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Modern Resignation to Postmodern Despair in Don Delillo’s ‘Cosmopolis’ and ‘Falling Man’
RiCognizioni, 2023 This article investigates how DeLillo depicts the impact of 9/11 in Cosmopolis and Falling Man through the antagonistic (intratextual) and oppositional (intertextual) connections between their characters, and then proves the importance of counter ...
Maria Ilaria Tonelli
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Continuity in Morality and Law [PDF]
, 2021 According to an influential and intuitively appealing argument, morality is usually continuous, namely, a gradual change in one morally significant factor triggers a gradual change in another; the law should usually track morality; therefore, the law ...
Segev, Re’em
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The Self-Effacing Functionality of Blame [PDF]
, 2021 This paper puts forward an account of blame combining two ideas that are usually set up against each other: that blame performs an important function, and that blame is justified by the moral reasons making people blameworthy rather than by its ...
Queloz, Matthieu
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Dichotomy of Nature and Humanity in the Narrative Imagination of Ibrahim Al-Kon [PDF]
Akofena: Ibrahim Al-Koni is celebrated for his vivid depiction of the desert and its diverse inhabitants—humans, animals, and even flora—within a unified and innovative narrative framework.
Messaouda GUETTECHE
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L’École de Madrid et son devenir après la Guerre Civile
Cahiers de Civilisation Espagnole Contemporaine, 2014 The philosophic School of Madrid, consisting of several circles of disciples -José Gaos, María Zambrano, Julián Marías, Xavier Zubiri, Antonio Rodríguez Huéscar…-, orbiting the tutelary figure of José Ortega y Gasset, is generally confined to years of ...
Eve Fourmont Giustiniani
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Reid on Favors, Injuries, and the Natural Virtue of Justice [PDF]
, 2015 Reid argues that Hume’s claim that justice is an artificial virtue is inconsistent with the fact that gratitude is a natural sentiment. This chapter shows that Reid’s argument succeeds only given a philosophy of mind and action that Hume rejects.
Powell, Lewis, Yaffe, Gideon
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Justice, markets, and the family
Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 2016 The Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics interviewed Olsaretti about becoming a political philosopher, her work on the ethics of markets and justice and the family, the ERC-project that she directs, her views on teaching, and her advice for ...
Serena Olsaretti
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BUDDHISM, FREE WILL, AND PUNISHMENT: TAKING BUDDHIST ETHICS SERIOUSLY
Zygon, 2020 In recent decades, there has been growing interest among philosophers in what the various Buddhist traditions have said, can say, and should say, in response to the traditional problem of free will.
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Du Scorpion au Désert, Albert Memmi revisited
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 1982 Albert Memmi's literary work of the last three decades is pervaded by a fundamental pessimism on life and the human condition. It is a long, never-ending investigation of the dynamics of conflict, its causes and its disastrous consequences: hatred ...
Isaac Yetiv
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, 2020 This article seeks to cause trouble for a brand of consequentialism known as ‘desertarianism’. In somewhat different ways, views of this kind evaluate outcomes more favourably, other things equal, the better the fit between the welfare different people ...
Skarsaune, Knut Olav
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