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Paul Ramsey, an American Protestant Christian Ethicist, before down of the birth of bioethics 1970, asserted that «Medical ethics today must, indeed, be 'casuistry'; it must deal as competently and exaustively as possible with the concrete features of actual moral decisions of life and death and medical care». Five years later, namely 1975, Albert Jonsen, to all well known American Bioethicist, explanes importance and necessity of «infraethics», having in mind casuistry, whose idea is literally ridiculed by the same Paul Ramsey. But it wasn't discouraging for Jonsens, because he himself, together with Sephen Toulmin, an American epistemologist, having both got into the harness, were introducing casuistry as the third alternative, along with ethics of care and ethics of virtues, to other classical ethical theories present in bioethics. According to them «a good casuistry (...) applies general principles to particular cases with discernment». Fundamentally meant as an inductive and narrative ethics, inspired by the Late Middle Ages and the Modern World casuistry of the Roman Catholic moral theology, casuistry couldn't escape from basic questions about its viability in bioethics, as it was the case with other ethical theories. First, how casuistry deals with bad historical legacy and defeat in its own court? Second, is casuistry an adequate method for bioethics? Third, can casuistry respond to challenges of secular morality – pluralism and relativism – that interweaves bioethical discourse? Fourth, how does casuistry deal with its opponents and critics? These are only some of many questions in this article whiche are looking for their answer.
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Während für Hegel die Kunst die vergangene Stufe der Selbstproduktion des Geistes ist, bei Heidegger wird die Kunst als die der Metaphysik zugehörende Weise des hervorbringenden Entbergens des Seins, durch die Dichtung überwunden. Die Dichtung ist nicht mehr das-ins-Werk-Setzen der Wahrheit des Seins, sondern das sagende Stiften des Seins selbst, d.h. der Geschichte des anderen Anfangs. Sie ist sie das Rettende aus der Gefahr des die Unverborgenheit des Seins verstellenden Gestells. Sie ist das ursprüngliche Hervorbringen im Gegensatz zum technischen Herausfordern. Indem das seinsgeschichtliche Denken das ursprüngliche Verhältnis zum Sein selbst als das Hervorbringen denkt, vermeidet es die Identität der absoluten Produktion, aber bleibt in der Differenz zwischen dem Denken als dem Hervorbringenden und dem Sein als dem Hervorzubringenden, und somit auf dem Primat des Poietischen. Das Wesen der Technik als die Vollendung der Metaphysik aber läßt sich nicht durch die ursprüngliche Poiesis überwinden. Die Poiesis ist ein solches Verhältnis zum Sein, in welchem das Sein immer schon vom Denken vorausgesetzt ist. Das Voraussetzten des Seins enthüllt sich aber als das Verbergen des voraussetzungslosen Ursprungs des Seins. Der Ursprung selbst läßt sich in seiner Ursprünglichkeit nicht hervorbringen, sondern offenbart sich in seiner Wahrheit erst durch das ursprüngliche Denken.
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Love is one of those great forces that breathe the life into to the Decameron: it constitutes a central theme of its many novellas and is the moving force of their various characters. Seen from a layman's and mundane perspective, it is a force which stems from nature and as such is viewed by Boccaccio as intrinsically healthy and positive, which makes futile all attempts to prevent or destroy it. Furthermore, it is a sin to deny it, which can cause suffering and death. In Decameron, love is present in different forms: it can be a source of ennoblement, courtly guiding individuals towards a greater sensibility and sublimity of soul. Additionally, it can produce comical situations central to the novellas based on ridicule and deception. However, it can also be the root cause of tragic and pathetic affairs. This paper purports to provide a more precise discussion concerning the concept of love in Decameron, drawing a parallel between it and the medieval concept of love and making a comparison between Boccaccio and Dante.
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Mustafa Imamović, Knjiga pamćenja, University press – Izdanja Magistrat, Sarajevo, 2013. Moj grad i moja zemlja Adrian Hastings, Gradnja nacionaliteta, Adamić, Rijeka, 2003.
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After the European Community-European Union peace plans for Bosnia and Herzegovina had failed, the United States decided to seriously deal with the B-H issue and try to bring the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina to an end, thus insuring a lasting peace. The first successful move made by the Clinton administration was to stop the conflict between the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the HVO, and to prevent the Croatian aggression against the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In this context, under U.S. patronage lasting from 1 March to 18 March 1994, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina was established when the agreements which ended the Croatian aggression on BiH and established Croatian-Bosniak federation were signed. President of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Alija Izetbegovic and Croatian President, Franjo Tudjman, were the Washington Agreement signatories, as well as Silajdžić and Zubak. The Washington Agreement is not an ideal solution, however in the timeframe and circumstances of its negotiating during which the decomposition and disintegration of Bosnia and Herzegovina was active and the directions in which Bosnia and Herzegovina had been taking by previous negotiations, it proved to be a good solution, since it shifted the international negotiations towards preserving the unitary and integral Bosnia and Herzegovina. It served as the first positive move in order to bring Bosnia and Herzegovina to the lasting peace which has been achieved through the Dayton Peace Agreement.
