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Cruelty and Austerity. Philip Hallie’s Categories of Ethical Thought and Today’s Greek Tragedy

open access: yesNordicum-Mediterraneum, 2013
In this paper, 20th-century ethicist Philip Hallie’s research on cruelty is outlined and explained in order to determine and discuss categories of thought that make cruelty attributable to social forms of agency.
Giorgio Baruchello
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Is it morally permissible to eat meat? [PDF]

open access: yes
Many approaches have been taken regarding this topic, some of them are anthropological or scientific that pursue the understanding of why we eat meat, but from the philosophical lens this question is solved in the field of applied ethics, which is the ...
Diez De Fex, Ana Maria
core  

Leopoldo Zea on the role of Hegel's Master–Slave Dialectic in the philosophy of Latin American history

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract In one of the most influential works in 20th‐century Latin America, Leopoldo Zea draws on Hegel's Master–Slave Dialectic to construct a philosophy of Latin American History from colonialism to the present. Yet his motives for organizing his work around these brief but suggestive passages from Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit have not been well ...
Pavel Reichl
wiley   +1 more source

The demonization of the Red Army as a trend in Western historiography

open access: yesСлово.ру: балтийский акцент, 2013
This article focuses on the reasons behind and attempts at demonising the image of the Red Army in the modern Western historiography. It is concluded that the key factor behind this approach is the aspiration to misrepresent the role of the USSR in the ...
Zolov A.
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Lawnmower Poetry and the Poetry of Lawnmowers

open access: yes
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Francesca Gardner
wiley   +1 more source

Embarrassment and the Social Dimensions of Moral Agency

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Unlike guilt and shame, embarrassment is rarely considered by philosophers to be a morally relevant emotion.This downplaying of embarrassment is well justified, given traditional views on moral agency. However, recent theorists have argued that the traditional views are too individualistic and overlook the external social conditions that they ...
Shawn Tinghao Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Nation, Social Class and Style: a Comparison of the Humour of Britain and America

open access: yesStylistyka, 2006
Historically a much greater range of styles of literary humour were to be found in Bri[1]t sun than in the United States because Bi „.n was a much more hierarchical society with a divined elite and an aristocratic as well as a bourgeois aesthetic.
Christie Davies
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