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In the field of substantive criminal law in the Republic of Serbia, a fundamental reform was made in 2005, and the Criminal Code of Serbia was passed. The Article 117 regulates a special, new form of criminal offence of murder, previously not contained in the Criminal Code of Serbia – mercy killing as a privileged murder. After almost nine years since the implementation of the Criminal Code, the author re-analyses the provision of Article 117 and tries to answer some questions. Aside from the fact that the application of this qualification has been extremely rare in the case law, the question related to the elements of this offense is often raised, and it refers to the observation that the current law is inconclusive when it comes to mercy killing. The author’s attention is also focused on a comparative review of specific foreign legislations when it comes to regulating the legal status of euthanasia. By analysing the above mentioned solutions, the author suggests several methods in the treatment of this delicate issue. The aim of this paper is to clarify some existing dilemmas regarding this privileged criminal offence. The emphasis is placed on the analysis of the provision of Article 117 of the Criminal Code of Serbia and its evaluation in terms of its acceptability or unacceptability when it comes to its applicability in practice. According to the data of the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia, since the entry into force of the Criminal Code of Serbia, there has been no final judgment on any criminal offense under Article 117. It is obvious that this provision has not been viable in practice. For this reason, a series of polemical issues are imposed, in terms of: the conditions under which a behaviour can be subsumed under the legal description of the mercy killing; determining the qualitative difference between this criminal offense and a plan murder; need for widening of criminal zone, etc.
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When the undefeated samurai Miyamoto Musashi retreated to a cave in 1643 and wrote The Book of Five Rings, a manifesto on swordsmanship, strategy, and winning for his students and generations of samurai to come, he created one of the most perceptive and incisive texts on strategic thinking ever to come from Asia. Musashi gives timeless advice on defeating an adversary, throwing an opponent off-guard, creating confusion, and other techniques for overpowering an assailant that will resonate with both martial artists and everyone else interested in skillfully dealing with conflict. For Musashi, the way of the martial arts was a mastery of the mind rather than simply technical prowess—and it is this path to mastery that is the core teaching in The Book of Five Rings. Written not only for martial artists but for anyone who wants to apply the timeless principles of this text to their life, the book analyzes the process of struggle and mastery over conflict that underlies every level of human interaction.
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This modern translation of all the surviving literary compositions ascribed to Liudprand, the bishop of Cremona from 962 to 972, offers unrivaled insight into society and culture in western Europe during the "iron century". Since Liudprand enjoyed the favor of the Saxon Roman emperor Otto the Great, and traveled to Constantinople more than once on official business, his narratives also reveal European attitudes toward the Byzantine Empire and the culture of its refined capital city. No other tenth-century writer had such privileged access to the high spheres of power, or such acerbic wit and willingness to articulate critiques of the doings of powerful people. Liudprand's historical texts (the Antapodosis on European events in the first half of the 900s, and his Historia Ottonison the rise to power of Otto the Great) provide a unique view of the recent past against a genuinely European backdrop, unusual in a time of localized cultural horizons. Liudprand's famous satirical description of his misadventures as Ottonian legate at the Byzantine court in 968 is a vital source of information on Byzantine ritual and diplomatic process, as well as a classic of medieval intercultural encounter. Readers interested in medieval European culture, the history of diplomacy, Italian and German medieval history, and the history of Byzantium will find this collection of translated texts rewarding. A full introduction and extensive notes help readers to place Liudprand's writings in context.
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„The Prince” was written by Niccolo' Machiavelli in the 1500s. It has continued to be a best seller in many languages. The Prince is a classic book that explores the attainment, maintenance, and utilization of political power in the western world. Machiavelli wrote The Prince to demonstrate his skill in the art of the state, presenting advice on how a prince might acquire and hold power. Machiavelli defended the notion of rule by force rather than by law. Accordingly, The Prince seems to rationalize a number of actions done solely to perpetuate power. It is an examination of power-its attainment, development, and successful use.
