137:. He called this ban an attack on patient autonomy, for those who wanted to enter such a program. Even though almost all psychiatrists and psychiatric organisations oppose conversion therapy as dangerous and potentially harmful to the life of the individual, Cowen has cited the report of the American Psychological Association on “Appropriate Therapeutic Responses to Sexual Orientation” (2009) that “There are no rigorously scientific sides of recent SOCE that would enable us to make a definitive statement about whether recent SOCE is safe or harmful and for whom.” He also quotes a former President of the APA, Nicholas A. Cummings in 2013 testifying to significant successful outcomes of conversion therapy. Cowen does not have psychiatric qualifications.
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University, Cowen pursued and then appealed a Freedom of Information decision about disclosure of the deliberations of the University leading to the dismissal. The presiding Magistrate found that "While I accept Dr Cowen's submission that freedom of academic expression and freedom to hold and practice religious beliefs in a university setting are important public interests, I reject his submission that the public interest requires that access should be given to the documents in contest in this proceeding."
92:, The Theory and Practice of Universal Ethics – The Noahide Laws. Cowen has opposed Victoria's abortion laws that he claims is too liberal, and claims that these policies will "open the floodgates of barbarism". Victoria in 2017 introduced Australia’s first assisted suicide legislation, in which he saw further evidence of a loss of the moral compass of universal ethics and a new low point of civilization. He has also opposed homosexuality and euthanasia, as contraventions of the Noahide laws.
144:, which was to be adopted nationally with the goals to reduce bullying of among others, non-heterosexual children. In 2012, Cowen opposed the program, stating it would "harm the normal sexual development of children". The publication of his views on this question brought on moves to have him removed from his appointment at Monash University and resulted in a public statement of the University dissociating itself from Cowen's views.
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Cowen was born in
Melbourne, Victoria, concluding his secondary education in New South Wales before attending the Australian National University in Canberra. His studies took him to the University of Munich and Monash University, from which he received a PhD in social philosophy in 1984.
32:(born 7 September 1951) is an Australian rabbi and academic. He is known for his research on, and advocacy for, the Noahide Laws, on the basis of which, he has publicly opposed homosexuality, looser abortion laws and voluntary assisted dying legislation.
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Judaism and society and culture, Cowen has made a major focus of his work, the study of the universal ethics, at the root of the world religions, which he elaborated upon in his book on the
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In 1998 he founded, and continues to direct, the
Institute for Judaism and Civilization. This institute was established to examine the “interface between Judaism and the arts, sciences and values of general society”.
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Seder bircas hanehenin (English translation of, and commentary on, a classic work of Jewish law by Rabbi
Schneur Zalman of Liadi (New York: Kehot, 1997). Second edition with revisions published 2007.
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The
Rediscovery of the Human – Basic Texts of Viktor E. Frankl, Melbourne and Philadelphia: Institute for Judaism and Civilization, 2004. Revised and expanded second edition 2014.
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Jewish
Thought in Context - Studies in the relationships of Jewish and secular thought, Melbourne: Monash University (Series: Monographs in Judaism and Civilization), 1998, 2000
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Maimonides' Principles - Dialectics and the structure of Jewish belief, Melbourne: Monash
University (Series: Monographs in Judaism and Civilization), 1998, 2000,
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The Theory and
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The Human Being in the Image of the Divine – The Psychology of Viktor E. Frankl, Melbourne: Institute for Judaism and Civilization, 2017
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There is more than this... Lectures for Campion College, Melbourne: Institute for Judaism and Civilization, 2015.
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