the common Slavic language, the attitude of V.S. Solovyov with N.I. Kareyev and St. Petersburg Slavophiles (including the polemic of V.S. Soloviev with the Slavophiles in the last work of the Russian philosopher – “Three Conversations”), V.V. Rozanov with the Slavophiles and V.I. Lamansky, features of V.V. Rozanov, the philosophical heritage of A.I. Vvedensky and the controversy caused by him, the place of L.P. Karsavin in the tradition of teaching the philosophy of history at St. Petersburg University, the specifics and historical path traversed by university philosophy in Russia, the modernization of the methods of modern historical and philosophical research, etc. The author notes the author's appeal to little-studied representatives of Russian philosophy, original interpretations of biographical and historical-philosophical plots, the use of the expressive possibilities of the Russian language, enriching the interpretive possibilities of the historiography of Russian philosophy. The conclusion is made about the preservation of the “Russian canon” in the research of Russian philosophy, about its heuristic possibilities. The author's intention is explained and the value of research of this kind, serving the purpose of reinterpreting the ideas of Russian philosophy, solving the problem of preserving the values and meanings of Russian culture in the modern historical and cultural context, is indicated.

scholarly journals Preprint Does a science-oriented worldview entail unbelief? Meaning, morality, and continuity from scientific research in self-reports of Finnish unbelievers and believers

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roosa Haimila
Keyword(s):  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Effect Sizes ◽  
Moral Standards ◽  
Research Organizations ◽  
Personal Investment ◽  
Self Reports

Endorsement of science is often associated with non-religiosity and lack of supernatural belief. However, the relevance of science for worldviews might also relate to the cultural context and/or personal investment in science. This study investigates the following question: Is endorsement of worldview components of science associated with unbelief among science-oriented respondents? Here, worldview components refer to science providing 1) a sense of meaning, 2) moral standards, and 3) literal or symbolic continuity after death. 387 Finnish adults recruited via pro-research organizations were included in the analysis. The results suggest that self-reported worldview functions of science are associated with unbelief also among science-oriented individuals. These findings lend support to the belief replacement hypothesis, which suggests that secular worldviews such as belief in science are of particular importance for unbelievers. However, the effect sizes are small and also other God belief groups endorse the significance of science for e.g., meaning in life.

scholarly journals Staliniana as a Tool for the Myth Fortification: Once Again about Stalin’s Visits to Razliv

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-111
Author(s):  
Irina I. Rutsinskaya
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
Main Subject ◽  
Stalin Era ◽  
Long Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cultural Tools ◽  
Over Time

Historians have long been studying in detail the story of I.V. Stalin visiting V.I. Lenin in Razliv. The main subject of their interest is whether this event took place in reality. Most of modern authors agree that it did not. This article does not dispute this verdict, because it is not about the event itself, but about the history of the mythologeme’s origin and the forms of its representation in the culture of the Stalin era.Researchers have not ye raised the question of why this story was introduced by Stalin into the updated version of his own official biography only thirty years after the events described in it. Meanwhile, appealing to it makes it possible not only to comprehend the reasons and goals of mythologizing individual episodes of the leader’s biography at the culmination stage of building his cult, but also to study the methods and forms of using cultural tools to achieve such goals.The article focuses mainly on visual representations of the mythological story. However, it was important not only to analyze and classify the new unstudied iconographic schemes that had never been studied by anyone before, but also to see them in a historical and cultural context. This approach made it possible to demonstrate how the Soviet representation strategies had been “working” under the conditions of the permanent expansion of the leader’s “life story”, as well as how the universally proclaimed slogan about the immense veneration of the teacher Lenin by his student Stalin had been adjusted over time. The fact that the story of “Stalin in Razliv” had remained for a long time beyond the attention of the leader himself and the ideologists of his cult (i.e. it had been considered unworthy of special efforts) and was included in his biography only seven years before his death, makes the analysis proposed in the article even more comprehensive.

