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The ethos of the fire service in the context of postmodern changes 后现代语境下的消防精神变迁
IF 0.7 Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-05-27 DOI: 10.2478/ebce-2023-0010
Krzysztof Bochenek
Abstract Professional involvement and the moral life of individuals and professional groups, especially those with high social prestige, such as firefighters, are linked by the category of “ethos”. Since the ethos of this service is today significantly influenced by multifaceted and dynamic ideological and existential transformations, it seems necessary to analyse the nature of this impact. Therefore, it seems that postmodernity brings with it ideological tendencies, which, by destroying the traditional preferences established so far, do not propose anything in their place. These include, among others: the crisis of personal and community identity, secularisation processes, the “axiology” of consumerism that is clearly being shaped nowadays, the depreciation of the meaning of work, and, finally, irrationalism and the crisis of the meaning of life.
摘要职业参与与个人和职业群体的道德生活,特别是那些具有较高社会声望的人,如消防员,是通过“精神”这一范畴联系在一起的。由于这项服务的精神今天受到多方面和动态的意识形态和存在主义转变的重大影响,因此似乎有必要分析这种影响的性质。因此,后现代似乎带来了意识形态的倾向,这些倾向通过破坏迄今为止建立的传统偏好,而不提出任何东西来取代它们。其中包括:个人和社区身份的危机,世俗化进程,消费主义的“价值论”,这显然是现在形成的,工作意义的贬值,最后,非理性主义和生命意义的危机。
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Some ideas about democracy and the importance of education in the work of T. G. Masaryk 马萨里克工作中关于民主和教育重要性的一些观点
IF 0.7 Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-05-27 DOI: 10.2478/ebce-2023-0004
M. Foltin
Abstract The main aim of the paper is to analyse T. G Masaryk’s ideas about the importance of education in democratic systems. In particular, the study analyses the ideas that Masaryk associates directly or indirectly with the nature of democracy or with the improvement of the democratic system through changes in the education system. The first part of the paper traces the basic aspects of democratic systems in his work that immediately condition ideas about the importance and role of education in democratic systems. The second part analyses the importance of education in the reproduction of national values, the role of the arts and humanities in the formation of the “democratic man”, and the significance of education of broad social strata and political authorities in democratic systems.
本文的主要目的是分析马萨里克关于教育在民主制度中的重要性的观点。该研究特别分析了Masaryk直接或间接地将民主的性质或通过改变教育制度来改善民主制度联系起来的观点。论文的第一部分追溯了他作品中民主制度的基本方面,这些方面直接决定了教育在民主制度中的重要性和作用。第二部分分析了教育在国家价值观再生产中的重要性,艺术和人文学科在“民主人”形成中的作用,以及广泛的社会阶层和政治权威教育在民主制度中的意义。
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Selecting for deafness – a marvellous opportunity or imposed dependence? 选择耳聋——一个绝佳的机会还是强加的依赖?
IF 0.7 Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-05-27 DOI: 10.2478/ebce-2023-0002
Radim Bělohrad
Abstract The paper focuses on the question of whether it is morally permissible to use reproductive technologies to select children with congenital deafness. I review the arguments that have been presented to support the claims that the lack of hearing is not overall bad, that disability is caused by social discrimination rather than impairment, that the community of deaf people gives its members plenty of opportunities to lead a happy life, and that procreative decisions need not improve the world. I argue that although the claims are, to a certain extent, reasonable, they fail to establish the conclusion that selecting for deafness is morally permissible. I further argue that the decision to select a deaf child is morally wrong because it results in imposed and needless dependency, that the happiness of a deaf child is conditioned by their confinement to a relatively small community, and that the deaf parents who reject their child’s potential biculturalism are motivated by questionably self-regarding reasons.
