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21War Ethics and War Morality: An IntroductionConatus 8 (2): 11-63. 2023.War ethics might sound as impossible combination of words – how justify what seems to be unjustifiable? War is prima facie unjustifiable. However, wars are a fact of human reality, and those among us who are unfortunate to live in times of war – in a way it is all of us – would know that the reality is not just a possibility, that prima facie designation does not help in answering what must be done, that unjustifiability does not imply impossibility. We must understand to be able to explain, and…Read more
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65Manuscript Referees for The Journal of Ethics Volume 8: September 2003–August 2004The Journal of Ethics 8 (473): 473-473. 2004.
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25Orthodox Christianity and WarRussian Journal of Philosophical Sciences 63 (11): 39-57. 2021.The subject of this article is the Orthodox Christianity’s approach to war. Christians of other denomination have developed an elaborate theory of war, so-called “Just War Theory” (JWT), which has also been accepted by non-Christians and even secular thinkers regarding the nature and justification of war. A vast literature has been produced in a dire attempt to render perfect the world by insisting on the claim that war is the act of punishment for breaking the law. The result is an epistemologi…Read more
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206Ethics of War and Ethics in WarConatus 4 (1): 9. 2019.The paper examines the justification of warfare. The main thesis is that war is very difficult to justify, and justification by invoking “justice” is not the way to succeed it. Justification and justness are very different venues: while the first attempts to explain the nature of war and offer possible schemes of resolution, the second aims to endorse a specific type of warfare as correct and hence allowed – which is the crucial part of “just war theory.” However, “just war theory,” somewhat Man…Read more
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26Obedience and Disobedience in the Context of Whistleblowing: An Attempt at Conceptual ClarificationRussian Journal of Philosophical Sciences 64 (6): 9-33. 2022.
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258Ethics of War as a Part of Military EthicsIn Th R. Elssner & R. Janke (ed.), Didactics of Military Ethics, Brill Nijhoff. pp. 120-126. 2016.
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450Utilitarizam i sloboda (Ogled o Džonu Stjuartu Milu)In Jovan Babić (ed.), Moral i naše vreme, Službeni Glasnik. pp. 71-102. 1998.
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331Primenjena etikaIn Jovan Babić (ed.), Moral i naše vreme, Službeni Glasnik. pp. 317-332. 1998.
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136Primacy of FactualityThe Owl of Minerva 48 (1/2): 75-93. 2016.I begin my comment on Westphal’s study by exploring briefly his refutation of “the arbitrariness thesis,” and then focusing on the “conditio humanae,” i.e. the conditions of life as freedom realized in common life. As I understand it, coordination and cooperation among persons are required because employing freedom in the presence of others presupposes an act of recognition that acknowledges a priori the necessity of universal respect. The right to use and possess things within the institution o…Read more
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294Reciprocal Illumination: Epistemological Necessity or Ontological Destiny? Some Preliminary RemarksRivista di Estetica 57 143-154. 2014.This paper explores two different but intimately linked concepts. First, there is "reciprocal illumination," or the relation of interdependence of the object of knowledge and its subject. Second is the "irreversibility" which characterizes the process of applying constitutive rules, which causes institutional facts to become facts, and to be even stricter and more epistemologically constant than brute facts.
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227Property - a philosophical analysis: ArgumentFilozofija I Društvo 27 (1): 203-224. 2016.After a short historical survey of philosophical views on property, the article contains an analysis of the argument which justifies property by referring to the universal respect due to anyone’s right to use any thing for any purpose. Usage of things for the realization of set ends (or goals) is among the conditions of action/ agency. The capacity of freedom as a specific causal power in real world is dependent on the possibility of using things as means. However, without a real prospect to fin…Read more
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20Primacy of Factuality Remarks on Kenneth Westphal’s "Hegel, Natural Law & Moral Constructivism"The Owl of Minerva 48 (1-2): 75-93. 2016.I begin my comment on Westphal’s study by exploring briefly his refutation of “the arbitrariness thesis,” and then focusing on the “conditio humanae,” i.e. the conditions of life as freedom realized in common life. As I understand it, coordination and cooperation among persons are required because employing freedom in the presence of others presupposes an act of recognition that acknowledges a priori the necessity of universal respect. The right to use and possess things within the institution o…Read more
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56Belonging as a Social and Institutional FactPhilosophia (5): 1341-1354. 2019.The first issue raised in the paper is difference between social and institutional facts; both exist only because we believe they are real. Second is the claim that belonging to collectives is always a social fact, not necessarily as a result of any decision-making process; it might also become institutional through actual, sometimes only implicit, acceptance of some constitutive rules. Third, accepting constitutive rules functions by setting an irreversible point in time after which the scope o…Read more
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194Geometry and geography of morality: S. Matthew Liao : Moral brains. The neuroscience of morality. Oxford University Press, 2016, £ 22.99 PBMetascience 26 (3): 475-479. 2017.
