Ethics & Morality
epub |eng | 2004-05-02 | Author:Christopher Phillips

NOT-SO-ORDINARY VIRTUES AND HUMAN GOOD Scholar Robert Gordon writes that Primo Levi enumerated over his writing life a “category of virtues” that were unique in their “rather stubborn ordinariness”—virtues that ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality May 3,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-06 | Author:Biswas-Diener, Robert [Biswas-Diener, Robert]

To Sum Up 1. People have a natural capacity for magical thinking. These flights of fancy are not childish; they are healthy cognitive tricks that buffer us against anxiety and ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality May 2,2016 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2015-11-09 | Author:Michel Onfray

A Dialectic of Politeness Hedonism thus entails a perpetual calculus that considers the pleasures one can expect from a given situation, as well as the possible pains. We make a ...
( Category: Modern May 2,2016 )
epub, azw |eng | 2015-03-31 | Author:Heather Lende

Put on a Costume Now and Then You’d think as a mother of five I would have gotten the hang of creating costumes for Halloween. I never did, but I ...
( Category: Pacific May 1,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Terri Apter [Terri Apter]

If she thinks she got a poor mark because she did not read the required text or learn the vocabulary, then the information she has is “unstable”: It is possible ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality April 29,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Vernon

… there is a devil haunts thee in the likeness of an old fat man; a tun of man is thy companion … Wherein is he [Falstaff] good, but to ...
( Category: Greek & Roman April 28,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2009-12-02 | Author:Mark Vernon

… there is a devil haunts thee in the likeness of an old fat man; a tun of man is thy companion … Wherein is he [Falstaff] good, but to ...
( Category: Greek & Roman April 28,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-19 | Author:Naomi Zack [Zack, Naomi]

The Rights of the Innocent It is reasonable that the police would be more interested in who is criminally guilty than who is innocent, because that is their job. But ...
( Category: Social Philosophy April 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-26 | Author:Michael Parker

CONVERSATIONS 48 ACCEPTING DIFFERENCES A. What would the whole world be like if everyone had the same opinions and abilities as you? What would be fun about it and what ...
( Category: Philosophy & Social Aspects April 16,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Miles Olson [Olson, Miles]

Easing into killing If you haven’t hunted before and want to ease yourself into the raw, carnal reality of it, I suggest starting small. Go fishing, if that’s possible, and ...
( Category: Game April 15,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rita Nakashima Brock

4 I Will Live with Moral Injury the Rest of My Life Prepare, my friends, the knight’s return, And pray we are not too blind to learn. CAMILLO C. “MAC” ...
( Category: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder April 15,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-26 | Author:Michael Walzer

The last of these is particularly problematic, for in the conditions of guerrilla war it must often involve releasing prisoners, something most guerrillas are no doubt loath to do. Yet ...
( Category: History & Theory April 15,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dave Robinson

This means that any kind of argument between people about a moral issue is utterly futile, unsolveable and irrational. Euthanasia, Boo! How on earth could we decide who was right ...
( Category: Humanism April 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-14 | Author:Ruti, Mari

The Craving for Solitude There are of course times when silence does not directly enhance communication, but rather signifies our need to momentarily withdraw from our lover. Even then, however, ...
( Category: Existentialism April 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-02 | Author:Barbara Ann Kipfer [Kipfer, Barbara Ann]

Essays Anger Just before you show anger in action or speech, pause and think about what you are about to do. The pause is vital to taking a wise look ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality April 9,2016 )