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35What Does Modern Science Say about the Origin of Cooperation? Science Confirms PhilosophyDialogue and Universalism 23 (3): 23-34. 2013.During the last decades evolutionary science has made significance progress in the elucidation of the process of human evolution and especially of human behavioral characteristics. These themes were traditionally subjects of inquiry in philosophy and theology. Already Darwin suggested an evolutionary and biological basis for moral sense or conscience, and answered Kant’s question about the origin of the moral rules postulated by philosophers. This article reviews the current status of such inves…Read more
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The Justification of Morals in the Philosophy of Thomas AquinasEssays in the Philosophy of Humanism 1. 1992.
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44Philo’s Logos Doctrine (review)Dialogue and Universalism 21 (4): 59-90. 2011.Judaism was a mythical, strongly tribal religion with anthropomorphic God in which the leading element was the concept of a covenant between God and the exceptional “chosen people.” Such views produced a strong emphasis on tribal unity and attitude of election and moral superiority vis-à-vis the rest of humanity. Philo must have felt inadequacy of the ancient Judaism and its limitations to compete for the minds of Hellenes with their universalistic philosophical thought. Philo represented a tren…Read more
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15Jürgen Habermas: A Practical Sense Sociologist and a Kantian Moralist in a NutshellEssays in the Philosophy of Humanism 19 (2): 1-26. 2011.This paper is a short introduction to Habermas’s life and philosophy. It outlines his views on society, religion, morality and politics. It begins with his ‘methodological pragmatism’ which emphasizes the performative and intersubjective role of language. This rejects the “philosophy of consciousness” and sees society as a medium in which we live. Society is not an aggregate of individuals or a unity but a complex, multifarious, intersubjective structure with many different overlapping spheres. …Read more
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1Development, Rationality, and Responsibility in Stoic EthicsEssays in the Philosophy of Humanism 6. 1998.
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