Human Solidarity Research Articles

Internalisasi Etika: Menjadikan Hidup, Bukan Hanya Sekedar Hidup

In our life, to choose what is good and to act rightly always required human freedom. Human freedom must be created peace and justice in order to open mind and heard for the common good for all. All people of God are witness for social justice teaching support for beautiful and meaningful life such as appreciation for the human person dignity’s, awareness of equality, equal participation, and human solidarity. This research use a qualitative method through a literature study in order to acquire data and discover the problem more profoundly. Researchers believe that the successful process of internalizing ethics aims to make life, not just a life that lasts from time to time, but a life that is organized regularly and ultimately reaches the aim of life. This research will answer the “question” is virtue ethics necessary or only an accessory for human beings’ life. Then, researchers will go further to describe the important values or practices of virtue ethics in daily life. Finally, this research proposes the practical implication based on the critical reflection and suggestion. This implication is an indication for every person to believe that the process of internalizing Ethics is an important way of life.

Rethinking Erich Fromm’s Humanism and His View of Human Nature

ABSTRACT This article reviews Fromm’s view of human nature that is the basis for his existential humanism. Fromm’s core idea was that the combination of minimal instinctual endowment, enormous expansion of our neocortex, and being born in a helpless state created a set of existential contradictions or dichotomies. The main contradiction or dichotomy is being part of nature yet transcending it by being aware of our mortality. Not being able to go back to the previous “harmony” with nature, humans must develop their capacity for reason, symbolic capacities, imagination and human solidarity or regress to symbiotic and incestuous ties. I make two main arguments. I show that instead of losing our instincts, humans retain three social instincts that we share with other social species, namely attachment instincts (and forming attachment bonds), affiliation to groups (group instinct) and sexual instincts. I show how these three instincts have been significantly transformed in relation to our great ape relatives making us a more flexible, adaptive, cooperative and ultrasocial species. Second I describe a new evolutionary paradigm in which genes and culture coevolve and influence each other, also known as the dual inheritance model. The main effect of this dual inheritance is that cultures, like genes, transmit information and knowledge from one generation to the next. The cumulative effect of cultural knowledge transmitted through thousands of generations is that we develop new modes of production, new technologies, art forms, and new cultural rituals and practices. To which we must adapt. This new view of what made us human puts Fromm’s view of human nature and his radical humanism on a stronger sociobiological foundation. I close by making the argument that our group instinct is both our greatest strength and greatest weakness, making us a species with a “genius for good and evil”.

The Development of Philosophical Thinking: An Imperative of Modern Education

The core objective of this article is to advocate for the cultivation of philosophical thinking, a pivotal element that fosters a profound understanding of the evolutionary trajectory of the information society and the human role within this paradigm. An examination of the unique attributes of the information-communicative educational space, coupled with the tenets of post-classical knowledge, underscores the imperative for nurturing human capabilities and personality traits essential for efficacious self-identification within the information society. The anthropological nature of philosophy focuses on understanding that rational, abstract-universal, theoretical thinking is fundamentally value-laden, not free from human interests. These interests determine the directions of scientific research and, if necessary, limit freedom of choice. The philosophical perception of communication, seen as a wellspring of new knowledge generation aimed at pragmatic problem-solving and emerging from human solidarity, promotes the cultivation of creativity, an intrinsic quality of the persona. A favorable factor for the successful development of dialogical thinking is the transformation of the previously dominant written culture into an oral one, where natural spoken language plays an increasingly important role. The exigency for a high degree of personal individualization and thought individualization, prerequisites for successful self-identification, calls for the fostering of stereoscopic and pluralistic thinking. Such thinking, inherent to the philosophical discourse, inherently possesses an authorial essence and proffers diverse interpretative responses to identical queries, thereby catalyzing the development of contextual thinking adept at unraveling the meaning of events in situational contexts. Globalization, accompanied by an increase in the world’s diversity, contributes to the development of global thinking – the ability to solve local problems considering global patterns. As a counterbalance to informational pluralism, the visual turn emerges, epitomized by the capacity to encapsulate voluminous data into intricate montaged images and to adeptly interpret such constructs. This paradigm shift necessitates the enhancement of visual thinking, which, as contemporary philosophy posits, is oriented toward assimilating social experience, laying the groundwork for self-identification. The presented arguments substantiate the conviction that the development of philosophical thinking in the educational process is not an auxiliary factor, but an imperative of the modern information society.

