The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary. —Walter Lippmann 10 There canno...
Thomas Hardy too melodramatic. And we have to remind ourselves that it is necessary to approach every writer differently in order to get from him all he can give us. We have to remember that it is one of the qualities of greatness that it brings heaven...
Why consider the paradoxes of Elizabeth Anscombe, whose reputation as a moralist is reinforced by her demonstrating against abortion, while she simultaneously promoted Ludwig Wittgenstein, for whom moral philosophy does not and cannot even exist? "Systems of oppression" will not generate controversy, or...
Moralists use it: "One should not kill", "One should be ready to fight for one’s country", etc. French uses "on" without the slightest embarrassment. In fact, using it prevents a lot of embarrassment. For example, a key problem in English is avoiding "genderism". This is the ...
as if argumentation theorists could leave them to the moralists. It is not that easy, however. Not all performative failures are necessarily ethical failures. Some performative failures in argument are indeed relevant for evaluating arguments as arguments. It is not hard to conceive circumstances in...
At all events, to prohibit the play is to protect the evil which the play exposes; and in view of that fact, I see no reason for assuming that the prohibitionists are disinterested moralists, and that the author, the managers, and the performers, who depend for their livelihood on their...
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It is a lucky thing fortheAmerican moralist that we have no public memory of anything that happened lastTuesday.No one in Washington todayrecallswhat happened during the years alcohol was forbidden to the people by a Congress that thought ithad a divine mission to stamp out Demon Rum---launch...
duréeapproach for two reasons: (i) because PN proponents themselves appeal to this ancient history and we want to critically evaluate their uses of it; and (ii) to show that personalised or individualised approaches to diet pre-date modern dietetics as well as PN. Finally, we critically ...
A moralist rejection of the debate is simplex, with the consequence in a democracy of making the rejected seem cool, a martyr. That is how a fascist can come to look like the underdog, and might attract others disgusted with the muzzling of voices. My frame is that of an intersection...