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Consciousness and Implicit Self-Awareness: Eastern and Western Perspectives
Some contemporary Western theories of consciousness, such as the higher-order thought (HOT) theory and self-representationalism, hold that there is...
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The Book: Building Bridges – Exposing Gaps
This chapter presents the structure of the entire book Consciousness Studies in Sciences and Humanities: Eastern and Western Perspectives as formal...
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Complementarity and Quantum Cognition
The idea of complementarity is one of the key concepts of quantum mechanics. Yet, the idea was originally developed in William James’ psychology of...
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Beyond Consciousness in Early Christian Mysticism
Late antique Christian mysticism is a way of transcending consciousness. The culmination of the approaches of the time is represented by the writings...
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Religion, Leadership, and Consciousness: Interactions and Opportunities
Effective leadership is not about profit, goals, and vision alone – it is also about the curation of shared values and their implementation in the...
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Introduction: the Agony of Corinne Rey
Corinne Rey gave masked gunmen the passcode to the Charlie Hebdo building. If she had not, she and her young daughter would have been killed. She has...
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Selfish Genes and Morality
Though the concept of the selfish gene (articulated in Richard Dawkins’s book The Selfish Gene) is now dated, it is still influential in evolutionary...
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“Unresting Death, a Whole Day Nearer Now”: Parfit and Patočka on Death and False Consolations
Jan Patočka opens “The Phenomenology of Afterlife” by indicating that philosophers always tend to focus on questions about the mortality or...
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Dying With the Other: Death as the Manifestation of Community
In Patočka’s later thought, death is a recurring theme. It is something that he analyzes phenomenologically and existentially, but also a theme that...
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Against Prescriptions. Why Values?
The chapter titled “Against Prescriptions: Why Values?” explores the perplexing question of why humans need and use values, even though values...
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Excursus II: Values in the Political Soap Opera
This chapter, “Values in the Political Soap Opera,” delves into the intricate interplay between values, politics, and society, examining the fluid...
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Excursus I: Values and Human Rights
This chapter, “Values and Human Rights,” explores the complex interplay between human rights, values, and societal dynamics within the European...
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The Power to Connect, the Power to Relativize. What Do Values Relate To?
Some argue that values relate only within the discourse of values and not to the external world. These values are seen as existing in a sea of...
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Ever More. Where Do Values Come from? And How Many Are There?
This chapter delves into the complexity of moral values and their role in contemporary society. The author questions the claim that values are...
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Eating as a Wrong Relationship
This first chapter will be looking at our relationship with food and drink. Usually, such relationship is appreciated and valued either for the...
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The Sacred Meal. Religion and Secularism, Amidst Need and Desire
In this chapter, we are going to show how our relationship with food and drinks encompasses not only material elements but also cultural and symbolic...
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Conclusion
The conclusion argues that the understanding of inheritance as taken up and critiqued in this manuscript allows us to see the sense in which energy...
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A Critical Civil Society: An Ethical Framework to Control the Power of Algorithms
Given that any democratic proposal must account for the institutional skeleton that sustains it, the aim of this article is to show that this...
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Anti-empathism: Paul Bloom
In the chapter ‘Anti-empathism: Paul Bloom’, the author offers a description and an in-depth analysis of the criticisms made to empathy by Paul...