In relation to the problems faced today, in contemplation and in practical affairs, philosophers must confront the question What is knowledge?', and consider whether knowledge has lost its object. Such was the problem placed before the seminar convened by the Philosophical Society of Turkey at Ankara in 1989. The 17 papers derived from the lectures and discussions deal with problems of knowing and believing, of the kinds and criteria of knowledge, of truth and fallibility, and of the cultural as well as individual factors in cognition. The authors include Guido Kung, L. Jonathan Cohen, Ernest...
In relation to the problems faced today, in contemplation and in practical affairs, philosophers must confront the question What is knowledge?', and c...
Professional Ethics have become fashionable during the past two decades. This proliferation of various professional ethics bears witness to a need to introduce ethical concerns in the exercise of various professions. In order to answer this need, each profession attempts to develop its own code of "ethics." In this respect, questions such as the following arise: Are the various ethical problems faced during the exercise of a profession different in kind from those ethical problems faced in everyday life? Or, are they ethical problems of the same kind, requiring in addition knowledge of...
Professional Ethics have become fashionable during the past two decades. This proliferation of various professional ethics bears witness to a need to ...
This collection of papers conceptualizes human rights as ethical principles, as well as premises for legislation and for legal reasoning. The book shows the significance of clear concepts for the protection of human rights in practice. Taking this conception of human rights as the point of departure, the book also discusses the specificities of law - of the state and of politics that hold the most promise under present-day conditions - for the protection of human rights and the prevention of their violation. (Series: Philosophy in International Context / Philosophie im internationalen Kontext...
This collection of papers conceptualizes human rights as ethical principles, as well as premises for legislation and for legal reasoning. The book sho...
In this collection of papers on Ethics, Ioanna Kucuradi clarifies concepts related to Ethics as a philosophical discipline, starting with the term 'ethics' itself. She details an approach to Ethics as knowledge, not as a systems of norms, in light of which she discusses theoretical problems related to the evaluation and value problem we come across in everyday public life and politics. As a result of this discussion, which makes obsolete the relativism-absolutism debate, she suggests ways which, if followed, promise to make it possible to overcome some of these problems. (Series: Philosophy...
In this collection of papers on Ethics, Ioanna Kucuradi clarifies concepts related to Ethics as a philosophical discipline, starting with the term 'et...