The Development of Pro-Environmentalism in Context

2020 ◽  
pp. 418-439
Author(s):  
M. Kyle Matsuba ◽  
Tobias Krettenauer ◽  
Michael W. Pratt
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Societal Changes ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Moral Attitudes ◽  
And Behavior

Global warming has become an existential concern for our own and the planet’s future. As developmental psychologists, the authors are interested in pro-environmental behavior at the individual level, believing that the societal changes needed to address this issue require changes at the individual level. In this chapter, the authors frame environmental issues as moral issues to the extent that how people think about, react to, and interact in the environment reflect moral values such as caring. Consequently, the authors explore how people’s moral attitudes, thinking, emotions, and behavior around environmental issues form and change over the course of development. They also investigate how developing experiences with the natural environment can influence its importance to the self and in identity formation. Finally, the authors consider that cultural context matters; that attitudes and behaviors toward the environment and how they develop depend on the culture in which we are raised and that what we currently know about the development of environmentalism in not likely to extend much beyond mainstream cultures in Western, industrialized countries.

scholarly journals Protocol for a cross-sectional study measuring person-centredness among healthcare providers in Malaysian primary care clinics: the adaptation and validation of the Person-Centred Practice Inventory-Staff (PCPI-S) Questionnaire

BMJ Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. e034128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nur Zahirah Balqis-Ali ◽  
Pui San Saw ◽  
Anis Syakira Jailani ◽  
Tze Wei Yeoh ◽  
Weng Hong Fun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Internal Validity ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Ethics Committee ◽  
Expert Committee ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Primary Care Clinics ◽  
Human Research Ethics

IntroductionPerson-centred care (PCC) has become a global movement in healthcare. Despite this, the level of PCC is not routinely assessed in clinical practice. This protocol describes the adaptation and validation of the Person-Centred Practice Inventory-Staff (PCPI-S) tool that will be used to assess person-centred practices of primary healthcare providers in Malaysia.Methods and analysisTo ensure conceptual and item equivalence, the original version of the PCPI-S will be reviewed and adapted for cultural context by an expert committee. The instrument will subsequently be translated into Malay language using the forward-backward translation method by two independent bilingual speaking individuals. This will be pretested in four primary care clinics and refined accordingly. The instrument will be assessed for its psychometric properties, such as test-retest reliability, construct and internal validity, using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis.Ethics and disseminationStudy findings will be disseminated to healthcare professionals and academicians in the field through publication in peer-reviewed journals and conference presentations, as well as at managerial clinic sites for practice improvement. The study was approved by the Medical Research and Ethics Committee (MREC), Ministry of Health Malaysia (KKM/NIHSEC/ P18-766 (14) and Monash University Human Research Ethics Committee (2018-14363-19627).

A Model for Understanding Cross-Cultural Morality

1990 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-176
Author(s):  
Steve Fortosis
Keyword(s):  
Moral Reasoning ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Unique Feature ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
Moral Standards ◽  
Foundational Research

Based upon the excellent foundational research of Mayers (1974), Dye (1976), and Whiteman (1984), the author constructs a model in an attempt to help us understand cross-cultural moral issues. A unique feature of the model is the integration of Lawrence Kohlberg's philosophy of moral reasoning into the paradigm. The model is then illustrated and applied to several case studies. The author concludes by arguing that while moral standards of the Word of God are absolute in every culture, they must be interpreted and applied uniquely to fit the ethical contours of each society.

scholarly journals PENDIDIKAN FILSAFAT UNTUK ANAK? PENDASARAN, PENERAPAN DAN REFLEKSI KRITIS UNTUK KONTEKS INDONESIA

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 163
Author(s):  
Reza A.A. Wattimena
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Personality Development ◽  
Philosophy For Children ◽  
Philosophical Education ◽  
Life Education

This article argues for the importance of philosophical education for elementary school's students in Indonesia. Philosophy can be understood as value education and also life education. Both are very important for the human's personality development. Therefore, ideally, this kind of education should be provided since childhood age. But, philosophy has different teaching method in compare to other sciences. It asks the children to think for themselves and try to find answers for their questions independently. It should not be a burden for children that already have loads of subjects to learn. The program philosophy for children should also bear in mind the existing cultural context that already exists in Indonesian society.

scholarly journals Educação Filosófica e Magia: A experimentação de outros processos de subjetivação

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (68) ◽  
pp. 685-720
Author(s):  
Tiago Brentam Perencini
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Mots Clés ◽  
Philosophical Education ◽  
Nous Permet ◽  
The Relationship

