1. Talent policy : problems and solutionsCatherine M. Robb, Tammy Harel Ben Shahar, Kirsten Meyer, Barbara Vetter, Henderien W. Steenbeek, Mitja Sardoč, Ruud J. R. Den Hartigh, 2025, original scientific article Abstract: The identification and development of talent have long been a central target of policy making invarious domains, including education, sports, the arts and business. Given the importance of tal-ent for success in a competitive global market, governments and businesses across the globe con-tinually devise strategic policies to identify, attract and preserve both national and internationaltalent. Most of these talent-related practices and policies (implicitly) assume that a person’s talentis predetermined and fixed, that it is readily identifiable and that effective talent developmentrequires early identification and specific, targeted training. However, these assumptions areproblematically unsupported by recent empirical and conceptual scientific research. Instead,the research shows that talent development is dynamic and context-dependent, and that earlyidentification is an unreliable predictor of future performance. We outline the conceptual ambi-guity and empirical flaws involved in current talent-related practices and propose three specificsolutions to improve policy.
Keywords: talent, talent development, talent identification, skill, policy, ethics
Published in DiRROS: 05.05.2025; Views: 530; Downloads: 281
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2. Tolerance in Utopian DiscourseMonika Brzóstowicz-Klajn, 2022, original scientific article Abstract: In this article, the problem of tolerance is discussed with regard to some of the most important utopias in the European tradition, namely by Thomas More, Tommaso Campanella, and Francis Bacon. This allows us to show these works from the point of view of hidden paradoxes. Utopian discource, on the one hand, creates models of static, unchangeable, more or less homogeneous societies that remain separated from the world. On the other hand, tolerance means an attitude of openness towards diversity and, thus, towards dialogue as well as the possibility of change. Nevertheless, tolerance within utopias appeares under certain conditions. The article attempts to show how it is captured in particular utopian works and what additional meanings it reveals. The problem of tolerance can be a criterium for criticizing the utopian projects. This is the case with the twentieth-century concept of an open society by Karl Popper and with critical statements about it made by Leszek Kołakowski and Ryszard Legutko.
Keywords: tolerance, utopian discourse, open society, absolute ethics
Published in DiRROS: 25.10.2024; Views: 501; Downloads: 211
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3. Personambiguity in Kobo Abe’s The Face of Another and the Abyssal Surface of ResponsibilitySimeon Theojaya, 2022, original scientific article Abstract: Numerous studies across disciplines discuss the complex relationship between human facial features and personal identity in psychosocial dynamics. Most of these researches follow the common definition of the face as the forepart of the head. Kobo Abe’s The Face of Another (Tanin no kao) is a Japanese novel that explores the face’s complexity in great depth and contests this common notion of the face. First, this novel shows that the search for meaning behind the face’s physical properties is lacerated by discords of individuality/abstraction and identity/pretense. These straining pairs (which I call personambiguity) exemplify Lévinas’s point that the face’s meaning outweighs its phenomenality. Second, this novel presents that the constraint and primacy of responsibility transcend the face’s sensible qualities. My reading holds that the face is an abyssal surface, in which the other manifests itself against our appropriative idea of otherness and summons us to irrecusable responsibility.
Keywords: Abe, ethics, face, Lévinas, phenomenology
Published in DiRROS: 25.10.2024; Views: 523; Downloads: 189
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4. Genuine Hermeneutics in the Canon of LiteratureNysret Krasniqi, 2022, original scientific article Abstract: Within this article, we discuss the author’s influential relationship with the literary text and the role of literary critic in the tendencies to replace the first. By dealing, first, with the romantic spirit, then with the progressive concept of modernity, and, finally, with the denying concepts of post-modernity, we argue for the idea that the literary discourse includes the author as a normative and intentional principle to preserve the memory and knowledge, which literature offers to us. The tendency of the author’s denial has resulted in a tendency to deny the tradition, literary canon, and has caused the absurdity of an excess in the necessary methodological apparatus, an excess, which has led to the diminishing of the reading of literature, fading of its social status, and harming the utilitarian recognition of authors who form the dignity and identity of Western culture. We attempt to explain that canonical literary texts should be recognized through posterior criticism, their placing in historical time, and their reflections on our own time, in which they obtain new meanings, while preserving the stabilized meanings of iconic authors.
Keywords: philosophy of literature, hermeneutics, tradition, timeless present, canon, utilitarian ethics
Published in DiRROS: 25.10.2024; Views: 504; Downloads: 202
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5. Levinas vs. Maldiney : On the Face of Sensible NaturePetr Prášek, 2023, original scientific article Abstract: If environmental ethics would be a part of politics, as Levinas suggests, it would run the danger of privileging human interests and downplaying the power of nature’s own ethical call. This is why the present article against Levinas argues that nature needs and has a face in the strong ethical sense. It begins by extracting the definitional criteria of the face from Levinas, and then—through an excursion into the work of Maldiney, whose relevance for eco-phenomenology it wants to highlight—follows some of the attempts to extend the concept of face beyond human ethics. Thus, the article concludes that sensible nature, giving itself as Maldiney’s event, does not have a human face, but the encounter with its transcendence in its various facialities has a similar ethical force, from which an eco-phenomenological ethics of nature could grow.
Keywords: eco-phenomenology, environmental ethics, nature, face, Levinas, Maldiney
Published in DiRROS: 23.10.2024; Views: 752; Downloads: 215
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6. Dreaming with AISheldon Juncker, 2023, original scientific article Abstract: our goal is to highlight the capabilities of modern, generative aI systems using the widely used and accessible ChatGPT text completion models from openaI, focusing on how they can be used for the analysis of dreams and dream journals. We start with a brief overview of the nature of dreams, methods of dream inter-pretation, and the importance of the human-dream relationship. We explore the ways that technology, specifically aI, fits into this space and examine the ways in which aI can be used to help us understand our dreams. We progress from simple dream interpretations, to interpretations according to different schools of thought, to interpreting symbols within individual dreams, and finally to analyzing pat-terns in individual dream journals. We conclude with a discussion of the ethical concerns surrounding aI and dreams, providing insights from past technological revolutions and how they have both helped and hindered the human endeavor. We finally outline what we believe to be a practical, realistic, and hopeful vision of how we see this field progressing based on the experiments and methodologies that were explored in this paper.
Keywords: dreams, dream interpretation, artificial intelligence, gernerative AI, psychoanalysis, ethics
Published in DiRROS: 13.05.2024; Views: 975; Downloads: 573
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