Is Shame Morally Relevant to Ecological Ethics? by Andrea Klimková

“…The paper analyses shame as a moral emotion in contemporary moral-philosophical and environmental discourse. Questions are articulated, in which different contexts shame has already been studied and which of them appear to be crucial for ethics and applied ethics? …”
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La salle de classe et le discours de l'enseignant by Wanderley C. Oliveira

“…Arendt (1993) rhetoric as a specific mode of the political discourse, whereas dialectic comes as an appropriate mode to the philosophical discourse. Rhetoric aims at persuasion. …”
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Responsive Harmony in the <i>Zhuangzi</i> by Luyao Li

“…This perspective provides a fresh philosophical resource from Daoism for addressing contemporary concerns about harmony in ethical contexts.…”
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Nation vs. People: The Axiology of Group Identity by H. T. Sardaryan

“…The article takes a political philosophical perspective in a conceptual analysis of the nation, focusing on its axiological foundations in the political theories of modernity and postmodernity. …”
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Communication and ‘revolt’ by Bert Olivier

“…The psychoanalytical theorist and philosopher, Julia Kristeva, has however developed a notion of ‘revolt’ (and, related to it, of ‘revolution’) that goes far beyond the common understanding of the term. …”
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On two ways to expand on the harm principle by Rodrigo Jungmann de Castro

“… In this article I survey the historical antecedents of what has been commonly referred to as John Stuart Mill´s Harm Principle and some of the ways in which the principle has been discussed in the work of recent analytic philosophers. Subsequently, in the article`s substantive core, I focus entirely on what Mill refers to as the “moral coercion of public opinion”. …”
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A Literary Testimonial to Banal Evil: Dehumanization in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym by Daniela Cârstea

“…I intend to supplement the philosophical response to the question of (banal) evil provided by Hannah Arendt and Giorgio Agamben by a psychoanalytical one, with a footing in the signature terminology of Melanie Klein.…”
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THE PECULIARITIES OF HEGEL'S ETHICS by Rūta Marija Marija Vabalaitė

“…The contemporary notion of subject enables us to assert that in spite of the totalitarian features of Hegelian philosophical system, his theory of morals is valuable for youth's education. …”
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L’Église verte ? La construction d’une écologie catholique : étapes et tensions by Étienne Grésillon , Bertrand Sajaloli

“…Following an accusation by some environmentalists and intellectuals to be responsible for environmental crises the Catholic Church was first conducted a philosophical and spiritual response by showing that man is responsible for world history (anthropocentric) and the life on earth is attached to god (theocentrism). …”
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„Rasse mit Stil“ by Marcus Hahn

“…The common denominator for this is a contradictory naturalization of the arts: they are an emanation of the social body and at the same time a law unto themselves, they are nature and turn into anti-nature, that is into “style”—an argument familiar from idealist aesthetics, but also from the considerations of German philosophical anthropology. The article discusses this variant of the naturalization of the arts using the example of a French-German cultural transfer; since one of the main sources for Benn’s text montage is Hippolyte Taine’s Philosophie de l’art en Grèce (1869).…”
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Souboj vůle s náklonností: teologické pozadí Kantovy antropologie v "Kritice čistého rozumu" by Navrátilová, Olga

“…On the contrary, by elaborating both concepts, Kant makes explicit the implicit theological background of these principles, which does not deprive them, nevertheless, of their philosophical persuasiveness.…”

Moral Certainty instead of Moral Objectivity by Aistė Noreikaitė

“…A brief preliminary conception of it is developed while invoking the German philosopher Robert Spaemann’s ontology of a person. …”
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The Underground Railroad and the politics of narration in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) by Delphine Louis-Dimitrov

“…It highlights the structuring function of philosophical and political principles drawn from romantic reform and transcendentalism, showing how they articulate with distinct literary strategies to convey an antislavery discourse targeting the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law. …”
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Siła upokorzenia. Avishaia Margalita refleksja o upokorzeniu i przyzwoitym społeczeństwie by Katarzyna Liszka

“…The article discusses Avishai Margalit’s philosophical reflection on humiliation developed in his book The Decent Society. …”
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Yorùbá Philosophy and Contemporary Nigerian Realities by Adeshina Afolayan

“…Specifically, it is grounded on the urgency of interrogating Nigeria’s postcolonial realities in the light of Yorùbá philosophical insights that, among other things, enable a rethinking of postcolonial social practices especially as sites of identity, agency, knowledge, objectivity, and even of resistance and power. …”
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REVISING THE PROJECT OF MODERNITY HERMENEUTICS by Marius Povilas Povilas Šaulauskas

“… The article is intended to argue the fundamental modernity of Habermasian, Gadamerian and, to a considerable extent, Rortian philosophical projects in spite of their "self-limiting" and thereby "transcending" modern metanarrative characteristics. …”
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Une chambre à soi : genres et corps en art by Luc Schicharin, Anne-Laure Vernet

“…During the course of 2 symposium respectively called « Genderqueer Workshop : a Reflexion on Contemporary Bodies through the Arts », and « A Room to One’s Own : Genders and Bodies in Art » held from March 2015 to January 2016, the problematic of political subjectivity has been approached through an aestethical and philosophical study of works of art which are organized according to the codes of contemporary art and of militant artistic practices coming from subcultures and popular cultures. …”
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Mably on Esteem, Republicanism, and the Question of Human Corruption by Andreas Blank

“…This commonplace, however, has become problematic through the discussion of the problem of human corruption in philosophers such as Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) and Nicolas Malebranche (1638–1715). …”
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La verdad en tiempos de guerra. Una ilustración del consecuencialismo de John Dewey by Miguel Catalán

“…This contribution tries to show the stance of the pragmatist philosopher John Dewey on the role of truth and public reason in United States during the First World War. …”
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THE PECULIARITIES OF HEGEL'S ETHICS by Rūta Marija Marija Vabalaitė

“…The contemporary notion of subject enables us to assert that in spite of the totalitarian features of Hegelian philosophical system, his theory of morals is valuable for youth's education. …”
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