CULTURAL HERITAGE AND CONTEMPORARY CHANGE
SERIES IVA. EASTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE, VOLUME 18
HUMAN DIGNITY:
Values and Justice
CZECH PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES, III
edited by
Miloslav Bednár
CONTENTS
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
PART I. HUMAN DIGNITY
Chapter I. The Phenomenon of Human Dignity after Totalitarianism
Chapter II. The Struggle for Human Dignity in Extreme Situations
Jolana Poláková
Chapter III. Human Dignity
Jan Payne
PART II. DIALOGUE: INTERCHANGE AS HUMAN TRANSCENDENCE
Chapter IV. Dialogue as a Way to Humanity
Chapter V. Ethics and Dialogue: Some Philosophical Contexts
Vlastimil Hála
Chapter VI. Morality and Legality: The Political Significance of Their Relationship
PART III. THE ECOLOGY AS A BROADER HUMAN CONTEXT
Chapter VII. Human Values and Sustainable Ways of Living
Josel VavrouÑek
Chapter VIII. The Ecological Problem in Modern Society: Solidarity, Conflict and Human Dignity
Oleg Suša
Chapter IX. The Ecological Motivation of Ethics and the Moral Critique of Society
PART IV. THE HUMAN PERSON
Chapter X. A Time of Titans: Reflections on the Philosophy of Present History
Bohumír Janát
Chapter XI. Philosophy and the Metaphysical Vision of a Just World: Reflections on Justice in the PresentSpiritual Atmosphere of Middle-Eastern Europe
Chapter XII. Pato…ka’s Ethnical Naturalism: The Primacy of Value over Fact
Aviezer Tucker
Chapter XIII. "Person" as the Central Concept in the Human and Social Sciences:
Vincent Shen
Chapter XIV. The Writer’s Mission and Politics
Karel Vrána
Acknowledgements