Moral Justification Research Articles

ISSP position stand on cultural praxis in sport psychology: reaffirming our commitments to the ethics of difference, cultural inclusion, and social justice

ABSTRACT The international sport psychology community is intricately interconnected with the broader geopolitical landscape. Therefore, our community can be a powerful agent, transforming political polarisation in sports into respectful conversations of differing opinions, valuing diversity, and promoting cultural safety, inclusivity, and ethical practices. The International Society of Sport Psychology (ISSP) has been at the forefront in providing a comprehensive scientific review of pressing topics facing our communities, sharing the best scientific and applied practices, and inspiring sport psychology professionals to envision a more equitable future. The current heated debates about self-identity and gender expression, protecting women athletes’ rights and opportunities, performance and mental health, and athlete activism, compel us to reaffirm our commitment to cultural praxis in sport psychology. This position stand demonstrates how cultural praxis can become a catalyst for genuine change, paving the way to a more culturally responsive, just, and inclusive future in sport psychology.

ETHICALLY MANAGING LEIGH’S SYNDROME: A CLINICAL CASE STUDY

Leigh syndrome, a rare inherited neurometabolic disorder described as subacute necrotizing encephalomyelopathy, affects the central nervous system and falls within a group of mitochondrial cytopathies involving disordered oxidative phosphorylation in the affected neural cells leading to disrupted enzyme of mitochondrial aberrations are attributed to variously inherited nDNA or mtDNA mutations The present study strives to demonstrate the efficacy, and therefore the need and ethical justification of therapeutic intervention at-least in the speech-language and swallowing realm; despite poor prognosis and the high risk of early death, in such infants through a representative case study. The case “x”, a three years old girl suffered classical cognitive, neuromotor, and linguistic regression following suspected pneumonia at 18 months (probable trigger), before which she had 10-15 words vocabulary, able to recognize body parts, follow simple verbal command. The child presented severe dystonia, hypotonia, moderate dysphagia with persistent of sucking reflexes, oromotor inadequacies, absence of spoken words, absence of receptive language except to name-calling. Intensive physiotherapeutic and speech-language intervention were initiated. Orofacial exercises, dysphagia management protocols including the compensatory approaches and dietary modifications as well as direct language therapy for increase in vocabulary were taken up. After 2 months of therapy, there were significant improvements especially in swallowing rate and strength, integration of infantile reflexes and increase in linguistic receptivity, which clearly warrants continued therapy and consideration of AAC. Keywords: Neurological disorder, Speech disorder, Leigh’s syndrome, Speech therapy.

THE FAIRNESS CONTROVERSY OVER CBAM AND ITS POLICY IMPLICATIONS

The idea of a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) has aroused fervent discussion recently. It is proposed as an effective tool to address the competitiveness loss and carbon leakage induced by unilateral carbon policies. Yet on the brink of this policy being rolled out, its ethical justification seems insufficiently clarified. CBAM implementation would provoke a huge fairness controversy. This paper illustrates the main ethical challenges impeding CBAM’s fairness perception. Two stand out in particular: The first is the lack of a global consensus on appropriate climate equity principles. This means that there is no basis for determining the fairness of CBAM’s burden shifting impact. The second is that CBAM is likely to undermine the procedural justice of the current quantity-oriented responsibility distribution regime under the Paris Agreement. We conclude that CBAM is not well-suited for solving the free-rider problem of the current climate change mitigation policies and emphasize that incentivizing innovation is key for an ambitious mitigation strategy.

LEGAL COMPLIANCE ON SHARIA ECONOMICS IN HALAL TOURISM REGULATIONS

The purpose of this study is to reveal the sharia compliance of the halal tourism business in Bandung Regency, where halal tourism in its implementation must be carried out by prioritizing the principles of Islamic business ethics (Professional Ethics), meaning it must submissive (obedient) in a syar'i, by prioritizing Islamic services with the aim of providing comfort for Muslim tourists in particular. In addition, the principles of Islamic service are expected to be able to realize professional ethics in doing business in an Islamic way, especially in carrying out halal tourism activities, especially for tourism industry players in Bandung Regency. This literature review uses the theory of Islamic business ethics as coined by Hamid Salam and Abdalla Hanafi including: a) Ethics to always convey the truth; b) Ethics to be trusted; c) Ethics to do something sincerely; d) Brotherhood ethics; e) Mastery of science; f) Ethics of Justice. The findings of this study are the principles of Islamic business ethics (professional ethics) in the implementation of the halal tourism business in Bandung Regency referring to the Bandung Regency Regional Regulation (Perda) Number 6 of 2020 concerning Halal Tourism, where there are several principles that must be met in running tourism. Halal in Bandung district which includes: a). set as needed; b). facilitate; c). according to ability; d). gradually; e). priority scale; and f). Inclusive. In addition, there is the concept of the Code of Ethics for Tourism (GCET) or the Global Tourism Code of Ethics as a reference for sustainable tourism development in Bandung Regency which includes economic, social, cultural, and environmental components. This is because Indonesia is not an Islamic country but a country where the majority of the population is Muslim, so it is necessary to prioritize the values of Rahmatan lil 'Alamin in business (muamalah), especially in terms of additional service activities in halal tourism in Bandung Regency. In addition, indicators of sharia compliance in halal tourism in Bandung district are referring to 2 regulations, namely local regulations (perda) Bandung district number 6 of 2020 concerning halal tourism, and DSN-MUI fatwa No: 108/DSN-MUI/2016 concerning guidelines for tourism implementation based on sharia principles.

