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Autonomie : een essay over het vervulde leven
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ISBN: 9789024419197 Year: 2018 Publisher: Amsterdam Boom

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Wanneer en in hoeverre zijn wij autonoom in ons handelen en de wijze waarop wij leven? Autonomie, het eerste werk van Beate Rössler dat in het Nederlands wordt uitgegeven, is een onderzoek naar ‘het vervulde leven’. We vinden het vanzelfsprekend dat we autonoom beslissingen nemen en een door onszelf bepaald leven leiden. We denken dat een leven waar we belangrijke beslissingen tegen onze wil in moeten nemen niet geslaagd kan zijn. Toch bepalen we veel dingen in ons leven niet zelf. Dat geldt bijvoorbeeld voor veel sociale relaties, maar ook voor situaties waarin we niet precies weten wat we willen. De alledaagse ervaring laat ons zien dat we wel autonoom willen zijn, maar dat het vaak niet lukt.Beate Rössler stelt dat we doorgaans uitgaan van een te abstracte opvatting van het begrip autonomie. In dit belangrijke boek onderzoekt ze hoe het in het alledaagse leven mogelijk is om een autonoom en vervuld leven te leiden. In gesprek met filosofen en literaire auteurs als Jane Austen en Franz Kafka komt Rössler tot een wezenlijk nieuwe doordenking van wat autonomie is. Uiteindelijk leidt de vraag naar autonomie tot een van de belangrijkste vragen die we kunnen stellen: wanneer kun je spreken van een vervuld of geslaagd leven?

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Does the pro-life worldview make sense?
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ISBN: 9781138307292 1138307297 9781315142265 9780367891312 9781351392181 Year: 2018 Publisher: London Routledge

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This book looks at a family of views involving the pro-life view of abortion and Christianity. These issues are important because major religious branches (for example, Catholicism and some large branches of Evangelicalism) and leading politicians assert, or are committed to, the following: (a) it is permissible to prevent some people from going to hell, (b) abortion prevents some people from going to hell, and (c) abortion is wrong. They also assert, or are committed to, the following: (d) it is permissible to use defensive violence to prevent people from killing innocents, (e) doctors who perform abortions kill innocents, and (f) it is wrong to use defensive violence against doctors who perform abortions. Stephen Kershnar argues that these and other principles are inconsistent. Along the way, he explores the ways in which theories of hell, right forfeiture, and good consequences relate to each other and the above inconsistencies.


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Tussen kwetsbaarheid en kracht : technologie in het hart van zorg en welzijn
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ISBN: 9789046905883 9789046967874 Year: 2018 Publisher: Bussum Uitgeverij Coutinho

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Een app als emotiecoach voor personen met autisme, de ontwikkeling van een operatierobot voor moeilijk te behandelen oogaandoeningen of een serious game over voeding voor nierpatiënten: technologische innovaties in zorg en welzijn volgen elkaar in razendsnel tempo op. Het boek Tussen kwetsbaarheid en kracht schetst ontwikkelingen op dit gebied en laat de professional van de toekomst nadenken over de rol en inzet van technologie binnen zorg en welzijn. Innovaties op het gebied van sociale technologie en eHealth worden steeds vaker toegepast. Denk aan de komst van apps, elektropleisters, beeldzorg of telepresentie, serious games en robotica. Tussen kwetsbaarheid en kracht helpt bij het ontwikkelen van een duurzame visie op technologie en bij het gebruik ervan tijdens dagelijkse werkzaamheden. Inzet van technologie kan ondersteunend werken in het verkrijgen van zelfregie door patiënten en cliënten en leidt in veel gevallen tot verbeteringen in zorg en welzijn.


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Les grandes questions de bioéthique : au XXIe siècle dans le débat public
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ISBN: 9782848747675 2848747676 Year: 2018 Publisher: Bordeaux LEH Édition

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La bioéthique n'est pas que l'éthique biomédicale, elle est l'éthique de la vie. Elle a surgi d'une prise de conscience donnée au monde par le procès de Nuremberg mais aussi par l'évaluation de pratiques de recherche qui, même dans les démocraties pluralistes, n'avaient pas fait l'objet d'une démarche critique. Elle a aussi surgi des progrès inédits des sciences de la vie et de la santé à partir de la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Elle a quêté dans le dernier tiers du siècle dernier des "principes" issus du siècle des Lumières. Elle a alors suscité des lois. Et ces lois multiples concernent la recherche sur l'être humain, les droits des malades, la procréation médicalement assistée, les transplantations d'organes, la fin de vie et bien d'autres questions de bioéthique. Elles ont été votées par des majorités politiques alternantes et sont fondées sur des valeurs communes tout à la fois républicaines et universelles. Et restent les questions posées par les devoirs à l'égard d'un environnement garant de la santé et de la permanence de la vie. La pluralité des discours éthiques, voire les fractures sociétales qu'ils engendrent, ne remettent sans doute pas en cause ces valeurs mais témoignent d'interprétations divergentes qui peuvent les mettre en difficulté. La bioéthique a deux piliers : le vivre ensemble régi par les lois et la conscience des citoyens. Cet ouvrage propose à ses lecteurs la culture nécessaire pour prendre part aux débats qui, aujourd'hui, engagent l'avenir de chacun.


