This Polish author focuses on the life challenges young people face at home and school in her works for children and adolescents. Her stories, written in essay and short story formats, offer readers practical advice while emphasizing fundamental values such as honesty, sincerity, friendship, and mutual respect. She avoids moralizing, instead crafting relatable characters that help young readers navigate complex relationships. Her approachable yet insightful style makes her a beloved storyteller for those seeking understanding and guidance.
Exploring the intersection of technology and self-identity, this book delves into how advancements in health humanities—such as transplantology, bionics, and disability studies—impact our understanding of the self. It engages with themes of phenomenology, philosophy of mind, and posthumanism, questioning whether technology enhances or undermines our identities and whether we face a fragmented sense of self in the digital age.
Facing otherness in everyday interpersonal relations, making decisions within demanding contexts, living with the plenitude of values - all of these experiences permanently challenge one's moral cognition. Neither a single moral agent nor ethics itself can pretend omniscience when dealing with complex, real world situations. In this book, author Ewa Nowak presents her own research findings to account for the experimental nature of ethics. Nowak questions a popular conviction that declaring values and following norms is a sufficient condition to be moral. She applies Georg Lind's dual-aspect theory of morality to all sorts of spectacular contexts. (Series: Development in Humanities - Vol. 6)
While democratic ideals are cherished by many worldwide, practice and competence in democratic procedures and behaviors are fading. Educating for democracy involves teaching skills that contribute to the democratic ideals, such as fairness, due process, and respect for the dignity, rights, and autonomy of others. In this volume, researchers from throughout the world draw from the Dual-Aspect Theory, the Konstanz Method of Dilemma Discussion, and the Moral Judgment Test, developed by German psychologist Georg Lind to advance democratic competencies. Grounded in Lawrence Kohlberg’s theory of moral judgment, contributors report research at various levels of social engagement, such as schools, workplaces, governments, prisons, and communities, to describe how people can, and do, develop democratic competencies that hold promise for creating interactions and institutions that are just and fair.