Resumo: Defendo que a relação entre filosofia e magia possibilita processos de subjetivação para experimentarmos outro tipo de educação filosófica, que possa resistir à biopolítica e ao neoliberalismo na contemporaneidade. Faço uma caracterização de ambos como um tipo de poder enfeitiçador que se enraizou em nossa subjetividade. Partindo de uma leitura anarqueológica sobre o pensamento de Michel Foucault, procuro conceituar os processos de subjetivação, evidenciando como a cronologia ocidental silenciou a magia, experiência-limite para a filosofia, da mesma maneira que teço algumas considerações sobre como esse paradigma nos conduz a experimentar outro tipo de educação filosófica, mais atenta à erótica e ao resgate de saberes e práticas originárias. Palavras-Chave: Educação filosófica. Magia. Processos de subjetivação. Biopolítica. Michel Foucault. Philosophical Education and Magic: The experimentation of other subjectivation Processes Abstract: I argue that the relationship between philosophy and magic enables subjectivation processes for us to experiment with another kind of philosophical education, which can resist contemporary biopolitics and neoliberalism. I characterize them both as a kind of bewitching power that has taken root in our subjectivity. Starting from an archeological reading on Michel Foucault's thought, I seek to conceptualize the processes of subjectivation, highlighting how Western chronology has silenced magic, the limiting experience for philosophy, just as I make some considerations on how this paradigm leads us to experiment with another kind of philosophical education, more attentive to the erotica and to the rescue of originary knowledge and practices. Keywords: Philosophical education. Magic. Subjectivation processes. Biopolitics. Michel Foucault. Éducation philosophique et Magie : l’expérience d’autres processus de subjectivation Résumé: Je défends que la relation entre la philosophie et la magie nous permet d’avoir des processus de subjectivation pour expérimenter un autre type d’éducation philosophique, qui peut résister à la biopolitique et au néolibéralisme dans la contemporanéité. Je fais une caractérisation des deux comme un type de pouvoir enchanteur qui s’enracine dans notre subjectivité. En partant d’une lecture anarchéologique sur la pensée de Michel Foucault, je cherche à conceptualiser les processus de subjectivation, en mettant en évidence la manière dont la chronologie occidentale a mis au silence la magie, expérience-limite pour la philosophie, de la même manière que je tisse quelques considérations sur la manière dont ce paradigme nous conduit à expérimenter un autre type d’éducation philosophique, plus attentif à l’érotique et au sauvetage des savoirs et pratiques originaires. Mots-clés: Éducation philosophique. Magie. Processus de subjectivation. Biopolitique. Michel Foucault.  

scholarly journals Role of Philosophy Education for Children in Grade 3 of MINU Pucang Sidoarjo

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-64
Author(s):  
Fabiola D. Kurnia ◽  
Winda Sulistyoningsih
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Philosophy For Children ◽  
Elementary School Age ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Philosophical Education ◽  
A Value ◽  
Grade 3 ◽  
Life Education

Philosophical education is needed for children's education. Philosophy as a value education, as well as life education that is very important for the development of human personality. Therefore, philosophical education should be given since elementary school age. The pattern of teaching philosophy applied is different from the teaching patterns of other sciences. Because in philosophy, humans are invited to think critically. In this case what is meant is that they think for themselves and find their own answers to the questions asked. However, philosophy for children should not burden the learning process. Because it must consider the local cultural context that has existed in Indonesia before. The philosophy of early childhood education seeks to uncover and examine the reality of the child's education process. The implementation of early childhood education must be based on philosophy and educational theory that are suitable for child development. Thus, the practice of education has a clear direction, goals that are relevant to the nature, needs and development of children. Children will be treated according to their situation and living conditions.

scholarly journals The Precarious Life Situation Trap. The Case of “Zealous” Julia—A Proponent and a Victim of Neoliberal Reality

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 164-193
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Waniek
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Political Transformation ◽  
Life Situation ◽  
Interview Method ◽  
Moral Standards ◽  
Narrative Interview ◽  
Neoliberal Ideology ◽  
Adolescence Period ◽  
The Individual

The analysis of Julia’s (b. 1984) case, empirically grounded in the autobiographical narrative interview method, will discuss the mutual influence of the individual experiences and the collective processes that result in a precarious life situation being a stage of the trajectory of suffering process. It will be argued that the generation born between 1980-1990 that entered their adolescence period (and, at the same time, labor market) in a very specific socio-cultural context, framed by the dynamics of interrelated processes of political transformation, vibrant modernization, globalization, and, last but not least, development of neoliberal ideology, has been the first one in Poland to be exposed to the deep and overwhelming biographical changes. They have been oftentimes connected with the feeling of biographical trap and the experience of precarious balance of everyday life that—to a large extent—is a consequence of belonging to intensively multiplying social words with their divergent stocks of knowledge at hand, clashing ideologies, conflicting moral standards, dissonant rules of conducts, and expectations. Additionally, in the discussed case, I will deal with a biographical irony: Julia is both—a zealous propagator of allegedly universal attitudes of neoliberalism and a victim of this subtle mode of power. All these contradictions and tensions are clearly seen in the formal features of her (as well as many other people born in the 80’s last century) renderings, which are nonlinear, incoherent, emotionally overloaded, and full of fading-out phenomena.

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