Nerija Putinaitė (born 19 May 1971 in

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) is a Lithuanian philosopher and politician, Vice-minister of the Ministry of Science and Education of the

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Biography

Nerija studied from 1989 to 1996 at the Philosophy Faculty of the Vilnius universitetas the bachelor's and master's degree in

philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

and from 1996 to 2000 the doctoral program at the Lietuvos filosofijos ir sociologijos institutas and a doctorate on "justice problem in the philosophy of

Immanuel Kant Immanuel Kant (born Emanuel Kant; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German Philosophy, philosopher and one of the central Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works ...

", worked as a research assistant at the institute. Putinaitė continued her education at the

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and

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(France). In 2004, she completed International Summer Courses in

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. Since 2004 Nerija Putinaitė had been working at the Office of the

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as the advisor for research and higher education. Putinatė was a research fellow at the Lithuanian philosophy and sociology institute (now Institute of Culture, philosophy and art) and a docent at the Department of

Ethics Ethics is the philosophy, philosophical study of Morality, moral phenomena. Also called moral philosophy, it investigates Normativity, normative questions about what people ought to do or which behavior is morally right. Its main branches inclu ...

of Vilnius Pedagogical University (now

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). Putinaitė has authored or edited a number of books and articles on a variety of topics, such as Kant's philosophy, Lithuanian culture, ethics and philosophy of

culture Culture ( ) is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and Social norm, norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, Social norm, customs, capabilities, Attitude (psychology), attitudes ...

References

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