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6Ethical Challenges in Oral Healthcare Services Provided by Non-Governmental Organizations for Refugees in GermanyJournal of Bioethical Inquiry 1-10. forthcoming.Oral healthcare is attracting much attention after decades of neglect from policymakers. Recent studies have shown a strong association between oral and overall health, which can lead to serious health problems. Availability of oral healthcare services is an essential part of ensuring universal healthcare coverage. More importantly, current gaps in its accessibility by minority or marginalized population groups are crucial public health as well as ethical concerns. One notable effort to address …Read more
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15Nietzsche's Gods: Critical and Constructive Perspectives (edited book)De Gruyter. 2019.The place (or absence) of God in Nietzsche's thought remains central and controversial. Nietzsche's proclamation of 'the death of God' is one of the most famous (and parodied) slogans in modern philosophy, seeming to encapsulate the nineteenth-century loss of religious faith in the affirmation that God has "turned out to be our oldest lie" and yet the nature of Nietzsche's own 'theology' is far from clear. This volume engages with Nietzsche's arguments about God, theology, and religion. The volu…Read more
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You will the eternal recurrence of war and peace" (GS 285)In James S. Pearson & Herman Siemens (eds.), Conflict and Contest in Nietzsche's Philosophy, Bloomsbury. 2018.
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24Bioethical Implications of Vulnerability and Politics for Healthcare in Ethiopia and The Ways ForwardJournal of Bioethical Inquiry 19 (4): 667-681. 2022.Vulnerability and politics are among the relevant and key topics of discussion in the Ethiopian healthcare context. Attempts by the formal bioethics structure in Ethiopia to deliberate on ethical issues relating to vulnerability and politics in healthcare have been limited, even though the informal analysis of bioethical issues has been present in traditional Ethiopian communities. This is reflected in religion, social values, and local moral underpinnings. Thus, the aim of this paper is to disc…Read more
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914 How Should One Die? Nietzsche’s Contribution to the Issue of Suicide in Medical EthicsIn Emilian Mihailov, Tenzin Wangmo, Victoria Federiuc & Bernice S. Elger (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Bioethics: European Perspectives, De Gruyter Open. pp. 160-168. 2018.
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43The Beneficence of Hope: Findings from a Qualitative Study with Gout and Diabetes PatientsJournal of Bioethical Inquiry 15 (2): 211-218. 2018.This paper explores the importance of hope as a determining factor for patients to participate in first-in-human trials for synthetic biology therapies. This paper focuses on different aspects of hope in the context of human health and well-being and explores the varieties of hope expressed by patients. The research findings are based on interview data collected from stable gout and diabetes patients. Three concepts of hope have emerged from the interviews: hope as certainty ; hope as reflective…Read more
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13Remarks about the Nietzschean dancing GodSouth African Journal of Philosophy 17 (3): 301-312. 1998.
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26Par-delà le nihilisme. Nouveaux essais sur Nietzsche (review)New Nietzsche Studies 3 (3-4): 129-132. 1999.
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11The Nietzschean Legacy in Drewermann's Critique of Christian Theology: A Disappointing PromiseJournal of Nietzsche Studies 19 44-55. 2000.
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Les morales de DescartesFreiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie Und Theologie 53 (3): 589-616. 2006.
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5Editors’ introduction: the question of happinessSouth African Journal of Philosophy 33 (4): 377-380. 2014.
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27Cette etude est une analyse des uvres de Nietzsche (1878-1885) ayant trait non seulement a sa critique du christianisme en general et a son interpretation de la Mort de Dieu en particulier, mais aussi a l'elaboration de ses anti-ideals.
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10Nietzsche and the Metaphysics of the Tragic (review)Journal of Nietzsche Studies 37 (1): 98-102. 2009.
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11Oordeel en deugd in de cartesiaanse moraalfilosofieTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 74 (3): 461. 2012.
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17Is happiness the supreme good? Some philosophical objectionsSouth African Journal of Philosophy 33 (4): 395-405. 2014.
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161. Writing from a First-Person Perspective: Nietzsche’s Use of the Cartesian ModelIn João Constâncio (ed.), Nietzsche and the Problem of Subjectivity, De Gruyter. pp. 49-64. 2015.
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1Neue Beiträge zu Nietzsches Moral-, Politik- und Kulturphilosophie (edited book)Academic Press Fribourg,. 2009.
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38Descartes' moralsSouth African Journal of Philosophy 25 (2): 177-188. 2006.Descartes' morals are often considered a marginal epiphenomenon not only with respect to his metaphysics, but also in regard to the ethical theories that preceded and followed it, that is, broadly Aristotle's eudaimonism, Kantian deontologism and Mill's utilitarianism. I argue in this paper that Descartes' morals do not play a merely subaltern role in his metaphysics, as is often claimed. I first present the specificity and the evolution of his morals by giving an account of his provisory and pe…Read more
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Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Normative Ethics |
19th Century Philosophy |