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Applied AppliedEthics Ethics Perspectives from Romania Edited by Valentin MUREŞAN Perspectives from Romania Shunzo MAJIMA MUREŞAN MAJIMA Hokkaido University Hokkaido and Philosophy Ethics Center for Applied Center for Applied Ethics and Philosophy Hokkaido University Sapporo, Japan http://ethics.let.hokudai.ac.jp/ ISBN978-4-9904046-9-7 C3012 Photo by Tudor MUREŞAN AppliedEthics Perspectives from Romania Edited by Valentin MUREŞAN Shunzo MAJIMA Contributors ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------iii Preface ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ix Is Applied Ethics Still an Application of Ethics? A Short History of Applied Ethics in Romania ------------------------------------------x Valentin MUREŞAN and Shunzo MAJIMA 1. Moral Philosophy What does “Metaphysics” mean in Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals? --------------------------------------------- 2 Ilie PARVU Kant’s Highest Political Good --------------------------------------------------------------- 15 Sorin BAIASU How Many Formulas? An Alternative Reading ------------------------------------------ 36 Valentin MUREŞAN Copyrght©2013byAuthors On Toleration, Charity, and Epistemic Fallibilism --------------------------------------- 54 Mircea DUMITRU Edited by Valentin MUREŞAN and Shunzo MAJIMA Intuitive Methods of Moral Decision Making, A Philosophical Plea ----------------- 62 PublshedbyCenterforAppledEthcsandPhlosophy,HokkadoUnversty Emilian MIHAILOV N10 W7, Kitaku Sapporo 060-0810 Japan The Moral Values and Partitive ogicL ------------------------------------------------------ 79 Ioan BIRIŞ AllRghtsReserved What is Wrong with ‘Being Authentic’? -------------------------------------------------- 94 Cristian IFTODE Printed in Japan ISBN978-4-9904046-9-7 2. Applied Ethics Contributors Environmental Risk and Moral Obligations: Sorin BaiasugraduatedfromtheFacultyofPhlosophyoftheUnverstyof Bucharest and is now Reader in Philosophy at Keele University. He is the Reflections on an East European Experience ------------------------------------------114 authorofKant and Sartre: Re-discovering Critical Ethics(PalgraveMacml- Adrian-Paul ILIESCU lan 2011), co-editor of Politics and Metaphysics in Kant (UWP 2011) and Kant on Practical Justification: Interpretive Essays (OUP 2013). He guest edtedspecalssuesofthejournalsEthics and Politics Review (2007; topic: Ethical Attitudes toward the Environment: The Romanian Case --------------------- 131 Kantian Justifications of Political Norms), Kantian Review (2011; topic: Adrian MIROIU Graham Bird’s The Revolutionary Kant), Philosophia (forthcoming; topic: Toleration and Pragmatism in the work of John Horton) and Collingwood The Ethos of Sustainable Development and the Educational System: and British Idealist Studies (forthcoming; topic: Kant and the British Idealists). He currently acts as Secretary and member of the Executive A Research Report regarding Romania ------------------------------------------------144 Committee of the UK Kant Society, as well as co-convenor of the Kantian Daniela DUMITRU and Constantin STOENESCU Standing Group of the European Consortium for Political Research. E-mail: [email protected] Applying Taking Clauses Analysis to Communist Nationalization Ioan Biris is professor at West University of Timisoara, Romania. Special- of Houses in Romania --------------------------------------------------------------------176 izing in the Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Social Sciences, he Emanuel-Mihail SOCACIU is director of the Doctoral School of Philosophy at the West University of Timisoara. Ioan Biris has been professor “Jean Monnet” since 2001. He was associate professor at University of Padova (Italy) during the period Collaboration or Exit from the Stage? The Dilemma of the Elites 2007-2009. Since 2007, he has been the chairman of the Committee of in Dictatorial Regimes as Illustrated by the Heisenberg Case ---------------------- 191 the History and Philosophy of Science and Technique of the Romanian Mircea FLONTA Academy, Timisoara Branch. His most important works published include: Totality, system, holon (1992, 2007); History and culture (1996); Law Values and the intentional logic (1996); Sociology of civilizations (2000); Concepts Morality in Politics, or the Politics of Morality? of science(2010). E-mail: [email protected] “Neo-Purification” in Romania ----------------------------------------------------------209 Leria BoroşstudedphlosophyandappledethcsattheUnverstyof Mihaela MIROIU Piteşti (Romania); she is currently a doctoral student in applied ethics at the University of Bucharest, with a thesis on codes of ethics. Her main research Moralization and Conformism in Social Practices: