Presque quiconque est exposé.e pour une première fois à l’abolitionnisme pénal est frappé.e d’une même interrogation : celle de l’alternative. Que devrions-nous substituer à l’État afin d’assurer la sécurité de toutes et de tous et l’accès à une justice équitable et égalitaire en cas d’offense? À une époque de fortes effervescences politiques, cette question devait nécessairement occuper les révolutionnaires anticipant la mise en œuvre de la commune libertaire. Du moins, ce fut le cas pour l’anarchiste Pierre Kropotkine. L’héritier d’une famille princière russe s’intéresse d’abord à l’évolution des espèces. Le géologue de formation parcourt son pays natal et découvre l’existence d’un procédé de régulation sociale présent dans la quasi-totalité du règne animal : l’entraide. En s’opposant aux darwiniens autoproclamés, Kropotkine démonte le mythe d’une espèce humaine cruelle à l’état de nature. L’État, inutile en ces circonstances, doit être renversé afin d’offrir un maximum d’espace à nos intuitions solidaires. Ces intuitions doivent être enseignées aux futur.es communard.es plutôt que réprimées tel que le fait une institution comme la prison. Sa critique, qui fait de l’institution carcérale une véritable école du crime, est reprise par les abolitionnistes actuelles. Qu’en est-il des alternatives qu’il propose? L’anarchiste serait-il ouvert à la punition? Favorable à une justice réparatrice? Difficile de résoudre ces interrogations. Une chose est certaine, il existe dans l’histoire une multitude de façons de pratiquer la justice qui s’affranchit d’une autorité centrale. Que ce soit en mobilisant quelques indvidu.es, une commune voisine ou encore toute la communauté, les sociétés étudiées par Kropotkine, en pratiquant l’arbitrage, parviennent à résorber leurs conflits. / Almost anyone who is exposed to penal abolitionism for the first time is struck by the same question: what is the alternative? What substitute can the state implement so as to assure security for all as well as equal and equitable access to justice in the case of an offense? At a time of strong political effervescence, this question had to occupy the revolutionaries anticipating the implementation of the libertarian commune. At least, that was the case for anarchist Peter Kropotkin. The heir to a Russian princely family is first interested in the evolution of species. The geologist travels through his native country and discovers the existence of a process of social regulation present in almost all of the animal kingdom: mutual aid. By opposing to the self-proclaimed Darwinians, Kropotkin dismantles the myth of a cruel human species in the state of nature. The State, useless in these circumstances, must be overthrown in order to offer maximum space to our solidarity intuitions. These intuitions must be taught to future communards rather than repressed by an institution like prison. His criticism, which makes the penal institution a veritable school of crime, is usefull to current abolitionists. What about the alternatives it offers? Would the anarchist be open to punishment? In favor of restorative justice? It is difficult to answer these questions. One thing is certain, there are in history a multitude of ways of practicing justice that frees itself from a central authority. Whether it be by mobilizing a few individuals, a neighboring town or even the entire community, the societies that Kropotkin studied, by practicing arbitration, manage to resolve their conflicts.

Over the past thirty years, academic dialogues on the relationships between the sciences and religions have flourished, albeit primarily within Judeo-Christian historical, theological and philosophical contexts. Can a Hindu tradition be brought into this dialogue? The Bhagavata Purana is one of the most well-known sacred texts of India, and biology, Darwinism in particular, has become one of the most spirited areas of the science and religion dialogue in academia, as well as in the popular media. This thesis examines the possibility, scope and foundational topics involved in a dialogue between Vaisnava-Hindu theology as found in the Bhāgavata, and the theoretical, philosophical and theological issues surrounding contemporary biology. To examine the possibility and scope of a Bhāgavata-science dialogue, I focus on the theological, ontological, epistemological and teleological presuppositions that each tradition bring to the study of nature, outlining the similarities and differences in their approaches. I establish the grounds for further discussion through a comparative analysis of terms such as "consciousness," "knowledge" and "goal of knowledge" as they appear in the Bhagavata and noteworthy Darwinian texts. My argument is that although prima facie the two traditions appear different in their philosophical, scientific and theological approaches, there are a number of areas of common interest and parallels, especially in their epistemologies and teleologies. In the case of genuine differences, such as their views on the ontology of consciousness, I demonstrate the possibility of reconciliation. Clarifying the conceptual differences, establishing parallels and demonstrating areas of common interests opens the possibility and widens the scope for further dialogue.

