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...
According to utilitarian theory there is a level of welfare, at which the value of a life isneutral[Broome 2004, 142]. Above this level a life isworth living, below it isnot worth living. A neutral life has a value of zero on the hedonic scale [Broome 2004, 257]. In this paper we...
Along these same lines, Tichenor and Wackman (1971) have examined "community consensus II as an indicator of the role of local media in developing common value orientations within a subsociety. A third approach, and certainly the most frequent, is the question of the effect of media on ...