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2012
In much of the critical discourse of the seventies, eighties, and nineties, scholars employed suspicion in order to reveal a given text’s complicity with various undesirable ideologies and/or psychopathologies. Construed as such, interpretive practice was often intended to demystify texts and authors by demonstrating in them the presence of false ...
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In much of the critical discourse of the seventies, eighties, and nineties, scholars employed suspicion in order to reveal a given text’s complicity with various undesirable ideologies and/or psychopathologies. Construed as such, interpretive practice was often intended to demystify texts and authors by demonstrating in them the presence of false ...
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Eudaimonic Entertainment Experiences
Abstract Media entertainment provides audiences countless opportunities for fun, relaxation, and escape, but it can also trigger moments of reflection, insight into the human condition, inspiration, and contemplation of life’s purpose.Arthur A. Raney, Mary Beth Oliver
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Abstract Chapter 1 contains a general discussion of the way in which the concept of eudaimonia has been deployed by prominent contemporary philosophers and scholars, such as Julia Annas, Sarah Broadie, and Terence Irwin. In particular, the various roles eudaimonia has been seen to play in eudaimonism are examined to see how well they fit
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Abstract Chapter 3 examines the textual evidence for eudaimonism in Plato’s “middle” dialogues, specifically considering the roles of eudaimonia in the Republic and Symposium. It is argued that the conception of eudaimonia is already familiar from the remarks in the Socratic dialogues; like them, it also requires that a happy person be ...
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Abstract In Chapter 2 textual evidence for eudaimonism in the “Socratic” dialogues is considered in detail. While Socrates seems to hold that commitment to the Supremacy of Virtue is at least necessary for happiness, there is no evidence that happiness is operating as a Comprehensive Practical Principle according to which all one’s ...
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