A Place of "Re-collect": Zainichi Experiences with/in Utoro, Japan

Abstract: As a memory place that exemplifies contemporary Zainichi experiences, the Utoro district in Kyoto, Japan, entails stories of Japan's colonial exploitation and postcolonial oppression, yet simultaneously reveals human hope, cooperation, and solidarity. First formed for the Korean workers and their families mobilized for the construction of a military airport during World War II, Utoro was left abandoned for decades in postwar Japan. Its Korean residents have suffered from continuous eviction suits, harassment, and violence including the most recent arson attack in 2022. At the same time, these intricacies of colonial origin and postcolonial controversy also invited networked grassroots efforts among the Japanese and Koreans to remember and reconstruct the place's sociohistorical meanings, resulting in the construction of the Utoro Peace Memorial Museum in 2022. This paper highlights the significance of Zainichi experiences with/in Utoro through an analysis of identity, discourse, and representation of the place. Drawing upon collective memory scholarship and adopting a theoretical framework of re-collection, the paper unravels complex meanings of a site in relation to human acts of remembering, making sense of, and finding significance to our past experiences with/in it. By situating visual and discursive voices of the Utoro community (Zainichi in Utoro ), such as its former residents' oral testimonies and museum displays, this study elucidates the significance of Utoro in Zainichi history. This paper argues that Utoro projects contradictory positionalities of Korean subjects as both integral and excess in the history of colonial and postcolonial socio-politics of ethno-racial Other in Japan.

Dignité humaine et altérité chez Gabriel Marcel

The perfection of the love of the other in Gabriel Marcel joins the valorization of human dignity threatened and flouted. If so much is true that fraternal life highlights the existence of human dignity, it is still necessary to create a new human solidarity for an otherness through social justice and hope towards the Absolute You, the transcendent according to Gabriel Marcel. The ethic of availability, acceptance, recollection and hope allows immanence to create a path towards the perfect love of the Absolute You. So does the perfection of the love of the other become Homo viator?

Research on the Implementation of Human Rights Policing through the Police Reform Roadmap

The National Police Agency announced a Police Reform Roadmap for the implementation of human rights policing through a public reporting event in 2021. The Police Reform Roadmap brings in outside experts by newly instituting an open Human Rights Policy Officer, and establishes a control system within the National Investigation Headquarters to prevent human rights violations and power abuse during the investigative process. It also proposed a system for monitoring attorney-led investigations to analyze and address issues in vulnerable sectors. However, in an effort to strengthen these human rights guarantee capabilities, it suggested that the Human Rights Impact Assessment system be recognized as an essential process and stipulated. It also introduced a framework for establishing the direction of Human Rights Impact Assessment system within the police organization. Furthermore, it suggested the police to develop substantive, systematic human rights education and training programs, foster close cooperation within the organization through institutional human rights solidarity, and design human rights guidelines, indicating that such measures are requisite for the police to strenghten its human rights guarantee capabilities.

Small things—‘It felt like love’—The experience of being deeply moved in therapy: Clients' stories of the small things that matter in therapy

Small things—‘It felt like love’—The experience of being deeply moved in therapy: Clients' stories of the small things that matter in therapy

Older adults deprived of liberty: "their pain hurts more".