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The importance and complexity of identifying and defining human groups under protection when there is ongoing the criminal justice procedure with the purpose of determining the crime of genocide, is emphasized in this paper. The paper also treats other aspects of protected human groups, as it represents one crucial and specific determinants of that kind of crime. In this paper the author dealt with the international judiciary’s practices whose work has largely eliminated indistinctions concerning the crudely and vaguely prescribes issues in the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG). For illustration of his standpoint, the author uses several vital examples that enable clear comprehension, understanding and interpretation of protected human groups. Different approaches referring to the identification and defining of protected human groups, as well as the critical reviewing of limitations of the concept of genocide in line with restrictively prescribed conditions are also structured through the paper.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina has millennial existence. Bosnia was first mentioned in the second half of the tenth century in the work of the Byzantine emperor and author Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos “De Administrando Imperio“. As of 29 August 1189, the Charter of Kulin Ban bears undisputed evidence of Bosnia’s independence. During the reign of Tvrtko I Kotromanic in 1377, Bosnia was developed into the kingdom and became the most powerful country in the Balkans. The Ottoman power in Bosnia was established in 1463, however Bosnia retained certain features of political identification, first as the Province of Bosnia starting in 1580, afterwards as the Bosnian Vilayet since 1865, and receiving the position state of Corpus separatum under the Austro-Hungarian control. In the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, until 1929 the borders of Bosnia and Herzegovina were observed with regard to the country’s internal regionalization. The statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina, within the new Yugoslav Federation, was restored at the 1st Session of the State Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ZAVNOBiH) which had been taking place in Mrkonjic Grad on 25 November 1943. The aftermath of the Yugoslav crisis which had peaked in 1991 and 1992 was disintegration of Yugoslavia, and peoples and citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina voted for B&H’s independence at the referendum of 29 February and 1 March 1992. Key players of the irredentist Greater Serbian politics refused to accept such solution for Bosnia and Herzegovina, so the Aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina had been launched which, after three and a half years, was ended by painful compromises contained in the Dayton Peace Accords.
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Although applied to a work of fiction, this analysis shows that language is frequently used to express (asymmetrical) power relations. Such relations are even more pronounced in formal contexts, where some speakers enjoy a societally assigned power, which, in turn, does not imply that societally subordinated interlocutors do not have the possibility of acquiring the discourse power. This is indeed possible even in highly formalized settings – such as royal courts – recognized for their strict observance of hierarchy in all areas, including language. This leads to a conclusion that there are different types of power and that domination of one of them is primarily influenced by the actual circumstances of a particular verbal interaction.
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Structural dialogue on justice as a European Commission mechanism for the improvement of complex judicial system in BiH and Venice Commission’s Opinion on legal certainty and the independence of the judiciary in BiH pointed on disadvantages of the judicial system in BiH and the necessity for reforms in justice area with purpose of strengthening the principle of the judicial independence, impartiality, efficiency, and the rule of law. Regarding jurisdiction and organization of the Court of BiH, Structural dialogue recommendations proposed the objectivisation of parameters for the application of article 7. p. 2 Law on Courts in BiH, defining the legal basis for delegation of the jurisdiction in war crimes cases to entity and Brcko District courts and considering of the establishment the Appellate court of BiH, all that with passing unique regulation on state level-Law on courts in BiH. Ministry of justice BiH prepared three unofficial drafts of this law, which is aiming to result in much wider changes in the Court of BiH and with the substantial changes in the judicial principles on the state level.
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This paper contains a description of research whose results allowed better understanding of the relation context’s influence on mental health of children as perceived through the eyes of early adolescents in various family, school and social dynamics as interactive systems in the Sarajevo Canton. 734 students enrolled in primary school senior classes (V-IX) were a part of this research which tried to determine the quality of family and school life, through the customized Questionnaires for weighting the family and school interactions, and self-evaluating their problems on a Youth Self Assessment Scale. The qualitative research was conducted on parents/caretakers and members of primary school managements included in the research (N=31), within the present social context. Only a fraction of results obtained through the aforementioned research (Badurina 2012) has been presented in this paper. The analysis of obtained results has been performed in relation to the general and specific aspects of the life quality and mental health of children in early adolescent age, and possibilities of early prevention within the Brofenbrenner's ecological integration model.
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