The book discusses various topics in bioethics, from artificial insemination over embryo research and euthanasia to our treatment of non-human animals. The author reflects upon the relation between different types of action - and agent-judgments and tries to solve the puzzle of their logical or ontological primacy (are justice, courage, generosity, vanity and so on features of actions or features of agents? shall we give an account of actions in terms of just, courageous, generous, and so on agents, i.e. agents exemplifying these virtues?).
COBISS.SI-ID: 252442880
The paper defends a neo-Lockean view of secondary qualities, in particular color, according to which being of a given color amounts to having disposition to produce in normal viewers under normal circumstances the response as of seeing an objective manifest simple color. It also defends the view that the naive color-concept, the simple color concept, so to speak, is as of a fully objective property.
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The topic is the ontology of secondary qualities, properties that seem mind independent and categorical but, according to the line defended in this paper, are not: they are rather response-dispositional (or response-dependent). The final view to be proposed and defended is the view, dubbed ‘response-intentionalism’: for a surface to be of a colour C is to have a disposition to cause a response in normal observers, namely, an intentional phenomenal C-experience.
COBISS.SI-ID: 18277896
The problem of the self in ancient philosophy usually concerns the metaphysical and epistemological issues, where the self is taken to be a sort of real entity. The article examines the epistemological and political implications of the notion of the selfhood, a real challenge for Alcibiades, who is eager to become a politician, especially of »taking care of one's self«, or of ruling others. Namely we have to rule ourselves in order to rule others, as suggests one of the well-known dictums (Alc. I, 127d).
COBISS.SI-ID: 17991688
The first part of discusses the connection between the concept of identity and the emergence of discrimination and tolerance, which is explained using boundary theory. Our conclusion is that some negative attitude toward others is inevitable and reasonable, but that there are limits to what is acceptable. The second part looks at the question of cohesion in a multicultural society, and the role played by stories, myths and legends in unifying peoples.
COBISS.SI-ID: 18170632