Contextual therapy focusses on restoring and enhancing relationships, based on its paradigm of relational ethics, presuming a human tendency for reciprocal care. It is precisely in a time of stressed relationships that this focus on strengthening humanity is of great importance. This article presents …

Boekbespreking. Het neoliberalisme houdt de gemoederen al bezig sinds de jaren tachtig, en niet voor niets. Het is een alomtegenwoordig en tegelijkertijd ongrijpbaar verschijnsel. Goed daarom dat de Foundation Critical Ethics of Care het initiatief heeft genomen om een viertal teksten van de Duitse politicoloog …

Humans use metaphors in thinking. Most metaphors are visual. In processing information stimuli the mind depends partly on visual codes. Information is processed and stored through two channels: one for non-verbal information and another for verbal information. The two different areas of information in …

Militairen worden regelmatig geconfronteerd met morele dilemma’s, zowel tijdens uitzendingen als in Nederland. Een moreel dilemma definiëren wij als een situatie waarin een keuze moet worden gemaakt tussen verschillende elkaar uitsluitende handelingsalternatieven, waarbij waarden met elkaar in conflict …

Text of the Reinwardt memorial lecture by Salvador Munoz-Vinas at the Reinwardt Academie on the 9th May of 2017.

Social scientists of conservation typically address sources of legitimacy of conservation policies in relation to local communities’ or indigenous land rights, highlighting social inequality and environmental injustice. This chapter reflects on the underlying ethics of environmental justice in order …

The COHEHRE Academy organized the following capacity building workshop(s) in 2018: Ethics in Community based Student Projects: Exploring the possibility of a win-win situation: Time and venue: November 2018 Amsterdam, The Netherlands Coordinating institution: Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences …

Justice for nature remains a confused term. In recent decades justice has predominantly been limited to humanity, with a strong focus on social justice, and its spin-off – environmental justice for people. We first examine the formal rationale for ecocentrism and ecological ethics, as this underpins …

There is considerable support for the idea that an atmosphere of safety can foster learning in groups, especially during ethics training courses. However, the question how safety dynamics works during ethics courses is still understudied. This article aims to investigate safety dynamics by examining …

In newsrooms journalists encounter numerous constraints accelerated by increasing technological and economic pressures. The complexity of the job and the need for (constant) innovation coupled with the rising call for transparency and accountability ask for journalists who “reflect-in-action”. Newsroom …