The idea that thegood lifecan be taught by films was brought up by the American philosopher and professor of aestheticsStanley Cavell(see Cavell 2002, Conversations with History, Youtube).In this paper we adopt Cavell’s definition of a philosophical film, a definition which accords with Nussbaum...
To define risk, one has to define situations likeloss,catastropheorundesirable outcome. Risk can be expressed in terms of financial loss, suffering, risk of dying etc. This definition makes clear that riskcan only be valuated relative to a goal. If not mentioned otherwise in this paper, the ...
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