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Torture and ill-treatment among former Belarusian political prisoners after 2020

open access: yesTorture
Introduction: Political imprisonment is associated with long-term psychological harm, but evidence from Eastern and Central Europe, particularly Belarus, remains limited. After the 2020 post-election crackdown, many former Belarusian political prisoners
Uladzimir Pikirenia   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Nonhuman Pedagogical Relations: Towards Conceptual Limits

open access: yesEducational Theory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article considers the pedagogical relation as a relation to a nonhuman educator, wherein the educatee is a member of the Homo sapiens species. My aim is to clarify the extent to which a nonhuman‐human relation can be understood as pedagogical.
Silas C. Krabbe
wiley   +1 more source

Cultural logics of emotion: Implications for understanding torture and its sequelae [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper explores the significance of cultural variations in emotion for the meaning and impact of torture, focusing on the dynamics of shame, humiliation, and powerlessness.
Ban, Lauren   +2 more
core  

Guises of Despair

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In ‘Is Hope A Secular Virtue?’ (2024), Bob Stern and I argued that despairing involves being unable to stop desiring something we deem of great value while believing that this good can neither be obtained, nor return on its own. We characterised despair as one of the two vices hope sits between as a virtue (the opposite vice being unwarranted ...
Béatrice Han‐Pile
wiley   +1 more source

‘A Perpetually Disintegrating Synthesis’: Sartre on Bad Faith, Good Faith, and the Projects of Selfhood

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract An oft‐overlooked aspect of Sartre’s concept of selfhood is his rejection of good faith and sincerity as normative ideals. We argue that Sartre’s paradoxical treatment of good faith – claiming both that it is a manifestation of bad faith and the antithesis of it – holds a key to understanding Sartre’s account of selfhood.
Mark A. Wrathall, Wanda von Knobelsdorff
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring change and changing measures: The development of a torture survivor specific measure of change [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Freedom from Torture is a UK-based human rights organisation dedicated to the treatment and rehabilitation of torture survivors. The organisation has been working towards the development of a clinical outcome tool for a number of years, and the purpose ...
Horn, Rebecca, Keefe, Andy
core  

Love and the Basis of Dignity

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract It is often said that dignity is the ground of human rights. But what grounds dignity? According to proponents of the metaphysical view, dignity is grounded in our rational capacities, our sense of justice, or a disjunctive list of valuable capacities.
Jordan David Thomas Walters
wiley   +1 more source

Sartre's Private Language Argument

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Various commentators have noted striking parallels between Wittgenstein's reflections on privacy and Sartre's discussions of the body in Being and Nothingness. Nevertheless, these aspects of Sartre's thought have seldom been explored in detail.
Alex Englander
wiley   +1 more source

Ascetics, slaves, and necessity in Late Antiquity: renouncing all wealth, but for a single slave

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
Slave owners in Late Antiquity viewed the possession of at least one slave to be a necessity and a defining mark that distinguished the dignified social classes from the poor. Ascetics who shared this perspective faced a choice when renouncing all worldly possessions in pursuit of spiritual perfection, one not merely about luxury, but also about status
E.T. Dailey, Justin Pigott
wiley   +1 more source

“I Want to Make Sure I'm Doing What It Takes”: Parental Role Changes Following Separation

open access: yesFamily Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective The objective of this study is to understand how parents adjust their roles during the transition to separation. Background Parental separation is a transition involving several structural, economic, personal, and interpersonal changes that require adjustments in parental roles.
Raymond E. Petren   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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