Measuring Immorality

Author : Gail Reekie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1998-10-13
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0521629748

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Measuring Immorality by Gail Reekie Pdf

Why do conservative politicians and scholars in Britain, Australia and the United States continue to view rising rates of out-of-wedlock births and teenage pregnancies as a threat to civilised society? This book examines the process by which social science transforms a biological event - a birth - into a social and moral problem. Drawing on Foucault's 'archaeology of knowledge', Reekie stresses the role of statistics and other social-scientific discourses in the emergence of the illegitimacy 'problem' in the early nineteenth century and its continuing cultural significance. The book illustrates the continuity in concerns about illegitimacy, including pressure on the welfare system, fears of racial and intellectual denigration, the detrimental nature of fatherless families, and the association of rising illegitimacy with the supposed selfishness of excessively independent women.

Author : Garry Young
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781793639202

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Fictional Immorality and Immoral Fiction by Garry Young Pdf

It is commonplace for fictional content to depict immoral activities: the kidnapping of a politician, for example, or the elaborate theft of a national treasure, or perhaps the gruesome proclivities of a sadistic murderer. These and similar depictions can be found across a range of media, and in varying degrees of detail and realism. Fictional Immorality and Immoral Fiction examines potential conditions for transforming fictional immorality into immoral fiction, in order to establish what makes a depiction of fictional immorality and/or one’s engagement with it immoral. To achieve this aim, Garry Young analyzes fictional content, its meaning, one’s motivation for engaging with it, and the medium in which the fiction is presented (such as film, literature, theatre, video games) using philosophical inquiry. The end result is a systematic examination of fictional immorality, which contributes toward debates on the morality of depicting and engaging with fictional immorality, as well as the reach of censorship and other forms of prohibition, especially when the act depicted is of the kind that would be most egregious if carried out in reality.

Author : Carlos A. Ball
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780199977871

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Same-sex Marriage and Children by Carlos A. Ball Pdf

This text brings together historical, social science, and legal considerations to comprehensively respond to the objections to same-sex marriage that are based on the need to promote so-called 'responsible procreation' and child welfare.

Author : Steve Jones
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Science
ISBN : 0618565612

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Y by Steve Jones Pdf

Focusing on science not society, maleness not manhood, the book explores the 'point' of being a man, showing how the machinery works, why he dies so young and how his brain differs from the rest of mankind.

Author : Yalidy Matos
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Emigration and immigration
ISBN : 9780197656259

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Moral and Immoral Whiteness in Immigration Politics by Yalidy Matos Pdf

Immigration has been at the heart of US politics for centuries. In Moral and Immoral Whiteness in Immigration Politics, Yalidy Matos examines the inherent moral, value-based, nature of white Americans' immigration attitudes, including preferences on local immigration enforcement programs, federal immigration policy, and levels of legal immigration allowed. Does identifying as white always signify a commitment to maintain the racial status quo or can it result in commitments to racial justice? How do we understand the passage of state-level sanctuary and anti-sanctuary immigration legislation through a white identity political lens? Thinking about whiteness as a moral choice complicates the idea that immigration policy preferences are mostly about demographic shifts. To examine the centrality of morality in white Americans' immigration attitudes, Matos looks at public opinion survey data as well as the roll call votes of elected officials. She examines the conditions under which white Americans choose to reproduce a system structured on white supremacy or repudiate it, as well as the role of socialization in their choices and immigration attitudes. As immigration continues to be weaponized to divide, Matos highlights the importance of understanding the roots of immigration attitudes in the United States and the ways in which whiteness structures these attitudes.

Author : Ned Snow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780197614402

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Intellectual Property and Immorality by Ned Snow Pdf

Introduction -- Moral limitations in IP theory -- Arguments against denying protection -- The problem of judicial moral discretion -- Works involving unlawful conduct -- Judicial history on unlawful works -- The progress provision as a limitation -- Progress, science, and useful arts -- Legislating morality -- Free speech -- Tying it all together.

Author : Rabbi Nilton Bonder
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781570629242

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Our Immoral Soul by Rabbi Nilton Bonder Pdf

A treatise on when and why to heed your soul's transgressive instinct, with examples drawn from biblical history and Hasidic lore. Rabbi Bonder turns a few conventional ideas on their heads as he identifies the forces at play in individual, social, and spiritual transformation. Many people believe that obedience to the established moral order leads to the well-being of society as well as the salvation of their souls. On the contrary, says Bonder, the human spirit is nourished by the impulse to betray and transgress the ways of the past. Even the Bible legitimizes our God-given urge to disobey in order to evolve, grow, and transcend. It is this "immoral" soul of ours that impels us to do battle with God--and out of this clash, Bonder predicts, a new humanity will emerge. In the course of discussion, he examines a variety of intriguing issues touching on religion, science, and culture, including the findings of evolutionary psychology; the relation of body and soul; infidelity in marriage; the stereotype of Jew as traitor; sacrifice and redemption in Judaism and Christianity; and the Messiah as archetypal transgressor.

