Author: Laura JepsenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Ethical Aspects Of Tragedy
Author: Laura JepsenEthics of Tragedy
Author: Ari HirvonenPublisher:
ISBN: 9781910761090
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Ari Hirvonen's profound analysis of Greek tragedies, especially refugee tragedies and Sophocles' Oedipus-trilogy, that presents the sense and ethics of tragedy in a time of rapacious capitalism and ecocatastrophe.
Some Ethical Aspects of Later Elizabethan Tragedy
Author: June Rose ColbyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Ethical Aspects of Tragedy
Author: Laura JepsenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Ethical Aspects of Tragedy
Author: Laura JepsenA Perfect Moral Storm
Author: Stephen M. GardinerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199702152
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Climate change is arguably the great problem confronting humanity, but we have done little to head off this looming catastrophe. In The Perfect Moral Storm, philosopher Stephen Gardiner illuminates our dangerous inaction by placing the environmental crisis in an entirely new light, considering it as an ethical failure. Gardiner clarifies the moral situation, identifying the temptations (or "storms") that make us vulnerable to a certain kind of corruption. First, the world's most affluent nations are tempted to pass on the cost of climate change to the poorer and weaker citizens of the world. Second, the present generation is tempted to pass the problem on to future generations. Third, our poor grasp of science, international justice, and the human relationship to nature helps to facilitate inaction. As a result, we are engaging in willful self-deception when the lives of future generations, the world's poor, and even the basic fabric of life on the planet is at stake. We should wake up to this profound ethical failure, Gardiner concludes, and demand more of our institutions, our leaders and ourselves. "This is a radical book, both in the sense that it faces extremes and in the sense that it goes to the roots." --Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews "The book's strength lies in Gardiner's success at understanding and clarifying the types of moral issues that climate change raises, which is an important first step toward solutions." --Science Magazine "Gardiner has expertly explored some very instinctual and vitally important considerations which cannot realistically be ignored. --Required reading." --Green Prophet "Gardiner makes a strong case for highlighting and insisting on the ethical dimensions of the climate problem, and his warnings about buck-passing and the dangerous appeal of moral corruptions hit home." --Times Higher Education "Stephen Gardiner takes to a new level our understanding of the moral dimensions of climate change. A Perfect Moral Storm argues convincingly that climate change is the greatest moral challenge our species has ever faced - and that the problem goes even deeper than we think." --Peter Singer, Princeton University
Some Ethical Aspects of Later Elizabethan Tragedy
Author: J. Rose ColbyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780259586258
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Excerpt from Some Ethical Aspects of Later Elizabethan Tragedy: Preceded by an Examination of Aristotle's Theory of TragedyRpatjrov ndr d'rnov dfl odrs robq emezxcig dvdpac; dei' mafldllovrar [afvtm9a[ ee edruzc'ag sic; dua'ruxi'av (ad fdp mofiepdv oddd e/lesevdv fobro, til/1d mapdv tarts). Pbcttosmh. 13 [1452 b].About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.
Truthfulness and Tragedy
Author: Stanley HauerwasPublisher:
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Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
In Truthfulness and Tragedy Stanley Hauerwas provides an account of moral existence and ethical rationality that shows how Christian convictions operate, or should operate, to form and direct lives. In attempting to conceptualize the basis of Christian ethics in a manner that will render Christian convictions morally intelligible, the author casts fresh light on traditional theoretical issues and articulates the distinctive Christian response to contemporary concerns such as suicide, medical ethics, and child care. The first section of the book deals with methodological issues: the meaning and nature of practical reason, obligation claims, natural law, and self deception, and the affinity of story and ethics. It focuses on the relation of truthfulness and tragedy and the need for a story--a set of religious convictions or "grammar of theology"--that does justice to the tragic character of human existence. The second section addresses substantive issues: suicide, euthanasia, and the value of survival; the moral limits of population growth; the definition of "person" for medical reasons; and social involvement and Christian ethics. The overall theme is the need for a community in which truthfulness is a way of life. In the final section, devoted to the problem of how to care for retarded children, the implications of the author's ethical position are given concrete expression. He discusses the assumptions underlying the willingness to have children, criteria for humanness, medical ethics, and how truthful communities deal with suffering. In Truthfulness and Tragedy Stanley Hauerwas extends and clarifies the ethical position set forth in his earlier books Character and the Christian Life and Vision and Virtue. He is associate professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame. He was a senior fellow in Christian medical ethics at the Joseph and Rose Kennedy Institute for the Study of Reproduction and Bioethics, and taught medical ethics at the University of Texas medical branch in Galveston.
Groaning Tears
Author: Elise P. GarrisonPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004102415
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This monograph explicates suicide in Greek tragedy in light of the fifth-century ethical climate and social milieu. It organizes the suicides according to the important ethical considerations of the ancient world and places them in their theatrical context.
Tragic Views of the Human Condition
Author: Lourens MinnemaPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1441100695
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Can tragic views of the human condition as known to Westerners through Greek and Shakespearean tragedy be identified outside European culture, in the Indian culture of Hindu epic drama? In what respects can the Mahabharata epic's and the Bhagavadgita's views of the human condition be called 'tragic' in the Greek and Shakespearean senses of the word? Tragic views of the human condition are primarily embedded in stories. Only afterwards are these views expounded in theories of tragedy and in philosophical anthropologies. Minnema identifies these embedded views of human nature by discussing the ways in which tragic stories raise a variety of anthropological issues-issues such as coping with evil, suffering, war, death, values, power, sacrifice, ritual, communication, gender, honour, injustice, knowledge, fate, freedom. Each chapter represents one cluster of tragic issues that are explored in terms of their particular (Greek, English, Indian) settings before being compared cross-culturally. In the end, the underlying question is: are Indian views of the human condition very different from Western views?