PRINCIPLES - PRIORITIES AS A BASIS FOR OVERCOMING THE RISKS OF USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN COURT PROCEEDINGS: IN THE CONTINUATION OF THE CONVERSATION

The article is a continuation of the author’s series of articles devoted to the prospects of using artificial intelligence in legal proceedings. The paper substantiates the need for the formation of principles-priorities of justice using artificial intelligence systems as a basis for the protection of human rights and the formation of a new ethics of justice. Based on the study of the experience of the People’s Republic of China, it is concluded that such principles form a protective mechanism that will make it possible to protect participants in legal proceedings when considering cases using artificial intelligence systems.

Fostering Medical Students’ Commitment to Beneficence in Ethics Education

Fostering Medical Students’ Commitment to Beneficence in Ethics Education

Relational pedagogy in social care education: a model for relational justice

ABSTRACT Driven by a statutory obligation to protect the public, within the context of historical failings and institutional abuse, a process of professional regulation is transforming the profession of Social Care Work [SCW] in Ireland. Statutory registration requires Social Care Workers [SCWs] to demonstrate threshold-level proficiency standards, a challenge that has enlivened debates about theory, pedagogy, and practice. Although proficiency requirements are primarily instrumental and technical, focussing on case and risk-management, social justice is now central to the definition of SCW. However, there has been very little debate about what this entails for theory and practice and critical perspectives are marginal. In response, the value-based model of Relational Pedagogy, based on an ethic of care and relational justice , is proposed as a counterweight to the proficiency perspective by nurturing four inter-related sets of practices within social care education: (i) caring practices; (ii) critical practices; (iii); creative practices, and (iv) emancipatory practices.

Moral Disengagement in Adolescent Offenders: Its Relationship with Antisocial Behavior and Its Presence in Offenders of the Law and School Norms.

This study focuses on understanding the relationship between moral disengagement mechanisms in adolescents who engage in law-breaking activities and those who violate school norms. To do so, we administered the Mechanisms of Moral Disengagement Scale (MMDS), which evaluates moral justification, euphemistic labeling, advantageous comparison, deflection of responsibility, diffusion of responsibility, distortion of consequences, dehumanization, and attribution of blame, to 366 adolescents (60.1% males (n = 220) and 39.9% females (n = 146)). Our results confirmed the hypothesis that law-breaking adolescents presented a higher degree of moral disengagement than those adolescents who violate school norms. Additionally, we found that adolescents who violated school norms displayed significantly higher levels of dehumanization than the controls, and law-breaking adolescents obtained the highest score in this domain. Our findings allow us to suggest that the presence of the dehumanization mechanism in adolescents who violate school norms could be used as an early indicator of the emergence of antisocial behaviors, since this was the only component of moral disengagement that significantly differentiated this group from the controls in the study.

Translational bioethics: Reflections on what it can be and how it should work.

Translational ethics (TE) has been developed into a specific approach,which revolves around the argument that strategies for bridging the theory-practice gap in bioethics must themselves be justified on ethical terms. This version of TE incorporates normative, empirical and foundational ethics research and continues to develop through application and in the face of new ethical challenges. Here, I explore the idea that the academic field of bioethics has not yet sufficiently analysed its own philosophical foundation for how it can, and should, be practically relevant; neither has it comprehensively discussed the limitations on what impacts bioethicists should pursue. As a result, there has not been adequate training on how to suitably and appropriately impact real-world practices. Moreover, bioethical perspectives are often competing with other strong interests, for example, economic and political, which may weaken their impact on policy-making. The TE approach I propose can not only facilitate practical impacts of academic bioethics by being better informed by real-world ethical issuesbut it also supports targeted and ethical justifications of the actual impact of academic work in real-world contexts. In this paper, I clarify the premises for this TE approach, identify further challenges and sketch out potential solutions for the implementation of this methodological framework.

