Inception: The Metaphysics of a blockbuster film
The Cartesian meditations, platonic ideas, body-mind problem, philosophical theories of time, Escher's design paradoxes, and some ethical problems, compose the canvas of Christopher Nolan's new film titled: Inception.
Terrorism and Armed Violence: Conceptual Differences, Ethical Valuation and Observation of the phenomenon in Democracy, focusing on the Greek experience
This essay examines the problem of terrorism, particularly the phenomenon of terrorism in Western democracies. The objectives of this paper is to approach: (a) the concept of terrorism and the moral dimension of the problem, (b) the difference in the nature of armed violence in totalitarian and democratic regimes, (c) the moral impact of these operations, especially within the Greek experience.
Marquis de Sade: The Ethics of Evil
Justine is written just before the French Revolution. The novel reveals the author's contiguity with Thomas Hobbes, portraying the inherent evil nature of mankind. Contrary to his contemporary philosopher Jean - Jacques Rousseau, who considered that the nature of mankind is noble, de Sade defends hedonism as the “summum bonum” of a selfish and beyond morality human being.
Madness and Psychiatric Ethics: An Introduction to the Ontology and Ethics of Mental Health
Michel Foucault’s “History of Madness” and then the “Foucault – Derrida” debate on the relation of madness and sanity before and after Descartes, was the occasion for this investigation. In extension, this research focuses on the positions of modern psychiatry, and approaches the madness philosophically, not only as a social 'otherness', as a deviation from what we consider as normal, or as an “enemy” of the "castle" of sanity, but also as an opportunity to reset issues associated with the normality and the nature of what we call logic and what is called the Logos.
Sexual Deviations: The Problem of Normality and the Ethical Tolerance
This essay, attempts to compose a picture of the problem of non-"normal" sexual preferences, desires or acts, called "perversions" (or paraphilias) and how they relate to moral judgments, the good and the evil, the fair or unfair, etc. Firstly it examines how happened to consider today, some sexual preferences natural, and some others unnatural, and focuses in constructivistic view of the "implantation of perversions”.
Heideggerian Eco -Phenomenology: Dasein-centrism or Deep Ecology?
This paper describes the problem of considering the Heideggerian theory of Dasein and Being-in-the-world as a framework of modern environmental ideologies and movements.
Personal responsibility and the puppets
In this second phase of the pandemic, a protocol of small everyday behaviors that we will carefully observe is a huge contribution to keeping us all safe. But if we want to be responsible for our own actions, as moral agents acting in accordance with their duty, then we must do so by choice, not as puppets who behave the way someone else forces them to.
The ontological foundation of environmental ethics in Heidegger
Τhis paper summarizes the main points of Heideggerian ontology which is associated with human beings, nature, technology and the relationship between them, as well as their ethical implications.
Terrorism, Civil Disobedience and the Right of Resistance in Modern Democracies
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Social Ecology and Communalism in Murray Bookchin’s philosophy
This essay, attempts to outline the philosophical basis of the Murray Bookchin’ s theory, the fundamental principles of social ecology and communalism and the main objections of "green party" environmentalists against the social ecology movement and vice versa.
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