The article presents key components of a pedagogical system for professional and ethical training of future social workers, which contribute to increasing their level of professional ethics. It determines the essence of the pedagogical system, which unities the processes of forming, developing, education and learning with all forms, methods and…

What are the conditions required for becoming better human beings? What are our limitations and possibilities? I understand "becoming better" as a combined improvement process bringing persons "up from" a negative condition and "up to" a positive one. Today there is a tendency to understand improvement in a one-sided way as a movement up to the…

In this essay Gregory Bynum seeks to show that Immanuel Kant's thought, which was conceived in an eighteenth-century context of new, and newly widespread, pressures for nationally institutionalized human rights-based regimes (the American and French revolutions being the most prominent examples), can help us think in new and appreciative ways…

The author traces occurrences in his life which contributed to his changing from Judaism to Humanism. Traces the Humanist Movement from 1927 to 1961 when the Supreme Court ruled that Humanism is legal equally to theistic religions. Journal availability: see SO 507 190. (KC)

Humanist principles stress the importance of the individual, of scientific methodology, and of human needs. The basic principles of humanist beliefs concerning the world and the position of human beings in natural and social worlds are reviewed. (IS)

Presenting a statement of faith in the future of intercultural understanding, the essay suggests a humanistic framework of dignity and well-being for people which would be based upon acceptance of value conflict, genuine respect for others, and mutuality in relationships. The outgrowth of a program of international inquiries by scholars over a…