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The paper is an attempt to show some of the difficulties associated with both knowing values and applying them in social life. It also acknowledges their extraordinary role both in the context of development of an individual, and in the context of the search for a good (i.e. well-functioning) society.
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The paper is an attempt to show the basic features of the critique of thinking based on values, which is an essential part of Martin Heidegger’s thought. In order to present his opinions clearly, they are confronted with the critique of values that Friedrich Nietzsche presents in his work “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”. The author argues that thinking based on values is in service of the modern subjectivity, which is expansive and egological. However, unlike Heidegger, the author tries to explore a concept of value which would be free of such an egological tendency. His inspiration isNietzsche, who wrote about ‘new values’, and related them with creativity which leads the subject to transgression.
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This paper aims to explore the approach to value pluralism within contemporary liberal political thought. The paper begins with a discussion of the basic premises related to both value pluralism and value conf lict. Then the author examines the successes of value pluralism theory in resolving value conflicts. The final section of the paper attempts to determine whether the liberal approach to value pluralism, protecting us against monism, is not leading us, at the same time, to value relativism.
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Values can be instrumentalized individually, but they are social in origin. They derive from the fact that individualsenter into social relationships and need the community in order to ensure that such relationships are consolidatedand respected. Values exist provided that they are produced, and the process of producing them is social in nature. Itis people who generate values, values are not given to them. Value creation is a social process in which certain valuesgenerate others and simultaneously multiply (reinforce) the initial, existential ones that underlie the entire process.
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‘Illegal’ refusal to allow entry to would-be asylum seekers said to be rising in the Balkans and Poland.
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Team says it has only scratched the surface of disinformation and fake news spread by Russian and European media.
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Russia will likely look at the move as yet another sign of Western 'aggression.'
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1962 saw one of the biggest political crises between the super- powers of that time: the USA and the USSR. Never before during the cold war had the lives of the inhabitants of the whole globe been threatened with a total extinction. Was the Polish society conscious of that? Was it prepared for a confrontation, which must have ended in a different way from all the wars that had been waged before? In the documents drawn up by party’s activists and by SB (Public Security Service) functionaries October 1962 constitutes an interesting problem. But that does not refer to decisions made by high- ranking officials. Archival material provides a lot of information concerning the attitude of the society. Therefore it is feasible to answer the question whether the Polish society was conscious of a possible result of the conflict; whether buying out foodstuffs and other necessities could secure their lives; whether the Polish people were interested in and excited about the conflict at all. The author attempts to answer those questions in the article, and – at the same time – to prove that the sources in the archives of the IPN (Institute of National Remembrance) might be useful in investigating problems of social history.
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The author analyses the concept of liberal democracy as issue of political philosophy. Liberal democracy is considered as a form of governance with the consent of the people, which is also explicitly assigned value dimension. Western democratic political system derives its legitimacy from a commitment to promoting liberal values (freedom, equality, solidarity). The author expresses skeptically about the possibility of implementing liberal values within the boundaries of global capitalism.
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This case study reports about the collusion scandal behind the widespread wiretapping operations of various journalists. The report, however, focuses mainly on one part of the affair, namely the clear collusion between a journalist from the daily Pravda, and a top politician – a Member of Parliament, whose conversations were also recorded. MP Robert Kaliňák was apparently trying to persuade the reporter Vanda Vavrová to publish discrediting material about his political rival. The study thus largely examines the media’s role in politics and ethical issues resulting from trespass of the journalistic agency for objective and impartial reporting. Moreover, initial coverage of this affair by the selected media is analysed throughout the study to pinpoint the role of Slovak journalists/media while facing the controversial behaviour of one of their peers. It was found that the media actually underplayed the collusion story and focused their attention mostly on the wiretapping affair, strongly condemning the actions by the state authorities. Ironically, a few years later it was proved that the wiretapping of journalists (in contrast to other persons and institutions) was both legal and justified. Moreover, the media ignored the possible political and criminal corruption issues behind the double scandal.
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The study focuses on two Slovak corruption cases, both well-documented and of similar social relevance, of which one did not receive any cross-media coverage. Moreover, the case of large-scale bribery was rather under-hyped in comparison to other major corruption scandals occurring in the country. The case of cronyism formed a typical example of extremely poor inter-media coverage of highly unfair and politicised cronyism. Through these cases, especially in the one in which the media failed to stimulate the creation of a full-blown scandal, the study further analyses the criteria and circumstances that determine the worthiness of a case for wide media coverage. The study on Slovakia is framed within theories of scandalous reporting and the theory of agenda setting and inter-media agenda setting role of the media, and supported by quantitative analysis of actual media coverage of the bribery case.
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