Two characteristic features of the age of globalisation are (i) the increasing areas that are being moralised and an inflation in the production of discourses on ethics, and with it (ii) an increase in the salience of nonsense in public discourse and mass media content. While scholars and ...
These interpretations often focus on women, who are presented as fearful of pregnancy and social stigma, and restricted by sexual ignorance and inhibitions: hence it is argued that they viewed premarital sex as a dangerous, rather than pleasurable, activity which ought to be avoided. 展开 ...
“morality” in depth, we eventually come to a conclusion that nothing can be determined as right or wrong, and everything we do begins to look futile and pointless. For any arguments built on morality to work, they must rely on a certain degree of ignorance about what morality is. They...
“Ignorance” is associated with “the act of ignoring”. Per contrast, “nescience” means“to not know”(viz., Latin prefix ne = not, and the verb scire = “to know”; cf. the etymology of the word “science”/prescience). ... We know about the truth but we actively ignore it ...
I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever. ...
What Is Integrity? The key to integrity is consistency- not only setting high personal standards for oneself (honesty, responsibility, respect for others, fairness) but also living up to those standards each and every day. One who has integrity is bound by and follows moral...
a moral duty B. a thankless job C. a rewarding task D. a source of inevitable pain3. From the last paragraph, we learn that envy sometimes stems from A.hatred B. misunderstanding C. prejudice D. ignorance4. To understand what true happiness is, one must A. have as much fun as ...
The concept of integrity has played a key role in moral philosophy throughout history and is promoted in all societies because of its importance to social relations. Individual integrity is vital to society, one that enables people to make use of their capacity for critical reflection, does not...
418What Is It Like to Bea Moral Being?Amita ChatterjeeIf epistemic curiosity about the world is one tendency that many peoplehave, concern about goodness, rightness and justness also has a powerfulpresence—manifest or latent—in our minds.—Amartya Sen, The Idea of JusticeIf you experience the...
Calling someone anignoramus is an insult— it's a colorful way to comment on a person's ignorance or stupidity. The word comes right from the Latin ignoramus, literally "we do not know," which was a legal term in the 16th century that could be used during a trial when the prosecution...