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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.
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...
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.
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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.
Beyond the Mountains of the Damned
Winner, Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2002, Non-Fiction The story of Pec—Kosovo's most destroyed city during the wars in Serbia For every survivor of a crime, there is a criminal who forces his way into the victim's thoughts long after the act has been committed. Reporters weren’t allowed into Kosovo during the war without the permission of the Yugoslavian government but Matthew McAllester went anyway. In Beyond the Mountains of the Damned he tells the story of Pec, Kosovo’s most destroyed city and the site of the earliest and worst atrocities of the war, through the lives of two men—one Serb and one Kosovar. They had known each other, and been neighbors for years before one visited tragedy on the other. With a journalist’s eye for detail McAllester asks the great question of war: What kind of men could devastate an entire city, killing whole families, and feel no sense of guilt? The answer lies in the culture of gangsterism and ethnic hatred that began with the collapse of Yugoslavia.
Lithuanian Jewish Communities
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.
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.