摘要本文主要探讨利用生殖技术选择先天性耳聋儿童在道德上是否允许的问题。我回顾了一些论据,这些论据支持以下观点:缺乏听力并不完全是坏事;残疾是由社会歧视而不是缺陷造成的;聋人社区给了其成员很多过上幸福生活的机会;生育决策不一定会改善世界。我认为,尽管这些说法在一定程度上是合理的,但它们无法建立这样的结论,即选择耳聋在道德上是允许的。我进一步认为,选择一个聋儿的决定在道德上是错误的,因为它会导致强加的和不必要的依赖,聋儿的幸福是由他们被限制在一个相对较小的社区所决定的,聋儿父母拒绝他们孩子潜在的双文化主义是出于令人怀疑的自我考虑的原因。
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Dignity of individuals with dementia, palliative care, and futile treatment 痴呆症患者的尊严、姑息治疗和无效治疗
IF 0.7 Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-05-27 DOI: 10.2478/ebce-2023-0009
Rudolf Novotný, Zuzana Novotná, Štefánia Andraščíková, Martin Kmec
Abstract Case studies are used to reflect on the treatment of patients with dementia hospitalized at the Geriatric Department of the Faculty hospital in Prešov, emphasizing human dignity in clinical practice. The discussion is focused on the palliative care of patients with severe dementia. The biomedical method, which respects human dignity is defined by means of inductive, deductive, and normative bioethical methods. They make it possible to provide guidelines for palliative care and individualized prognosis strategy. An analysis of health status of individuals with severe dementia enables us to offer a clinical definition of purposeful treatment based on normative justice and decision-making that reflects the patient’s best interest, thus respecting their dignity. An evaluation of a patient’s care is based on a biomedical method that considers the dementia stage. Applying a bioethical model in a holistic context preconditions the human rights of patients with dementia.
摘要:通过案例研究,对Prešov院系医院老年病科收治的痴呆患者的治疗进行反思,在临床实践中强调人的尊严。讨论的重点是严重痴呆患者的姑息治疗。尊重人类尊严的生物医学方法是通过归纳、演绎和规范的生物伦理方法来定义的。它们可以为姑息治疗和个性化预后策略提供指导。对严重痴呆症患者健康状况的分析使我们能够根据反映患者最佳利益的规范性正义和决策提供有目的治疗的临床定义,从而尊重他们的尊严。对病人护理的评估是基于考虑痴呆阶段的生物医学方法。在整体背景下应用生物伦理模型是痴呆症患者人权的先决条件。
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War and peace as consequences of human nature? 战争与和平是人类本性的结果?
IF 0.7 Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-05-27 DOI: 10.2478/ebce-2023-0008
Lukáš Švaňa
Abstract The issue of human nature is very complex and elusive, and mankind has been trying to unveil its elements since the beginnings of any philosophical reasoning. Whether they were questions of ontology, gnoseology, or ethics, it has been an uneasy task to uncover the complexity of the term. This article concentrates on finding ideas that support the existence of human nature and consequently searches for its possible ethical implications. I focused on the traditional issues of good vs evil, especially in terms of dichotomy between committing violent acts and waging wars in contradiction to creation of conditions for peaceful and just societies. In the article, I compare various ideas on human nature and analyse their potential in unveiling its ethical implications. I also comment on the possibility of war and peace being consequences of human nature and its connection to our disposition of being moral subjects.
人性问题是一个非常复杂和难以捉摸的问题,自任何哲学推理开始以来,人类一直试图揭示其要素。无论是本体论、灵知学还是伦理学的问题,揭示这个术语的复杂性一直是一项令人不安的任务。这篇文章集中在寻找支持人性存在的想法,并因此寻找其可能的伦理含义。我关注的是传统的善与恶的问题,特别是在暴力行为和发动战争与创造和平与正义社会的条件之间的二分法。在这篇文章中,我比较了关于人性的各种观点,并分析了它们在揭示其伦理含义方面的潜力。我还评论了战争与和平可能是人类本性的结果,以及它与我们作为道德主体的倾向的联系。
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Free will, moral responsibility and automatisms 自由意志,道德责任和自动性
IF 0.7 Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-05-27 DOI: 10.2478/ebce-2023-0006
Sára Špirková
Abstract Some determinist approaches to free will opine that the human brain is subordinate to physical laws not fully under our control. This results in a weakening of the concept of the personal autonomy and moral responsibility of humans. Were we to acknowledge this assumption, we might consider automatic machines unable to influence the thoughts and intentions from which our actions take root. The key issue lies in the fact that an individual does not consciously engage in particular actions (automatisms), which challenges the concept of free will in an individual’s complex behaviour. Despite this issue, not all automatisms that lack conscious will can be viewed as lacking free will. The paper examines whether classical philosophical concepts may weaken the strict determinist approach, which seeks to deny that individuals have free will due to the existence of automatic actions.
