Category: Philosophy, Ethics, Consciousness
Global Citizenship Based on the Arts and Humanities in the Age of AI From La Rose En Vie
Postmodernism, two generations ago, proclaimed the end of metanarratives, today AI is just reproposing those “mega-stories”, but this time round …
A Sketch on Moral Enhancement and the Value of Human Fragility
This brief report explores the concept of moral enhancement, particularly the critiques surrounding its feasibility and ethical implications. Moral enhancement …
Exploring the Contemporary Significance of Yamaoka Tesshu’s Thought
Since the Meiji Restoration in Japan, modern society, which adopted the Western perspective of modernization, has been materially fulfilled and …
Organizational Empowerment and Psychological Well-Being Among Social Workers in Hong Kong
The Hong Kong government had reduced funding for the services provided for non-governmental organizations (NGO) since 2000. Social workers must …
“Zhuó Li Ji Cha” (着力即差) – An Analysis of the Concept of “Integration” in Su Sui’s Music and Painting
The term "Zhuó Li Ji Cha" (着力即差), which means "Efforts Leading to Failures" was coined by Chinese artist and philosopher …
Moral Resilience in Ethical Leadership: When Good is Rewarded with Bad
Based on the principles of fairness and reciprocity, people typically expect that good deeds will be rewarded. However, when real-life …
Adoptee Ancestry Searches: The Intersubjective Space of Self-Integration
The adoptee’s ancestry search can function as a dynamic intersubjective space that is vital to self-integration in the psychoanalytic sense. …
Ethical Culture and Socio-economic Development in Nigeria: An Imperative for Societal Acceptance
Ethics is generally a product of a society’s culture and which members of a specific culture follow unconditionally. It refers …
Reshaping the Resistance of Women’s Bodies After the Pandemic in a Totalitarian Country Like Iran
Each society and country has been affected differently by the pandemic. Nevertheless, I believe its impact on societies with dictatorial …
Self-Betrayal and Moral Repair: A Philosophical Counselor’s Case Study
This paper begins with a case study recounted from my philosophical counseling practice. The case of “Eddy” serves to open …
Analysis of Social Movements in Hong Kong in 2014 and 2019 From the Perspective of Body Politics and Feeling Politics
2019 was an important year in Hong Kong's history, especially in terms of its protest history. The protests were triggered …
New Revolutions in the Arts, Humanities and Education; Past, Paris 2022 and Future
The Covid-19 pandemic is one of those humongous events that places the whole of humanity into uncharted waters, paralysing and …
Roots and Resilience in Weil, Kołakowski, Todorov, and Finkielkraut
This paper studies selected writings of prominent European intellectuals regarding the matter of cultural roots and uprootedness. Simone Weil attributes …
The Universe as a Harmonious Field of Vibration – Is Humanity out of Tune?
This paper begins with a reference to recent experimental research in the school of Engineering at MIT on the novel …
Resilience of La Rose En Vie: Recovering from Upheaval through a Transphenomenology of Spirit on the Basis of the Arts and Humanities’
During the pandemic the arts and humanities have often been underestimated, usually considered marginal to other more pressing matters, or …
Resilience in Our Hour of Need
In these transformative times of interrupted realities we take a step back, not of our own free will but by …
The Contradictions in Zarathustra’s Character
Thus Spoke Zarathustra' is a controversial philosophical novel due to its many original concepts such as "will to power" and …
Keeping Hume’s Guillotine: The Validity & Deontic Irrelevance of ‘is’-‘ought’ Inferences
Ever since its formulation in Hume’s (1739) A Treatise of Human Nature, philosophers have had to contend with the idea …
From Self Portraits to Geminoid Androids – Identity and Difference in Robotic Doppelgängers
The real and the virtual maintain ambiguous relations in the contemporary context of artificial intelligence. From the social phenomenon of …