[pt] O desafio do ateísmo configura-se num grande clamor dos tempos modernos para a prática e o testemunho da fé cristã. A nova face da confissão atéia emerge dentro de uma sociedade marcada por grandes desafios sociais e humanos, tais como: o terrorismo religioso, os conflitos entre etnias e povos, a questão da dignidade da vida humana e a construção da justiça e da paz. A partir da compreensão do pensamento ateu de Richard Dawkins o presente trabalho buscará elucidar o conceito de neo-ateísmo, com seus objetivos, argumentos e propostas concretas de homem e sociedade. O ateísmo novo apresentado por pensadores como André Comte-Sponville, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, Michel Onfray, e próprio Dawkins, trazem novos questionamentos e interpretações e desafios, tanto para fé quanto para ciência. É a partir do efetivo diálogo entre a fé e o novo ateísmo, que o cristianismo poderá, revendo seu discurso e prática, responder concretamente e positivamente a tais desafios. Todavia o desejo da sociedade sem religião, acalentado pela maioria dos novos ateus, parece ser um ideal efêmero. O que se constata é o desejo de compor na sociedade uma nova meta-linguagem em contraposição à falta de dignidade humana e à crescente violência hodierna. O nosso objetivo, portanto, é propor um diálogo consistente entre fé cristã e neo-ateísmo, para se edificar uma linguagem da solidariedade, da coexistência e da fraternidade, e, prol de uma autêntica realização do humano. / [en] The challenge in the atheism configures itself in a big clamour of modern times to the practice and testimony of Christian faith. The new face of atheist confession emerges inside a society marked by social and human challenges, such as; religious terrorism, the ethnics and nations conflits, the question of life s diginity and the construction of justice and peace. From the understanding of the atheist thinking of Richard Dawkins this work intent to elucidate the neoatheism concept, with its objectives, arguments and proposals of man and society. The new atheism presented by thinkers such as André Comte-Sponville, Daniel Dennet, Sam Harris, Michel Onfray, and the Dawkins himself, brings new questions and interpretations and challenges, both faith and science for. It s from the effective dialogue between faith and the new atheism, that christianity will be able, reviewing its speech and practice, answer correctly and positively to such challenges. Nevertheless the desires of the society without religion, formed for the majority of new atheists, seems to be a ephemeral ideal. What we can note it s the desire compose on the society with a new metalanguage in opposition to the lack of human dignity and the growing violence of this days. Or goal, therefore, it s to propose a consistent dialogue between Christian faith and the neo-atheísm, to build a language of solidarity, of coexistence and fraternity, and, fowarding to an authentic realization of the human being.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:19:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Kun Young Yu.pdf: 738962 bytes, checksum: 7f8ae8dc1a8ea3f259e76465208eef4c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-11-05 / The present research aims at analyzing the Korean bioethics through the analysis of the historical, social, cultural and philosophical elements of the country to understand how such elements influenced in the constitution of bioethics in that country. The work is started through the study of scandal perpetrated by the major scientist of the country in the area, Professor Hwang Woo Suk, and by analyzing the social and political impact of such event we learnt about the values that guided the local bioethics, which are pragmatism and its strong social appeal. We will see how this science was skillfully handled for propagandistic purposes by the local government, upon attribution of a patriotic character to its development and the complicity with which an entire nation embraced this "national project" under which they placed expectations much beyond the medical benefits initially targeted. In the analysis of the factors that participated in the formation of this unique bioethics, we will analyze the association of the bioethical researches to the economic plans of the government, the influence of the several social and philosophical elements such as cultural hedonism, the local culture of pragmatic and empiric nature, the Silhak, the economic influence of the research for the community capitalism practiced in the country, and the patriotic appeal attributed thereto by the historical factors and principles such as Social Darwinism. The analysis of the aforementioned elements helps us to understand how a country so advanced in the researches on the biotechnology area, has a bioethics that is so weak in ethical content, that in last analysis it was responsible for the outbreak of the fraud in the stem cells cloning research / A presente pesquisa tem por objetivo analisar a bioética coreana através da análise dos elementos históricos, sociais, culturais e filosóficos do país para entender como tais elementos influíram na constituição da bioética naquele país. Inicia-se o trabalho através do estudo do escândalo protagonizado pelo maior cientista do país na área, o Professor Hwang Woo Suk, e analisando a implicação social e política de tal evento, aprendemos sobre os valores que nortearam a bioética local, que são o pragmatismo e o seu forte apelo social. Veremos como esta ciência foi habilmente manuseada para fins propagandísticos pelo governo local, ao atribuir caráter patriótico ao seu desenvolvimento e a cumplicidade com que toda uma nação abraçou este projeto nacional sob o qual depositaram anseios muito além dos benefícios médicos que se propunha alcançar inicialmente. Na análise dos fatores que participaram na formação desta bioética singular analisaremos a vinculação das pesquisas bioéticas aos planos econômicos do governo, a influência de vários elementos sociais e filosóficos como o hedonismo cultural, a filosofia local de cunho pragmática e empírica, o Silhak, a influência econômica das pesquisas pelo capitalismo comunitário praticado no país, e o apelo patriótico atribuído ao mesmo pelos fatores históricos e princípios como o Darwinismo Social. A análise dos elementos mencionados acima ajuda a entender como um país tão avançado nas pesquisas na área de biotecnologia, possui uma bioética tão fraca em conteúdo ético, que em última análise foi a responsável pela eclosão da fraude nas pesquisas de clonagem de células-tronco