Fooled by Diversity? When Diversity Initiatives Exacerbate Rather Than Mitigate Bias and Inequality

To advance the discussion on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, we analyze the management literature and examples of advocacy practices inspired by the three DEI logics of moral justice, business case, and power activism. By emerging litigation, self-interest and coercion as the mechanisms driving change within these logics, we show how the concept of diversity is approached differently in the three logics. Based on this discussion we explain why diversity has taken precedence over equity and inclusion in both research and practice. We further show how the tensions between DEI logics inform diversity initiatives and exacerbate rather than mitigate bias and inequality. To rejuvenate scholarly and managerial debates around DEI initiatives and address managerial biases to focus on the wrong things, we discuss what could be learned from the rationales of such initiatives, including how one can be fooled into focusing on diversity at the expense of equity and inclusion.

Ethical Justifications of Friendship in Xunzian Perspectives

AbstractTaking as the background the discourses on friendship initiated by ancient Confucian and Greek philosophers, this article is focused on Xunzi’s perspective on friends by examining where and how he engages effectively ethical justifications of friendship. It will be argued that although Xunzi shows a kind of consistency with Confucius and Mencius, he comes to justify friendship through his own deliberations on human nature, on learning and education, and on the nature and function of human community. We will then proceed to examine the three perspectives Xunzi takes to highlight the ethical value of friends: friendship can be justified as it is needed in overcoming the inborn tendencies towards competition and strife; friendship can be justified because it is taken as supplementary to learning and education where friends are made equivalent to teachers in terms of moral influence and exemplary models; friendship can be justified because it is necessary for communities to function well and for individuals to lead a good life. We will finally come to the conclusion that these justifications constitute a unique ethics of friendship, which is not only significantly divergent from Greek propositions on friends but also differentiable, one way or another, from those proposed or presumed by Confucius and Mencius, and that the Xunzian philosophy of friendship is still an invaluable resource for us to draw on in the age of globalisation and de-globalisation.

Understanding the support for gender-based harassment perpetrators: the role of closeness and empathy.

Gender-based harassment is a pressing social challenge urgently demanding eradication. While social movements emphasize supporting victims, societal responses sometimes lean toward exculpating perpetrators. This study examines two factors influencing this exoneration: closeness to perpetrators and empathy focus. A total of 345 participants took part in an experimental design to assess how closeness to perpetrators (close vs. distant) and empathy focus (on the perpetrator vs. victim vs. control) impact the moral justification of harassment and the dehumanization of both parties. Results indicate that closeness and empathizing with perpetrators lead to greater leniency-more moral justification and less dehumanization of the perpetrator. Heightened moral justification for close perpetrators is mediated by increased empathy toward them and decreased empathy for victims, and reduced dehumanization of close perpetrators corresponds to heightened empathy toward them. This research highlights how closeness and empathy, two initially positive factors, can foster tolerance toward gender harassment.

Typology of philosophical worldviews. Problems of the naturalistic worldview

The article proposes a typology of philosophical worldviews: naturalistic, pantheistic and transcendental. The naturalistic worldview, which includes positivism and materialism, is analyzed in detail. On the basis of historical-philosophical and epistemological consideration, the metaphysical nature of the category "matter" is determined. It is shown that in materialism this category is hypertrophied to the status of a pseudo-absolute. It is noted that the logic of historical, philosophical and spiritual development inevitably leads to the formation of the concept of the Absolute, realizing the principle of monism in the interpretation of the fundamental basis of being. This process is considered on the example of ancient hylozoism, through the crisis of atomistics going to the dualism of Plato (idea and matter) and Aristotle (form and matter), removed in the dialectic of Hegel. It is shown that if we proceed from materialistic axiomatics, it is impossible to solve such cardinal philosophical problems as an adequate definition of the ontological status of the category of matter, the establishment of the cause of movement, the creation of theodicy, the explanation of the existence of freedom, the justification of morality and humanism. The unresolved nature of these problems in materialism leads to the need to form other types of philosophical worldviews: pantheistic and transcendental, which have a pronounced metaphysical character, however, although they proceed from the concept of the Absolute, they think it fundamentally differently. In the future, the authors plan to publish articles devoted to the consideration of pantheistic and transcendental types of philosophical worldviews.

USING THE CAPABILITIES OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE CREATION OF INFORMATION AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a relatively new and rapidly developing area of technology that has already gained significant influence on various spheres of human life, including national security, in a short time of its existence. In modern armed conflicts, AI is very active, in particular in the context of information and psychological operations (IPO). The use of AI in IPSO can bring about radical changes in their nature and methods. On the one hand, automated systems based on AI can significantly increase the efficiency and scale of information and psychological operations, allowing for faster and more accurate influence on the psychological state of the enemy. This can be especially useful in the virtual space, where the speed of reaction and dissemination of information is critical. On the other hand, the use of AI in IPSO also carries risks of conflict escalation. Artificial intelligence algorithms can make information and psychological operations more insidious, less predictable and aggressive, which can lead to unforeseen consequences and deterioration of the international situation. In this context, it is important to conduct a detailed analysis of the role of AI in information and psychological operations in modern armed conflicts. It should be noted that the use of AI in IPSO requires a thorough ethical justification, strict regulation and control to ensure the stability and security of the international community. In this article, we plan to consider in detail the mechanisms of AI use in IPSO, as well as analyze the potential consequences of its application, in particular in the context of security and stability at the international level.

