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The most significant achievement of 20th century is, probably, the importance ascribed to the idea of human rights. Perhaps the most significant endeavour of the world community in the second half of this century is its attempt to codify these ethical demands in declarations, covenants, and similar instruments expected to have universal validity. Yet besides the unscrupulous violence, torture, and social injustice which continue to prevail in our world, we also see gaining more and more ground tendencies to promote demands and practices which constitute unnoticed obstacles to the protection of human rights. Is it not the so-called "herd immunity," as a way to fight against a pandemic, a violation of the right to life? What are our shortcomings? The present volume is an attempt to bring into focus one of these the lack of clear knowledge of what human rights are.

Ideas play a more crucial role in history than they appear to do at first sight. If not sufficiently scrutinized, they sometimes lead to results far divergent from the initial intentions of those who put them forth as lines of orientation for practice. This seems to be also the case with the idea of "development," which has marked social and political practice in the second half of the 20th Century. In this volume philosophers from different parts of the world discuss, and attempt to evaluate from epistemological and ethical points of view, the idea of "development" as the principal objective of national and international policies during the past few decades.

In this collection of papers on Ethics, Ioanna Kucuradi clarifies concepts related to Ethics as a philosophical discipline, starting with the term 'ethics' itself. She details an approach to Ethics as knowledge, not as a systems of norms, in light of which she discusses theoretical problems related to the evaluation and value problem we come across in everyday public life and politics. As a result of this discussion, which makes obsolete the relativism-absolutism debate, she suggests ways which, if followed, promise to make it possible to overcome some of these problems. (Series: Philosophy in International Context / Philosophie im internationalen Kontext, Vol. 10) [Subject: Ethics, Philosophy]

Philosophy in International Context Philosophie im internationalen Kontext, In this collection of papers on human rights, loanna Kuçuradi conceptualizes human rights as ethical principles, as well as premises for legislation and for legal reasoning. She attempts, by doing so, to show the significance of clear concepts for the protection of human rights in practice. Taking this conception of human rights as her point of departure, she also discusses the specificities of law, of the state and of politics that hold the most promise, under present-day conditions, for the protection of human rights and the prevention of their violation.

İoanna Kuçuradi insan hakları ve hukuk-devlet-siyaset felsefesi yazılarını biraraya getirdiği bu kitapta, özellikle felsefi bilgiyle temellendirilmiş açık bir insan hakları kavramının önemi üzerinde duruyor. İnsanın değerinin bilgisine dayanan kendi insan hakları kavramından yola çıkarak, insan haklarının korunabilmesi ve ihlallerinin önlenebilmei için nasıl bir hukuk, devlet ve siyaset anayışıyla hareket edilmesi gerektiğini tartışıyor. Bu tartışmayı yaparken bir yandan teorik sorunlara diğer yandan da bu teorik sorunların yol açtığı pratik sorunlara değinerek, bunlarla nasıl başa çıkılabileceğine yönelik önerilerde bulunuyor. Bu kitap, ülkemizde bu alanda gerek teorik gerekse pratik düzeyde iş görenler bakımından önemli bir boşluğu dolduracak niteliktedir.

Bu Etik ilk yayımlandığı sıralarda, etik sorunlarla uğraşmak bugün olduğu gibi moda değildi. Geçen yirmi - yirmibeş yılda etik, felsefede en çok uğraşılan anlanlardan biri oldu, çeşitli meslek etikleri dünyada da bizde de bir patlama gösterdi...

Professional Ethics have become fashionable during the past two decades. This proliferation of various professional ethics bears witness to a need to introduce ethical concerns in the exercise of various professions. In order to answer this need, each profession attempts to develop its own code of „ethics“. In this respect, questions such as the following arise: Are the various ethical problems faced during the exercise of a profession different in kind from those ethical problems faced in everyday life? Or, are they ethical problems of the same kind, requiring in addition knowledge of the specific area of human endeavour in order to tackle them? The book deals with these and similar questions and points to the need for a different approach to professional ethics.