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Mit dem Gerichtsbeschluss vom 22. Oktober 2020 bezüglich der Zulässigkeit der embryopathologischen Abtreibung, hat der polnische Verfassungsgerichtshof den Zugang zu einer legalen Abtreibung in Polen auf zwei Fälle beschränkt: direkte und unmittelbare Gefahr für das Leben oder die Gesundheit der Frau oder wenn die Schwangerschaft das Resultat eines sexuellen Übergriffs war. Mit der Einschränkung des Zugangs zu legaler Abtreibung hat der Verfassungsgerichtshof nicht nur das allgegenwärtig strikte Gesetz in Polen weiter verschärft, sondern auch die Rechte der Frauen im Bereich der reproduktiven Gesundheit signifikant eingeschränkt. Das Urteil hat die öffentliche Debatte bezüglich der Abtreibungen wieder entfacht und zu einer Mobilisation auf beiden Seiten, sowohl der Befürworter als auch der Opposition der Einschränkungen geführt. Diese Arbeit behandelt sowohl die sozialen als auch die moralischen Konflikte rund um die Thematik der Zulässigkeit und den Zugang zu Abtreibungen durch den sich entfaltenden Diskurs der Pro-Life-Befürworter als auch der Pro-Choice-Gruppierung und deren Akteure in Polen nach dem Urteil. Die Gegenstände der Analyse sind: Streike in ganz Polen der Pro-Choice Bewegung sowie der Pro-Life-Fürsprecher der katholischen Kirche. Die Frage stellt sich inwiefern die analysierten Diskurse mit den politischen Interessen der jeweiligen Gruppierungen verbunden sind. ; With the judgment on the 22nd of October 2020 on permissibility of embryopathological abortion the Polish Constitutional Tribunal restricted access to legal abortions in Poland to two cases: direct and imminent danger for life or health of the woman or when the pregnancy is the result of a criminal offence. With restricting access to legal abortion, the Tribunal not only tightened up the already restrictive law but also significantly limited women's reproductive health rights in Poland.The judgment reignited the public debate around abortion and led to mobilization on both sides – the supporters and opponents of the restrictions. This ...

The aim of this note is to present the main results of a survey carried out in 2011 which gathers information on French academics' opinions and attitudes toward politics, economics, religion and ethical beliefs. The sample of respondents is large (N = 2,000) and the survey allows a comparison between academics and the overall French population by replicating questions of traditional surveys (EVS and Dynegal). We observe that French academics are considerably more left-wing, more hostile to free-market economy and more atheist than French citizens. Interestingly, a significant share of academics tends to adopt ethical guidelines that are similar to those of religious people.

Introduction -- Chapter 1. Markets, ethics and religion – an introduction (Niels Kærgård) -- Part I: Economics of the market -- Chapter 2. The markets in economics: Behavioral Assumptions and value judgment (Agnar Sandmo) -- Chapter 3. The importance of market failure (Peder Andersen) -- Chapter 4. Income distribution, the market and unequal income distribution (Hans Aage) -- Chapter 5. Economics of Good and Evil (Tomas Sedlacek) -- Chapter 6. Happiness, market and economy (Peder J. Pedersen) -- Chapter 7. Scientific truth, science bubbles and the market (Vincent F. Hendricks) -- Part II: Religion and the market -- Chapter 8. Theology of money: Rationalisation and spiritual goods (Philip Goodchild) -- Chapter 9. Religion, politics and moral in recent Denmark (Peter Lüchau) -- Chapter 10. Lutheran social ethics (Svend Andersen) -- Chapter 11. Two Bishops on the ethics of the market economy (Niels Kærgård) -- Chapter 12. The problem of loan interest for Luther and the Danish Reformers (Martin Schwartz Lausten) -- Chapter 13. Catholic Social Teaching - The Church's 'best kept secret' (Else Britt Nilsen) -- Chapter 14. Islamic attitude to markets, interest rate and social questions -- Part III: The limitation of the market: Some cases -- Chapter 15. Trade with human eggs, blood and organs (Kirsten Halsnæs) -- Chapter 16. Animals, animal welfare and the market -- Chapter 17. Gender, sex and the market – Can sex be a service like any others? (Hanne Petersen) -- Chapter 18. Income distribution, Lutheran Christianity and the Danish welfare state (Jørn Henrik Petersen) -- Chapter 19. The Danish society's common values (Ove Korsgaard) -- Chapter 20. Ethics, religion and corporate social responsibility (Jacob Dahl Rendtorff) -- Chapter 21. Taboos, Religion and economic rationality (Niels Kærgård).

"The crucial question of our time is: How to preserve humanity, humanitas, in a world of radical and not so long ago practically unimaginable technological possibilities? The book addresses this issue through its treatment of transhumanism, a diverse movement the representatives of which promise and advocate for the enhancement of human being through modern science, technology, and pharmacology. Their views differ in the degree of extremity, and they contain many ambiguities, as well as pitfalls and dangers that require an answer from both ethical and religious points of view. The book deepens the understanding of transhumanism in an interdisciplinary way and thus helps to form the right attitude towards it that will truly benefit human flourishing. It offers a rich variety of views on transhumanism, ranging from its illumination in the light of contemporary research into happiness, through liberal eugenics and biopolitics, all the way to its considerations in terms of religions and manifestations in concrete works of art"--

This book deals with the basic question of what money can and cannot buy and offers an analysis of the limitations of the market mechanism. Few concepts are as controversial as religion and the market mechanism. Some consider religion to be in conflict with a modern rational scientific view of life, and thus as a contributory cause of harsh conflicts and a barrier to human happiness. Others consider religious beliefs as the foundation for ethics and decent behaviour. Similar, a number of neoliberal writers acclaimed the market mechanism as one of the greatest triumphs of the human mind, and saw it as the main reason why rich countries became rich. Others are extremely skeptical and stress how this mechanism has result in big multinational firms with powerfully rich owners and masses of poor low-paid workers. Researchers from various fields - economists, social scientists, theologians and philosophers - handle these questions very differently, applying different methods and different ideals. This book offers a synthesis of the different viewpoints. It deals with economists, theologians and philosophers differing thoughts about the market and its limitations. .

"The present work reexamines the importance of the Danish philosopher and theologian Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55). It argues that many of Kierkegaard's most controversial and influential ideas are more relevant than ever. Specifically, it shows how we can make good sense of ideas such as subjective truth, "the leap" into faith, and "the teleological suspension of the ethical." When properly understood, none of these ideas are as problematic as commentators have long assumed. This book shows that Kierkegaard offers a novel account of wholeheartedness that is relevant to discussions of personal identity, truth, ethics, and religion (particularly after Frankfurt, MacIntyre, C. Taylor, and Williams). Concluding Unscientific Postscript, notably, describes wholeheartedness as subjective truth, and despair as subjective untruth. This account involves an original, adverbial theory of truth in which agents, rather than propositions, are the basic truth-bearers (Watts 2018). For Kierkegaard, wholeheartedness requires living truly by having a coherent personal identity (something he also describes as "purity of heart"). Despair and doublemindedness, by contrast, involve an incoherent identity, which fails to be true to itself"--