Sirkku Hellsten
Biographic Data
| ID | 6501632 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sirkku Hellsten |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sirkku |
| FAMILY NAME | Hellsten |
| SIGNATURE | HELLSTEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4822-7717 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The shifting patterns of progress
Publication of the final issue of Journal of Global Ethics for 2017 is an opportunity to look back at an eventful year and reflect on what might be in store for us next. As Martin Schonfeld, who is
Ethics
The article discusses how theory and practice in global ethics affect each other. First, the author explores how the study of ethics has changed in the era of globalization and ponders what the role of the field of study of global ethics is in this context. Second, she wants to show how the logical fallacies in widening study field of ethics produce false polarizations between facts and value judgements in social ethics made in various cultural c…
“The Meaning of Life” during a Transition from Modernity to Transhumanism and Posthumanity
The articles argues that due to the rapid development of new technology the boundaries of life and death, as well as the different phases of our physical, social and spiritual life are getting less clear-cut and evident than they have been before in the Western, traditionally dualistic cultural and historical experience. Thus, at the moment we are in a transitional stage in our understanding of “human life” is gaining new dimensions in form of “p…
Global Bioethics
This article discusses what ‘global bioethics’ means today and what features make bioethical research ‘global’. The article provides a historical view of the development of the field of ‘bioethics’, from medical ethics to the wider study of bioethics in a global context. It critically examines the particular problems that ‘global bioethics’ research faces across cultural and political borders and suggests some solutions on how to move towards a m…
Failing states and ailing leadership in African politics in the era of globalization
The article discusses the Kenyan post-2007 elections political crisis within the framework of ‘libertarian communitarianism’ that integrates individualistic self-interest with traditional collectivist solidarity in the era of globalization in Africa. The author argues that behind the Kenyan post-election anarchy can be analyzed as a type of ‘prisoner's dilemma’ framework in which self-interested rationality is placed in a collectivist social cont…
Human rights in Africa
Engendering International Health
Andrew T. Price-Smith, The Health of Nations
From Human Wrongs to Universal Rights
This article argues that in the quest for global bioethics in its relation to the promotion of women's health and women's rights, the main challenge is to, first, rise above the relativist trap and second, to solve the false dilemma between individualism and collectivism. Particularly in order to improve women's position and advance their well‐being in many developing countries with patriarchal cultural practices, there is an urgent need to intro…
The conference of the International Society for Value Inquiry in Helsinki
Human rights in Africa
The shifting patterns of progress
Publication of the final issue of Journal of Global Ethics for 2017 is an opportunity to look back at an eventful year and reflect on what might be in store for us next. As Martin Schonfeld, who is
The conference of the International Society for Value Inquiry in Helsinki
From Human Wrongs to Universal Rights
This article argues that in the quest for global bioethics in its relation to the promotion of women's health and women's rights, the main challenge is to, first, rise above the relativist trap and second, to solve the false dilemma between individualism and collectivism. Particularly in order to improve women's position and advance their well‐being in many developing countries with patriarchal cultural practices, there is an urgent need to intro…
Human rights in Africa
Engendering International Health
Andrew T. Price-Smith, The Health of Nations
Global Bioethics
This article discusses what ‘global bioethics’ means today and what features make bioethical research ‘global’. The article provides a historical view of the development of the field of ‘bioethics’, from medical ethics to the wider study of bioethics in a global context. It critically examines the particular problems that ‘global bioethics’ research faces across cultural and political borders and suggests some solutions on how to move towards a m…
Failing states and ailing leadership in African politics in the era of globalization
The article discusses the Kenyan post-2007 elections political crisis within the framework of ‘libertarian communitarianism’ that integrates individualistic self-interest with traditional collectivist solidarity in the era of globalization in Africa. The author argues that behind the Kenyan post-election anarchy can be analyzed as a type of ‘prisoner's dilemma’ framework in which self-interested rationality is placed in a collectivist social cont…
“The Meaning of Life” during a Transition from Modernity to Transhumanism and Posthumanity
The articles argues that due to the rapid development of new technology the boundaries of life and death, as well as the different phases of our physical, social and spiritual life are getting less clear-cut and evident than they have been before in the Western, traditionally dualistic cultural and historical experience. Thus, at the moment we are in a transitional stage in our understanding of “human life” is gaining new dimensions in form of “p…
Ethics
The article discusses how theory and practice in global ethics affect each other. First, the author explores how the study of ethics has changed in the era of globalization and ponders what the role of the field of study of global ethics is in this context. Second, she wants to show how the logical fallacies in widening study field of ethics produce false polarizations between facts and value judgements in social ethics made in various cultural c…
The shifting patterns of progress
Publication of the final issue of Journal of Global Ethics for 2017 is an opportunity to look back at an eventful year and reflect on what might be in store for us next. As Martin Schonfeld, who is
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Environmental ethics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Ethics in medical practice (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Engineering ethics (3 works)