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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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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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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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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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Shared Social Orientation and Responsibility as Constituents
Unorganised collectives that are interesting in terms of moral responsibility are a set of individuals picked out by some normatively relevant fact....
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The Other Modern Séances
This chapter is a philosophical exploration of the topic specifically sidestepped in Patočka’s paper: the survival of the soul after the death of the...
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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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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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Acting Before Future Generations
This chapter establishes that intergenerational environmental ethics and policy relating to intergenerational environmental ethics tend to privilege...
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Introduction to Collective and Shared Responsibility for Climate Change
The starting position for this book is that not only states and international bodies have a responsibility to take action to mitigate climate change....
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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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Institutional Design for the Development of Algorithmic Democracy
This last chapter presents several examples of how it is possible to create public spheres within the institutions of civil society, especially in...
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Digital Twins: On Algorithm-Based Political Participation
The aim of this chapter is to critically analyse the challenges facing the application of participatory processes based on Artificial intelligence...
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Racializing the Analysis of Capitalism: Towards a Decolonial Political Ecology – Mining Neoliberalism and Environmental Degradation
Studying the mining sector in the Democratic Republic of Congo using a grounded approach, Anuarite Bashizi, Cécile Giraud and Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka...
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The Second Age of Artificial Intelligence
The aim of this chapter is to discuss the impact, characteristics and challenges underlying the advent of the Second Age of Artificial Intelligence....
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Moral Learning by Algorithms: The Possibility of Develo** Morally Intelligent Technology
The aim of this chapter is to explore the possibility of moral machine learningMoral machine learning (MML) and its possible alternatives. We begin...
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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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Beyond Marx, Beyond Europe
Raul Fornet-Betancourt questions a series of borders related to the idea of going beyond both Marx and Europe: beyond European capitalism and its...