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A presente coletânea tem como eixo central uma reflexão sobre temas e problemas concernentes à relação entre informação, conhecimento e ação ética, reflexão essa realizada principalmente em uma perspectiva filosófica interdisciplinar que envolve a Filosofia, a Arte, a Ciência da Informação, a Neurociência, a Biologia e a Psicologia. Destacam-se os temas da relação entre liberdade, determinismo e responsabilidade moral; do ficcionalismo moral; da relação entre imaginação e responsabilidade moral; o papel das novas tecnologias informacionais na constituição de uma ética intercultural e reflexões sobre a identidade pessoal. No que se refere aos problemas investigados, são levantados questionamentos tais como: Qual é a relação entre informação e ação? É possível uma ética intercultural fundada nos processos de auto-organização dos meios digitais? Podem a Filosofia e a Arte nos auxiliar no estabelecimento de novas diretrizes para a ética na contemporaneidade? A abordagem filosófico-interdisciplinar contribui para a compreensão da ação ética? Longe de responder tais interrogações, a presente coletânea propõe uma reflexão coletiva sobre instigantes problemas da contemporaneidade.

Ethics & moral philosophy --- Ethics and moral philosophy

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Can we who have been touched by the scientific, intellectual, and experimental revolutions of modern and contemporary times still believe with and degree of coherence and consistency that we as individual persons are immortal. Indeed, is there even good cause to hope that we are? In examining the present relationship of reason to faith, can we find justifying reasons for faith? These are the central questions in Self, God, and Immortality, a compelling exercise in philosophical theology. Drawing upon the works of William James and the principles of American Pragmatism, Eugene Fontinell extrapolates carefully from "data given in experience" to a model of the cosmic process open to the idea that individual identity may survive bodily dissolution. Presupposing that the possibility of personal immortality has been established in the first part, the second part of the essay is concerned with desirability. Here, Fontinell shows that, far from diverting attention and energies from the crucial tasks confronting us here and now, such belief can be energizing and life enhancing. The wider importance of Self, God, and Immortality lies in its pressing both immortality-believers and terminality-believers to explore both the metaphysical presuppositions and the lived consequences of their beliefs. It is the author's expressed hope that such explorations, rather than impeding, will stimulate co-operative efforts to create a richer and more humane community.

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This book offers a bold and controversial new thesis regarding the nature of prejudice. The authors' central claim is that prejudice is not simply learned, rather it is predisposed in all human beings and is thus the foundation for ethical valuation. They aim to destroy the illusion that prejudice is merely the result of learned beliefs, socially conditioned attitudes, or pathological states of development. Contrary to traditional accounts, prejudice itself is not a negative attribute of human nature, rather it is the necessary precondition for the self and civilization to emerge. Defined as the preferential self-expression of valuation, prejudice gives rise to greater existential complexities and novelties that elevate selfhood and society to higher states of ethical realization. Rather than offer another contribution that highlights the destructive nature of prejudice, Mills and Polanowski address the ontological, psychological, and dialectical origins of prejudice as it manifests itself in the process of selfhood and culture. They provide an original conceptualization of the phenomenology of prejudice and its dialectical instantiation in the ontology of the individual, worldhood, and the very structures of subjectivity. As a unique synthesis of psychoanalysis, Hegelian idealism, Heideggerian existential ontology, and Whiteheadian process philosophy, prejudice is the indispensable ground for humanity to actualize its highest potentiality-for-Being. The striking result is (1) a revolutionary theory of human nature, (2) a new ethical system, and (3) the elevation of dialectical ethics to the domain of metaphysics.

Ethics & Moral Philosophy. --- Prejudices.

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