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The missing voices in the conscientious objection debate: British service users’ experiences of conscientious objection to abortion
BackgroundThe fourth section of the 1967 Abortion Act states that individuals (including health care practitioners) do not have to participate in an...
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Authenticity as Explicit Transcendence
This chapter elucidates the transformation of Dasein from inauthenticity to authenticity as a shift of transcendence into its explicit mode. By...
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“I haven’t had to bare my soul but now I kind of have to”: describing how voluntary assisted dying conscientious objectors anticipated approaching conversations with patients in Victoria, Australia
BackgroundDealing with end of life is challenging for patients and health professionals alike. The situation becomes even more challenging when a...
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Comparisons Between Confucius and Mencius
This video provides an analysis of Mencius and how his ideas are in the context of Confucius. It explains Mencius’ central ideas: Morality,...
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Miracles of Motivation and Guarantors of Paralysis. What Do Values Have? What Do They Do?
This chapter, titled “Miracles of Motivation and Guarantors of Paralysis: What Do Values Have? What Do They Do?” delves into the intricate nature of...
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A Deconstructive and Psychoanalytic Investigation of (Corporeal) Law Enforcement
In this paper, I elaborate a Derridean deconstruction of law through the lens of Lacanian psychoanalysis. Derrida only focuses on jurisprudential law...
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That Our World Might Endure: Polanyi’s “Primary Education”
In Science, Faith and Society Michael Polanyi incisively examines the world of scientific practice. There is, he observes, much that a scientist...
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From Scientific Truth to Tradition-Encased Personal Meaning: Polanyi’s Critique of Enlightenment Ideas
As a young man, Michael Polanyi gloried in the freedoms he experienced in turn of the century liberal society. He understood liberal society to be...
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Sanderson, Robert
In 1615, Robert Sanderson, then an Oxford college tutor of logic, was the author of a very popular textbook representative of the contemporary...
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Introduction
In this chapter, I offer a reflection on my nearly 50-year career in the field of applied ethics, suggesting that certain issues (conscience and...
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What’s Wrong with Homophobic Bakeries? A Critical Discussion of Discrimination and its Interaction with Political Freedoms and Religious Conscience, Drawing on the Asher’s Bakery Case in Northern Ireland and Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen’s Theory of Discrimination
The Asher’s Bakery case raises questions around discrimination against political causes and freedom of religious conscience. Using the Asher’s case,...
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Decolonial Philosophical Praxis Exemplified Through Superiorist and Adseredative Understandings of Development
The violence which colonialism brought into reality must not only be processed by those who suffered from it, but also by those who committed it. We...
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Concluding Reflections: Then and Now
This is the concluding chapter of the book but is by no means merely a summary. I begin with a brief summary for the reader, to be sure, but then...
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One: but not the same
Ordinary judgments about personal identity are complicated by the fact that phrases like “same person” and “different person” have multiple uses in...
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Your True Moral Compass Defining Reality, Responsibility, and Practicality in Your Leadership Moments
This book presents a new, powerful, and practical way of making final decisions on the hard, complex, uncertain problems of life and work. What if...
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Factors influencing practitioners’ who do not participate in ethically complex, legally available care: sco** review
BackgroundEvolving medical technology, advancing biomedical and drug research, and changing laws and legislation impact patients’ healthcare options...
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Androgyny and the End of Manhood
This chapter considers the appeal and limitations of feminist androgyny and rejections of masculinity as viable alternatives to traditional...
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Weigel, Valentin
Valentin Weigel was a dissenting Lutheran pastor, whose work incorporates various medieval and Renaissance influences in an attempt to justify the...
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‘Individuality’ in the Phenomenology of Spirit (II)
This chapter turns to Chapters VI (‘Spirit’) and VII (‘Religion’) in the Phenomenology. I focus on Hegel’s celebrated interpretation of ‘ethical...