This essay reflects on the incarceration of older adults in the United States (USA) and Brazil and mainly aims to observe how the situation is consistent and differs in the two countries. The bibliography on the subject is much more affluent and consolidated in the USA. Several discrepancies are noted among scholars between data and authors' views. However, they all agree regarding (1) the increased number of incarcerated older adults, (2) the inadequacy of prisons to house them, (3) the accelerated aging due to lack of healthcare, (4) the experiences of physical, musculoskeletal, and mental comorbidities, and (5) the high costs of treating them adequately. Most senior prisoners are poor Black and brown men and people with some specific social fragility. A positive factor underscored by Brazilian and North American researchers is the cultivation of spirituality, which helps older adults in prison keep some well-being. However, incarcerated older adults require much other care, and few initiatives consider the specific needs of this social group. The time has come for Brazil to face this issue, whether out of social responsibility or human solidarity.

Idosos privados de liberdade: “a dor deles dói mais”

Abstract This essay reflects on the incarceration of older adults in the United States (USA) and Brazil and mainly aims to observe how the situation is consistent and differs in the two countries. The bibliography on the subject is much more affluent and consolidated in the USA. Several discrepancies are noted among scholars between data and authors’ views. However, they all agree regarding (1) the increased number of incarcerated older adults, (2) the inadequacy of prisons to house them, (3) the accelerated aging due to lack of healthcare, (4) the experiences of physical, musculoskeletal, and mental comorbidities, and (5) the high costs of treating them adequately. Most senior prisoners are poor Black and brown men and people with some specific social fragility. A positive factor underscored by Brazilian and North American researchers is the cultivation of spirituality, which helps older adults in prison keep some well-being. However, incarcerated older adults require much other care, and few initiatives consider the specific needs of this social group. The time has come for Brazil to face this issue, whether out of social responsibility or human solidarity.

Conscripting communalism: surveillance and resistance in contemporary Mauritius

AbstractIn this article I explore changing state–citizen relationships in Mauritius. To do so, I outline and provide analysis of the system through which this Indian Ocean island has historically managed its diversity – a process that I call conscripting communalism. Conscripting communalism was formulated at independence in a context of behavioural predictions for the future that the internet era has challenged in powerful ways. To illustrate my argument, I explore three specific moments when ethnic and religious discourses were surpassed by collective concern within a rapidly authoritarianizing state: first, the sinking of the Wakashio oil tanker off the coast of Mauritius in 2020, which resulted in national solidarity towards the environment rather than communal violence; second, proposed legislation put forward by the Mauritian Information and Communication Technology Authority (ICTA) in 2021, which attempted to enable state surveillance of social media and which was soundly resisted by both domestic and external parties. And finally, I explore 2022 accusations that the Mauritian government authorized the installation of digital interception technology by representatives of the Indian state on one of the country’s fibre optic cables. The article argues that Mauritius represents an important site of analysis of the tensions between competing global visions of human rights, political autonomy, surveillance, solidarity and expectations for the future and the role of the internet in shaping these competing visions. I explore how new technologies have become the tools of both repression and resistance. The implications ripple far beyond the island.

Abbas Khider's Refugee Narrative Ohrfeige : A System-Critical Intervention in the Continuing Human Rights and Solidarity Crisis

Abstract: This article investigates Abbas Khider's Ohrfeige as a system-critical intervention in the discourse of forced migration and the continuing human rights and solidarity crisis. It focuses on Khider's use of the grotesque to illustrate how, as refugee narrative, Ohrfeige is symptomatically situated within the constraints of a profit-driven world economic system which reduces literature, cultures, and people to commodities, while growing numbers of refugee populations are kept in inhospitable spaces of radicalized exclusion. The grotesque also serves Khider as a distancing technique to highlight the need to assume active responsibility beyond humanitarian compassion to confront the injustices of our time.

