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The aim of this paper is to develop the notions of particularism and generalism in argumentation theory. Generalism is the claim that to argue we need general rules that specify which data support which conclusions, while particularism denies it.
José Alhambra
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A Critique of Moral Particularism’s Reliance on Moral Reasons [PDF]
Moral particularism, which is one of the intellectual orientations in contemporary ethics, opposes the importance of principles in morality and in principled theories of ethics on metaethical grounds, and regards it detrimental to moral thought and ...
Seyyed Ali Asghari
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Pornography in Universalism Perspective: A Freedom Expression?
The issue of the right to freedom of expression and pornography needs to be studied from a human rights perspective in terms of universalism and particularism. Pornography has the potential to have different standards depending on the time and place of a
Eka N.A.M. Sihombing, Cynthia Hadita
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A Comparative Study of Yadollah Royaee’s and Louis Zukofsky’s Poetry [PDF]
1. Introduction Modern poetry of Iran has been influenced by the avant-garde movements of the early twentieth century such as Symbolism and Surrealism. However, Louis Zukofsky’s impact on modern Persian poetry has not yet been scrutinized.
Narges Montakhabi Bakhtvar
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Categorical Moral Requirements
This paper defends the doctrine that moral requirements are categorical in nature. My point of departure is John McDowell’s 1978 essay, “Are Moral Requirements Hypothetical Imperatives?”, in which McDowell argues, against Philippa Foot, that moral ...
Bakhurst D.
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Rabbi Jonathan Sacks: Religious Pluralism and the Partnership of Religion and Science
Rabbi and Lord Jonathan Sacks (1948-2020) was the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth from 1991 to 2013. Although he was recognized as the spiritual head of the United Synagogue, the largest synagogue body in the United ...
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
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Moral perception, for the purposes of this article, is taken to be the perception of moral properties, unless contexts dictate otherwise. While both particularists and generalists agree that we can perceive the moral properties of an action or a feature,
Peter Shiu-Hwa Tsu
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The American Cultural Identity: Philosophical Reflections on the Existing Controversies over its Nature [PDF]
Since the la.st two decades of the last centery, the American cosiaty has witnessed that emergence of a social movement could "multiculturalism". It has challenged the dominated moniestic view which prescient for a long time the American culture as more ...
seyed alireza hoseyni beheshti
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Serious games: Theory in anthropology since the 1980s
The paper presents a critical overview of recent theories in anthropology, particularly following Ortner’s groundbreaking 1984 summary, as well as debates opened up by the Writing Culture symposium and the book that followed (Clifford and Marcus 1986 ...
Aleksandar Bošković
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Popular Music Studies in Japan: Reviewing the Journal Popular Music Studies [PDF]
The scholarly interest in popular music has been growing in Japan for the last thirty years since the beginning of the Japanese Association for the Study of Popular Music (JASPM).
Akitsugu Kawamoto
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