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Ethics in Comedy

Author : Steven A. Benko
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476676410
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Ethics in Comedy written by Steven A. Benko and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-10-02 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All humans laugh. However, there is little agreement about what is appropriate to laugh at. While laughter can unite people by showing how they share values and perspectives, it also has the power to separate and divide. Humor that "crosses the line" can make people feel excluded and humiliated. This collection of new essays addresses possible ways that moral and ethical lines can be drawn around humor and laughter. What would a Kantian approach to humor look like? Do games create a safe space for profanity and offense? Contributors to this volume work to establish and explain guidelines for thinking about the moral questions that arise when humor and laughter intersect with medicine, gender, race, and politics. Drawing from the work of stand-up comedians, television shows, and ethicists, this volume asserts that we are never just joking.

Essays on Ethics and Culture

Author : Sabina Lovibond
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192668854
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Essays on Ethics and Culture written by Sabina Lovibond and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-17 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays discuss various ontological and epistemological questions in moral philosophy, drawing on ideas from Platonic-Aristotelian ethics, the later Wittgenstein, and Iris Murdoch, though without seeking to weave these into any unified system. The general approach is realist or objectivist, paying some attention to the role of imaginative literature (especially the novel) in ethical formation. A common theme is the lived experience of the socially situated subject, including our capacity for engagement with the values present in an inherited tradition or 'form of life'. Such engagement, once raised to consciousness, may contain elements both of affirmation and of cultural critique. In the book as a whole, the critical theme predominates, with a certain emphasis on discourses of social disruption. But it is always assumed that the right place to stand as an observer of the domain of value is within that domain, and that moral critique will be immanent with respect to the culture addressed—that is, it will make do with just the conceptual and linguistic resources available to ordinary participants in moral, political, or aesthetic conversation.

Ethics and Entertainment

Author : Howard Good
Publisher : McFarland Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780786439096
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Ethics and Entertainment written by Howard Good and published by McFarland Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As modern media shifts from the distribution of information to the creation of entertainment, a fresh inquiry into the ethics of media becomes vital. This collection of 19 essays provides useful guidelines and perspectives for the producers and consumers of entertainment. Topics covered include the contemporary creation of celebrity, the effects of entertainment on children, the hybridization of entertainment and news, author and intellectual property rights, and the role of human dignity in modern media, among many others. The essays question the nature and ethics of media entertainment as it becomes increasingly pervasive in our time.

Essays on Ethics and Culture

Author : Sabina Lovibond
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192856162
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Essays on Ethics and Culture written by Sabina Lovibond and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays discuss various ontological and epistemological questions in moral philosophy, drawing on ideas from Platonic-Aristotelian ethics, the later Wittgenstein, and Iris Murdoch, though without seeking to weave these into any unified system. The general approach is realist or objectivist, paying some attention to the role of imaginative literature (especially the novel) in ethical formation. A common theme is the lived experience of the socially situated subject, including our capacity for engagement with the values present in an inherited tradition or 'form of life'. Such engagement, once raised to consciousness, may contain elements both of affirmation and of cultural critique. In the book as a whole, the critical theme predominates, with a certain emphasis on discourses of social disruption. But it is always assumed that the right place to stand as an observer of the domain of value is within that domain, and that moral critique will be immanent with respect to the culture addressed--that is, it will make do with just the conceptual and linguistic resources available to ordinary participants in moral, political, or aesthetic conversation.

Ethics and Religion

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ethics and Religion written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Morality, Culture, and History

Author : Raymond Geuss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521635684
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Morality, Culture, and History written by Raymond Geuss and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raymond Geuss has been a distinctive contributor to the analysis and evaluation of German philosophy and to recent debates in ethics. In this new collection he treats a variety of topics in ethics, aesthetics, and the philosophy of history with special reference to the work of Hegel, Nietzsche, and Adorno. Two of the essays in the volume deal with central aspects of the philosophy of Nietzsche. The collection also contains an essay on the history of conceptions of 'culture' and one on the ethics of Ernst Tugendhat. The remaining three essays focus on questions in aesthetics. The volume will be of interest to students of modern philosophy, German intellectual and cultural history, and literary theory.

