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16Personality as an ecology of valuesSotsium I Vlast 4 26-35. 2021.The paper examines the concept of individual and collective value identities based an emotionalist understanding of values. The main perspective it discusses is one where emotions are the most important practical instruments for the clarification of individual and collective values. The argument implies that moral emotions are not irrational, but have a logic of their own which can reliably pinpoint the persons’ value system; emotions are thus crucial building blocks of an ethics which is able t…Read more
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17Personality as an ecology of valuesSotsium I Vlast 4 18-25. 2021.The paper examines the concept of individual and collective value identities based an emotionalist understanding of values. The main perspective it discusses is one where emotions are the most important practical instruments for the clarification of individual and collective values. The argument implies that moral emotions are not irrational, but have a logic of their own which can reliably pinpoint the persons’ value system; emotions are thus crucial building blocks of an ethics which is able t…Read more
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4Uloga kazne u savremenoj poliarhičnoj demokratijiInstitute for International Politics and Economics. 2010.
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7Joseph Agassi and the Various Guises of MagicPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 53 (6): 483-490. 2023.Joseph Agassi’s last book, The Philosophy of Practical Affairs, offers a comprehensive look at key philosophical topics and doctrines with a common focus on the role of rationality, the evolution of rationality and the relationship between rationality and akin phenomena. A key topic he addresses is the relationship between rationality and magic. This dichotomy reverberates on a number of areas of applied philosophy, including philosophical practice and philosophically informed psychotherapy. Aga…Read more
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17Why Narcissists Are Morally ResponsiblePhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 30 (2): 177-180. 2023.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Why Narcissists Are Morally ResponsibleAleksandar Fatic, PhDIn his insightful commentary of ‘Narcissism as a moral incompetence,’ Professor Pies proposes several principal objections to my line of argument. First, Pies mentions that I embrace a Platonic essentialism and a ‘binary’ view of narcissism, whilst in fact narcissistic traits present themselves in degrees, within a continuum of pathology.Let us clarify the meaning of essenti…Read more
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27Narcissism as a Moral IncompetencePhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 30 (2): 159-167. 2023.Abstract:In this paper, I suggest that the moral incompetence in narcissism is associated with a particular type of emotional incompetence, namely the incompetence to experience the moral emotions, such as empathy, solidarity, loyalty, or love. I then move on to discussing the ethical ramifications of this incompetence, primarily from the point of view of sentimentalist ethics, and conclude that emotional incompetence does not in fact reduce the moral responsibility of a narcissist person, wheth…Read more
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17Representation and Pathology in Philosophy and PsychotherapyFilozofska Istrazivanja 39 (1): 33-47. 2019.The paper discusses the conceptualisation of mental disorder as a representation, rather than an illness, and relates this perspective to the modern understanding of mental health as a healthy »narrative« or life story. The author proceeds to briefly consider the evolution of concepts of illness in psychiatry and a gradual reappearance of Lacanian psychoanalysis and psychiatry. The key concepts of Lacanian psychotherapy pave the way to a growing together of standard psychotherapy and modern phil…Read more
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13An ethics-based ‘identity-proof’ of god’s existence. An ontology for philotherapyFilozofija I Društvo 32 (3): 428-438. 2021.A resurgence of scholarly work on proof of God?s existence is noticeable over the past decade, with considerable emphasis on attempts to provide?analytic proof? based on the meanings and logic of various identity statements which constitute premises of the syllogisms of the?proof?. Most recently perhaps, Emmanuel Rutten?s?modal-epistemic proof? has drawn serious academic attention. Like other?analytic? and strictly logical proofs of God?s existence, Rutten?s proof has been found flawed. In this …Read more
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26Can Memory Erasure Contribute to a Virtuous Tempering of Emotions?Filozofija I Društvo 30 (2): 257-269. 2019.The paper deals with a perspective of Christian philosophy on artificial memory erasuse for psychotherapeutic purposes. Its central question is whether a safe and reliable technology of memory erasure, once it is available, would be acceptable from a Christian ethics point of view. The main facet of this question is related to the Christian ethics requirement of contrition for the past wrongs, which in the case of memory erasure of particulary troubling experiences and personal choices would not…Read more
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6Transitional Justice in Troubled Societies (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield International. 2018.
