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How to Enhance Morality
This book offers an innovative approach to moral enhancement. We, as humans, have a moral duty to be as good as we can be. Hence, moral bio-enhancement (MBE), if effective and safe, is our moral duty. However, it has to be voluntary because if it is made compulsory, human freedom (of the will) would be curtailed. As freedom (of the will) is an essential component of humanness, compulsory MBE would infringe upon our humanness. An essential question is; what will motivate humans to subject themselves voluntarily to MBE?The book argues - and supports by using empirical/experimental evidence - that morality and happiness operate in a circularly supportive relationship that applies to most humans...
The Ultimate Enhancement of Morality
This book deals with good, evil, happiness and morally enhanced post-humans. It offers a succinct historical elaboration of philosophical stances towards morality and happiness, focusing on Kant's ideas in particular. Human augmented ethical maturity in a futuristic version of Kant’s Ethical Commonwealth implies, among else, voluntary moral bio-enhancement (VMBE); consequently, more happiness – as morality and happiness are in a circularly supportive relationship; ultimate morality (UM). UM is in its own way a universal morality. In line with the contention that Kant’s vision of the (not immediate but more distant) future of humanity is one of a cosmopolitan moral order in which humans act virtuously in the broadest possible community, that is, humanity, it is justified to conclude that successful VMBE is conducive to Kant’s vision. In this context the book is of great interest to a broad audience, such as those interested in VMBE and novel conceptions of morality, and those with an interest in the historical development of morality and happiness, in philosophy (specifically, ethics) and in post-humanity.
Kapitalismus an der Kippe
Unsicherheit ist für viele Menschen bedrückend. Albena Azmanova sieht dabei auch eine Chance, entscheidende Veränderungen herbeizuführen – ohne schwere Krise des Kapitalismus, große Utopien oder sogar Revolutionen. Selbst Menschen, die gut verdienen, sind mit der Monotonie, in der sie leben, nicht mehr zufrieden, wagen es aber angesichts unsicherer Zeiten nicht, sie aufzubrechen. Viele Wohlhabende fühlen sich keineswegs als Gewinner des Systems, sondern als Opfer. Helfen kann hier nur eine Stärkung der sozialen Absicherung. Sie erlaubt es den Menschen, sich zu verändern. Und sie stellt auch die Wirtschaft auf die umweltfreundlichsten Produkte um, die es gibt: Liebe und Zuwendung, Vertrauen und gegenseitige Unterstützung. Wenn wir alle gemeinsam dafür eintreten, ist eine friedliche Revolution möglich.
Beyond the Mountains of the Damned
A journalist examines the war in Kosovo.PW Best Book of the Year - Nonfiction, 2002
Unfit for the Future
Introduction -- Human nature and common-sense morality -- Liberal democracy -- Catastrophic misuses of science -- Responsibility for omissions -- the Tragedy of the commons -- the Tragedy of the environment and liberal democracy -- Authoritarianism and democracy -- Moral enhancement as a possible way out.
Lithuanian Jewish Communities
Lithuanian Jewish Communities is a remarkable resource for students of Lithuanian Jewish history and for people descended from Lithuanian Jews. This volume lists, in alphabetical order, the major Jewish communities that existed in Lithuania before World War II. The name of each community is accompanied by information about it: when it was founded, the Jewish population in different years, shops and synagogues, and the names of citizens. An appendix locates each town on a map of Lithuania. Since most of the Jewish communities in Lithuania were destroyed in the Holocaust, this volume will be a valuable tool in recreating a picture of Lithuanian Jewry. Other appendices provide member lists from Lithuanian Jewish organizations throughout the world and list agencies that will provide help in further research on Lithuanian Jewry. Descendants of Lithuanian Jews who wish to trace their genealogy will be greatly helped by Lithuanian Jewish Communities.
Randgänge der Neuen Rechten
Was ist das »Neue« an der Neuen Rechten? Seit der Enttarnung des Nationalsozialistischen Untergrunds und den politischen Entwicklungen in den 2010er Jahren hat das Lager der hiesigen Rechtsextremisten erhebliche publizistische Aufmerksamkeit erfahren. Wesentliche Veränderungen sind hingegen unterbeleuchtet geblieben. Dies gilt insbesondere für die Neue Rechte und deren politisches Denken, ihr Verhältnis zu gesellschaftlichen Minoritäten sowie ihre Vorstellungen von Deutschlands Rolle in Europa und in der Welt. Die Beiträgerinnen und Beiträger des Bandes rücken Fragen zu Philosophie, zu Minderheiten und zu Transnationalität in den Fokus, um das tatsächlich »Neue« an diesem rechten Phänomen zu erörtern.