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99Toleration vs. doctrinal evil in our timeThe Journal of Ethics 8 (3): 225-250. 2004.Our time is characterized by what seems like an unprecedented process of intense global homogenization. This reality provides the context for exploring the nature and value of toleration. Hence, this essay is meant primarily as a contribution to international ethics rather than political philosophy. It is argued that because of the non-eliminability of differences in the world we should not even hope that there can be only one global religion or ideology. Further exploration exposes conceptual a…Read more
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522Pacifism and Moral IntegrityPhilosophia 41 (4): 1007-1016. 2013.The paper has three parts. The first is a discussion of the values as goals and means. This is a known Moorean distinction between intrinsic and instrumental values, with one other Moorean item - the doctrine of value wholes. According to this doctrine the value wholes are not simply a summation of their parts, which implies a possibility that two evils might be better than one (e. g. crime + punishment, two evils, are better than either one of them taken separately). In this first part I will d…Read more
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204Die Struktur des FriedensIn Alfred Hirsch & Pascal Delhom (ed.), Friedensgesellschaften - zwischen Verantwortung und Vertrauen, Verlag Karl Alber. pp. 100-122. 2015.
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2Self-Regarding / Other-Regarding Acts: Some Remarks: Postupci koji se tiču nas samih / postupci koji se tiču ostalih: neka zapažanjaProlegomena 5 (2): 193-207. 2006.U svome spisu O slobodi, John Stuart Mill predstavlja svoje poznato načelo nenanošenja štete na sljedeći način: “… samozaštita [je] jedina svrha zbog koje se čovječanstvo, pojedinačno ili kolektivno, ima pravo miješati u slobodu djelovanja svakog od svojih članova. […] On je odgovoran društvu samo za ono svoje ponašanje koje se tiče ostalih. […] Pojedinac je neograničeni gospodar nad samim sobom, nad svojim tijelom i dušom.” Dakle, postoji razlika između postupaka koji se tiču nas samih i postup…Read more
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3573Etika i moralTheoria: Beograd 51 (2): 35-48. 2008.The main goal in the article is to develop a definition of the morality as the subject of study for ethics, a part of philosophy dealing with the nature and the scope of possible application of morality as a specific evaluational criterion. Some basic features of this specificity have been explored, and a list of ethical theories have been briefly analyzed, two of them in some more details. A sketch of a possible connection between ethics and democracy has been given at the very end of the art…Read more
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288Dobra voljaTheoria 50 (4): 7-20. 2007.Kant begins his most important ethical writing, Groundwork of The metaphysics of morals, with a very strong statement that “it is impossible to think of anything at all in the world, or indeed beyond it, that could be considered good without limitation except a good will”. Other goods, or good features of human nature and the benefits of a good life, are good only under some proper conditions, the most important of which is precisely the good will. It is the capacity of autonomy, and entirely in…Read more
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407On State, Identity and Rights: Putting Identity FirstInternational Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique 25 (2): 197-209. 2012.The paper considers the nature of the state understood as the political unity articulated on the basis of a collective identity which provides the state with its capacity to make decisions. The foremost decision of the state to protect and defend this identity is the source of its authority to enforce laws. Collective identity thus represents an object of special interest, unlike both “political” interests (Millian other-regarding acts) and private interests (Millian self-regarding acts). The va…Read more
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438The paper examines the justification of warfare. The main thesis is that war is very difficult to justify, and justification by invoking “justice” is not the way to succeed it. Justification and justness (“justice”) are very different venues: while the first attempts to explain the nature of war and offer possible schemes of resolution (through adequate definitions), the second aims to endorse a specific type of warfare as correct and hence allowed – which is the crucial part of “just war theory…Read more
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357Asistirana humana reprodukcijaIn P. Krstić Ž. Radinković R. Drezgć (ed.), Horizont bioetike: moral u doba tehničke reprodukcije života, Institut Za Filozofiju I Društvenu Teoriju. pp. 15-67. 2012.Nove tehnologije omogućavaju nove postupke i prakse koji moraju da se moralno i pravno opravdaju. IVF i surogat materinstvo, pored ostalih, spadaju u takve nove prakse. Stara pravila o tome šta je dopušteno a šta mora da se zabrani ponekad nisu dovoljna, a ni analogije obično nisu dovoljne. Da bi se došlo do prihvatljive linije razdvajanja izmedju opravdanog i neopravdanog postupanja treba izvršiti adekvatnu etičku analizu tih fenomena. IVF, tehnologija oplodnje „in vitro“, iako na prvi pogled i…Read more