Mirror Of Morality

Author : Julia K. Murray
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780824863647

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Mirror of Morality takes an interdisciplinary look at an important form of pictorial art produced during two millennia of Chinese imperial rule. Ideas about individual morality and state ideology were based on the ancient teachings of Confucius with modifications by later interpreters and government institutions. Throughout the imperial period, members of the elite made, sponsored, and inscribed or used illustrations of themes taken from history, literature, and recent events to promote desired conduct among various social groups. This dimension of Chinese art history has never before been broadly covered or investigated in historical context. The first half of the study examines the nature of narrative illustration in China and traces the evolution of its functions, conventions, and rhetorical strategies from the second century BCE through the eleventh century. Under the stimulus of Buddhism, sophisticated techniques developed for representing stories in visual form. While tracing changes in the social functions and cultural positions of narrative illustration, the second half of the book argues that narrative illustration continued to play a vital role in elite visual culture.

Author : Julia K. Murray
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780824830014

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“Fascinate is a riveting journey through the forces of fascination—how it irresistibly shapes our ideas, opinions, and relationships—and how to wield it to your advantage.” — Alan Webber, author of Rules of Thumb In Fascinate, advertising and media personality Sally Hogshead explores what triggers fascination—one of the most powerful ways to attract attention and influence behavior—and explains how companies can use these concepts to make their products and ideas irresistible to consumers. Marketing professionals of every ilk will find much of use in the pages of Fascinate; in the words of business guru Tom Peters, “fascination is arguably the most powerful of product attachments,” and Fascinate a “pioneering book [that] helps us approach the word and the concept in a thoughtful and also practical manner.”

Author : Margaret Gibson,Clarissa Carden
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030474959

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The Moral Uncanny in Black Mirror by Margaret Gibson,Clarissa Carden Pdf

This erudite volume examines the moral universe of the hit Netflix show Black Mirror. It brings together scholars in media studies, cultural studies, anthropology, literature, philosophy, psychology, theatre and game studies to analyse the significance and reverberations of Charlie Brooker’s dystopian universe with our present-day technologically mediated life world. Brooker’s ground-breaking Black Mirror anthology generates often disturbing and sometimes amusing future imaginaries of the dark side of ubiquitous screen life, as it unleashes the power of the uncanny. This book takes the psychoanalytic idea of the uncanny into a moral framework befitting Black Mirror’s dystopian visions. The volume suggests that the Black Mirror anthology doesn’t just make the viewer feel, on the surface, a strange recognition of closeness to some of its dystopian scenarios, but also makes us realise how very fragile, wavering, fractured, and uncertain is the human moral compass.

Author : Rabun M. Taylor,Rabun Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521866125

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The Moral Mirror of Roman Art by Rabun M. Taylor,Rabun Taylor Pdf

This book explores the meanings of mirrors and reflections in Roman art and society.

Author : Shadi Bartsch
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226038353

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The Mirror of the Self by Shadi Bartsch Pdf

People in the ancient world thought of vision as both an ethical tool and a tactile sense, akin to touch. Gazing upon someone—or oneself—was treated as a path to philosophical self-knowledge, but the question of tactility introduced an erotic element as well. In The Mirror of the Self, Shadi Bartsch asserts that these links among vision, sexuality, and self-knowledge are key to the classical understanding of the self. Weaving together literary theory, philosophy, and social history, Bartsch traces this complex notion of self from Plato’s Greece to Seneca’s Rome. She starts by showing how ancient authors envisioned the mirror as both a tool for ethical self-improvement and, paradoxically, a sign of erotic self-indulgence. Her reading of the Phaedrus, for example, demonstrates that the mirroring gaze in Plato, because of its sexual possibilities, could not be adopted by Roman philosophers and their students. Bartsch goes on to examine the Roman treatment of the ethical and sexual gaze, and she traces how self-knowledge, the philosopher’s body, and the performance of virtue all played a role in shaping the Roman understanding of the nature of selfhood. Culminating in a profoundly original reading of Medea, The Mirror of the Self illustrates how Seneca, in his Stoic quest for self-knowledge, embodies the Roman view, marking a new point in human thought about self-perception. Bartsch leads readers on a journey that unveils divided selves, moral hypocrisy, and lustful Stoics—and offers fresh insights about seminal works. At once sexy and philosophical, The Mirror of the Self will be required reading for classicists, philosophers, and anthropologists alike.

Author : Ralf Koerrenz,Andreas Schmidt,Klaus Vieweg,Elizabeth Watts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3657707026

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West-Eastern Mirror by Ralf Koerrenz,Andreas Schmidt,Klaus Vieweg,Elizabeth Watts Pdf

Author : Steven Hitlin,Stephen Vaisey
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441968968

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Handbook of the Sociology of Morality by Steven Hitlin,Stephen Vaisey Pdf

Human beings necessarily understand their social worlds in moral terms, orienting their lives, relationships, and activities around socially-produced notions of right and wrong. Morality is sociologically understood as more than simply helping or harming others; it encompasses any way that individuals form understandings of what behaviors are better than others, what goals are most laudable, and what "proper" people believe, feel, and do. Morality involves the explicit and implicit sets of rules and shared understandings that keep human social groups intact. Morality includes both the "shoulds" and "should nots" of human activity, its proactive and inhibitive elements. At one time, sociologists were centrally concerned with morality, issues like social cohesion, values, the goals and norms that structure society, and the ways individuals get socialized to reproduce those concerns. In the last half-century, however, explicit interest in these topics has waned, and modern sociology has become uninterested in these matters and morality has become marginalized within the discipline. But a resurgence in the topic is happening in related disciplines – psychology, neurology, philosophy, and anthropology - and in the wider national discourse. Sociology has much to offer, but is not fully engaged in this conversation. Many scholars work on areas that would fall under the umbrella of a sociology of morality but do not self-identify in such a manner, nor orient their efforts toward conceptualizing what we know, and should know, along these dimensions. The Handbook of the Sociology of Morality fills a niche within sociology making explicit the shared concerns of scholars across the disciplines as they relate to an often-overlooked dimension of human social life. It is unique in social science as it would be the first systematic compilation of the wider social structural, cultural, cross-national, organizational, and interactional dimension of human moral (understood broadly) thought, feeling, and behavior.

