Ethics is based on dialogical relationships. This monograph deals with obstacles encountered on the way toward dialogical ethics and challenges with which a person and society are faced. It is the intention of this monograph to achieve this process in the most human way possible. The author also presents the role of theology in Slovenia in this process. This book has been published by the renowned international publishing house LIT Verlag.
COBISS.SI-ID: 6474842
The article is indexed in IBSS. It presents the problem of political crime caused by a totalitarian regime as well as its consequences for a person and society.
COBISS.SI-ID: 6442842
With the assistance of the concept of social death the article discusses the concept of genocide. Its central findings are the following: genocide is an extreme form of social death. The central evil of genocide is the intentional causing of social death. Genocide is distinguished from mass killings by social death. The physical killing of the members of the target groups is not essential for genocide. There are more sophisticated forms of genocide during which the members of the target groups are not killed physically, but rather »only« particular ties, relationships and social structures which are of vital importance for the survival of target groups that are destroyed. The article also explains which kinds of groups are targets of genocide. The article makes the claim that genocide is an ethically loaded concept, and demonstrates some of its implications. Thus it provides a comparative analysis of some phenomena closely connected with genocide such as crime against humanity, totalitarianism, terrorism and ethnical cleansing. Likewise it reflects upon the genocidal effects of military mass rapes. The nature of genocide is an important issue. We need to sharpen our minds in order to be able to recognize genocide through providing an adequate definition of it, which has been appropriately tested. The latter is the central tenant of this article.
COBISS.SI-ID: 6442586
The chapter was published by the renown German publisher of philosophical works, Felix Meiner, in his book entitled The Question of God in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. The author advances an original thesis regarding the method of Levinas’s approach to the question of God which can be understood as ethical “analogia alteritatis”which differs from a classical ontology, which thinks of God in a way of “analogia entis”.
COBISS.SI-ID: 6041178
The author addresses some current issues of human survival in contemporary society, for which it is necessary to establish the spiritual-ethical basis of personality. These are the foundations for survival of persons and society in their complex post-modern relationships. The author highlights the open image of a person as a dialogical and transcendental being, who is capable and willing to overcome the imprisonments, traps, and challenges of a consumerist and technological global society. A person, endangered by captivity and the molds of modern development, can become free of such traps and violence only through the introduction of dialogue and readiness to be open to others. For this it is necessary to have some anthropological knowledge and skills, an appropriate spiritual sensitivity as well as a cultural openness to overcome daily life, systemic, ideological and other imprisonments.
COBISS.SI-ID: 259170560