THE RIGHT TO WORK: THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE COVID-19 VIRUS IN THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA

The year 2020 was marked by the beginning of the Covid 19 virus pandemic, which manifested its effect at the global level and stopped the affirmative processes of every single country. The consequences of the virus affected the economy, everyday life, the work of institutions, the availability of various goods and services. The Covid 19 pandemic has caused significant changes in the landscape of labor law, which require adaptation in order to protect the rights of employees and respond to new challenges in the world, in the form of appropriate adaptations and needs of workers and employers.This paper includes changes in the field of employment, as well as the psychological characteristics of people and the way they behave after the Covid 19 virus. The author gives an interpretation using the method of observation and comparative analysis and tries to answer the problematic question: "Did the pandemic of the Covid 19 virus affect changes in the labor market and to what extent?" Every social segment is affected, especially the field of jobs, where the previous economic success largely suffers adverse consequences. The focus that is pursued in the pandemic but also in the post pandemic time is precisely empathy and human solidarity, especially in social and economic terms. Through empirical research, the paper aims to present the devastating character of the Covid 19 virus on the labor market in the Republic of Serbia, as well as the emerging trends consequently caused by the aforementioned virus.

„Бялата стая“: отвъд текста и контекста

The essay is dedicated to Bogomil Raynov's story Roads to Nowhere and the script of the film “The White Room” based on it. Through parallels with examples of existentialist literature and authors such as J.-P. Sartre and A. Camus, it is shown that the work bears the marks of a literary work created with the pathos of existentialism, which encodes the main stages and dimensions of rebellion (metaphysical, political, artistic). The role of the color white, internal monologue, movement, detail, and the convergent-divergent effect obtained from the use of the second person in the narrative is emphasized. The external signs of chaos and awareness of the absurd are sought. The thesis is defended that with the story Raynov in his way reaches the idea of the conscious choice of responsibility and human solidarity of Je me révolte, donc nous sommes (I rebel, therefore we are!) of Camus.

Mapping Massacre and Restorative Justice: A Study of Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost

The research article delves into human emotions, particularly during Sri Lanka's civil war, and it is analysed through the lens of Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje. It investigates the country's tumultuous condition caused by various separatist organisations, as depicted in Anil's Ghost. The focus of the research is to analyse the series of historical events that occurred in Sri Lanka in the aftermath of colonisation. The study explores the historical intricacies of the Civil War as reflected in the novel's primary narrative. The main emphasis is on the author's factual presentation, which increasingly emphasises the values of peace and solidarity of humanity. This examination analyses Gregory H. Stanton's final stage of genocide denial. It investigates the government's practice of concealing the corpses of deceased people's remains during armed conflict. The concept of mapping is brought with regard to the Massacre during war. The overarching goal of this research is to uncover the shortcomings of the Human Rights Commission within a nation embroiled in conflict. This endeavour brings attention to the inherent dangers faced by members of human rights organisations during the tumultuous period of Sri Lanka's civil war.

Solidarity in the Context of Migration: A Philosophical Perspective

Solidarity is a permanent component of social life. In this sense, it becomes a transformative value that clearly connects people and their projects with others. The current situation in the world sharpens the issue of human solidarity. War, migration crises, aggressive globalization, territorial elitism, consumerism, populism, and the ideologization of social discourse lead to the distortion or elimination of the idea of solidarity. Nowadays, there are multi-level and multi-directional changes and transformations in individual and social ethos. Therefore, understanding solidarity requires an analysis of the context in which it is applied, as well as basic scientific assumptions. The article addresses this issue in the context of migration. It consists of three main elements: 1/ Firstly, it explains the philosophical phenomenon of solidarity as a very complex and multi-faceted individual and social reality; 2/ It portrays solidarity as a European virtue and value, which today seems to be experiencing certain difficulties in the EU’s migration policy, particularly revealed by the refugee crisis; 3/ It presents several ways of reflecting on solidarity in the light of representatives of contemporary philosophy and theoreticians of political thought (H.G. Gadamer, J. Dean, A. Grimmel, J. Tischner). These proposals can become an opportunity and a call to reflect on solidarity in times of its axiological and actual deficit.

