Ethical Experience

Author : Benda Hofmeyr
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402093470

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Radical Passivity by Benda Hofmeyr Pdf

Levinas’s ethical metaphysics is essentially a meditation on what makes ethical agency possible – that which enables us to act in the interest of another, to put the well-being of another before our own. This line of questioning found its inception in and drew its inspiration from the mass atrocities that occurred during the Second World War. The Holocaust , like the Cambodian genocide, or those in Rwanda and Srebrenica, exemplifies what have come to be known as the ‘never again’ situations. After these events, we looked back each time, with varying degrees of incomprehension, horror, anger and shame, asking ourselves how we could possibly have let it all happen again. And yet, atrocity crimes are still rampant. After Rwanda (1994) and Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992–1995), came Kosovo (1999) and Darfur (2003). In our present-day world , hate crimes motivated by racial, sexual, or other prejudice, and mass hate such as genocide and terror, are on the rise (think, for example, of Burma, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka and North Korea). A critical revaluation of the conditions of possibility of ethical agency is therefore more necessary than ever. This volume is committed to the possibility of ‘never again’. It is dedicated to all the victims – living and dead – of what Levinas calls the ‘sober, Cain-like coldness’ at the root of all crime against humanity , as much as every singular crime against another human being .

Author : Nicolle Zapien,Susi Ferrarello
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350008168

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Ethical Experience by Nicolle Zapien,Susi Ferrarello Pdf

Ethical Experience provides a unique phenomenological dialogue between psychology and philosophy. This novel approach focuses on lived experiences that belong to daily practical life, such self-identity and ethical decision-making. This practical focus enables the reader to explore how ethics relates to psychology and how the ethical agent determines herself within her surrounding community and world. Using Husserl's ethics the authors present a phenomenological approach moral psychology that offers an alternative to cognitive and neuroscientific theories. This is a practical and theoretically rigorous textbook that will be of use to those researching and studying ethics, morality, psychology and religion.

Author : Robert Sinnerbrink
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317336112

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Cinematic Ethics by Robert Sinnerbrink Pdf

How do movies evoke and express ethical ideas? What role does our emotional involvement play in this process? What makes the aesthetic power of cinema ethically significant? Cinematic Ethics: Exploring Ethical Experience through Film addresses these questions by examining the idea of cinema as a medium of ethical experience with the power to provoke emotional understanding and philosophical thinking. In a clear and engaging style, Robert Sinnerbrink examines the key philosophical approaches to ethics in contemporary film theory and philosophy using detailed case studies of cinematic ethics across different genres, styles, and filmic traditions. Written in a lucid and lively style that will engage both specialist and non-specialist readers, this book is ideal for use in the academic study of philosophy and film. Key features include annotated suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter and a filmography of movies useful for teaching and researching cinematic ethics.

Author : Jennifer M. Morton
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780691216935

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Moving Up Without Losing Your Way by Jennifer M. Morton Pdf

"Upward mobility through the path of higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class, low-income, and immigrant college students. While we know this path usually entails financial sacrifices and hard work, very little attention has been paid to the deep personal compromises such students have to make as they enter worlds vastly different from their own. Measuring the true cost of higher education for those from disadvantaged backgrounds, Moving Up without Losing Your Way looks at the ethical dilemmas of upward mobility--the broken ties with family and friends, the severed connections with former communities, and the loss of identity--faced by students as they strive to earn a successful place in society"--Dust jacket.

Author : Tim Chappell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317492641

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Ethics and Experience by Tim Chappell Pdf

"Ethics and Experience" presents a wide-ranging and thought-provoking introduction to the question famously posed by Socrates: How is life to be lived? 'An excellent primer for any student taking a course on moral philosophy, the book introduces ethics as a single and broadly unified field of inquiry in which we apply reason to try and solve Socrates' question. "Ethics and Experience "examines the major forms of ethical subjectivism and objectivism - including expressivism, error theory', naturalism, and intuitionism. The book lays out the detail of the most significant contemporary moral theories - including utilitarianism, virtue ethics, Kantianism, and contractarianism - and reconsiders these theories in the light of two questions that should perhaps be asked more often: Is moral theory, with its tendency to regiment ethical thought and experience, really the best way for us to apply reason to deciding how to live? And, might it not be more truly reasonable to look for less system and more insight?

Author : Mika Ojakangas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781623561673

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The Voice of Conscience by Mika Ojakangas Pdf

In Western thought, it has been persistently assumed that in moral and political matters, people should rely on the inner voice of conscience rather than on external authorities, laws, and regulations. This volume investigates this concept, examining the development of the Western politics of conscience, from Socrates to the present, and the formation of the Western ethico-political subject. The work opens with a discussion of the ambiguous role of conscience in politics, contesting the claim that it is the best defense against totalitarianism. It then look back at canonical authors, from the Church Fathers and Luther to Rousseau and Derrida, to show how the experience of conscience constitutes the foundation of Western ethics and politics. This unique work not only synthesizes philosophical and political insights, but also pays attention to political theology to provide a compelling and innovative argument that the experience of conscience has always been at the core of the political Western tradition. An engaging and accessible text, it will appeal to political theorists and philosophers as well as theologians and those interested in the critique of the Western civilization.

