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Our Common Post-Covid-19 Pandemic Future: A Return to “Normal” or a Creation of the New “Normal”?
No full textThe goal of this paper is to reflect on our common post-Covid-19 future. To do so, we first examine our present pandemic situation in terms of the pairs of the correlated concepts: peace and war, and the normal and the abnormal. We then proceed to analyze the dual aspect of the concept of normal: its descriptive as well as its normative side. In doing so, we consider the ethical views of Immanuel Kant, Nicolai Hartmann, Fritz Jahr, and Paul Ricoeur; their views help but do not lead to the solution we find satisfactory. Upon further examination, we come to the realization that our problems with understanding our present and with anticipating our future seem to be ultimately related to our struggle to establish a ground on which both the descriptive and normative aspects of the concept of “normal” can be satisfactorily founded. Our suggestion is that this problem may be solved by understanding what is normal in terms of health, understood as balance and as finding a proper measure in everything we do. Our common post-Covid-19 future should be centered on our renewed commitment to the promotion of physical and mental, as well as individual, social, and environmental health. We thus set a stage for further development of an ethics of health.Fil: Cicovacki, Predrag. College Of The Holy Cross; Estados UnidosFil: Lima, Natacha Salomé. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Psicología; Argentin
The Luminosity of Love
No full textWe long to love and to be loved. We also fear love because we risk betrayal by those we love, or we betray them. Predrag Cicovacki\u27s charming book, Luminosity of Love, uses the extraordinary love story of the great unconventional Serbian poet Laza Kostić and the vivacious aristocratic young woman, Lenka Dundjerski, as a starting point for a wide-ranging discussion of the nature of love, its importance in the Western philosophical tradition, and its relevance for living a meaningful life in our high-tech materialistic world of the 21st century. By combining real love stories and philosophical reflections on them, the author focuses on the moments of betrayal that bring us to a crossroads at which point we may choose to retreat from loving, and instead satisfy ourselves with substitutes for love. Alternatively, we may realize that our fear and sense of betrayal need not get the last word when it comes to love, and that we can aspire to transform ourselves into more caring and radiating personalities. Our struggle to realize this aspiration is a love story--the ultimate love story that should concern us. This book is a superb philosophical essay about the transformative power of love.https://crossworks.holycross.edu/hc_books/1007/thumbnail.jp
The Kreutzer Sonata, sexual morality and music
Full text linkThe chapter focuses on Tolstoy's representation of music in his literary works. It analyses Tolstoy's ambivalent attitudes to Beethoven's music in the context of the reception of Beethoven in Russia in the 19th century
The Kreutzer Sonata, sexual morality and music
Full text linkThe chapter focuses on Tolstoy's representation of music in his literary works. It analyses Tolstoy's ambivalent attitudes to Beethoven's music in the context of the reception of Beethoven in Russia in the 19th century
The Role of Goethe’s Faust in Dostoevsky’s Opus
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Authors on the Hill Presents: Professor Predrag Cicovacki
No full textProfessor of Philosophy and O’Leary Research Fellow Predrag Cicovacki of the Philosophy Department discusses his recent publication, Gandhi\u27s Footprints.https://crossworks.holycross.edu/aoth/1001/thumbnail.jp
Ascending the Nonviolence Continuum: Sanjay Lal, Author of \u3cem\u3eViolence, Nonviolence, and Moral Worth, \u3c/em\u3eMeets Critics
Full text linkIn this author-meets-critics discussion, Sanjay Lal presents the main ideas of his book Violence, Nonviolence, and Moral Worth, arguing that nonviolence meets violence along a continuum where there are degrees of greater and lesser examples, including a wide range of examples that combine both tendencies. Lal defines nonviolence in terms of three components that emphasize attitudes over actions: (1) a willingness to not harm others, (2) wanting to facilitate the well-being of others, (3) and not sacrificing one\u27s own moral worth. Three critics share their praises and concerns: Predrag Cicovacki challenges Lal to be more specific on the definition of moral worth, on the relationship between violence and nonviolence, and on the account that he gives for value theory and value conflict. Jennifer Kling asks if beliefs can serve as pre-existing grounds for action, if reconceptualizations of pop culture are bound to any limits, and if there are good reasons for assuming that all people are approachable. Danielle Poe asks what it means to reconceptualize popular culture as an approachable resource of nonviolent insight. Answering these questions, Lal reflects on what it means to be inspired by Gandhi’s example
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