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...
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 termriskrelates tosuffering.
As a forerunner of what later became a popular view, Innis (1950) asserted that the nature of media technology prevailing in a society at any point in time strongly influence how the mem- bers of that society thi2ks and behaves. For example, the print media were ascribed with promoting ...
while the other is a very interesting and well-paid job in Chicago. But the catch is that, if you wanted the Chicago job, you would have to take a plane from New York to Chicago (e.g. because this job would have to be