History-and-Morality
Close to the fire: History, power and morality in a Vietnamese factory community
... 00001t tif Close to the Fire History, Power and Morality in a Vietnamese Factory Community by M ila Rosenthal Thesis submitted for the Degree o f Doctor o f Philosophy Department o f Anthropology Lond[.] ...
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Morality as natural history
... The Humean-Darwinian account of moral values can also explain why women might feel that they have a different ‘ethic’ to men in some areas. As we have seen, evolutionary theory expects the sexes to differ to the extent ...
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Ngugi And Post Colonial Africa: History, Politics And Morality In Petals Of Blood And Matigari
... Like all good African writers, Ngugi tries, as faithfully as possible, to present the Kenyan society to us as he has known it. Thus ―weep not child‖, his first novel, ―dramatizes the events of the Mau Mau emerging in ...
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Morality and a Meaningful Life
... that include both each listener’s own history and the knowledge that each listener possesses about the speaker’s history. It happens often enough that a listener is enormously moved by a speaker’s words for ...
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Mapping Morality with a Compass: Testing the theory of ‘morality as cooperation’ with a new questionnaire
... Life begins when molecules start making copies of themselves. These ‘replicators’ are ‘selfish’ in the technical sense that they pro- mote their own replication (Dawkins, 1976/2006). They can pro- mote their replication ...
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The Evolution of Morality
... evolutionary history. When Darwin began considering the evolution of morality, he reflected on a possible role for the "fear of others acting in unison" and "the fear of punishment" (M ...
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Darwinian Morality
... of history, according to which the civilized nations must either destroy or absorb and rule the primitive members of the species, was crucial to the formation of what Guy Stocking refers to as the “new paradigm of ...
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Gendered Morality
... Discussing the strategies for a feminist philosophy of Islam, Ayubi counterposes the use of the terms nafs and khilafah to delimit women’s and non-elite men’s humanity in the ethicists’ writings to the use of these terms ...
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What is enshrined in morality? Understanding the grounds for Nietzsche’s Critique
... countervailing, noble, life-affirming forces and that Nietzsche thinks they were essential (A, 61). We can even go so far as to deny, as Nietzsche does in Twilight of the Idols, that the greatest figures of the Renaissance ...
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The Morality of Immigration Policy
... This strong defense of our immigration ethos is fortified, perhaps paradoxically, by newer works of immigration history that provide decidedly less uplifting narratives of immigration policy and immigrant ...
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Tragedy, morality and metaphysics
... it is often and unfortunately confused. There are sound methodological reasons for giving low priority to the question of pleasure in consideration of tragedy: it encourages us to look for and to measure accounts of ...
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Karma, morality, and evil
... The suggestions I have made in the preceding section concerning different forms – or at least different emphases – that the doctrine of karma can take are really only a beginning. A fuller treatment of these issues would ...
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The Complementary Stereotypes about the Rich and the Poor: A Study in China
... and proposed a seven-factor model. The dimensions of good-heartedness and honesty are related to morality [11]. Through factor analysis, Sun found that the stereotypes about Chinese and other 10 countries held by ...
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The morality of extraterritorial punishment
... Having introduced the central issue this thesis will be concerned with, three important points o f clarification are in order. First, this thesis will provide a philosophical examination o f the moral justification for ...
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Contractarianism as a Political Morality
... contractarianism I consider a virtue. This goes back to what I said in the introduction about the historical development of contractarianism. Contractarianism burst on to the philosophical scene at a moment when ...
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The Morality of Human Rights
... (internal quotation marks omitted); cf. J ÜRGEN H ABERMAS , T IME OF T RANSITIONS 150–51 (Ciaran Cronin & Max Pensky eds. & trans., 2006) (“Christianity has functioned for the normative self-understanding of ...
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The Role of Frontline Leadership in Organizational Learning: Evidence from Incremental Business Process Improvement
... Korsgaard’s third condition, which states that a good moral theory “must appeal, in a deep way, to our sense of who we are,” 24 helps complete the picture of moral normativity established by the other two conditions by ...
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The ethological roots of morality
... One of the clearest forms of self-sacrifice is in parenthood. The period of parental attachment in human beings is longer than in any animal (although some large creatures like elephants are challengers) and a bond ...
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Morality in intergroup conflict
... with morality-based out-groups, such as the members of a fascist political party, have been shown to increase resource allocations aimed at harming out-group members ...
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Morality, adapted
... Finally, the proposition that morality is a set of behaviors conducive to the success of social groups invites a reconsideration of various substantive issues in moral theory. For instance, behavior that conforms ...
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