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The book concerns the fundamental questions set by the founder of Bulgarian sociology Ivan Hadjiiski: Where are we coming from? What have we gone through? How far have we reached? Where are we going? Sociology is a science in which the person puts his imagination and heuristic potential. Sociology is a craft, in the practice of which the outcome depends on the mastery of the techniques and methodologies, the correct observance of rules and procedures. Sociology is a business that requires certain resources and also can reproduce or increase them. Sociology, however, is something else; it is not only a knowledge of society, but it is a public activity. It loses its meaning beyond the public realization or changes it if this realization does not correspond to the scientific credibility.
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Prof. Georgy Fotev is a Bulgarian sociologist. His scientific works are in the areas of theory and history of sociology and the disciplinary fields of modern sociology. The focus of the research interests of G.Fotev is the nature of sociology as a multiple paradigm science. Another major theme in the works of Georgy Fotev is the dialogue as a base and horizon of multiple paradigm sociology. Georgy Fotev has publications in the fields of historical sociology, sociology of politics, ethnosociology, the crisis of legitimacy, sociology of values, etc. His books "The long night of communism in Bulgaria" and "Bulgarian melancholy" throw light on the dramatic fate of the Bulgarian national society. Georgy Fotev was Minister of Education and Science (1991 - 1992). He is professor emeritus of New Bulgarian University. In 2003 he was awarded the Distinguished Service Award from the American University in Bulgaria. Mankind is shaken by a multitude of uncertainty. There is an increasing perception that uncertainty becomes permanent. The focus is on the existential, social, political, economic, global and other basic varieties of human uncertainty. The author explores the fundamental conditions of human uncertainty and the main forms of her manifestation and experience. The phenomenon is seen in the light of the new science of chaos and complexity in the context of the risky society/world, in terms of catastrophic consciousness and the conditions of crisis types. Particular attention is paid to trust as a fundamental social attitude and condition against decadent attitudes and nihilism.
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The presented monograph is a result of many years of practical work and research of the author in the sphere of intentional influence in Bulgaria, USA and NATO structures. It would be of interest to psychologists, sociologists, psychological surgeons, PR and image-maker specialist, managers, and anyone who wants to understand the psychological mechanisms of influence - why do we think what we think, why we feel what we feel, why we act the way we do it, and how other people and the media influence us. In fact, the book does not offer ready-made recipes, but an understanding of the process that enables us to protect ourselves from unwanted influences and to be more effective in achieving our goals.
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The monograph attempts to provide an empirically grounded answer to a number of discussional scientific issues related to individual decision-making differences by building a comprehensive conceptual model and constructing a specifically selected toolbox as a prerequisite for creating an empirically validated methodology in the field of research of individual differences in decision-making. Original empirical results have been obtained confirming that the style of decision-making is not identical to cognitive style (nor is it a subset, but contains a cognitive component that does not exhaust any of the styles) and is related to mental self-regulation due to individual differences, generated by the ways of satisfying the hedonistic motif (regulatory focus and fashion), the need to control excitement (stress control), and the need for connectivity and increased self-esteem. These results are a prerequisite for the further development of individual decision-making research as well as the decision-making theory itself, because it allows for a fuller consideration of individual differences and their interaction with the characteristics of the situation and the problem that is being solved.The methodological basis of the study is the cognitive survival theory of Seymour Epstein. The results and theoretical summaries obtained empirically confirm the validity of the global personality theory that has the potential to explain new scientific problems, incorporating private theories such as E. Tory Higgins' motivational theory and Mark R. Leary's sociometric mechanism.
