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Professional Ethics of Politicians in SlovakiaEthics 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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72MARTIN RÁZUS: Literary and Philosophical Reflections on Morality1Journal 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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243Human Dignity and Non-Utilitarian ConsequentialistThe 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.
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600Teória správneho v etike sociálnych dôsledkovFilosoficky Casopis 49 633-654. 2001.The paper develops the theory of right action in ethics of social consequences as a form of non-utilitarian consequentialism.
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937Erasmus of Rotterdam and Jan Milochovsky: Two Humanistic Conceptions of Christian Political EthicsFilozofia 65 (10): 979-989. 2010.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
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1025Reflexion of English morals in the literature of the 19th century (Charles Dickens and his contemporaries)Filozofia 61 (5): 403-423. 2006.Autor prostredníctvom skúmania literárnych diel Charlesa Dickensa, Williama Makepeaca Thackeryho, George Eliotovej a Thomasa Hardyho vytvára mozaiku viktoriánskej morálky Anglicka 19. storočia. Dospel k záveru, že uvedená doba vôbec nebola taká puritánska, ako si ju zvykneme predstavovať a morálne problémy, ktoré ľudstvo rieši v priebehu svojho vývoja sú vo svojej podstate univerzálne, hoci nie totožné. Líšia sa vo svojich individuálnych podobách, v akých sa s nimi stretávame v jednotlivých obdo…Read more
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908A non-utilitarian consequentialist value framework (Pettit's and Sen's theories of values)Filozofia 54 (7): 483-494. 1999.Consequentialism is seen by Philip Pettit mainly as a theory of the appropriate; in his conception of virtual consequentialism he is much less concerned with the theory of Good. Nevertheless, he pays attention to values such as rights, freedom, loyalty, confidence, dignity and love, although his analyses are isolated, and the connections with other values are not taken into account. He focuses especially on the values of freedom and rights. Contrary to Pettit, Amaryta Sen is much more concerned …Read more
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155On the Human Body in Igor Kiss's Humanized DeontologyChristian Bioethics 18 (3): 312-324. 2012.The basis for the analysis is the approach of Christian ethics toward the issue of the human body and sexuality. Based on the views of some present-day Christian, especially Protestant, ethicists, the author points out the effort to establish this area in contemporary Christian theology and ethics, which is, for instance, represented by the theology of sexuality and Christian sexual ethics. Consequently, the author pays attention to the opinions of the significant Slovak Lutheran theologian and …Read more
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Morality: Biological, Social and Cultural RootsEthics and Bioethics (in Central Europe) 3 (1-2): 5-20. 2013.Morality bears certain elements connected to genetic, or biological determination to the protection and sustenance of human life on the one hand; however, on the other hand, includes a social and cultural superstructure regarding protection and sustenance of human life, which, in many situations, can even be in contradiction to our biological determination and can be the decisive point in our morality.
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58Literature as Philosophical TheodicyProceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 26 43-50. 2008.The author discusses issues of evil in Doležal’s Tragoedia (1791) influenced by Leibniz’s Theodicy (1710). Despite the fact that, in Doležal’s work, emphasis is placed on theological and religious aspects, he was able to be above too strict a theological-religious scope of the contemporary interpretation of Adam and Eve’s sin and he was even able to find a number of positive features and values that emerged for man from the origin of evil and sin. Finally, we can say that Doležal’s work can be s…Read more
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424Globalization in the Light of Diffrent Philosophical TraditionsFilozofia 62 179-181. 2007.It is a report on the Interim World Congress of Philosophy in New Delhi (India) in 2006.
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607The idea of humanity in the context of contemporary ethicsFilozofia 60 (7): 512-531. 2005.The humanity is examined on two levels: first as a natural biological quality having a moral dimension and a moral impact, and then as a moral quality, which is a specific human product and a result of cultural evolution, i.e. of human moral deve-lopment. According to the forms of the realized humanity the author differentiates between active and passive forms of humanity; the active humanity is further divided into a positive and a negative ones
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568BF Skinner, for and against freedom and human dignityFilozofia 56 (4): 259-265. 2001.The author analyses Burrhus Frederick Skinner's book Beyond Freedom and Dignity (1971).
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36Morality: Reasoning on Different Approaches (edited book)Editions Rodopi. 2013.This book of essays focuses on the new approaches to moral issues from two perspectives. The first part, ‘Various Concepts of Morality’, analyses certain central approaches to moral study, and creates the methodological starting point for the more specific enquiries of the second part. ‘New Trends in Understanding Morality’ contains five articles focusing on these new approaches, especially as they are related to their conceptions of scientific knowledge. This section deals with selected special…Read more
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797Human Dignity and the Non-Utilitarist Consequentialist Ethics of Social ConsequencesFilozofia 59 502-506. 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 arguing for a particular theory of the value of human dignity. Th…Read more
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547The theory of the good in the ethics of social consequencesFilosoficky Casopis 49 (4): 633-654. 2001.The paper explores the theory of right action in ethics of social consequences as a form of non-utilitarian consequentialism.
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1206Ethics of social consciousness and its principlesFilozofia 51 (12): 821-829. 1996.The author focuses on the positive social consequences: humanity, justice. rights, responsibility and tolerance. He examines each of these principles and shows. that the ethics of social consequences can be accepted as an alternative way of considering contemporary moral problems as well as of looking for their optimal solutions.
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24Slovak Lutheran Social EthicsEdwin Mellen Press. 1997.This study investigates the meaning and contribution of the Slovak Lutheran social ethics to the social ethical thinking in Slovakia. The book attempts to examine the subject in the social, political and spiritual context of the development of the Slovak nation, Slovakia and Czechoslovakia, linking the development of the Protestant social ethics in Europe and the rest of the world.
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421A New UNESCO Chair in Bioethics at the Philosophical Faculty, Presov UniversityFilozofia 65 (7): 713-715. 2010.The UNESCO Chair in Bioethics has been established at the University of Presov (Slovakia) in 2010.
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113Pious Aspects in the Ethical and Moral Views of Matthias BelHistory of European Ideas 39 (6): 776-790. 2013.Summary The author of the paper studies the ethical views of Matthias Bel expressed in his Preface to Johann Arndt's treatise and in Davidian-Solomonian Ethics, which contain a critique of false Christianity and ancient (especially Aristotle's) ethics. Bel refuses any philosophical ethics based on human nature, since man, in his very essence, is sinful and vicious. This leads to the general moral downfall of the young and mankind. He only recognises ethics whose source and the highest good is Go…Read more
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Professional Ethics in Slovakia: Outline (Editorial)Ethics and Bioethics (in Central Europe) 1 (1-2): 4-6. 2011.
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Morality of the past from the present perspective: picture of morality in Slovakia in the half of the twentieth century (edited book)Cambridge Scholars Press. 2007.
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1430Typologizácia morálky a mravných subjektov v etike sociálnych dôsledkovFilozofia. forthcoming.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
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465BF Skinner: Za a proti slobode a dôstojnosti človekaFilozofia 56 (4). 2001.Analyses of Burrhus Frederick Skinner's book Beyond Freedom and Dignity (1971).
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P. S. Czarnecki, Marii Ossowskiej Nauka O MoralnosciOrganon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 14 (3): 417-420. 2007.
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530A Letter To Dr. T. MünzFilozofia 58 284-287. 2003.It is a book review of Teodor Munz's book Listy filozofom [Letters to the Philosophers]
Vasil Gluchman
Comenius University In Bratislava
Comenius University In Bratislava
Alumnus, 1993