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The Responsibility of Science for Guaranteeing Human Rights in the Fight Against Human Degradation, Racism and Anti-Semitism
This article is an appeal in the form of ten questions or theses, which as a whole outline the responsibility of science. 1) The humanistic mission...
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The Roots of Courage
At the heart of courage is a long and complex history, beginning with root meanings and origins. From the Latin cor, the word “courage” points to...
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Making of a Man: A Reading of Gandhi's Philosophy in 21st Century
Humanity in the twenty-first century, despite its incredible progress, encounters several challenges which are, arguably, deeply rooted in human...
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Sustainable Development Goals in Gandhi’s Thought Perspective
This chapter is on the theme of ‘Sustainable Development Goals in Gandhi’s Thought Perspective’. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), the Global...
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Cyborg Encounters: Three Art-Science Interactions
This contribution includes three selected works from an exhibition on Cyborg Encounters . These works deal with hybrid connections of human and...
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The Idea of Justice in Gandhian Philosophy
The Gandhian meditation on the principles of justice was a unique ensemble of ethics and praxis, universality and locality, and methods and goals. He...
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The Theory of Art and Culture
While most of his readers have no problem classifying Scruton as a political philosopher of a conservative persuasion, his genuine interest in art is...
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The Cultural Politics of Cartesianism: Conclusions and Perspectives
This concluding Chapter aims to set the reception of Descartes in Brandenburg-Prussia within its broader historical and cultural-political context....
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Humanism in an Age of Anti-humanism
This essay argues that the partisan divide of America’s culture wars is one of the primary strategies by means of which the society of spectacle aims...
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Primitivizing the Hindus: Hindus as Oppressive and Hierarchical
The contentions of the Francophone postcolonial thinkers are proven fair and square when critically examining Mill’s chapters on the Hindu people in...
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Metaethics II
In a discussion about ethics, we often encounter a frequently asked question: What is the origin of ethics? The question indeed is important. In a...
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Prosperity, Egoism, Voluntary Simplicity, Sustainability, and Expectations of Immortality
The presence or absence of states described by the concepts of happiness, well-being, and prosperity play a crucial role in determining behaviour and...
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Besieged Existence
This chapter explores the process of progressive regression from which humanistic intelligence has suffered, from 1968 to today. The themes developed...
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Czech Women in Philosophy and Science Since 1918
After the 1918 foundation of Czechoslovakia, more opportunities to study at universities opened up for women. Women were gradually admitted to all...
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Can agroecology and CRISPR mix? The politics of complementarity and moving toward technology sovereignty
Can gene editing and agroecology be complementary? Various formulations of this question now animate debates over the future of food systems,...
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Bio-Aesthetics: The Production of Life in Contemporary Art
Bio artists experiment with the notion of a demiurgic creativity. Their works not only simulate life but are actually alive. They design unnatural...
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The Reconstruction of Civilization
We are all enjoying the fruits of modern civilization. However, we don’t truly know how we start and where we turn to. The world we experience seems...
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Introduction: Existentialism, Religious and Non-Religious
The introductory chapter considers different approaches to twentieth-century existentialism and the various figures associated with it. It makes...
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Founder of Confucianism–Confucius’s Ethical Thought with “Benevolence” as the Core
Confucius was a native of the state of Lu at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period. He was born in the 22nd year of the Duke of Lu (551 BC) and...
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Introduction: The Genesis of Biosemiotic Literary Criticism: How the Future “Presents” the Past
In this chapter, I provide a theoretical overview of the newly emerging field of biosemiotic criticism (aka “biosemiotic literary criticism”). I...