Essays on Skepticism, Relativism, and Ethics in the Zhuangzi

Author : Paul Kjellberg
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438409214
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Essays on Skepticism, Relativism, and Ethics in the Zhuangzi written by Paul Kjellberg and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1996-04-11 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinese philosophical text Zhuangzi, written in part by a man named Zhuangzi in late fourth century B.C.E. China, is gaining recognition as one of the classics of world literature. Writing in beautiful prose and poetry, Zhuangzi mixes humor with relentless logic in attacking claims to knowledge about the world, particularly evaluative knowledge of what is good and bad or right and wrong. His arguments seem to admit of no escape. And yet where does that leave us? Zhuangzi himself clearly does not think that our situation is utterly hopeless, since at the very least he must have some reason for thinking we are better off aware of our ignorance. This book addresses the question of how Zhuangzi manages to sustain a positive moral vision in the face of his seemingly sweeping skepticism. Zhuangzi is compared to the Greek philosophers Plato and Sextus Empiricus in order to pinpoint more exactly what he doubts and why. Also examined is Zhuangzi's views on language and the role that language plays in shaping the reality we perceive. The authors test the application of Zhuangzi's ideas to contemporary debates in critical theory and to issues in moral philosophical thought such as the establishment of equal worth and the implications of ethical relativism. They also explore the religious and spiritual dimensions of the text and clarify the relation between Zhuangzi and Buddhism.

Words are also Deeds

Author : G.V. Loewen
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN 13 : 1682354849
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Words are also Deeds written by G.V. Loewen and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2021-06-18 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Criticism In the two dozen essays written over a nine-month span, from 2020 to 2021, G.V. Loewen attempts to cast the darkest denizens of our own dubious days into the less lurid chiaroscuro of cultural critique. The sense throughout that saying is also doing and that words thus carry a greater gravity than is often given them, should be kept in mind. For us, if the word and the deed are to be brought together, at once ethics and aesthetics must again be separated, if never to be utterly parted. They must travel beside one another, in mutual aid, but they cannot simply become each other, as they did during the period beginning with Goya and ending with Bacon, with the 1920s and 1930s reaching the high-water mark of this culture critique. For us, the ‘scandal of art’, as Paul Ricoeur has aptly put it, must indeed ‘balance’, or at the least balance out, the ‘scandal of the false consciousness’. But the scales upon which this confrontation occurs is held by the hand of ethics alone. [Adapted from the preface] With compassion and criticism both, Loewen’s second collection of essays on Culture and cultures alike places the reader at the heart of contemporary existence. With titles such as ‘The Depth Psychology of Nervous Wrecks’, ‘Who was that Unmasked Man?’, ‘Rendering unto Caesar’s Palace’, ‘Gender: the ever-bending story’, and ‘Gandalf Hitler’, we are immediately aware that this heart is one of contradiction, conflict, even absurdity. In a word, it is wholly and irrevocably human, and it is to this humanity, much more realistic than anything either the PC or Neo-Con forces could ever muster, that the philosopher directs us. And we would be wise to attend.

Mexican Business Culture

Author : Carlos M. Coria-Sánchez
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476623139
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Mexican Business Culture written by Carlos M. Coria-Sánchez and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western business owners and managers are increasingly interested in doing business in Mexico. Yet few have thoroughly investigated the country's business climate and culture. This collection of new essays by contributors who work in and research the business culture of Mexico takes a combined academic and real-world look at the country's vibrant and dynamic commerce. Topics include business and the government, conceptions of time, Mexican entrepreneurialism and the place of women in business. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Borrowed Power

Author : Bruce H. Ziff
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813523729
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book Borrowed Power written by Bruce H. Ziff and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An informative and insightful collection of essays on cultural appropriation, focusing on America's appropriation and use of Native American culture specifically. The topics in this book covers topics from the arts, land, and artifacts to ideas, knowledge, and symbols.

The Ethics of Nonviolence

Author : Robert L. Holmes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1623565804
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book The Ethics of Nonviolence written by Robert L. Holmes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Holmes is one of the leading proponents of nonviolence in the United States, and his influence extends to the rest of the world. However, he has never presented his views on nonviolence in full-length book form. The Ethics of Nonviolence brings together his best essays on the topic, both classic works and more obscure pieces, as well as several important essays that have never been published. Holmes started his career by following Dewey and James, and then turned toward metaethics. The Vietnam War finally led him toward moral problems related to war and violence. For the last forty years he has been a great proponent of nonviolence and pacifism in the style of Tolstoy and Gandhi. If ethics is meant to be more than a purely academic exercise, the theoretical ethics of philosophy must be shown to be relevant to applied morality; the ongoing process of making moral judgments must add value to the world we live in. For Robert Holmes, no aspect of reality is more in need of ethical thinking and reform than the culture of war and violence that cannot be ignored. There are morally viable alternatives to this violence, Holmes argues, and he scrutinizes the sources and implications of such positions. Holmes shows that nonviolence and pacifism can lead us toward a more peaceful and humanely dignified world.