actvtesarenthefeldofbusnessethcs,boethcsandtheethcsof The Case of a Post-communist Society -------------------------------------------------229 international relations. In 2008 she was a visiting student at the University of Burgundy, Dijon, France. Her publications include: The Environment Ion COPOERU and Nicoleta SZABO as Stakeholder, Juventus Press, Piteşti, 2011; “Human Reproduction by Ectogenesis. Ethical Aspects”, in Morphe Journal, vol. 1, issue 1, Political Ethics in the War on Terror: February 2012; “Moral Absolutism in Foreign Policy”, in Viorel Guliciuc Ethics of the International Crime of Aggression and Political Violence -----------247 (coordnator), Limits of Knowledge – Anthology of Humanities, Teachers’ Publishing House, Bacău, 2013. She has presented various professional Andreea GAE papersatnternatonalconferencesncludngNon-Proliferation and Nuclear Disarmament. Statement or Fact?, UN Youth Romania, Bucharest, the Autonomy and Plastic Surgery for Teenagers -------------------------------------------263 exploratory workshop Inter and Trans-disciplinary Convergences in Applied Ethics, Mihail Kogălniceanu University, Iassy, Romania, and as a fellow Leria BOROŞ researcher at the Research Center in Applied Ethics, University of Bucharest. E-mail: [email protected] Bloggers, Journalists and Epistemic Responsibility: A Particular Type of Self-Regulation in the Romanian Online Media ------------276 Ion Copoeru is professor of phenomenology and ethics at Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca. In the area of ethics, his interests are mainly located Victor POPESCU v v in “ethics in professions”, with a focus on the professions of law, healthcare, Monographical study on analiticity, 1975; Philosophical Presuppositions and business. He is the editor of Beyond Identity. Transformations of the in Exact Science, 1985; Cognitio. A critical introduction in the problem Identity in a (Post)-Modern World (with N. Szabo) (Cluj, 2004), Etică şi of knowledge, 1994; Images of Science, 1994; How do we recognise the cultură profesională [Ethics and Professional Culture] (Cluj, 2008) and oth- Minerva Owl? Reflections on the perception of philosophy in the Romanian ers. He is also the author or co-author of a series of studies on topics related culture, 1998; Kant in his time and today, 2005; The solitary thinker. Ludwig to philosophy and social sciences, such as “A Schutzian Perspective on the Wittgenstein’s Criticism and Practice of Philosophy, 2008; Darwin and after Phenomenology of Law in the Context of Positivistic Practices”, in Human Darwin, 2010; 20 Questions and Answers on Immanuel Kant, 2012. Hehas Studies (2008) and The Participating Professional. Phenomenology and the also published approximately 200 papers in Romanian, German and English. Task of Integrating Ethics into Professional Practices, in: Thomas Nenon E-mail: [email protected] and Philip Blosser (eds.), Advancing Phenomenology. Essays in Honor of Lester Embree, Springer, 2010. His current research topic (in the framework Andreea Gae s assocateassstantprofessorand doctoralstudentatthe of a program of the University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iasi, Romania) Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, Romania. She has published is “Ethics and governance of the medical and social services for substance “The Aristotelian Being And The Hegelian Spirit: Asymptotic Connec- abusing persons”. E-mail: [email protected] tions and Synallagmatic Reports”, in Studies On The History Of World Philosophy, XVIII, Romanian Academy, Publishing House of the Romanian Daniela Dumitru is project manager for Foundation Education 2000+. She Academy, Bucharest, 2010, pp. 162-190 and “The Bacchic Myth And has a Ph.D. in Educational Sciences, and two BA degrees in Philosophy, The Hermeneutics Of The Renaissance – Michelangelo, Bacchus” in The and Psychology. Currently, Dr. Dumitru is a lecturer at University Titu Imaginary – Theories and Applications, Bucharest University Press, 2011, Maiorescu, Faculty of Psychology, Bucharest, and is teaching Introduction to pp. 250-274. E-mail: [email protected] Cognitive Psychology. She coordinated projects in pre-university education and higher education the latest of which was Education for Sustainable Cristian IftodesaLecturerattheFacultyofPhlosophy,Departmentof Development Partnership Initiative (ENjoinED, 2010-2012). The compara- Practical Philosophy and History of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, tive report was published under the name Civil rights and obligations are where he teaches on ethics, aesthetics and contemporary philosophy. In connected to environmental issues in the curricula. A comparative analysis 2007 he obtained his Ph.D. with a thesis on The Role of Analogy in the for sustainability