一些关于自由意志的决定论认为,人类的大脑服从于我们无法完全控制的物理定律。这导致了个人自主性和人类道德责任概念的弱化。如果我们承认这一假设,我们可能会认为自动机器无法影响我们行为所依据的思想和意图。关键问题在于,个体不会有意识地参与特定的行为(自动性),这挑战了个体复杂行为中的自由意志概念。尽管存在这个问题,但并非所有缺乏有意识意志的自动性行为都可以被视为缺乏自由意志。本文考察了古典哲学概念是否会削弱严格决定论方法,这种方法试图否认由于自动行为的存在而使个人具有自由意志。
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Svätopluk Štúr’s criticism of Nietzsche’s vitalism
IF 0.7 Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-05-27 DOI: 10.2478/ebce-2023-0005
Brice D. Cantrell
Abstract Svätopluk Štúr is a strong critic of strands of German thought that emphasize the will to power as an organizing principle of human society. Štúr is particularly critical of Nietzsche’s vitalism, which Štúr believes culminated in national socialism and the destruction of the Second World War. This paper describes and examines Štúr’s criticism of a number of German thinkers and focuses especially on Štúr’s criticism of Nietzsche. Štúr criticizes Nietzsche’s emphasis on life over knowledge. Štúr offers a different philosophy of life grounded in the dignity of human beings and the social consequences of ideas and actions. This paper concludes by examining what Štúr means by dignity in terms of a moral agent and as opposed to Nietzsche’s emphasis on vitalism.
摘要Svätopluk Štúr是对德国思想的强烈批判,强调权力意志是人类社会的组织原则。Štúr尤其批评尼采的生机论,Štúr认为它在国家社会主义和第二次世界大战的毁灭中达到顶峰。本文描述和考察了Štúr对一些德国思想家的批评,并特别关注Štúr对尼采的批评。Štúr批评尼采对生命的强调胜过知识。Štúr提供了一种不同的生活哲学,以人类的尊严和思想和行动的社会后果为基础。这篇论文的结论是,从道德主体的角度,考察Štúr对尊严的意义,与尼采强调的生机论相反。
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Fighting human hubris: Intelligence in nonhuman animals and artefacts 对抗人类的傲慢:非人类动物和人工制品的智能
IF 0.7 Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-05-27 DOI: 10.2478/ebce-2023-0001
Christian Hugo Hoffmann
Abstract 100 years ago, the editors of the Journal of Educational Psychology conducted one of the most famous studies of experts’ conceptions of human intelligence. This was reason enough to prompt the question where we stand today with making sense of “intelligence”. In this paper, we argue that we should overcome our anthropocentrism and appreciate the wonders of intelligence in nonhuman and nonbiological animals instead. For that reason, we study two cases of octopus intelligence and intelligence in machine learning systems to embrace the notion of intelligence as a non-unitary faculty with pluralistic forms. Furthermore, we derive lessons for advancing our human self-understanding.
100年前,《教育心理学杂志》(Journal of Educational Psychology)的编辑们对专家们关于人类智力的概念进行了一项最著名的研究。这个理由足以引发这样一个问题:我们今天对“智力”的理解是什么?在本文中,我们认为我们应该克服我们的人类中心主义,而不是欣赏非人类和非生物动物的智能奇迹。出于这个原因,我们研究了机器学习系统中章鱼智能和智能的两个案例,以拥抱智能作为具有多元形式的非单一教员的概念。此外,我们还获得了提高人类自我理解的经验教训。
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Ethical and marketing perspectives on surrogacy tourism 代孕旅游的伦理和营销观点
IF 0.7 Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-05-27 DOI: 10.2478/ebce-2023-0003
S. Barat
Abstract When an individual is unable or unwilling to become a parent the natural way, he/she can avail of a surrogate mother. Furthermore, when the surrogate pregnancy takes place in a foreign country, the practice is popularly referred to as ‘surrogacy tourism’ or ‘birther tourism’, which is the main topic of this research. In contrast to existing research most of which is confined to the medical angle, here we look at how marketing makes surrogacy tourism more accessible but concomitantly promotes unwanted ethical and marketing practices, even if inadvertently. On one hand, rigorous promotion of surrogacy tourism has successfully spread the word and has made such option available to individuals who would have otherwise been unaware of such opportunity. On the other hand, excessive marketing has resulted in unethical, illegal and in some cases, unhealthy medical practices in which, service providers, clinics and doctors often participate, but on which there appears to be scant research. This analysis, therefore, has two-fold implications: first, the findings can be extended to several other related professions, such as the medical community, administrators, law enforcement agencies and most importantly, potential ‘parents’; secondly, it can aid administrators and regulators tighten extant loopholes in the system, and thereby, provide a more robust and safer option for surrogate tourists.