Le processus sélectif est-il nié, persistant ou dialectiquement réalisé dans la civilisation ? De ce problème, deux thèses générales se dégagent : (1) celle de l’épuisement de la sélection naturelle, la société humaine témoignant d’une véritable émancipation vitale et (2) celle d’un report des pressions de sélection, le système de contraintes sélectives demeurant effectif. En fait, cette interrogation se trouve esquissée dès l’« anthropologie » de Charles Darwin (1871), sujette encore à débats, notamment sur l’existence du darwinisme social de ce dernier, forme, justement, de report des pressions de sélection. Face à la thèse de l’incohérence doctrinale de cette « anthropologie », qui légitime malgré elle qu’on fasse tout dire de Darwin, on proposera une cohérence articulée autour du concept de sympathie et des effets combinés de la sélection, de la culture et de l’habitude. Ensuite, il s’agira de proposer une théorie de l’émancipation vitale, mêlant report des pressions de sélection et émancipation par procès ‘technosymbiotique’, néologisme au lien fort avec la cultural niche construction (Odling-Smee). Prendre la civilisation comme une niche écologique, la culture comme un paramètre, résoudra une bonne part des problèmes théoriques et de ce dualisme identitaire qu’on retrouve si souvent dans notre approche de l’homme et de sa société. La réflexion sur la civilisation nous conduira à nous interroger sur le biotope économique, comme marque essentielle et originale de notre niche écologique. Notre émancipation biologique côtoie ainsi le maintien du système de contrainte sélectionniste, dans un biotope, dès lors, de plus en plus biomimétique / Is the selective process irrelevant, does it persist, or is it dialectically achieved in civilization? Two general theses arise from this question: (1) either the progressive extinction of natural selection, human society thus witnessing a genuine vital emancipation or (2) the persistence of selection pressures, the system of selective constraints thus remaining effective. In fact, this question was outlined in 1871 with Charles Darwin’s “anthropology”; his anthropology and notably his social Darwinism, a form of displacement of selection pressures continue to be debated today. Confronted with the thesis of the doctrinal inconsistency of this “anthropology” which allows Darwin’s words to be interpreted at will, we shall put forward a form of coherence based on the concept of sympathy and the combined effects of selection, culture and habits. We shall then put forward a theory of vital emancipation that combines the persistence of selection pressures and emancipation via a technosymbiotic process, a neologism similar to cultural niche construction (Odling-Smee). Considering civilization as an ecological niche and culture as a parameter will solve most theoretical problems, notably related to the identity dualism associated with a conventional approach to man and society. Our reflection on civilization will lead us to focus on and investigate into the economic biotope understood as an essential and specific feature of our ecological niche. Following this approach, man’s biological emancipation coexists with a system of selectionist constraint in a biotope that is, as a consequence, increasingly biomimetic

