Caritas et veritas, 2015 (vol. 5), issue 1

Editorial

Roman Míčka

Caritas et veritas 2015, 5(1):6-7  

O hodnotě života člověka s postižením

Kateřina Brichcínová

Caritas et veritas 2015, 5(1):9-12  

The Affair of JUDr. Mitlöhner: Case Analysis and Broader Context

Lukáš Novák

Caritas et veritas 2015, 5(1):28-41 | DOI: 10.32725/cetv.2015.005  

The discussion article aims to analyse various aspects of the recent Mitlöhner self-plagiarism affair. The author maintains that self-plagiarism as such is not the worst aspect of the matter, but that there are several much more important failures in the case. The author regards as most disturbing the fact that such a low-quality and morally dubious text can be viewed as legitimate object of academic discussion, and as such be defended, in the present academic milieu. The author further defends the claim that opinions aimed at the destruction of elementary values of humanity, and especially of human dignity as such, should be excluded from the pool...

On the Ethical Aspects of so-called Self-Plagiarism: Or the Technology of Processing the Academic Recyclate

Dominik Opatrný

Caritas et veritas 2015, 5(1):51-59 | DOI: 10.32725/cetv.2015.007  

The so called redundant publications are becoming a major theme in the academic sphere, as it has become easier to produce and reveal copied texts. Nevertheless, the academic sphere lacks precise university regulations and journal policies distinguishing ethically acceptable recycling from unethical self-plagiarism. The article analyses several norms in their academic context. Two interesting observations are shown: first, the existing rules differ significantly; second, they originate in the natural and social sciences. I argue that more precise norms are needed. It would be, however, not possible to agree on a single set of universal rules, as they...

Post-Abortion Syndrome

Karolina Diallo, Marie Lhotová

Caritas et veritas 2015, 5(1):67-73 | DOI: 10.32725/cetv.2015.009  

The paper develops the controversial topic of artificial termination of pregnancy in connection with its possible impact on the woman's mental health in the form of the not infrequently appearing post-abortion syndrome. Post-abortion syndrome is a set of symptoms which in some women appear after an artificially induced abortion. It does not have its own diagnostic category and is considered to be a specific form of post-traumatic stress disorder. It manifests itself by general symptoms, which we can find in a post-traumatic stress disorder, but also by specific symptoms, on which the text of the paper focuses and which it analyses with reference to...

The Existentially Analytical Approach to Value of Life

Marie Lhotová

Caritas et veritas 2015, 5(1):92-110 | DOI: 10.32725/cetv.2015.011  

Concepts such as purpose, conscience, existence, being and life are associated with the existential psychotherapeutic approach in psychotherapy. At present it turns out that the existential approach is a valuable, effective psychotherapeutic paradigm based on rational, coherent and systematic methods, although the foundations of the existential orientation are not empirical but intuitive. The aim of the present text is to find especially in the theory of V. E. Frankl and A. Längle support for defining the value of human life and dignified being and with a particular casuistry demonstrate the conceptual framework in which the thought of this approach...

The Characteristic of Family and (Re-)Education in the Communist Perspective

Martina Pavelková

Caritas et veritas 2015, 5(1):123-134 | DOI: 10.32725/cetv.2015.013  

The paper tries to characterize the transformation of conceiving the institution of family and interpersonal relationships in communist ideology. First the basic goals of communism are presented - creating a "new morality" which no longer rests on religious or traditional values and a "new human" who obtains her nature only by relationship to society. The new conception of human being was necessarily projected into the conception of family and relationships between spouses and between parents and children. The paper mentions four basic periods in which the conception of family in the Soviet Union developed. The family was first regarded as bourgeois...

Social Work, Democracy and Human Rights - What Follows from the Dignity of the Human Person?

Tadeusz Kamiński

Caritas et veritas 2015, 5(1):135-143 | DOI: 10.32725/cetv.2015.014  

The paper presents social work as a means of implementing human rights and democracy as a necessary framework of its successful realization. It then focuses on one particular human right, whose observation by social workers is a matter of controversy, namely the right to life. It describes three different strategies a social worker can assume when dealing with a case of unwanted or unexpected pregnancy and concludes that all appeal to human rights and use the formal frames of democracy.

Return to the Client: On the Contemporary Search for the Meaning of Social Work

Michal Opatrný, Monika Flídrová, Anna Sýkorová

Caritas et veritas 2015, 5(1):154-163 | DOI: 10.32725/cetv.2015.016  

The study discusses the search for meaning and position of social work in postmodern social context. At present there is talk in social work of crisis and failure of social work, which consists in the blurring of its identity, the fact that social work is carried out by unqualified workers, and loss of social prestige. In the contemporary professional discourse of social work in the Czech Republic the study first identifies three areas from which the loss of meaning and threat to the identity of social work stem (definition of social work, system of social services, real conditions of carrying out social work). Based on reflecting these areas the study...

"The Parish of St Precarius" and the View of the Social Teaching of the Church

Jindřich Šrajer, Roman Míčka

Caritas et veritas 2015, 5(1):164-176 | DOI: 10.32725/cetv.2015.017  

The paper discusses the key theses of the essay De parochie van Sint-Precarius (2013) written by the well-known Belgian author Geert van Istendael. It attempts to analyse the text in it's political and economic context and compares Istendael's ideas and opinions with the views of the Catholic social teaching. The paper concludes that Istandael's text corresponds with CST's diagnosis of the present situation, but there are marked differences in ideological views and suggestions for solving political and economic problems.

Civic Rhetoric for the Social State: On Gerd van Istendael's Precarius

Jakub Jinek

Caritas et veritas 2015, 5(1):177-183 | DOI: 10.32725/cetv.2015.018  

The paper discusses the concept of the precariate as it occurs in Gerd van Istendael's essay The Perish of St Precarius. The goal of the paper is, on one hand, to show that Van Istendael's usage of the concept is a piece of civic rhetoric rather than of ideology of Marxist type; on the other hand, that this approach has its inner limits given firstly by a limited perspective and secondly by neglecting the core question of common good.

ANNA ŠEVČÍKOVÁ A KOL., Děti a dospívající online. Vybraná rizika používání internetu

Karolina Diallo

Caritas et veritas 2015, 5(1):185-186  

JIŘÍ ŠUBRT A KOL., Soudobá sociologie VI (Oblasti a specializace)

Ján Mišovič

Caritas et veritas 2015, 5(1):187-189  

ROMAN MÍČKA, Znovu jsme se ujali dědictví otců… Konzervativní politický katolicismus v USA na pozadí komparace Michaela Novaka a Patricka Buchanana

Pavel S. Pokorný

Caritas et veritas 2015, 5(1):190-191  

HERVÉ JUVIN a GILLES LIPOVETSKY, Globalizovaný Západ. Polemika o planetární kultuře

Milan Nakonečný

Caritas et veritas 2015, 5(1):192  

JONATHAN HAIDT, Hypotéza štěstí. Hledání moderních pravd ve staré moudrosti

Milan Nakonečný

Caritas et veritas 2015, 5(1):193