Beauty, responsibility, and power : ethical and political consequences of pragmatist aesthetics / / edited by Leszek Koczanowicz and Katarzyna Liszka ; contributors, Rosa M. Calcaterra [and eleven others]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910458754803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam, Netherlands : , : Rodopi, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 94-012-1162-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (196 p.)
• Collana: Value Inquiry Book Series. Central-European value studies ; ; Volume 277
• Disciplina: 144.3
• Soggetti: Pragmatism; Aesthetics; Meaning (Philosophy); Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- BEAUTY AND ACTION / Leszek Koczanowicz and Katarzyna Liszka -- SOMAESTHETICS AND POLITICS: INCORPORATING PRAGMATIST AESTHETICS FOR SOCIAL ACTION / Richard Shusterman -- EMBODIED COMMUNITIES / Leszek Koczanowicz -- OSTENTATION AND AGORAPHOBIA IN THE CITY / Adam Chmielewski -- “ANYTHING GOES” VS. “WHO TOUCHES THIS BOOK TOUCHES A MAN”: WILLIAM JAMES AND PAUL FEYERABEND ON METAPHYSICAL, ETHICAL, AND AESTHETIC “ABUNDANCE” / Sami Pihlström -- EXPERIENCE AND JUDGEMENT: POLITICAL AND AESTHETIC / John Ryder -- AESTHETICS AS DUTY OR AESTHETICS AS FAITH: NOTES ON RICHARD SHUSTERMAN’S PRAGMATIST AESTHETICS WITH REFERENCE TO ADORNO AND CASTORIADIS / David Schauffler -- THE LINGUISTIC WORLD: RORTY’S AESTHETIC MELIORISM / Rosa M. Calcaterra -- THE CONCEPT OF MAN IN THE SHADOW OF THE SHOAH: GERAS, RORTY AND SHUSTERMAN IN DIALOGUE / Katarzyna Liszka -- SOMAESTHETIC ENCOUNTER WITH ONESELF AND THE OTHER / Robert Dobrowolski -- MAKING THE PRAGMATIST ART OF LIVING EXPLICIT / Emil Višňovský -- THE AESTHETIC COSMOPOLITAN FROM A NEO-PRAGMATIST PERSPECTIVE: ; THEMES AND CHALLENGES IN SHUSTERMAN / Michael Rings -- PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY IN LIFE POLITICS OF TODAY / Hans-Peter Krüger -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- VALUE INQUIRY BOOK SERIES.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book addresses the interrelations between aesthetics, ethics, and politics in the framework of pragmatist aesthetics, offering a comprehensive panorama of the ways and fields in which pragmatist aesthetics ties in with vital social and ethical problems of modernity. Most of the contributors refer to the model propounded by Richard Shusterman. Following in Dewey’s footsteps, Shusterman has elaborated and expanded his concept, adding new dimensions to it. The most important supplement is the idea of aesthetic experience being constituted by our bodiliness. In somaesthetics , pragmatism has acquired a new dimension – a fully developed, comprehensive aesthetic theory. Pragmatist aesthetics with its essential notion of the body engages in critical dialogue with many key concepts of modernity which locate the body in social and cultural frameworks. The articles collected in this volume illustrate the complex range of pragmatist aesthetics and its impact on the understanding of crucial issues in social and moral philosophy.

Second Chance Act of 2005 : hearing before the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress ... on H.R. 1704

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910694038603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: U.S. G.P.O
• Descrizione fisica: : ill
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Killing in war / / Jeff McMahan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910953595503321
• Autore: McMahan Jeff
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford : , : Clarendon Press; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2009
• ISBN: 0-19-960357-X; 1-282-05336-1; 9786612053368; 0-19-156346-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 250 pages)
• Collana: Uehiro series in practical ethics
• Disciplina: 172/.42
• Soggetti: War - Moral and ethical aspects; Combat - Moral and ethical aspects; Military ethics; Conscientious objection; Responsibility
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [236]-245) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The morality of participation in an unjust war -- The doctrine of the moral equality of combatants -- The traditional criterion of liability to attack in war -- Can unjust combatants satisfy the principles of Jus in Bello? -- The basis of moral liability to attack in war -- Arguments for the moral equality of combatants -- Justification and liability -- Consent -- The boxing match model of war -- The gladiatorial combat model of war -- Hypothetical consent -- The epistemic argument -- Institutions as sources of justification -- The duty to defer to the epistemic authority of the government -- The duty to sustain the efficient functioning of just institutions -- Fairness to fellow participants -- The collectivist approach to the morality of war -- Transferred responsibility -- Symmetrical disobedience -- Conscientious refusal -- Excuses -- Sources of allegiance to the moral equality of combatants -- The conflation of morality and law -- The conflation of permission and excuse -- Excusing conditions for unjust combatants -- Duress -- Epistemic limitation -- Diminished responsibility -- Skepticism about excusing unjust combatants -- Consistency -- Are unjust combatants excused by duress? -- Are unjust combatants excused by epistemic limitations? -- Liability and the limits of self-defense -- Different types of threat -- The relevance of excuses to killing in self-defense -- Culpable threats -- Partially excused threats -- Excused threats and innocent threats -- Nonresponsible threats -- Justified threats and just threats -- Liability to defensive attack -- The moral status of unjust combatants -- Liability and punishment -- The relevance of excuses to the distribution of risk -- Child soldiers -- Civilian immunity and civilian liability -- The moral and legal foundations of civilian immunity -- The possible bases of civilian liability -- Civilian liability to lesser and collateral harms -- Can civilians be liable to intentional military attack? -- Civilian liability and terrorism.
• Sommario/riassunto: Jeff McMahan urges us to reject the view, dominant throughout history, that mere participation in an unjust war is not wrong. He argues powerfully that combatants who fight for an unjust cause are acting wrongly and are themselves morally responsible for their actions.