Catholic Church’s Efficacy in Alleviating Health Care Provision Normative Challenges in the Catholic Diocese of Kericho, Kenya

The study examined the efficacy of the Catholic Church in healthcare provision in Kericho Diocese, Kenya. It employed the descriptive research design to determine the respondent’s feelings and experiences in relation to the Catholic Church healthcare provision. A total of 384 randomly sampled primary respondents participated in the study through questionnaire. Additionally, key informants including the bishop, a medical coordinator, 9 priests, 4 healthcare personnel and 8 recovered patients were purposely selected for interviews. Quantitative data was analysed descriptively while qualitative data was analysed thematically. The study concludes that the teachings of the Catholic Church on healthcare provision centre on defence for human dignity, common good, solidarity and fundamental option for the poor. The teachings, however, were not fully reflected in the provision of the healthcare service in the Catholic Church healthcare facilities under investigation. Therefore, the church in the Diocese of Kericho has not been adequately effective in healthcare provision. Based on the conclusions, the study recommends that the Catholic Church health facilities in Kericho Diocese should provide health care services in accordance to the Catholic’s teachings on human dignity. The healthcare provision sector should implement personalist ethics of care by respecting the human person in the healthcare service provision.

PENGARUH HUMAN RELATION DAN SOLIDARITAS PEGAWAI TERHADAP KUALITAS PELAYANAN PADA DINAS PEKERJAAN UMUM DAN PENATAAN RUANG KABUPATEN DOMPU

The key to providing better service quality is meeting or exceeding the expectations of the expected service. The way to be able to provide quality service is with employees who have high human relations and solidarity. This study aims to identify and analyze the influence of human relations and employee solidarity on service quality at the Dompu Regency Public Works and Spatial Planning Office. This research is an associative type by taking a Likert scale questionnaire as a research instrument. The study population was 519 with the number of samples taken as many as 126 employees of the Dompu Regency Public Works and Spatial Planning Office with PNS status. Determination of the sample was carried out by purposive sampling technique with the method of collecting observational data, questionnaires and ending with a literature study. Then the data were analyzed using validity, reliability, classic assumption test, multiple regression, correlation, determination and hypothesis testing consisting of t test and f test. The results of the study show that human relations and solidarity simultaneously influence the quality of service at the Dompu Regency Public Works and Spatial Planning Office.

Multivocal Stories About Caring During the War in Ukraine, as Told by Polish Researchers

The text introduces the idea of a “new normal” in connection with the ongoing war in Ukraine, which affects not only those who are directly involved but also those who experience it indirectly. The study used collective autoethnography to identify common motives and patterns of action. There were presented statements of three women—university lecturers from three Polish universities who struggled with worries and conflict of conscience regarding the war in Ukraine and the Ukrainian refugees. The contexts of the limits of one’s ability to care for others and take steps to preserve one’s own well-being were given. The importance of thinking about a common future and perceiving the impact of history on the present was emphasized, taking into account memories of the Volhynian Massacre and prejudice against Ukrainians resulting from the negative experiences of ancestors and neighbors. Emotional involvement in various types of care was juxtaposed with human solidarity, a sense of common purpose and a human bond beyond divisions.

Towards a cosmopolitan worldview: investigating the process of de-bordering through Sarah Ladipo Manyika’s In Dependence

ABSTRACT Postcolonialism has brought forth the atrocities, violence and exploitations perpetrated by imperialism; it has also created borders between colonisers and colonised. With the passage of time and subsequent changes in the global socio-political scenario, the ‘skeptical school’ of postcolonial thoughts seems to have failed in providing any new direction towards the new conditions. In contrast, cosmopolitan theorists recognize the human connection and communication across borders, made possible after colonial dominance, as an opportunity to establish a new global political order. Unlike conservative postcolonial thinkers, cosmopolitans advocate for a global society based on human solidarity, compassion, equality, and de-bordering. Sarah Ladipo Manyika’s novel, In Dependence (2019), portrays Tayo, a young Nigerian, and Venessa, the daughter of a retired British colonial officer, as the main protagonists. The novel illustrates how the characters, through their struggles and experiences, gradually acquire a cosmopolitan attitude towards life in their quest for peace and stability. This study analyses the novel from a cosmopolitan perspective by juxtaposing the different mentalities of the characters and reflecting upon the novel’s focus on de-bordering to establish a global society based on universal brotherhood and peace.

Climate Induced Migration of Wolof Farmers Into Foni Bondali District, Gambia

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