About the project
Modern societies face a profusion of challenges brought about by political, scientific, technological, cultural and natural shifts: be it the advancement of science and technology, the transformation of traditional forms of the political landscape, or climate change and the resulting natural disasters. These challenges face us with a barrage of distinctly ethical disagreements that require systematic and multidimensional research.
In its first part, the project will explore the extent to which established ethical concepts and theories represent valuable methodological tools for such an endeavor and how they ought to be modified.
At the core of the project’s second and central part are particular social challenges and their ethical dimensions: climate change and its socio-economic and population-level implications; the proliferation of technologies like artificial intelligence in all realms of modern life and their impact on ethical and political values like autonomy, justice and transparency; the biotechnological modification of human nature with the aim of positively affecting socio-political processes as a means of achieving moral progress at the individual and social levels.
The third part of the project primarily looks at the potential of the Croatian tradition in practical philosophy, cultivated specifically in Croatia’s social environment, in coming up with new approaches to social challenges of the 21st century.
This project is conducted at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb in the period 2024–2027, reviewed by the Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia and financed through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan by the European Union – NextGenerationEU.