Vasil Gluchman

Comenius University In Bratislava
  •  1430
    The analysis of moral subject in consequentialist ethics (as a kind of nonutilitaristic consequentialism) aims to show, that moral subject is of basie importance for it - regardeless to the fact, that its analysis focuses predominantly on action and its concequences. It is the moral subject, which enables the action and its consequences to be performed. So understanding the conditions of moral subjecťs action means understanding the moral subject itself. This understanding draws upon the typolog…Read more
  •  530
    A Letter To Dr. T. Münz
    Filozofia 58 284-287. 2003.
    It is a book review of Teodor Munz's book Listy filozofom [Letters to the Philosophers]
  • P. S. Czarnecki, Marii Ossowskiej Nauka O Moralnosci
    Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 14 (3): 417-420. 2007.
  • Ethical and moral aspects of public (self-) administration in Eastern Slovakia
    with Ján Kalajtzidis
    Ethics and Bioethics (in Central Europe) 1 (1-2): 51-61. 2011.
    In the article, we analyse ethical and moral issues of public administration in region of Eastern Slovakia through some cases of the last years. We focused on self-governing regions, namely the Košice and Prešov self-governing regions. We identified two fundamental situations where failures on the side of public administrators occur: selection processes for vacant positions, be it directly in public administration or institutions that fall under its domain, and public procurement with regard to …Read more
  • On Not Only Christian Ethics
    Filozofia 58 581-583. 2003.
  •  1214
    Analyses of Honoré de Balzac's literary works and their ethical issues, especially concerning his critique of French society and its morals of the 19th century.
  •  482
    In his Education of a Christian Prince (1516) Erasmus applies ancient and Christian virtues to the functions of a Christian prince. Slovak humanist Ján Milochovský (1630 – 1684), who new Erasmus’s work, expanded in his Ornamentum Magistratus Politici (1678) the scope of the ethical and moral functions of a prince, focusing on three fundamental virtues: piety, justice and tolerance. The paper offers an analysis of Erasmus’s political ethics and examines the impact of the latter on the Slovak huma…Read more
  •  943
    Various Contexts of the Idea of Human Dignity
    Filozofia 59 69-74. 2004.
    Prominent critics of consequentialism hold that utilitarianism is not capable of accepting authentic human values, because the consequentialist viewpoint is impersonal. According to it consequentialist rationality has no axiological limits and it can think about doing the unthinkable. The main objective of the paper is to show that human dignity has a significant position in the author's conception of ethics of social consequences (a non-utilitarian consequentialism) arguing for a particular the…Read more
  •  488
    The paper examines the relationship between the biological and the social in morals. Its conclusion is that the biological is one among other sources of moarls. The social developed as another, much more dynamic source. An important role is played by free will or the moral freedom, especially on the individual morals level. It is the consequences, and especially social consequences, that in the author's viewpoint to the actual state of social and individual morals.
  • Professional Ethics of Teachers of Philosophy
    Ethics and Bioethics (in Central Europe) 2 (3-4): 144-152. 2012.
    I am not trying to present a full concept of professional ethics of an academic. I would like to focus on philosophical and ethical reflection of the specific area of an academic work in Slovakia. Almost two hundred years ago, the Slovak enlightenment philosopher Ján Feješ (1764 - 1823) responded to the situation of his era and he stated that a reviewer must, in the given area, be even better educated than the author himself. A different example can be found in Honoré de Balzac’s great novel Los…Read more
  •  556
    The writings of Martin Rakovský can be seen as a reflection of the problems, including political ones, of his time. His aim was also to offer an idea of a perfect ruler, who would bring peoples the peace and calm down the stormy events of the 16th century. The personal virtues of such a ruler should have been the guarantee of the welfare of all citizens. Given Rakovský’s religious attitude he can be regarded as a re- formation humanist standing between Machiavelli and Luther
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    Moral responsibility and ethical conception
    with W. Sztombka
    Filozofia 51 (5): 287-295. 1996.
    The autors focuse on the problem of moral responsibility in H. Jonas' ethics of social consequences. While by Jonas the attention is paid mainly to global moral responsibility, in the consequentialist ethics the individual, and social levels of moral responsibility of moral subject are intertwinned.
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    Human Dignity and its Non-Utilitarian Consequentialist Aspects
    Proceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 10 127-133. 2008.
