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Background: The objective of the submitted study was to find out and assess the specifics of transcultural features, rules and cultural patterns at dying and death in selected minorities in the Czech Republic in relation to nursing care, and to describe the experience of nurses with transcultural nursing and to evaluate the possibilities of using the Transcultural Assessment Model J. N. Giger and R. E. Davidhizar and the Conceptual Model of Cultural Competencies L. D. Purnell in transcultural aspects, rules and cu...

The author studies the motives and consequences of the terrorist attack against the French satirical weekly ‘Charlie Hebdo’ from the viewpoint of the theory of moral/right action in ethics of social consequences, following George Edward Moore’s theory of right action. According to the author, it could be claimed that the action of Islamic radicals was immoral, while the actions of the Charlie Hebdo editorship were wrong. This assessment also corresponds with the motives of the reasoning, decision making, behaviour...

As we read in the Prologue of Nikos Kazantzakis’ Saviors of God: “We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life. As soon as we are born the return begins, at once the setting forth and the coming back, we die in every moment…But as soon as we are born, we begin to struggle, to create, to compose, to turn matter into life, we are born in every moment”[1]. The above excerpt taken from Kazantzakis’ early work resonates with an omnipresent leitmotif of his novels where we fi...