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    Personality as an ecology of values
    Sotsium 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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    Personality as an ecology of values
    Sotsium 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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    Uloga kazne u savremenoj poliarhičnoj demokratiji
    Institute for International Politics and Economics. 2010.
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    Joseph Agassi and the Various Guises of Magic
    Philosophy 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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    Why Narcissists Are Morally Responsible
    Philosophy, 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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    Narcissism as a Moral Incompetence
    Philosophy, 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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    Representation and Pathology in Philosophy and Psychotherapy
    Filozofska 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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    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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    Can 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
  •  1
    Transitional Justice in Troubled Societies (edited book)
    with Klaus Bachmann and Igor Lyubashenko
    Rowman & Littlefield International. 2018.
  •  46
    The ethics of drone warfare
    Filozofija I Društvo 28 (2): 349-364. 2017.
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    The inter-dynamic theory of metaphor and applied psychology
    Communication and Cognition: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly Journal. forthcoming.
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    Interpreting Malapropisms
    Philosophical Inquiry 16 (1-2): 44-54. 1994.
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    The 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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    Corruption, 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
  • Retribution in Democracy
    Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 46 335-355. 1996.
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    • Freedom and Heteronomy: An Essay on the Liberal Society,
    Institute for International Politics and Economics. 2009.
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    The need for philosophical practice to integrate various methods, both conceptual and those based on the use of emotions, raises the question as to whether its methodology is necessarily eclectic, in terms of the collection of various methodologies used in philosophy, or whether there is a way to move beyond eclecticism. This is the main subject of this paper. In other words, the question is whether there is such a thing as an ‘integrative’ methodology and, if so, what distinguishes such a metho…Read more
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    Korupcija, formiranje korporativnog karaktera i 'strategija vrednosti'
    Filozofija I Društvo 24 (1): 60-80. 2013.
  • Towards an ethics of sympathy: A legacy of Max Scheler
    In Gary Peters & Fiona Peters (eds.), Thoughts of Love, Cambridge Scholars Press. 2013.
    The paper examines the potential of sympathy as defined by Max Scheler to found a normative ethics. Scheler perceives sympathy in predominantly instinctivist terms, and insists that, while it accounts for a comprehensive range of human interactions, it cannot be a basis for ethics. However, Scheler does not convincingly argue against an ethics of sympathy. A closer examination of his account of sympathy reveals that this account in fact suggests a strong possibility of an ethics of sympathy, whi…Read more
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    The paper discusses the manner and extent to which Epicurean ethics can serve as a general philosophy of life, capable of supporting philosophical practice in the form of philosophical counseling. Unlike the modern age academic philosophy, the philosophical practice movement portrays the philosopher as a personal or corporate adviser, one who helps people make sense of their experiences and find optimum solutions within the context of their values and general preferences. Philosophical counselin…Read more
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    Epicurean Ethics in the Pragmatist Philosophical Counsel
    Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism 22 (1): 63-77. 2014.
    The paper explores the extent to which Epicurean ethics as a general philosophy of life can be integrated in a composite pragmatist approach to philosophical counseling. Epicureanism emerged in a historical era that was very different from the modern time and addressed a different philosophical ethos of the time. This alone makes it difficult for Epicureanism to satisfy all of the normative criteria for a modern ethics. On the other hand, the paper discusses aspects of the modern ‘external’, dut…Read more
  • The book explores the communicative and deliberative context for punishment and discusses the extent to which institutional punishment is an implicit language, conveying not only the values and norms, but also the collective experience and collective expectations of a community.
  • Transition without Justice (tentative title) (edited book)
    with Klaus Bachmann
    TBA. 2015.
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    Pleasure in Epicurean and Christian Orthodox conceptions of happiness
    South 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
    Law
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    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