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Traditional and complementary medicines : are they ethical for humans, animals and the environment?
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ISBN: 9783030053000 9783030052997 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cham Springer

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This book provides a systematic analysis of the ethical implications of traditional and complementary medicine (T&CM), focusing on pragmatic solutions. The author uses a bioethical methodology called the “Ethical Matrix,” to consider the impact of T&CM use for animals and the environment as well as for humans. A systematic search of the literature reveals that most published ethical concerns are related to the safety of T&CM use for humans. However, application of the Ethical Matrix demonstrates that the ethical implications for T&CM use are much broader. In this book, the author analyses the most serious implications, including adverse events related to homeopathy, the use of animals in T&CM products, and the impact of herbal medicine on the environment. Comparisons with the ethical implications of conventional biomedicine help readers to contextualise debate, and highlight aspects that may be unique to T&CM. Globally, many high-level health policy makers promote T&CM as an accessible and affordable healthcare option. However, their use is considered by some to be a waste of resources, unscientific, and unethical. Offering a frank analysis of this largely ignored field of healthcare ethics, this book is both timely and essential. It helps patients, policy makers, practitioners, researchers, and students gain the knowledge they need to make more informed decisions.


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Overtuigd en toch onzeker : over de rechtvaardiging van 'onze' moraal
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ISBN: 9789056254971 Year: 2018 Publisher: Nijmegen Valkhof Pers

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Philip Pettit: five themes from his work
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ISBN: 9783319261010 9783319261034 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cham Springer

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This volume documents the 16th Münster Lectures in Philosophy and examines five themes that are prominent in the work of philosopher and political theorist Philip Pettit. These themes are: Epistemology and Semantics, Philosophy of Mind, Consequentialism, Group Agency, and Republicanism. The book provides insight into Pettit's work and demonstrates the central role his work plays in a number of contemporary philosophical debates. Pettit’s contributions to the philosophy of mind and action, rational choice theory, the philosophy of the social sciences, as well as metaethics, normative ethics and political philosophy are main points of reference, and have advanced ongoing and initiated new discussions. The book shows that a striking feature of Pettit's work has been the depth of his analyses and arguments regarding individual topics – ranging from rule-following to free will, from group agency to social ontology and the methodology of the social sciences, from a defense of consequentialism to the revival of the republican tradition in the theory of democracy and to value theory, but also their systematic overall coherence. The book contains Pettit’s lecture "Freedom and Other Robustly Demanding Goods", nine critical papers on Pettit’s philosophy, and a reply article entitled "Self-Defense on Five Fronts: A Reply to My Commentators".


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Kant on Maxims and moral motivation : a new interpretation
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ISBN: 9783030055721 9783030055714 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cham Springer

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This book outlines and circumvents two serious problems that appear to attach to Kant’s moral philosophy, or more precisely to the model of rational agency that underlies that moral philosophy: the problem of experiential incongruence and the problem of misdirected moral attention. The book’s central contention is that both these problems can be sidestepped. In order to demonstrate this, it argues for an entirely novel reading of Kant’s views on action and moral motivation. In addressing the two main problems in Kant’s moral philosophy, the book explains how the first problem arises because the central elements of Kant’s theory of action seem not to square with our lived experience of agency, and moral agency in particular. For example, the idea that moral deliberation invariably takes the form of testing personal policies against the Categorical Imperative seems at odds with the phenomenology of such reasoning, as does the claim that all our actions proceed from explicitly adopted general policies, or maxims. It then goes on to discuss the second problem showing how it is a result of Kant’s apparent claim that when an agent acts from duty, her reason for doing so is that her maxim is lawlike. This seems to put the moral agent’s attention in the wrong place: on the nature of her own maxims, rather than on the world of other people and morally salient situations. The book shows how its proposed novel reading of Kant’s views ultimately paints an unfamiliar but appealing picture of the Kantian good-willed agent as much more embedded in and engaged with the world than has traditionally been supposed.


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Pragmatic humanism revisited : an essay on making the world a home
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ISBN: 9783030024413 9783030024406 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cham Palgrave Macmillan

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How can we feel at home in this world without clinging to false certainties? This book offers a humanist re-reading of philosophical pragmatism and explores its potentials for a worldview that relies only on human resources. Thinking along with authors like William James and F.C.S. Schiller, it highlights a fundamentally humanist strand of pragmatism aimed at fostering human creativity and transformative action. It is grounded in everyday experience and underlines our responsibility to strive for the better. Ana Honnacker traces perspectives on science, religion, and ethics in the light of a pragmatic understanding of humanism. Furthermore, she suggests how to address the existential challenges we face today. Thus, pragmatic humanism is explored not only as a philosophy for critical minds, but also as a way of life.


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Organizing patient safety : failsafe fantasies and pragmatic practices
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ISBN: 9781137537867 9781349711277 Year: 2018 Publisher: London Palgrave Macmillan

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This book examines the organizational consequences of the recent international preoccupation with managing patient safety in the clinic. Built on presuppositions about failsafe system-design, risk elimination, and human fallibility, the patient safety programme introduces new problems and safety threats in clinical practice by devaluing practical forms of reasoning and the trained safety dispositions of clinicians. Developing a pragmatic and more situated stance on patient safety, Pedersen offers an alternative vocabulary that refocuses attention towards the importance of conduct, habits and experience-based learning in delivering safe care. This innovative book will be of great interest to scholars and practitioners of organization and risk studies, health, science and technology studies and the wider social and medical sciences.

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