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School and education in general are confused, lost somewhere between the excesses and perversions of laissez-faire democracy coupled with the après nous le déluge philosophy of libertine consumerism. Such manifestations are, unmistakable evidence of neoliberalism. Our great moral-axiological benchmarks, the voice of authority, respect for the specialist or reverence for the professional found themselves set aside by the postmodern spirit – the "anything goes" philosophy – to which we all obey as a fashion or a universal trend. Unfortunately, such fashion leaves deep traces in our very human evolution which is called into question by the latest developments, tendencies or trends. The positioning of the human being – as the crown of evolution –, although exaggerated by its excessive anthropocentrism, is challenged by the current evolution of machines and computers – faster, more efficient and infinitely more unpretentious. In this paper we want to review at least some aspects of the general field of education, understood as influencing and manipulation, aspects that point, if we squint a little beyond the immediate present, to the worrying destinations, worrying both from an ethical point of view and from a broader anthropological or ontological perspective. It seems that the human being ends up being "raised" or "educated" to "serve" the algorithms of the machine, be it a robot or a computer. From an ethical point of view, this should give us something to think about in the most serious way possible. From this perspective, the present paper is meant to be an alarm that invites, at least, to some fundamental moral inquiries and reflections regarding the question: "What should I do?". We believe that ethics – given its orientative mission and its teleological "regard" – is able to offer us at least some markers to navigate through the thicket of equivocal possibilities of informatics and the Internet. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Incompatibility and conflict of interest of public servant are often confused in the mind of public opinion. If the ethical aspects are more obvious in first case, because they concern the public servant when, by virtue of the position he holds, he is to take a decision or participate in the taking of a decision regarding which he has a personal interest, in the second case, they may appear as non-existent because they strictly aim at prohibiting the occupation, in certain situations, of several functions at the same time. A current issue of the judicial practice is the implementation of the public servants’ incompatibilities during the suspension of their employment relationship. Our paper analyzes the existence and the causes of a non-unitary judicial practice, anticipating the possible problems under the current legislation and formulates proposals for its improvement. These would allow to avoid in the future the non-unitary administrative and judicial practice regarding the incompatibilities of public servant whose service report has been suspended, but also to adapt the behavior of the recipients of the law in order to prevent any possible situations of incompatibility, which would also cover ethical aspects of these situations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to capture the relationship between ethics and equity, by referring to the position approached by the Romanian legislator in the criminal law norms. In our opinion, the demands of fairness in the criminal process cannot be viewed outside the limits of what is considered moral, legitimate, acceptable in a controlled time and space. We will analyze the issue of the principle of equity, as a pillar of modern legal systems, following the coordinates drawn by the main ethical theories of Antiquity. Ethical theories have the attribute of being both a consequence and an essential feature of the society that formulates them: thus, we find ourselves in a position to analyze the relevance of these theories in the context of modern society. The conclusions show us that the ethics and morality of ancient societies endure and continue to produce effects in the courts, both at the European and national level, from the Constitution, to codes of ethics and to the implementing laws. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]