当一个人不能或不愿意以自然的方式成为父母时,他/她可以利用代孕母亲。此外,当代孕发生在国外时,这种做法通常被称为“代孕旅游”或“出生地旅游”,这是本研究的主要主题。与大多数局限于医学角度的现有研究相反,这里我们研究营销如何使代孕旅游更容易获得,但同时也促进了不必要的道德和营销行为,即使是无意的。一方面,严格推广代孕旅游已经成功地传播了这个词,并为那些原本不知道这种机会的个人提供了这种选择。另一方面,过度营销造成了不道德、非法,有时甚至是不健康的医疗做法,服务提供者、诊所和医生经常参与其中,但对此似乎缺乏研究。因此,这一分析具有双重含义:首先,研究结果可以扩展到其他几个相关行业,如医学界、行政人员、执法机构,最重要的是,潜在的“父母”;其次,它可以帮助管理人员和监管机构弥补系统中现存的漏洞,从而为代理游客提供更强大、更安全的选择。
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Empirical research on business ethics of SMEs in the V4 countries V4国家中小企业商业道德的实证研究
IF 0.7 Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-05-27 DOI: 10.2478/ebce-2023-0007
Katarína Zvaríková, D. Bařinová, J. Bélas, Ľubomir Palčák
Abstract The aim of this study is to evaluate the level of select ethical issues in Visegrad Four (V4) countries (Czech republic, Slovakia, Poland, and Hungary) and quantify the differences in the attitudes of entrepreneurs in the field of business ethics in these countries. Empirical research was conducted in June 2022 in the V4 countries. Data collection was carried out by the renowned external company MNFORCE using "Computer Assisted Web Interviewing" (CAWI Research Method), according to the questionnaire created by the research team. The total number of respondents was 1,398, of which 347 were from the Czech Republic, 322 from Slovakia, 381 from Poland, and 348 from Hungary. Statistical hypotheses were verified using descriptive statistics, chi-square, and Z-scores at a α = 5% significance level. The preliminary results of this study can be evaluated as follows: The ethical level of entrepreneurs in V4 countries is high because the dominant group showed a positive attitude towards the defined issues in the field of business ethics. The attitudes of these entrepreneurs showed that they not only perceived the importance of business ethics, but also implemented and promoted these practices in managerial decision-making. Moreover, they feel good when they behave ethically, which is a significant motivating factor. In this study, it was found that Hungarian SMEs presented the highest level of business ethics. In contrast, the Czech Republic presented the lowest level of perception and enforcement of business ethics.
摘要本研究旨在评价维谢格拉德四国(捷克共和国、斯洛伐克、波兰和匈牙利)的选择伦理问题水平,并量化这些国家企业家在商业伦理领域的态度差异。实证研究于2022年6月在V4国家进行。数据收集由知名外部公司MNFORCE采用“计算机辅助网络访谈”(CAWI研究方法),根据研究团队制作的问卷进行。调查对象总数为1398人,其中捷克347人、斯洛伐克322人、波兰381人、匈牙利348人。采用描述性统计、卡方和z分数在α = 5%显著性水平下验证统计假设。本研究的初步结果可以评价如下:V4国家企业家的道德水平较高,因为优势群体对商业道德领域定义的问题表现出积极的态度。这些企业家的态度表明,他们不仅认识到商业道德的重要性,而且在管理决策中实施和促进了这些做法。此外,当他们表现得合乎道德时,他们会感觉良好,这是一个重要的激励因素。本研究发现,匈牙利中小企业的商业道德水平最高。相比之下,捷克共和国对商业道德的认知和执行水平最低。
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