Values of the Human Person : Contemporary Challenges – Romanian philosophical studies / ed.: Mihaela Pop. – Bucureşti: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti, 2013
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ISBN 978-606-16-0332-9 
I. Pop, Mihaela (ed.)
Volumul se găsește la Librăria Universității din holul Facultății de Istorie.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction 1
Part I. Fundamental Human Values Challenging Contemporary
Globalization
Chapter 1. Value Differentiation and the Ideal of Mankind 25
Marin Aiftincă
Chapter 2. The Values of the New Civilization 35
Bogdana Todorova
Chapter 3. Humans in Contemporary Culture 43
Leon Dyczewski
Chapter 4. Person and Personal Reality: The Actuality of 57
the Eastern Christian Understanding of Man
Dan Chiţoiu
Chapter 5. Modern Society and Its Ethical Dilemmas 65
Cornelia Găşpărel
Chapter 6. Aspirations and Anticipations of Universalism: 81
The Global Village in Ancient Rome
Iulian-Gabriel Hruşcă
Chapter 7. Was the Modern Cosmopolis Transformed into 89
a Post-Modern Global Village?
Constantin Stoenescu
Chapter 8. Hermeneutic Dialogue as Social Value: An Inquiry 101
into the “Undiscoverable Objects of thought”
Adrian Costache
Chapter 9. Rationality as a Human Value 111
Lavinia Marin
Chapter 10. Spiritual Cognition of a Person and Culture 121
Sergey Nizhnikov
Chapter 11. The Ends of Philosophy in the Context of 137
Contemporary Biopolitics
Cristian Iftode
Chapter 12. The Human Value of Civil Disobedience 159
in Democratic Societies
Dorina Pătrunsu
Chapter 13. Beauty as an Aesthetic Value: Contemporary Challenges 167
Mihaela Pop
Chapter 14. What Kitsch Tells Us about Our Time 185
Ulrich Steinvorth
Chapter 15. Globalization: Modern Myth or Ideological Project? 203
Iulia Anghel
Part II. New Axiological Challenges in Technologies and Scientific
Thinking
Chapter 16. Human Being – from Spiritual Values to 213
Technological Progress
Cristian Berţi
Chapter 17. Human Worth on the Threshold of 221
Its Technological Transformation
Ana Bazac
Chapter 18. Social Network Sites: A Microanalysis of 241
the Involvement of Young Europeans
Sebastian Chirimbu
Chapter 19. Philosophical Reflection on the Ethics of 249
Network Information
Gong Qun
Chapter 20. The Disunity of Anthropology: Reflections from 261
a Philosophy of Science Perspective
Richard-David Rus
Chapter 21. The Concept of Dignity in the Capability Approach: 273
A Personalist Perspective
Asya Markova
Chapter 22. Understanding Mental Health: Existential Situation 281
and Social Attitude
Tebeanu Ana-Voichiţa, Macarie George-Florian,
Manea Teodora
Chapter 23. Changes and Challenges in Statements on 295
the Quality of Dying
Gabriel Roman
Part III. Cultural and Spiritual Personalities: Possible Answers to Our
Contemporary Changes
Chapter 24. Rousseau’s “Civil Religion” Reconsidered 315
John Farina
Chapter 25. The Authenticity of the Human Being in 327
Christian Existentialism and Phenomenology:
S. Kierkegaard and J. Tischner
Marek Jan Pytko
Chapter 26. The Value of the Human Person: Rabindranath Tagore’s 339
Relevance to the Challenges of Today’s World
Seema Bose
Chapter 27. The Acting Person and the Experience of 345
Vertical Transcendence in Karol Wojtyla’s Writings
Wilhelm Dancă
Chapter 28. Defining Human Dignity: Landmarks in 351
the Thought of Pope Benedict XVI
Tarciziu Şerban
Chapter 29. Anthony de Mello’s Lifelong Spiritual Pedagogy: 359
Awakening and Awareness
Magdalena Dumitrana
Chapter 30. The Human Person between Transcendence and Fault: 373
a Philosophical Perspective
Cătălin Bobb
Chapter 31. Foucault’s Case Against Humanism 383
Maria Gioga
Index 389