This article addresses the sensitive topic of human rights issues in Indonesia through a Kantian analysis. Cases violations are common occurrence Indonesia. Presently, country assessed from historical and legal perspectives. However, there is little commitment or willingness on part Indonesian government to protect defend principles rights. attempts utilize arguments political philosophy that c...

Jawa adalah salah satu suku terbesar di Indonesia yang keberadaannya menyebar tidak hanya seluruh penjuru Indonesia, tetapi juga mendominasi jumlah penduduk beberapa daerah negara lain, seperti Suriname dan New Caledonia. Kebudayaan etnis pada dasarnya tersentral dari kerajaan-kerajaan masa lalu hingga saat ini masih berdiri, yaitu Surakarta Yogyakarta. Karakter kultural menjunjung keharmonisan...

Metapolitics is not politics by other means. It is neither a ―strategy‖ to impose intellectual hegemony, nor an attempt to discredit other possible attitudes or agendas. It rests solely on the premise that ideas play a fundamental role in collective consciousness and, more generally, in human history. Through their works, Heraclitus, Aristotle, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, René Descartes,...

Autonomy is defined as the capacity to think, decide, and act freely and independently on the basis of such thought and decisions. Three types of autonomy are distinguished: autonomy of thought, which embraces the wide range of human intellectual activities called "thinking for oneself"; autonomy of will, or the capacity to decide to do things on the basis of one's deliberations; and autonomy...

Working within frameworks drawn from the writings of Immanuel Kant, Alfred Schutz, and Kenneth Burke, this article examines the role that diagnostic categories play in autobiographical accounts of illness, with a special focus on chronic disease. Four lay diagnostic categories, each with different connections to formal medical diagnostic categories, serve as typifications to make sense of the w...

With the Enlightenment, philosophers in the West recognized that the immediate given of perception is a mental image or representation, not an extra-mental object. That insight raised a pressing, epistemological question: to what degree, if any, do those mental images represent an extra-mental state of affairs? To phrase the question in slightly different terms: in what manner (if any) and to w...

Brain time and phenomenological time (draft) As 'tis from the disposition of visible and tangible objects we receive the idea of space, so from the succession of ideas and impressions we form the idea of time...-David Hume, Treatise of Human Nature ... space and time ... are therefore pure intuitions that lie a priori at the basis of the empirical. ... they are mere forms of our sensibility, wh...

That such an unnatural use (and so misuse) of one’s sexual attributes is a violation of one’s duty to himself and is certainly in the highest degree opposed to morality strikes everyone upon his thinking of it . . . However, it is not so easy to produce a rational demonstration of the inadmissibility of that unnatural use, and even the mere unpurposive use, of one’s sexual attributes as being a...

Heteronomy – the lack of self-determination expresses exactly how our personal data are often treated by organizations. Inspired by the tenet of autonomy from Immanuel Kant, we argue that future database systems must provide autonomy for individuals regarding the privacy of their data. We identify privacy invasive technology and existing privacy enhancing technology. We argue that despite the e...