Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21860/j.11.1.6
Space and Ethos; Fostering Supranational Citizenship in Urban Bioethics
Kostas Theologou
orcid.org/0000-0002-3883-601X
; Department of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law. National Technical University of Athens, Zografou Campus, Athens, Greece.
Abstract
The article examines the inextricable conceptual connection of space and ethos with culture
and citizenship. It claims that the city is a prominent space for deploying citizens’ codes of
conduct, taking into account the particularities of all groups. It also suggests ways of academic
activities, like the introduction of bioethical principles in schooling of the young parts of
the population, in the education of a new generation of building industry professionals, and
the underline of the role of bioethics in understanding the interactions between the built
environment and health, human well-being, productivity, energy use and environmental
crisis. The article contains urban space snapshots in order to illustrate the phenomena and
it also refers to Thessaloniki, a Northern Greece city, mentioning the conduct of inhabitants
or, works of the authorities, who viciously offend city’s memory traces and culture. Finally, it
suggests a list of ten points to develop our understanding why Space and Ethos are inextricably
and culturally bound as a basic bi-pole of Urban Bioethics and thus promote supranational
standards of European citizenship. These ten points are certainly relevant and useful to the
discussion of the topic, but vary in depth and domain.
Keywords
Ethos, public space, culture, synchoresis, citizenship, collective memory
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240216
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Publication date:
18.6.2020.
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