Philosophy of Cruelty

Philosophy of Cruelty
Title Philosophy of Cruelty PDF eBook
Author Giorgio Baruchello
Publisher
Pages 184
Release 2017-10-13
Genre Cruelty
ISBN 9780993952753

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Baruchello's Philosophy of Cruelty, the second collection of his essays, turns a difficult and emotionally charged topic into a surprisingly informative and enlightening read. Covering the history of Western philosophy's treatment of cruelty as a topic, yet relating every point to present-day occasions of violence and injustice, this book is a touchstone for any discussion of cruelty as a philosophical theme. It pulls no punches, yet it leaves you standing taller.

Joyful Cruelty

Joyful Cruelty
Title Joyful Cruelty PDF eBook
Author Clément Rosset
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 152
Release 1993
Genre Philosophy
ISBN

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This book combines two shorter works by Rosset, Le Principe de Cruaute and La Force Majeure, dating respectively from 1983 and 1988. The two works provide essential and highly topical illustrations of Rosset's central thesis of acceptance of the real. Rosset formulates a philosophical practice that refuses to turn away from the world and thus accepts a confrontation with reality (termed "the real") whose immediacy comprises equal parts of violence and of "joy," or approbation of the real. Beginning with this notion of joy, Rosset offers a reinterpretation of Nietzsche that, rather than treating the philosopher as a nihilist, underscores his quest for experience without illusion.

Cruelty

Cruelty
Title Cruelty PDF eBook
Author Kathleen Eleanor Taylor
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 351
Release 2009
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0199552622

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Resource added for the Psychology (includes Sociology) 108091 courses.

Ordinary Vices

Ordinary Vices
Title Ordinary Vices PDF eBook
Author Judith N. Shklar
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 290
Release 1984
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9780674641754

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The seven deadly sins of Christianity represent the abysses of character, whereas Shklar's "ordinary vices"--cruelty, hypocrisy, snobbery, betrayal, and misanthropy--are merely treacherous shoals, flawing our characters with mean-spiritedness and inhumanity. Shklar draws from a brilliant array of writers--Moliere and Dickens on hypocrisy, Jane Austen on snobbery, Shakespeare and Montesquieu on misanthropy, Hawthorne and Nietzsche on cruelty, Conrad and Faulkner on betrayal--to reveal the nature and effects of the vices. She examines their destructive effects, the ambiguities of the moral problems they pose to the liberal ethos, and their implications for government and citizens: liberalism is a difficult and challenging doctrine that demands a tolerance of contradiction, complexity, and the risks of freedom.

Moral Cruelty

Moral Cruelty
Title Moral Cruelty PDF eBook
Author Timothy Lee Hulsey
Publisher University Press of America
Pages 172
Release 2004
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9780761828662

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The overarching purpose of Moral Cruelty is to identify and sensitize the reader to the existence of "moral sadism." It is the authors' contention that what we as individuals perceive as "normal" modes of interaction conceal hidden contributions to cruelty.

Grandstanding

Grandstanding
Title Grandstanding PDF eBook
Author Justin Tosi
Publisher
Pages 249
Release 2020
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0190900156

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Why does talk about politics and moral issues tend to get so ugly, heated, and personal? So much public discussion goes awry because people are using it for the wrong reasons. Too often, especially online, people engage in moral grandstanding--they use moral talk to impress others by showing them they have the right views. Tosi and Warmke show why people behave this way, why it's wrong, and what we can do about it.

Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity

Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
Title Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity PDF eBook
Author Richard Rorty
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 222
Release 1989-02-24
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9780521367813

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In this 1989 book Rorty argues that thinkers such as Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein have enabled societies to see themselves as historical contingencies, rather than as expressions of underlying, ahistorical human nature or as realizations of suprahistorical goals. This ironic perspective on the human condition is valuable on a private level, although it cannot advance the social or political goals of liberalism. In fact Rorty believes that it is literature not philosophy that can do this, by promoting a genuine sense of human solidarity. A truly liberal culture, acutely aware of its own historical contingency, would fuse the private, individual freedom of the ironic, philosophical perspective with the public project of human solidarity as it is engendered through the insights and sensibilities of great writers. The book has a characteristically wide range of reference from philosophy through social theory to literary criticism. It confirms Rorty's status as a uniquely subtle theorist, whose writing will prove absorbing to academic and nonacademic readers alike.