    According to author, value of human dignity has its place in his ethics of social consequences which is a form of non-utilitarian consequentialism. This is so because it is compatible with the value of positive consequences that creates one of the crucial criteria in ethics of social consequences. There exist two aspects of human dignity in this ethical theory. The first is related to the value of life that is worthy of esteem and respect, which brings positive consequences (moral biocentrism), …Read more
  • Development Ethics and Social Problems of the Contemporary World
    with Marta Gluchmanová
    Ethics and Bioethics (in Central Europe) 4 (3-4): 223-226. 2014.
  •  687
    In the author’s view the humanity has its place in the ethics of social consequences : its implementation leads directly to positive social consequences, i.e. the main evaluation criteria in this conception. However, in applying the principle of humanity one has to see humanity as the protection of sustainable life according to the degree, to which an individual human life meets at least minimal qualitative standards of human life. The resulting idea is that a person living only on the biologica…Read more
  • Rationality and Ecological Crisis
    Filozofia 58 73-74. 2003.
  • Ethics of Social Consequences – Methodology of Bioethics Education
    Ethics and Bioethics (in Central Europe) 2 (1-2): 16-27. 2012.
    Ethics of social consequences as a form of satisficing non-utilitarian consequentialism can be one of the methodological basis of bioethics education. The primary values in ethics of social consequences are humanity, human dignity and moral rights, which are developed and realized in correlation with positive social consequences. Secondary values in ethics of social consequences include justice, responsibility, moral duty and tolerance. The author analyses human dignity and humanity as principle…Read more
  •  818
    Book review of a contemporary book on virtue ethics.
  • J. Jacobs, Dimensions Of Moral Therory
    Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 12 (2): 227-233. 2005.
  • Ilozofia
    with Z. Obsahu, Marián Zouhar, JIŔÍ BYSTRICKÝ, Zuzana Palovičová, and Blanka Šulavíková
    Filozofia 58 (6-10): 361. 2003.
  •  550
    The analysis of moral subject in consequentialist ethics (as a kind of nonutilitaristic consequentialism) aims to show, that moral subject is of basie importance for it - regardeless to the fact, that its analysis focuses predominantly on action and its concequences. It is the moral subject, which enables the action and its consequences to be performed. So understanding the conditions of moral subjecťs action means understanding the moral subject itself. This understanding draws upon the typolog…Read more
  •  769
    The ethics of utilitarianism and non-utilitarian consequentialism
    Filosoficky Casopis 44 (1): 123-132. 1996.
    The paper focuses on the differences between utilitarianism and non-utilitarian consequentialism.
  • Professional Ethics of Politicians in Slovakia
    Ethics and Bioethics (in Central Europe) 1 (1-2): 39-50. 2011.
    Author applies four models of professional ethics of politicians (Aristotle’s virtuous citizen, Machiavelli’s prince, Erasmus’ man of values and Weber’s responsible politician) to politics and politicians in Slovakia since the first half of the 20th century to the present. According to author, there is possible to identify Milan Hodža with Weber’s model, Alexander Dubek with Aristotle’s one, Vladimír Meiar and Robert Fico are identified with Machiavelli’s model and Iveta Radiová with Erasmus’ mo…Read more
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    Predecessors of classical utilitarianism
    Filozofia 50 (2): 114-122. 1995.
    An outline of the historical development of ideas of utility and consequences in the history of ethics in the 18th century.
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    MARTIN RÁZUS: Literary and Philosophical Reflections on Morality1
    Journal of Religious Ethics 39 (1): 151-172. 2011.
    Martin Rázus (1888—1937) was one of the most important personalities of Slovak Lutheran social, political, cultural, literary, and intellectual life during the first half of the twentieth century. First, I examine the picture of Slovak rural morality portrayed in the works of Rázus, particularly his 1929 novel Svety [Worlds], in which Rázus presents the morality of the people in the Slovak countryside from the beginning of the twentieth century until the end of the 1920s. Second, as the ethical …Read more
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    Human Dignity and Non-Utilitarian Consequentialist
    The Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 1 (7): 159-165. 2007.
    The main objective of my paper is to show that human dignity has a significant position in my ethics of social consequences, arguing for a particular theory of the value of human dignity. I argue that my ethics of social consequences is capable of accepting human dignity and all authentic human moral values without exception. I think that my ethical theory of social consequences can provide the essential missing ingredient identified by the critics of utilitarianism.
  •  937
    In his Education of a Christian Prince Erasmus applies ancient and Christian virtues to the functions of a Christian prince. Slovak humanist writer Ján Milo- chovský , who new Erasmus’s work, expanded in his Ornamentum Magistratus Politici the scope of the ethical and moral functions of a prince, focusing on three fundamental virtues: piety, justice and tolerance.The paper offers an analysis of Erasmus’s political ethics and examines the impact of the latter on the Slovak humanism of the second …Read more