Author : Adriaan J. Barnouw
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9789401175302

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The Mirror of Salvation by Adriaan J. Barnouw Pdf

In two world wars waged within the life time of one generation Death reaped a prolific harvest. His most formidable scythe in former days was not war but pestilence. But since medical science has forged all kinds of weapons wherewith to strike that dreaded tool out of his knuckles he resorted in our lifetime to a new technique of morticulture which has yielded him un dreamt-of results. Using race hatred as fertilizer he has grown on the soil of the globe a crop of dead whose size baffles the imagination. The executioners whom he employed in Hitler's Germany kept careful record of the loathsome work they did for him in torture camps and gas chambers. They reckoned that six million Jews were delivered to Death by their efforts. In Holland alone only fifteen thousand of her one hundred and fifty thousand Jews survived the massacre. Death was the chief war profiteer. Though his inflated power was reduced by the overthrow of his Nazi henchmen, his innings are still large as he stalks across the world with his satellites Poverty, Hunger, and Disease.

Author : Charles Daniel Batson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199355570

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What's Wrong with Morality? by Charles Daniel Batson Pdf

Most works on moral psychology consider morality an unalloyed good. Drawing primarily on social-psychological theory and research, this book looks at morality as a problem. The problem is that we often fail live up to our own moral standards. Why?

Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1584656646

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On Philosophy, Morality, and Religion by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Pdf

An essential general reader and course adoption anthology

Author : Henry Rosemont
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Business ethics
ISBN : UOM:39015024799366

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A Chinese Mirror by Henry Rosemont Pdf

"Henry Rosemont raises hard questions, commonly overlooked, and does so with sensitivity, compassion, and broad understanding. The questions focus on modern China, but extend far beyond, to general problems of development, the moral foundations of civilization, and the nature of a just society. It is a challenging and thoughtful enquiry." --Noam Chomsky

Author : P. Stokes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230251267

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Kierkegaard’s Mirrors by P. Stokes Pdf

What is it to see the world, other people, and imagined situations as making personal moral demands of us? What is it to experience stories as speaking to us personally and directly? Kierkegaard's Mirrors explores Kierkegaard's answers to these questions, with a new phenomenological interpretation of Kierkegaardian 'interest'.

Author : Roger V. Moseley
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781525537301

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Morality: A Natural History by Roger V. Moseley Pdf

What is morality and what is the source of our moral ideas? Philosophers have explored these questions for centuries, suggesting that both emotion and reason play roles but failing to explain how and why Homo sapiens developed these ideas. Author Roger Moseley argues that evolutionary forces that optimize human welfare provide the missing explanation. Morality: A Natural History presents a multi-disciplinary analysis of the topic and reveals a common thread among the seemingly diverse fields of religion, neuroscience, experimental psychology and game theory, child development, evolution and animal behavior, and anthropology and sociology. When humans first appeared, a simple self-interested survival morality sufficed. As societies became more complex, however, rules of behavior became necessary to limit conflict and promote cooperation. The brain evolved, producing language that allowed the articulation of moral ideas which were codified and enforced by religion and social forces. No species lasts forever, and it is at our peril today that we neglect those evolved moral values of cooperation, altruism, truthfulness, and empathy. Rooted in scientific evidence and interspersed with personal anecdotes and humorous observations, Moseley provides a unique perspective on the natural history of morality – how it appeared, evolved, and continues to evolve today. Morality: A Natural History is essential reading for academics and laypersons alike who seek to understand the origin and essence of human morality.

Author : Bongrae Seok
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739148938

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Embodied Moral Psychology and Confucian Philosophy by Bongrae Seok Pdf

This is a book about the body and its amazing contribution to the moral mind. The author focuses on the important roles the body plays in moral cognition. What happens to us when we observe moral violations, make moral judgments and engage in moral actions? How does the body affect our moral decisions and shape our moral dispositions? Can embodied moral psychology be consistently pursued as a viable alternative to disembodied traditions of moral philosophy? Is there any school of philosophy where the body is discussed as the underlying foundation of moral judgment and action? To answer these questions, the author analyzes Confucian philosophy as an intriguing and insightful example of embodied moral psychology.

Author : Richard J. Severson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781538128879

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A Moral Theory of Sports by Richard J. Severson Pdf

The breadth of our moral experience is more extensive than has been believed over the past several millennia. There is more to morality than being honest and good, or aspiring to universal principles. In fact, in many ways the morality of our distant ancestors bears a remarkable resemblance to the moral experiences of modern athletes. In A Moral Theory of Sports, ethicist Richard J. Severson brings together stories from today’s sports world and the moral practices of hunter-gatherers to shed new light on both sports and morality. Guided by anthropologists, biologists, neuroscientists, and others, Severson discusses what the moral life actually looked like for hunter-gatherer bands in the late Pleistocene epoch and argues that the championing of group success that was the epitome of their morality is the epitome of modern sports, as well. With fascinating analogies and anecdotes from football, basketball, tennis, cycling, and more, A Moral Theory of Sports offers a unique interpretation of human nature and our love affair with sports.