On Ethics and History

Author : Philip J. Ivanhoe
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804772884
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book On Ethics and History written by Philip J. Ivanhoe and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-17 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zhang Xuecheng (1738–1801) has primarily been read as a philosopher of history. This volume presents him as an ethical philosopher with a distinctive understanding of the aims and methods of Confucian self-cultivation. Offered in English translation for the first time, this collection of Zhang's essays and letters should challenge our current understanding of this Qing dynasty philosopher. On Ethics and History also contains translations of three important essays written by Tang-dynasty Confucian Han Yu and shows how Zhang responded to Han's earlier works. Those with an interest in ethical philosophy, religion, and Chinese thought and culture will find still relevant much of what Zhang argued for in his own day.

Aspects of Ethical Religion

Author : Horace James Bridges
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Aspects of Ethical Religion written by Horace James Bridges and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Practical Ethics

Author : Henry Sidgwick
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781440086915
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (869 download)

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Download or read book Practical Ethics written by Henry Sidgwick and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Practical Ethics: A Collection of Addresses and Essays The greater part of the present volume consists of addresses delivered before one or other of the Ethical Societies that were founded some ten years ago in London and Cambridge. These societies were partly - though not entirely - modelled on the "Societies for Ethical Culture" which had been started in America a few years before: they aimed at meeting a need which was believed to be widely felt for the intelligent study of moral questions with a view to elevate and purify social life. At the first meeting of the Cambridge Ethical Society, in May, 1888, I endeavoured, in an address which I have placed first in this volume, to set forth my conception of the work that the Society might profitably undertake. Four years later, at a meeting of the London Ethical Society, of which I was at the time President, I attempted a somewhat fuller analysis of the aims and methods of such an association. This stands second in the volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Ethics in the Real World

Author : Peter Singer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400888735
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Ethics in the Real World written by Peter Singer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provocative essays on real-world ethical questions from the world's most influential philosopher Peter Singer is often described as the world's most influential philosopher. He is also one of its most controversial. The author of important books such as Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, Rethinking Life and Death, and The Life You Can Save, he helped launch the animal rights and effective altruism movements and contributed to the development of bioethics. Now, in Ethics in the Real World, Singer shows that he is also a master at dissecting important current events in a few hundred words. In this book of brief essays, he applies his controversial ways of thinking to issues like climate change, extreme poverty, animals, abortion, euthanasia, human genetic selection, sports doping, the sale of kidneys, the ethics of high-priced art, and ways of increasing happiness. Singer asks whether chimpanzees are people, smoking should be outlawed, or consensual sex between adult siblings should be decriminalized, and he reiterates his case against the idea that all human life is sacred, applying his arguments to some recent cases in the news. In addition, he explores, in an easily accessible form, some of the deepest philosophical questions, such as whether anything really matters and what is the value of the pale blue dot that is our planet. The collection also includes some more personal reflections, like Singer’s thoughts on one of his favorite activities, surfing, and an unusual suggestion for starting a family conversation over a holiday feast. Now with a new afterword by the author, this provocative and original book will challenge—and possibly change—your beliefs about many real-world ethical questions.

Ethics in Comedy

Author : Steven A. Benko
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476640971
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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The Ethics of Survival in Contemporary Literature and Culture

Author : Rudolf Freiburg
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030834220
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Ethics of Survival in Contemporary Literature and Culture written by Rudolf Freiburg and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ethics of Survival in Contemporary Literature and Culture delves into the complex problems involved in all attempts to survive. The essays analyze survival in contemporary prose narratives, short stories, poems, dramas, and theoretical texts, but also in films and other modes of cultural practices. Addressing diverse topics such as memory and forgetting in Holocaust narratives, stories of refugees and asylum seekers, and representations of war, the ethical implications involved in survival in texts and media are brought into a transnational critical discussion. The volume will be of potential interest to a wide range of critics working on ethical issues, the body, and the politics of art and literature.