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31Pleasure in Epicurean and Christian Orthodox conceptions of happinessSouth African Journal of Philosophy 33 (4): 523-536. 2014.The essay examines the central role that pleasure plays in a wide range of conceptualisations of happiness or ‘good life’, from Epicurean hedonism, to Christian asceticism, to contemporary cases of pastoral and philosophical counselling. Despite the apparent moral chasm between hedonists and ascetics, a look at the practices promoted by Epicurus and the Christian monastic fathers reveals striking similarities. The reason is that, at a fundamental level, both parties agree that one should reject …Read more
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U traganju za konvencijom (Searching for the Convention)Inter-Yu Press. 1994.The book is a collection of essays in philosophy of language. The connecting theme of the essays is that they explore the reach and role of conventions in facilitating both communication and the normative evaluation of actions and expressions.
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The book lays out a comprehensive professional ethics for criminal intelligence professionals, focusing on personal responsibility and the moral obligation by the state to build sufficient capacity in criminal intelligence operatives to make competent moral decisions while using discretion.
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14The intentionality of madness: Checking the cognitive issues in DSM-based diagnosisFilozofija I Društvo 25 (2): 204-216. 2014.In this paper I discuss John Searle?s selective view of intentionality of mental states, and place it in the context of impairment to personal identity that occurs in mental illness. I criticize Searle?s view that intentionality characterizes some but not all mental states; I do so both on principled and on empirical grounds. I then proceed to examine the narrative theory of self, advanced by Paul Ricoeur, Marya Schechtman and others, and explore the extent to which the theory fits a more genera…Read more
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3The book provides a comparative analysis of the criminal justice systems in the post-Communist 'transitional' countries of Eastern Europe and examines the underlying value-matrix for changes in the various aspects of these systems.
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8Virtue as Identity: Emotions and the Moral PersonalityRowman & Littlefield International. 2016.This book explores the relationship between virtue, values and both individual and collective identity.
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3This paper examines the conceptual matrix of philosophical counseling, and philosophical practice generally, which distinguishes philosophical practice from mainstream theoretical philosophy. I argue that the essence of philosophical practice is the realization and radicalization of Pierre Hadot’s paradigmshifting view of ‘Philosophy as a Way of Life,’ through the projection of philosophical concepts and methods to the goal of attainment of the good life by moral education and character-building…Read more
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16Corruption, corporate character-formation and "value-strategy"Filozofija I Društvo 24 (1): 60-80. 2013.While most discussions of corruption focus on administration, institutions, the law and public policy, little attention in the debate about societal reform is paid to the?internalities? of anti-corruption efforts, specifically to character-formation and issues of personal and corporate integrity. While the word?integrity? is frequently mentioned as the goal to be achieved through institutional reforms, even in criminal prosecutions, the specifically philosophical aspects of character-formation a…Read more
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This is a guide for building specific ethics standards for the criminal intelligence service which can be used for in-house arbitration, facilitation or adjudication of ethics issues.
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19The inter-dynamic theory of metaphor and applied psychologyCommunication and Cognition: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly Journal. forthcoming.
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552The paper discusses three aspects of belonging to religious systems of belief within a modern liberal society, namely (1) the sincerity and consistency of belief, (2) the possibility of exteriorization of belief through broader social interactions or transactions, and (3) the relationship between religious belief and the modern concept of affirmative tolerance, or affirmation of differences, which has become a pronounced public policy in multicultural liberal societies. The author argues that, w…Read more
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592Corruption, corporate character-formation and "value-strategy"Filozofija I Društvo 24 (1): 60-80. 2013.While most discussions of corruption focus on administration, institutions, the law and public policy, little attention in the debate about societal reform is paid to the “internalities” of anti-corruption efforts, specifically to character-formation and issues of personal and corporate integrity. While the word “integrity” is frequently mentioned as the goal to be achieved through institutional reforms, even in criminal prosecutions, the specifically philosophical aspects of character-formation…Read more
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Retribution in DemocracyPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 46 335-355. 1996.
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Can reliabilism and consequentialism be used at the same time in a theory of knowledge: A knotty considerationCommunication and Cognition. Monographies 29 (1): 131-145. 1996.
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705• Freedom and Heteronomy: An Essay on the Liberal Society,Institute for International Politics and Economics. 2009.
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Normative Ethics |
European Philosophy |
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Epistemology |
Philosophy of Religion |
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