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A Tragic Fairy Tale of Evolution: Zupančič, Zapffe, and Other Monsters
The dark side of the tale of evolution is that it is not aimed at the conservation and multiplication of life. It enfolds through destructions and...
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The Mediation of Touch
The first communication between human beings, the one between the newborn and the mother, happens through touch. Strangely this first way of relating...
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Skeptical Theism and Other Arguments for Atheism
I tease out the implications of skeptical theism with respect to evidential arguments for atheism that aren’t properly classified as arguments from...
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From Root to Return Routes: A Brief Tantric Description of the Passage from Being to beings
In this article I intend to present a contemporary Tantric theory of the passage from One to Multiple, according to the philosophy of Tantra Yoga...
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Loving Somebody: Accounting for Human-Animal Love
In the philosophy of love, the possibility of loving a non-human animal is rarely acknowledged and often explicitly denied. And yet, loving a...
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Impression of Celestial Being (Deva) on Human Beings in Jainism
Jainism is essentially a spiritual philosophy having a strong focus on the ultimate purification of the soul (ātmā). A human being usually when fails...
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The “Thou-Other” Dialogue: On Distance and Closeness
This chapter reformulates the question of interpersonal connections, an issue that emerged during the harsh lockdowns of the pandemic, and fully...
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Person, Property, Relationships: A Cont(r)actual View
This article challenges the long-standing boundary that separates human beings from non-human entities, whether animate or inanimate. In doing so, it...
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Changing Patterns of Existence from Human to Posthuman: An Ethical Overview
Human civilization, in its continuous evolution, remoulded itself from a biological organism to a biological and technological mixed being. Intensely...
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Duties to Oneself and Other Ways of Being Bound in Fichte’s Sittenlehre
In this chapter, I will briefly explore a relatively recent discussion on the kind of normativity found in Fichte’s 1798 Das System der Sittenlehre...
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Metaphysical Status of Money and Sustainable Organizations and Ecosystems
The current economic and societal production system gives money a magnified importance, overlooking other essential flows necessary for human...
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The Robot and Human Futures: Visualising Autonomy in Law and Science Fiction
This article argues that legal discourses about robots are framed within a limiting ‘human paradigm.’ While this is not a specific failure of...
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On Revenge: The Other of Forgiveness
The article has two objectives. First, I argue that the claim that revenge and retaliation have no place in our culture, and that with the ability to...
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A Sustainable Philosophy for Teaching Ethics and Morals to Build Character, Pro-social Skills and Well-being in Children
This paper looks at frameworks for the practice of moral and ethical values for children, drawn from Yoga and Buddhist Philosophies. Verily the...
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Gender, Sex and Market – “Can Sex Be a Service Like Any Other?”
This article links historical and religious views of morality with representations of gender and sex on the market. The intention has been to...
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On Our Moral Entanglements with Wild Animals
In Just Fodder , Milburn argues for a relational account of our duties to animals. Following Clare Palmer, he argues that, though all animals have...
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What is Existence? A Matter of Co(n)text
In this paper, we present some experimental findings whose best explanation, first of all, provides a positive answer to a philosophical question in...
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If presentism is false, then I don’t exist. On common-sense presentism
For many presentist philosophers, e.g. Zimmerman (Contemp Debates Metaphys 10:211–225, 2008), a central motivation in favour of presentism is that it...
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Anthropological Crisis or Crisis in Moral Status: a Philosophy of Technology Approach to the Moral Consideration of Artificial Intelligence
The inquiry into the moral status of artificial intelligence (AI) is leading to prolific theoretical discussions. A new entity that does not share...
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‘Corrective’ Sexual Violence in South Africa: A Crime Against the Deviant Sexualised Other
Although it has been argued that we are living in the most peaceful time in human history, South Africa remains a society characterised by violence....