The author explores into the relationship between science and Church during a period of history in Catalonia in which the Church carried out a series of top level scientific measures, such as the school of geology of the Barcelona Seminar and the provincial geological map. At a time when science is used as a weapon to discredit the Catholic doctrine of religious belief in general, we've analyzed the response of Church through studying priest education and religious schools, its vision of science, speeches of scientific works carried out by priests, to conclude that the desire of conciliation with science and necessity of defending faith encouraged the updating of the ecclesiastical institution in some scientific disciplines. Later, the social prestige and authority given by science also helps to explain certain scientific “vocations", in particular, the strategy of Jesuits that gave as a result the scientific complex of Roquetes (Tortosa). / L'autor explora en les relacions ciència i Església en un període de la història de Catalunya en el qual l'Església dugué a terme tot un seguit d'accions científiques de primer nivell, com ara l'escola de geologia del Seminari barceloní i el mapa geològic provincial. En una època que la ciència és usada com a arma per desprestigiar la doctrina catòlica i les creences religioses en general, hem analitzat la resposta eclesiàstica a través de l'estudi de l'educació sacerdotal i dels col•legis religiosos, la visió de la ciència que en tenien, els discursos i obres científiques protagonitzades per eclesiàstics, per arribar a la conclusió que la voluntat de conciliació amb les ciències i la necessitat de defensar la fe estimularen la posada al dia de la institució eclesiàstica en algunes disciplines científiques. Més endavant, el prestigi social i l'autoritat que donava la ciència també ajuda a explicar determinades "vocacions" científiques i, en concret, l'estratègia de la Companyia de Jesús que donà com a resultat el complex científic de Roquetes (Tortosa).

Comprise pendant longtemps comme une entité sui generis dont les origines ne pouvaient être expliquées que par rapport à elle-même («omnis cultura excultura»), la notion de culture n’est plus le maître-mot du «culturalisme». Le naturalisme n’a pourtant pas non plus fini de faire d’elle une catégorie complètement naturalisée. Dans cette thèse, je propose une approche analytique et synthétique du concept éthologique de culture. Je pars de ses racines historiques, notamment autour de la notion de cultures ou traditions animales, en examinant le paysage épistémologique des mots-clés des auteurs publiant dans ce domaine, ainsi qu’en évaluant les engagements théoriques et philosophiques associés à certaines définitions de la culture. L’adaptationnisme méthodologique est également mis en œuvre pour révéler dans ce travail l’ampleur des conflits stratégiques, au sens de la théorie des jeux, présents dans certaines formes de transmission culturelle. L’ensemble nous mène à faire le bilan de ce que l’on a appelé la révolution éthologique dans la notion de culture, en soulignant les dimensions écologiques qui sont maintenant mises en avant, mais aussi les limites d’un concept qui précède de plusieurs siècles la compréhension scientifique des phénomènes concernés. / Long time understood as a sui generis entity whose origins could only be explained in relation to itself ("omnis cultura ex cultura"), the notion of culture is no longer the watchword that "culturalism" made of it. Naturalism, however, has not ended up turning culture into a completely naturalized category either. In this dissertation, regarding the ethological concept of culture, I am advancing an approach that is both analytic and synthetic. The historical roots of the notion of animal cultures (or animal traditions) are my starting point. Then follows a scrutiny of the epistemological landscape of author keywords in the field of animal cultures. An assessment of certain theoretical commitments and different philosophical positions associated to several definitions of culture is also offered. In addition, methodological adaptationism is put to work to reveal the scope of certain strategic conflicts that arise in a game-theoretic fashion in certain forms of cultural transmission. The whole enterprise allows us to take stock of what has come to be called the ethological revolution regarding the notion of culture. This is accomplished by underlining the ecological dimensions but also the limitations of a concept that, after all, predates by several centuries the scientific understanding of the phenomena it is purported to cover.

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<p>My thesis examines how eugenicist and psychologist Robert M. Yerkes’ experimental intelligence research helped to situate the non-human primate as the ideal research subject for human betterment research in the twentieth century U.S. Yerkes believed that the primate was the ideal research subject to address questions of human betterment and social welfare, specifically best to create methods of evaluating the imagined threat of intellectual disability. While Yerkes has been studied extensively in the history of psychology, primatology, and eugenics, rarely have his separate contributions to these fields been placed in conversation with one another. Placing the primate at the center of Yerkes’ work allows for all three fields to engage with one another in a new perspective. By analyzing Yerkes’ publications about the Multiple-Choice Experiment within the context of the American eugenics’ movement, we can see how the primate came to hold a central position in U.S. scientific research, the advancement of human welfare and betterment, and as a means of defining what it means to be human. This story offers a glimpse into this longer process of how the primate came to occupy this position, but even a glimpse offers historians of the American eugenics’ movement new questions. What was the role of the non-human animal in the formulation of American eugenic theories? How have we historically used the natural world in our attempts to separate ourselves from it? And can we truly reconcile a history with eugenics if we continue to ignore the role of animals within it, they who today exist unquestionably within the status of the sub-human?</p>

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