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Η μεταμόσχευση οργάνων είναι μια εξαιρετική νέα επιλογή της σύγχρονης χειρουργικής, ικανή να προσφέρει ελπίδα σε χρόνιους ασθενείς, αλλά, ταυτόχρονα, και να γεννήσει αμφιλεγόμενα ηθικά ερωτήματα σχετικά με την ανθρώπινη ταυτότητα και τη σημασία του ανθρώπινου σώματος. Αποτελώντας μια παγκόσμια και διεθνική προσπάθεια, η μεταμόσχευση οργάνων εγείρει πανανθρώπινες ηθικές ανησυχίες, ενώ, ακόμα, οφείλει να συμμορφωθεί με πολιτισμικά καθορισμένες πεποιθήσεις. Σε αυτό το βιβλίο, 30 μελέτες περίπτωσης προερχόμενες από όλο των κόσμο αποσαφηνίζουν το εύρος παγκόσμιων και τοπικών, ηθικών, κοινωνικών, και πολιτισμικών προβλημάτων που απορρέουν από τη νέα αυτή μορφή θεραπείας. Συνοδευόμενη από μία λίστα σχετικών ταινιών, η συλλογή παρέχει μια μοναδική πηγή για τη διδασκαλία της ηθικής στους κόλπους της ιατρικής, της ιατρικής περίθαλψης, της φιλοσοφίας, και των θρησκευτικών σπουδών. Οι συγγραφείς συμπληρώνουν αυτό το υλικό διδασκαλίας παρέχοντας μια συστηματική εισαγωγή στο πεδίο της ηθικής της μεταμόσχευσης.

Ethics & moral philosophy --- Greece

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Can we who have been touched by the scientific, intellectual, and experimental revolutions of modern and contemporary times still believe with and degree of coherence and consistency that we as individual persons are immortal. Indeed, is there even good cause to hope that we are? In examining the present relationship of reason to faith, can we find justifying reasons for faith? These are the central questions in Self, God, and Immortality, a compelling exercise in philosophical theology. Drawing upon the works of William James and the principles of American Pragmatism, Eugene Fontinell extrapolates carefully from "data given in experience" to a model of the cosmic process open to the idea that individual identity may survive bodily dissolution. Presupposing that the possibility of personal immortality has been established in the first part, the second part of the essay is concerned with desirability. Here, Fontinell shows that, far from diverting attention and energies from the crucial tasks confronting us here and now, such belief can be energizing and life enhancing. The wider importance of Self, God, and Immortality lies in its pressing both immortality-believers and terminality-believers to explore both the metaphysical presuppositions and the lived consequences of their beliefs. It is the author's expressed hope that such explorations, rather than impeding, will stimulate co-operative efforts to create a richer and more humane community.

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This book offers a bold and controversial new thesis regarding the nature of prejudice. The authors' central claim is that prejudice is not simply learned, rather it is predisposed in all human beings and is thus the foundation for ethical valuation. They aim to destroy the illusion that prejudice is merely the result of learned beliefs, socially conditioned attitudes, or pathological states of development. Contrary to traditional accounts, prejudice itself is not a negative attribute of human nature, rather it is the necessary precondition for the self and civilization to emerge. Defined as the preferential self-expression of valuation, prejudice gives rise to greater existential complexities and novelties that elevate selfhood and society to higher states of ethical realization. Rather than offer another contribution that highlights the destructive nature of prejudice, Mills and Polanowski address the ontological, psychological, and dialectical origins of prejudice as it manifests itself in the process of selfhood and culture. They provide an original conceptualization of the phenomenology of prejudice and its dialectical instantiation in the ontology of the individual, worldhood, and the very structures of subjectivity. As a unique synthesis of psychoanalysis, Hegelian idealism, Heideggerian existential ontology, and Whiteheadian process philosophy, prejudice is the indispensable ground for humanity to actualize its highest potentiality-for-Being. The striking result is (1) a revolutionary theory of human nature, (2) a new ethical system, and (3) the elevation of dialectical ethics to the domain of metaphysics.

Ethics & Moral Philosophy. --- Prejudices.

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Το παρόν εγχειρίδιο πραγματεύεται υποθέσεις ψυχιατρικής φύσεως από την σκοπιά της βιοηθικής. Το ζήτημα αυτού του βιβλίου είναι να διδάξει ψυχιατρους και ψυχολόγους σε ηθικά ζητήματα, όπως αυτά της συναίνεσης, της σύγκρουσης συμφερόντων, του ιατρικού απορρήτου και άλλων. Τα ζητήματα ηθικής που αφορούν επαγγέλματα όπως αυτά της ιατρικής, τα οποία ασχολούνται κατεξοχήν με τον άνθρωπο και οφείλουν να δίνουν, ως αποτέλεσμα, μεγάλη βάση στον ανθρώπινο παράγοντα κάθε ξεχωριστής περίπτωσης, είναι δύσκολο να πλαισιωθούν στη μορφή ενός βιβλίου με σκοπό τη διδασκαλία τους στους νεαρούς επαγγελματίες του τομέα. Μέσω της συνεργασίας διαφόρων ειδικών από όλο τον κόσμο, αυτό το βιβλίο καταφέρνει να προσφέρει αυτό το έργο.

Ethics & moral philosophy --- Greece

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This book offers a bold and controversial new thesis regarding the nature of prejudice. The authors' central claim is that prejudice is not simply learned, rather it is predisposed in all human beings and is thus the foundation for ethical valuation. They aim to destroy the illusion that prejudice is merely the result of learned beliefs, socially conditioned attitudes, or pathological states of development. Contrary to traditional accounts, prejudice itself is not a negative attribute of human nature, rather it is the necessary precondition for the self and civilization to emerge. Defined as the preferential self-expression of valuation, prejudice gives rise to greater existential complexities and novelties that elevate selfhood and society to higher states of ethical realization. Rather than offer another contribution that highlights the destructive nature of prejudice, Mills and Polanowski address the ontological, psychological, and dialectical origins of prejudice as it manifests itself in the process of selfhood and culture. They provide an original conceptualization of the phenomenology of prejudice and its dialectical instantiation in the ontology of the individual, worldhood, and the very structures of subjectivity. As a unique synthesis of psychoanalysis, Hegelian idealism, Heideggerian existential ontology, and Whiteheadian process philosophy, prejudice is the indispensable ground for humanity to actualize its highest potentiality-for-Being. The striking result is (1) a revolutionary theory of human nature, (2) a new ethical system, and (3) the elevation of dialectical ethics to the domain of metaphysics.

Ethics & Moral Philosophy --- Prejudices