Author : Robert Owen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017906668

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Lectures on the Marriages of the Priesthood of the old immoral World, delivered in the year 1835, before the passing of the new Marriage Act ... Fourth edition, etc by Robert Owen Pdf

Author : Daniel Scott Mayfield
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110431599

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Artful Immorality – Variants of Cynicism by Daniel Scott Mayfield Pdf

When a term is overused, it tends to fall out of fashion. Cynicism seems to be an exception. Its polytropic versatility apparently prevents any discontinuation of its application. Everyone knows that cynicism denotes that which is deemed deleterious at a given time; and every time will specify its toxicities – the apparent result being the term’s non-specificity. This study describes the cynical stance and statement so as to render the term’s use scholarly expedient.Close readings of textual sources commonly deemed cynical provide a legible starting point. A rhetorical analysis of aphorisms ascribed to the arch-Cynic Diogenes facilitates describing the design of cynical statements, as well as the characteristic features of the cynical stance. These patterns are identifiable in later texts generally labeled cynical – above all in Machiavelli’s Principe. With recourse to the Diogenical archetype, cynicism is likewise rendered describable in Gracián’s Oráculo manual, Diderot’s Le neveu de Rameau, and Nietzsche’s Posthumous Fragments.This study’s description of cynicism provides a phenomenon otherwise considered amorphous with distinct contours, renders transparent its workings, and tenders a dependable basis for further analyses.

Author : Daniel Aaron Effron
Publisher : Stanford University
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:hy823jy3791

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The Immoral Road Not Taken by Daniel Aaron Effron Pdf

A series of studies supported the hypotheses that (H1) reflecting on immoral alternatives to one's past behavior can license one to act less virtuously in the future, and that (H2) the motivation to feel or appear virtuous can lead one to invent immoral alternatives to one's past behavior. Supporting H1, when White participants performed a behavior that did vs. did not have a racist alternative, they felt that they had obtained evidence of their morality (Pilot Study), they expressed less racial sensitivity (Study 1), and, if they had relatively prejudiced racial attitudes, they were more likely to state a preference for hiring Whites instead of Blacks for a particular job (Study 2). Supporting H2, when White participants were motivated to feel non-racist, they remembered a prior task as having afforded more racist alternatives to their behavior (Studies 3-5). Additional support was obtained in the domain of weight-loss. In support of H1, reflecting on unhealthy alternatives to their recent behavior licensed participants to express weaker intentions to pursue their weight-loss goals (Study 6), and, if they habitually placed little restraint on their eating, to consume more of an unhealthy food (Study 7). Supporting H2, the desire to eat an unhealthy food without compunction led participants to construe alternatives to their prior food choices as having been unhealthier (Study 8). Discussion focuses on moral behavior, self-control, identity concerns, and the motivated rewriting of one's moral history.

Author : Sophia Vasalou
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192577160

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The Measure of Greatness by Sophia Vasalou Pdf

Magnanimity is a virtue that has led many lives. Foregrounded early on by Plato as a philosophical virtue par excellence, it became one of the crown jewels in Aristotle's account of human excellence and was accorded equally salient place by other ancient thinkers. It is one of the most distinctive elements of the ancient tradition to filter into the medieval Islamic and Christian worlds. It sparked important intellectual engagements and went on to carve deep tracks through several of the later philosophies to inherit from this tradition. Under changing names and reworked forms, it would continue to breathe in the thought of Descartes and Hume, Kant, and Nietzsche. Its many lives have been joined by important continuities, yet they have also been fragmented by discontinuities — discontinuities reflecting larger shifts in ethical perspectives and competing answers to questions about the nature of the good life, the moral nature of human beings, and their relationship to the social and natural world they inhabit. They have also been punctuated by moments of intense controversy in which the vision of human greatness has itself been called into doubt. The aim of this volume is to provide an insight into the complex trajectory of a virtue whose glitter has at times been as dazzling as it has been divisive. By exploring the many lives it has lived, we will be in a better position to evaluate whether this is a virtue we still want to make central to our own ethical lives, and why.

Author : United States. Immigration Commission (1907-1910)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Emigration and immigration
ISBN : CORNELL:31924064511623

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Steerage conditions. Importation and harboring of women for immoral purposes. Immigrant homes and aid societies. Immigrant banks by United States. Immigration Commission (1907-1910) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1162 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Bar associations
ISBN : STANFORD:36105062246090

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Law Society Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Theodore Parker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Sermons, American
ISBN : IOWA:31858049638517

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A Sermon of the Consequences of an Immoral Principle and False Idea of Life by Theodore Parker Pdf

Author : Theodore Sedgwick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Damages
ISBN : UOM:35112104302791

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A Treatise on the Measure of Damages by Theodore Sedgwick Pdf