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СУД И ПРАВДА; Како је у народу око Космаја?; Нешто о моралном образовању; ДОПИСИ; ЈАВНИ ПРЕТРЕС ЖИВКА ЧУКИЋА; Јавна преписка; Јавна благодарност; РАЗЛИЧНОСТИ;
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СУД И ПРАВДА; ДОПИСИ из Јасенице; Нешто о моралном образовању; Непознатзм долиснику страних новина;
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Proceedings Ecofeminism: between women's and green studies, edited by Goran Đurđević and Suzana Marjanić (Durieux Publisher, Zagreb, 2020), consists of 40 texts from the humanities and social sciences (anthropology, journalism, political science, sociology, literary theory, science of education) and art (poetry and prose), written by 37 authors from Croatia, Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia, the United Kingdom and the United States. The starting point for edited book was workshop cycle on the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb organized with help of professor Drago Roksandić and there was created idea for book by Mirjana Grabovac, Karmen Ratković and Suzana Marjanić. Also, various colleagues such as Dražen Tončić and Mirta Maslać from Durieux, artist Kristina Pongrac and reviewers Ivica Bakota, Zlatko Bukač and Ana Stojanović have been an important part of this volume. The aims of the collection are to actualize ecofeminism and encourage critical reflection and analysis of long-term ecofeminism in Croatia and Southeast Europe; permeation of global and local approaches and knowledge transfer; openness to young authors. For these reasons, the book can be read on several levels: theoretical as a contribution to the knowledge of the theory of ecofeminism in the context of contemporary trends, socio-political as an analysis of social processes and structures, activist through the analytical perspective of activism of individual groups and actors in public, performative and political life. The final part of the volume are poems and this piece of book shows a holistic approach to ecofeminism and integration of scholarship, essays and art which is leading back to the roots and indigenous perspectives of life and community understood as integration.
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We are witnessing a surge in the demand for electric vehicles, in the domestic as well as globalmarkets on account of greater concern for the environment and advancement in technology. Every country is committed to reducing its carbon footprint over the next decade in order to address the issues ofglobalwarming, deterioration in air quality, especially in the cities due toheavy pollution, and depletion of resources. EVs have the advantage of high performance andfuel efficiency along with very low emissions and long operating range, making them a viablealternative to fuel-based vehicles. As the automobile industry goes through an exciting phase of transformation with the adoption of EVs, it can be very interesting, from an academic viewpoint, to understand, assess, and analyse the various strategies and operational challengesfaced by the various stakeholders, as drastic changes in the management of supply chain are envisaged for the manufacture and servicing of EVs as comparedto fossil fuel-based conventional vehicles.
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“Will the research make life even harder to cope with because sad memories and thoughts are revived? Is the researcher exploiting persons in a vulnerable position?” (Dyregrov et al., 2000). These fundamental questions indicate that conducting research on experiences of females with refugee background presents several serious challenges fraught with both ethical dilemmas and the possibility of potential harm to respondents (Bailey and Williams, 2018). The current literature is abundant with ethical guidelines. However, it often provides general guidance and is limited in specific practical contexts (Arifin, 2018).
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The paper presents the analysis of partial rationality („rossum“) - far-sighted rationality in the artistic and philosophical projects about technology and about future of the humanity. The results of the analysis are used as a criterium for rethinking of moral questions of technological approaches to solving the environmental crisis and the other global problems. The article makes recommendations in the field of environmental ethics and bioethics - defining rationality as an unreasonable vision of progress against life.
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The article deals with difficulties with the introduction of ethical tools into regional politics. The current ethical management of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) uses codes of ethics (CE). The article explores whether this ethical tools are used within the elected parliaments and administrative departments in the city of Brno. The chosen method is survey using the Act. 106/1999 Coll. on a free access to information. The research demonstrated that CE were not submitted for a formal hearing in any local parliament in Brno (as of 03/01/2017). On the other hand, unelected municipal administrative departments implemented CE in more than 50 % of the cases. The study presents the most pressing problems in the implementation of ethical tools in elected local parliaments. The study proposes solutions for a better transparency of regional policies through the implementation of CE.
