Embodying Morality

Author : Helle Rydstrom
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0824825241

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Embodying Morality by Helle Rydstrom Pdf

One of the first anthropological studies based on extensive fieldwork in Vietnam in decades, Embodying Morality examines child-rearing in a rural Red River delta commune. It is a sophisticated and intriguing exploration of the ways in which a family system based on principles of male descent influences the moral upbringing and learning of girls and boys. In Vietnamese culture boys alone perpetuate the patrilineal family line; they incorporate the past, present, and future morality, honor, and reputation of their father's lineage. Within this patrilineal universe, girls are viewed as blank sheets of paper and must compensate for this deficiency by embodying tinh cam (sensitivity, sense). Such attitudes play a significant role in the upbringing of girls and boys and in how they learn to use and understand their bodies. Helle Rydstrøm offers fresh data--from audiotapes, videotapes, textbooks, observations in the home and at school--for identifying the transformation of local and educational constructions of females, males, and morality into body styles of girls, boys, women, and men. She highlights the extent to which body performances in daily life produce, reproduce, and challenge widespread northern Vietnamese ideals of femininity and masculinity. The author's highly original application of post-structuralist theory to Vietnam blends epistemology, practice, body, and socialization theories with feminist analysis and relates these to children's learning. By proposing the body as an analytic category that can move feminist theory beyond the impasse of the well-established opposition between sex and gender, Embodying Morality demonstrates vividly how specific cultural elaborations of corporeality are learned, lived, and experienced in contemporary rural Vietnam.

Author : Carolin Demuth,Pirkko Raudaskoski,Sanna Raudaskoski
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782889636907

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Lived Culture and Psychology: Sharedness and Normativity as Discursive, Embodied and Affective Engagements with the World in Social Interaction by Carolin Demuth,Pirkko Raudaskoski,Sanna Raudaskoski Pdf

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact.

Author : Sean Coyle
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0754623998

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From Positivism to Idealism by Sean Coyle Pdf

Illuminating the idea of legality by a consideration of its moral nature, this book explores the emergence and development of two rival traditions of legal thought (those of 'positivism' and 'idealism') which together define the structure of modern juridical thought. In doing so, it consciously departs from many of the tendencies and working assumptions that define modern legal philosophy.

Author : Michael Nill
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9004073191

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Morality and Self Interest in Protagoras Antiphon and Democritus by Michael Nill Pdf

Author : Clem Henricson
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447323822

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Morality and Public Policy by Clem Henricson Pdf

Spanning religion, moral philosophy and scientific understanding of the human conditions, this unique book adds to the latest thinking on morality, proposing ways to enhance the capacity of public policy to respond to morality and associated shifts in social mores in different cultural settings.

Author : Steven Ang
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781782546689

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The Moral Dimensions of Intellectual Property Rights by Steven Ang Pdf

In a globalized world with globalizing IPRs where culturally assumed norms must be re-examined, this work has an urgent and important contribution to make. Taking the main features of internationally mandated IPRs as a starting point it explores the mo

Author : Motsamai Molefe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030155612

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An African Philosophy of Personhood, Morality, and Politics by Motsamai Molefe Pdf

This book explores the salient ethical idea of personhood in African philosophy. It is a philosophical exposition that pursues the ethical and political consequences of the normative idea of personhood as a robust or even foundational ethical category. Personhood refers to the moral achievements of the moral agent usually captured in terms of a virtuous character, which have consequences for both morality and politics. The aim is not to argue for the plausibility of the ethical and political consequences of the idea of personhood. Rather, the book showcases some of the moral-political content and consequences of the account it presents.

Author : Simon Robertson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198722212

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Nietzsche and Contemporary Ethics by Simon Robertson Pdf

Nietzsche is one of the most subversive thinkers of the western philosophical canon. Yet until recently, his ethics has been sidelined within Anglophone moral philosophy. Simon Robertson offers the first sustained, single-authored critical assessment of his ethical thought and its significance, arguing that Nietzsche raises well-motivated challenges to morality's objectivity, authority, and value. Nietzsche and Contemporary Ethics develops insightful arguments about ethical objectivity, the pitfalls of internalising moral values, and the relation between good and bad. Robertson concludes by considering Nietzsche's broader import: how he challenges our usual views of what ethics itself is--and what it, and we, should be doing.

Author : Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka,Calvin O. Schrag
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400969759

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Foundations of Morality, Human Rights, and the Human Sciences by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka,Calvin O. Schrag Pdf

The essays in this volume constitute a portion of the research program being carried out by the International Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences. Established as an affiliate society of the World Institute for Ad vanced Phenomenological Research and Learning in 1976, in Arezzo, Italy, by the president of the Institute, Dr Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, this particular society is devoted to an exploration of the relevance of phenomenological methods and insights for an understanding of the origins and goals of the specialised human sciences. The essays printed in the first part of the book were originally presented at the Second Congress of this society held at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 12-14 July 1979. The second part of the volume consists of selected essays from the third convention (the Eleventh International Congress of Phenomenology of the World Phenomen ology Institute) held in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1981. With the third part of this book we pass into the "Human Rights" issue as treated by the World Phenomenology Institute at the Interamerican Philosophy Congress held in Tallahassee, Florida, also in 1981. The volume opens with a mono graph by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka on the foundations of ethics in the moral practice within the life-world and the social world shown as clearly distinct. The main ideas of this work had been presented by Tymieniecka as lead lectures to the three conferences giving them a tight research-project con sistency.

