Die Fragen -Gibt es einen erfassbaren Mehrwert fur die Mehrheitsbevolkerung durch ihr Zusammenleben mit Minderheiten?- und -Welchen Nutzen haben Mehrheitsbevolkerungen von der positiven Diskriminierung ihrer Minderheiten, welchen Nachteil von ihrer negativen Diskriminierung?- sind eine fur Europa noch ungewohnliche Perspektive fur die Betrachtung von Minderheiten. Das Collegium PONTES Gorlitz-Zgorzelec-Zhorelec hat unter Schirmherrschaft der Aussenminister der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, der Republik Polen und der Tschechischen Republik eine Reihe eminenter Wissenschaftler und geistiger...

In this compact yet informative book, former dissident, occasional politician, software developer, and noted Czech philosopher, Jan Sokol offers a way to teach young radical students about philosophy. Drawing on his own experiences, Sokol explains that one does not start teaching by talking about philosophers and theories specifically, but by aiming to excite students and from there leading them to think philosophically about the important questions that have faced humans for centuries. Divided into thirty short chapters, Thinking about Ordinary Things is a unique perspective on the...

General complaints about moral decay, however frequent and even justified they may be, are of little use. This book does not complain; it acts. Jan Sokol s Ethics, Life and Institutions applies our ever improving knowledge in various fields to questions of morality in an effort to enhance our ability to discern different moral phenomena and to discuss them more precisely.
With few exceptions, moral philosophy considers the acting person to be an autonomous, independent individual pursuing his or her own happiness. But in the context of social institutions for example, in...