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Dopustite mi kratku uvodnu opasku. Kad su me prošlog ljeta pitali da li bih bila spremna na ovom podiju izreći referat o svjetskom etosu iz nereligiozne perspektive, to sam prihvatila pod uvjetom da o svjetskom etosu smijem govoriti iz filozofijske, a ne naprosto iz nereligiozne perspektive. Ta je razlika za mene važna. Na ovom mjestu ne želim zauzeti ateističko ili agnostičko stajalište spram svjetskog etosa nego bih bez zastupanja nekog svjetonazora željela donekle rasvijetliti i prodiskutirati sustavni zahtjev koji se nalazi iza projekta svjetskog etosa. Pod „sustavnim” zahtjevom mislim na etičko posredovanje religiozne vjere i filozofijske racionalnosti. Dakle, pod krovom „svjetskog etosa” ne bismo trebali sakupiti samo fundamentalna moralna načela, koja mogu zastupati različite religije, nego i na konstruktivan način povezati dvije forme svijesti između kojih obično vlada napetost: s jedne strane religioznu svijest o posljednjoj istini i poslijeprosvjetiteljsko kritičko znanje o relativnosti baš polaganja prava na istinu od strane religija na drugoj strani.
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Uvijek se iznova tvrdi da je svjetska financijska kriza bila nepredvidiva. No, još 1997. upozorio sam na novo izdanje svjetske financijske krize i slom gospodarskog poretka iz [razdoblja] 1929-1933, a u [knjizi] „Svjetski etos za svjetsku politiku i svjetsko gospodarstvo” (Piper, München 1997) napisao: „Već je i najmanja opaska, primjerice predsjednika Središnje američke banke Alana Greenspana, početkom prosinca 1996, da je „nerazumno izobilje” („irrational exuberance”) dovelo do precjenjivanja financijskih tržišta, bilo dostatno da uznemirene ulagače na ambicioznim tržištima dionica Azije, Europe i Amerike natjera na paničnu rasprodaju i urušavanje tečaja. To također pokazuje da se krize koje idu uz globalizaciju ne smiruju, nego se možda pojačavaju.”
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Kad bismo jednom pretpostavili da čovječanstvo svoje nagomilane moralne predodžbe mora svesti na jedno jedino temeljno načelo, i da bi to pravilo trebalo na jednak način štiti od ubojstva, krađe, prijevare, tlačenja i osvete – kako bi glasilo jedno takvo fundamentalno načelo? U svojoj knjizi „Zagonetka svijeta” darvinist Ernst Haeckel nazvao ga je 1899. „najplemenitijim načelom sveopćeg čovjekoljublja”. Ustvari ono pod imenom „zlatno pravilo” već više od 3000 godina tvori cjelokupnu etičku poruku svih svjetskih religija i kultura. U svojoj pučkoj varijanti taj moralni zakon glasi: „Ono što ne želiš da tebi bude učinjeno, ni ti ne nanosi nikome drugom!”1 Zapravo to pravilo ne predstavlja jedino i specijalno njemačku poslovicu, nego je ona rasprostranjena diljem svijeta. Trend povratka vrijednosti i veliko poštovanje nastave etike uvedene u sve škole doveli su do ponovnog otkrivanja zlatnog pravila. Nazvano je „zlatnim” jer ga ne smatramo pravilom koje predstavlja nadopunu već postojećim zapovijedima i zabranama, nego pravilom u ili iznad svih drugih pravila, takoreći njihovom biti i jezgrom.
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This article aims to highlight the ethical values of the concept of the slow city, values which are underpinned by digital discourse (official websites of the cities being members of this movement). A rhetorical construction, but above all, a social reconstruction of the image of the contemporary city in accordance with the values and aspirations of the human being seen as imago mundi, the image of the social community to which he belongs. A reconstruction that has at its heart a fundamental coordinate of the human being and of the anthropic space - Time, an essential value that has been hijacked and has become a stressful, anxiety-provoking and spiritually corrosive factor in the contemporary urban universe. We will base our discursive analysis on pre-existing theoretical constructs - the concepts of individual ethos, prior and discursively constructed ethos, collective ethos - and, above all, the analyzed key concept of the slow city - a contemporary urban ontology circumscribed to environmental concerns, sustainable development, participatory democracy, the revaluation of the local economy to the detriment of the global one.
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