Author : James Thompson Bixby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Ethics, Evolutionary
ISBN : HARVARD:32044014249486

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The Crisis in Morals by James Thompson Bixby Pdf

Author : John Hartland-Swann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317411796

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An Analysis of Morals by John Hartland-Swann Pdf

First published in 1960, this book is intended to be a concise but complete treatise on Ethics. In the course of our lives we all face moral problems. Some of these we solve easily, some with difficulty and some not at all. It is the job of the moral philosopher to examine the general nature of these problems and to investigate their logical significance. His task however extends beyond investigating what are specifically moral problems; for he is concerned with the whole field of moral discourse – that is, with moral prescriptions and evaluations of all kinds. For this reason the branch of philosophy known as Ethics may usefully be defined as the study of the logic of moral discourse. This volume is written in clear and straightforward language and is liberally illustrated with practical examples. It should appeal, not only to teachers and students of Ethics in universities, but also to the general reader who is interested in seeing how an important branch of philosophy is presented with the aid of analytical methods.

Author : Ann Gagné
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793617316

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Embodying the Tactile in Victorian Literature by Ann Gagné Pdf

Embodying the Tactile in Victorian Literature: Touching Bodies/Bodies Touching explores the importance of sensory studies in mid to late-Victorian literature. Ann Gagné reconciles the social and cultural issues surrounding embodiment, particularly gendered embodiment, through the lens of tactility and how touch can function as embodied residue. The main focus on tactility highlights bodily interactions through narrative description and positions lived experience as narrated and witnessed on the body through touch. By exploring four distinct types of tactility—reciprocal touch, architectural touch, self-touch, and telepathic touch—found in Victorian literature, Gagné reveals a larger social and cultural focus on ethics, care, the built environment, and pedagogy. Through analyses of more canonical texts such as Goblin Market alongside lesser known works by canonical authors such as Wilkie Collins’s “Mrs. Zant and the Ghost,” Gagné demonstrates how these same sensory considerations continue to be important today.

Author : Maria Pia Lara
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231162807

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The Disclosure of Politics by Maria Pia Lara Pdf

María Pía Lara explores the ambiguity of secularization and the theoretical potential of a structural break between politics and religion. For Lara, secularization means the translation of religious semantics into politics; a transformation of religious notions into political ideas; and the reoccupation of a space left void by changing political actors, one that gives rise to new conceptions of political interaction. Conceptual innovation redefines politics as a horizontal relationship between governments and the governed, better enabling societies (and political actors) to articulate meaning through action.

Author : Rahul Sagar
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691168180

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Secrets and Leaks by Rahul Sagar Pdf

Secrets and Leaks examines the complex relationships among executive power, national security, and secrecy. State secrecy is vital for national security, but it can also be used to conceal wrongdoing. How then can we ensure that this power is used responsibly? Typically, the onus is put on lawmakers and judges, who are expected to oversee the executive. Yet because these actors lack access to the relevant information and the ability to determine the harm likely to be caused by its disclosure, they often defer to the executive's claims about the need for secrecy. As a result, potential abuses are more often exposed by unauthorized disclosures published in the press. But should such disclosures, which violate the law, be condoned? Drawing on several cases, Rahul Sagar argues that though whistleblowing can be morally justified, the fear of retaliation usually prompts officials to act anonymously--that is, to "leak" information. As a result, it becomes difficult for the public to discern when an unauthorized disclosure is intended to further partisan interests. Because such disclosures are the only credible means of checking the executive, Sagar writes, they must be tolerated, and, at times, even celebrated. However, the public should treat such disclosures skeptically and subject irresponsible journalism to concerted criticism.

Author : Rahul Sagar
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691149875

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Who Guards the Guardians - Secrecy in Government by Rahul Sagar Pdf

Secrets and Leaks examines the complex relationships among executive power, national security, and secrecy. State secrecy is vital for national security, but it can also be used to conceal wrongdoing. How then can we ensure that this power is used responsibly? Typically, the onus is put on lawmakers and judges, who are expected to oversee the executive. Yet because these actors lack access to the relevant information and the ability to determine the harm likely to be caused by its disclosure, they often defer to the executive's claims about the need for secrecy. As a result, potential abuses are more often exposed by unauthorized disclosures published in the press. But should such disclosures, which violate the law, be condoned? Drawing on several cases, Rahul Sagar argues that though whistleblowing can be morally justified, the fear of retaliation usually prompts officials to act anonymously--that is, to "leak" information. As a result, it becomes difficult for the public to discern when an unauthorized disclosure is intended to further partisan interests. Because such disclosures are the only credible means of checking the executive, Sagar writes, they must be tolerated. However, the public should treat such disclosures skeptically and subject irresponsible journalism to concerted criticism.