Author : Jill Stauffer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231538732

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Ethical Loneliness by Jill Stauffer Pdf

Ethical loneliness is the experience of being abandoned by humanity, compounded by the cruelty of wrongs not being acknowledged. It is the result of multiple lapses on the part of human beings and political institutions that, in failing to listen well to survivors, deny them redress by negating their testimony and thwarting their claims for justice. Jill Stauffer examines the root causes of ethical loneliness and how those in power revise history to serve their own ends rather than the needs of the abandoned. Out of this discussion, difficult truths about the desire and potential for political forgiveness, transitional justice, and political reconciliation emerge. Moving beyond a singular focus on truth commissions and legal trials, she considers more closely what is lost in the wake of oppression and violence, how selves and worlds are built and demolished, and who is responsible for re-creating lives after they are destroyed. Stauffer boldly argues that rebuilding worlds and just institutions after violence is a broad obligation and that those who care about justice must first confront their own assumptions about autonomy, liberty, and responsibility before an effective response to violence can take place. In building her claims, Stauffer draws on the work of Emmanuel Levinas, Jean Améry, Eve Sedgwick, and Friedrich Nietzsche, as well as concrete cases of justice and injustice across the world.

Author : Jesse Rosenthal
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691196640

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Good Form by Jesse Rosenthal Pdf

What do we mean when we say that a novel's conclusion "feels right"? How did feeling, form, and the sense of right and wrong get mixed up, during the nineteenth century, in the experience of reading a novel? Good Form argues that Victorian readers associated the feeling of narrative form—of being pulled forward to a satisfying conclusion—with inner moral experience. Reclaiming the work of a generation of Victorian “intuitionist” philosophers who insisted that true morality consisted in being able to feel or intuit the morally good, Jesse Rosenthal shows that when Victorians discussed the moral dimensions of reading novels, they were also subtly discussing the genre’s formal properties. For most, Victorian moralizing is one of the period’s least attractive and interesting qualities. But Good Form argues that the moral interpretation of novel experience was essential in the development of the novel form—and that this moral approach is still a fundamental, if unrecognized, part of how we understand novels. Bringing together ideas from philosophy, literary history, and narrative theory, Rosenthal shows that we cannot understand the formal principles of the novel that we have inherited from the nineteenth century without also understanding the moral principles that have come with them. Good Form helps us to understand the way Victorians read, but it also helps us to understand the way we read now.

Author : Lloyd Steffen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781442216556

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Ethics and Experience by Lloyd Steffen Pdf

Ethics and Experience introduces students to the key topics in moral theory through provocative moral issues—just war, abortion, physician assisted suicide, the death penalty and more. Steffen helps students bridge the gap between ethical theory and experience through developing a “common agreement” ethical system that is applicable to a variety of moral problems and issues with clear language and real-life examples.

Author : Wilhelm Max Wundt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Ethics
ISBN : UCAL:$B185638

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Ethics by Wilhelm Max Wundt Pdf

Author : Paul Tillich
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110884487

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Writings in the Social Philosophy and Ethics / Sozialphilosophische und ethische Schriften by Paul Tillich Pdf

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Author : Remy Debes,Karsten R. Stueber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107089617

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Ethical Sentimentalism by Remy Debes,Karsten R. Stueber Pdf

This volume provides the first comprehensive evaluation of 'sentimentalism' - one of the most dominant moral theories in philosophy today.

Author : M. Huemer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230597051

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Ethical Intuitionism by M. Huemer Pdf

A defence of ethical intuitionism where (i) there are objective moral truths; (ii) we know these through an immediate, intellectual awareness, or 'intuition'; and (iii) knowing them gives us reasons to act independent of our desires. The author rebuts the major objections to this theory and shows the difficulties in alternative theories of ethics.

Author : Timothy D. J. Chappell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : 6613456683

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Ethics and Experience by Timothy D. J. Chappell Pdf

""Ethics and Experience"" presents a wide-ranging and thought-provoking introduction to the question famously posed by Socrates: How is life to be lived? 'An excellent primer for any student taking a course on moral philosophy, the book introduces ethics as a single and broadly unified field of inquiry in which we apply reason to try and solve Socrates' question. ""Ethics and Experience ""examines the major forms of ethical subjectivism and objectivism - including expressivism, error theory', naturalism, and intuitionism. The book lays out the detail of the most significant contemporary moral.

Author : Susan Beth Rottmann
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789202700

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In Pursuit of Belonging by Susan Beth Rottmann Pdf

Belonging is a not a state that we achieve, but a struggle that we wage. The struggle for belonging is more difficult if one is returning to a homeland after many years abroad. In Pursuit of Belonging is an ethnography of Turkish migrants’ struggle for understanding, intimacy and appreciation when they return from Germany to their Turkish homeland. Drawing on an established tradition of life story writing in anthropology, Rottmann conveys the struggle to forge an ethical life by relating the experiences of a second-generation German-Turkish woman named Leyla.