Promoting Women’s Employment & Disability Inclusion in the Workplace
Measures to Promote Women’s Employment
Women continue to face discrimination in access to and maintenance of employment, despite numerous laws promoting equality.
Organic Law 3/2007: Effective Equality
Gender equality is a universal legal principle recognized in international human rights instruments and a fundamental principle in the European Union. Equality between women and men must be present in all policies and actions of the Union and its members.
Royal Decree Law 5/2006: Progress and Challenges
Great
Read MoreUnderstanding Major World Religions and Universal Ethics
The Importance of Religions
Christianity
Christianity was founded by Jesus of Nazareth. Its holy book is the Bible. The moral code that Jesus preached was based on love for one’s neighbor and God. He defended the dignity of all human beings as children of God, forbade violence and hatred, and ordered respect for parents. He was an advocate of peace and helping the weak.
Islam
The Muslim religion was founded by Muhammad, who presented himself as a prophet of Allah (the one God). It is the main religion
Read MoreHuman Mind: Functioning, Language, and Mind-Body Problem
Understanding the Human Mind
Regarding the functioning of the human mind, understand that this is an information processor that receives, stores, and processes data. According to Miller, the human being is a reporter. How does man process information? Mental states are representational facts. These states have meaningful representations. When we have a belief (even if it is false), we establish a relationship between ourselves and the things over which we have the belief.
Descartes identifies the
Read MoreUnderstanding Reason, Knowledge, and Truth in Philosophy
Reason and Its Applications
Reason is the faculty used to explain, argue, and justify something within a given environment. We can distinguish between two types of reason:
- Theoretical Reason: This type is directed towards the contemplation of the world, that is, towards the knowledge of reality.
- Practical Reason: According to Immanuel Kant, practical reason is the reason that guides action and imposes itself on passions, orienting us towards achieving a perfect moral right to set itself.
Philosophical
Read MoreCivic Conception: Liberalism, Communitarianism, and Feminism
Building a Civic Conception
Building a civic conception is not easy. The liberal challenge will be how to allow the defense time to the views of individuals (ethics of maximum) and civic engagement (minimum ethics). Something that was being studied was civic ethic.
Habermas
Liberalism defends the primacy of the individual against any options or communitarianism. The holistic task of political institutions is to enable individuals to coexist. Preferences democracy becomes a method for defending individual
Read MoreCritique of Traditional Metaphysics: Kant’s Perspective
Critique of Traditional Metaphysics
Kant’s Refutation of Metaphysical Proofs of God’s Existence
Referring to Kant, one cannot understand the metaphysical proofs for the existence of God. In the *Transcendental Dialectic*, Kant pointed out that the ontological argument is invalid because it cannot prove the existence of God from the idea (essence). He also criticizes the validity of the arguments of the Thomist routes, either because he rejects that causality is an ontological relationship (for Kant,
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