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    COVID-19 Forced Social Distancing and Isolation: A Multi-Perspective Experience
    with Bruce Janz, Eka Kaznina, Kim Jihyun, David Kohlberg, and Cătălin Mamali
    The article is combined of six chapters authored by these who voiced their experiences with social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemics in various contexts, but mostly centered on psychological, sociological, and ethical aspects. Authors, mostly psychologists and philosophers, were invited to describe their perspectives on the sense and practice of social distancing in times of pandemics. Their reflections seek to demonstrate various perspectives related to subjects’ novel self-experience, s…Read more
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    Darf ein Umweltethiker einen Offroader fahren? Muss eine Medizinethikerin, die sich für die Organspende ausspricht, einen Organspendeausweis haben? Ethikerinnen und Ethiker beantworten solche Fragen zuweilen mit einer Anekdote des Philosophen Max Scheler, der, angesprochen auf den Widerspruch zwischen seinen moralischen Maßstäben und seinem ausufernden Lebensstil, gesagt haben soll: »Geht denn der Wegweiser in die Richtung, in die er zeigt?« Der Band spürt dem Selbstverständnis von Menschen nach…Read more
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    In this essay I want to concentrate on observers’ baseline assumptions on how we should be, or should have become in order to be accounted as morally ‘good.’ I will point out the significance for adult children who decided to not care for their elder parents. In three selected studies I show that observers, in trying to explain the decisions of others, or their moral development, respectively moral standing, misjudge or ignore their own implicit baseline assumptions. These assumptions are sympto…Read more
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