Darija Rupčić Kelam (Croatia)
Darija
Rupčić Kelam (Croatia) - PhD, Associate professor, The Faculty of humanities
and social sciences at University of J. J. Strossmayer in Osijek, an author of
the book on Bioethical aspects of the status of the human embryo, the meaning
of the life in general
Care and Empathy as a crucial Quality for Social and Personal Change (Interactive presentation in TED style)
Presentation Language: English
If
the contemporary man of the 21st century really want to put under control one
of the greatest evil of the humankind in general, which is a shortage of food
or hunger, an epidemic of contagious diseases and wars, then remains the
question with which man is first encountered at dawn of the third millennium,
it is a question of what to do with yourself? This question becomes extremely
important if we take into account the immense growing power that biotechnology
and information technology offers us. What to do with so much power?
Nevertheless, what becomes the most obvious question is whether a man has
become better and more moral, empathetic and more caring than that? What seems
to be more and more concerned with the contemporary man is questions of
immortality, happiness, and divinity, and ultimately his improvements as a
moral agent. On these and many other questions, we will try to answer through
the paradigm of ethics of care, and with it closely related the question of
empathy. Can ethics of care, compassion, and empathy provide us some answers
and become a path to a more moral world?