Male consent to artificial termination of pregnancy (abortion): ethical and legal justification

Male consent to artificial termination of pregnancy (abortion): ethical and legal justification

Jurisprudential Analysis of the Right to Life and Dignity: A South African Perspective

The purpose of the study is to analyse the jurisprudence of the right to life and dignity as fundamentally protected rights in a South African perspective since the dawn of democracy and Constitution of 1996 hereafter referred to as the Constitution. This paper argues that South Africa as a state in applying the Bill of Rights and the Constitution might have encroached or applied laws that may have compromised justice in so far as the impact from the decisions of the courts are concerned. This paper will therefore examine how the courts have interpreted the law and the protection of the non derogable rights of life and dignity post constitutional democracy. The democratic government has a duty to reverse apartheid policies that stemmed from colonial laws. Apartheid laws segregated people and rights were clustered, and selectively applied along racial lines with a tiny majority of European-Africans as sole beneficiaries of rights while the African majority wallow in rightlessness. The authors will examine how the state interprets these fundamental principles of the constitution since the dawn of democracy. The authors hope that the arguments presented in this paper would assist in understanding the moral justification of the decisions in human rights cases in South Africa as the courts battle their way into the realisation of especially non derogable rights as set out in the Bill of Rights.

Commentary: Can an effective end-of-life intervention for advanced dementia be viewed as moral?

We comment on Dr. Terman's considerations on the moral justification of ceasing assisted feeding and hydration for people with advanced dementia. The core idea of his paper is that an advance directive can solve future dilemmas regarding assisted feeding. We submit that this static instrument is unfit for the complex and dynamic nature of assessing how to deal with refusals to eat, in particular for people with dementia. It overvalues the past in relation to the present situation and leaves no room for the possibility of changing wishes. Moreover, the perspectives of professional caregivers and families are not addressed because the focus is entirely on individual autonomy in early dementia. Multiple perspectives should be considered in interpreting directives and the actual situation in light of the patient's view of life in order to realistically account for what is morally justifiable in care in advanced dementia.

Spoljna politika sad u 21. veku i pitanje morala u međunarodnim odnosima u teoriji i praksi

The development of modern and powerful countries is conditioned by the need to possess and control significant amounts of resources. Out of the desire to increase the real power and influence of the global political plan, the great powers create conflicts, frictions and wars, neglecting the moral dimension and the negative consequences of the decisions taken. This paper aims to elaborate on the role of the great powers in triggering energy wars, focusing on the disguise of NEO-imperial ambitions under the guise of fighting for human rights and democracy. With this in mind, the paper is divided into two parts. In the first part, the authors examine the phenomenon of war as well as the moral justification of wars by analyzing the ethical perspectives of war. In the second part, the authors' attempts to explain how power and politics are put at the service of the ideological justification of decisions. The method of content analysis, the analysis of contemporary methods, and case studies are used as instruments to prove the hypotheses put forward. The author's intention is to prove that energy and economic wars, which imply economic and political sanctions, are set in motion with the aim of destroying the economic potential of opposing economies and states that oppose certain geopolitical interests of the great powers. They turn the war for resources into a powerful weapon to assert their interests.

Нарушает ли перераспределение доходов категорический императив?

In Anarchy, State, and Utopia, Robert Nozick made the argument that income redistribution violates the Kantian categorical imperative. Nozick’s retrospective enslavement argument is still used today in discussions about the moral justification of taxation. This article explicates four implicit premises of Nozick’s argument: the self-ownership principle, its fullness, the absence of restrictions on the appropriation of natural resources, and the absence of restrictions on the distribution of the fruits of cooperation. Without additional justification for each of these premises, Nozick’s argument cannot show that income redistribution violates the categorical imperative.

Propriedades e relações: uma leitura pós-antropocêntrica

Abstract This article explores the philosophical postulates that are generating a whole series of transformations at the ethical, legal and political levels. In order to trace back the philosophical conditions of possibility of such change, it will study the scope of the theory of relations and the theory of properties. After its exhaustive analysis, it concludes that the theory of relations has a greater explanatory and operational scope than the theory of properties. After exploring the moral justification of sensocentrist and biocentrist arguments, it invites to the cultivation of non-destructive relations with any entity, strengthening a relational ontology as a way out of the current ecological crisis.