Summary Of Meditations For The Humanist By A British...

There are always plenty of people who think telling others to live is a good idea, even a kind of duty. They tell us not to smoke or drink, not to cheat on our taxes, not to get an abortion, and, incredibly, not to be homosexual, or any other variety of sexual they don’t approve of. I could have been a moralizer myself because there’s plenty of religion in my background, and that seems to be where most of the impulse and all of the duty people feel to moralize comes from. A collection of short, thoughtful essays titled Meditations for the Humanist, by a British philosopher named A. C. Grayling, begins with an essay that, after pretty much trashing the morlaizers’ motives, explains why telling others how to live is not usually very effective. The essay got me thinking about my own failure to moralize. Grayling characterizes moralizers as Victorian in their attitudes, by which he means self-repressed and seeking to repress others; in America, we might call them Pur itans, or Puritanical. Oddly enough those people came here from England. Even though they say they only want the best for others and for society, Grayling sees moralizers as victims of their own repression, and believes they moralize out of fear rather than out of goodness. He further believes they are victimized by the false notion that the world was once morally well-ordered but is now a moral sewer. He says that, rather than trying to get others to adopt our modes of behavior by some form of coercion, eitherShow MoreRelatedSources of Ethics20199 Words   |  81 PagesSociety: 50 How the genes influence behaviour and ethics: 52 2.3- PHILOSOPHICAL: 55 2.31- Contribution Of In Ethics By The Source Of Philosophical Systems: 55 2.32- Contribution of Aristotle: 57 2.33- Contributions By Other Important Philosophers: 58 2.34- Rights Theory: 64 2.35- Contribution By KANT: 65 2.36- Contribution By ROSS: 66 2.4- CULTURAL: 68 2.5- LEGAL SYSTEM: 71 2.6- CODES OF ETHICS: 74 2.61- Company Codes: 74 Code of ethics (corporate or business ethics)Read MoreOrganisational Theory230255 Words   |  922 PagesManagement Studies, Keele University, UK An unusually rich and deep philosophical book on organization theory with several new thinkers and ideas. Pedagogically a well-structured book with many clear learning objectives, cases, examples and good summaries for every chapter. Professor Martin Lindell, Hanken Business School, Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland This book makes it easier to understand the current stand of organization theory. I strongly recommend it to anyoneRead MoreMetz Film Language a Semiotics of the Cinema PDF100902 Words   |  316 Pagesnarrative that trails off in points of suspension (whether real or implied), the effect of being suspended does not apply to the narrative object, which, for its part, retains a perfectly clear ending— indicated, precisely, by the three dots. The British film Dead of Night con* See Chapter 7. — TRANSLATOR 18 PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO FILM cludes in a spiral,* but, as a suite of images, it has a definite ending —the last image of the film. Children are not fooled when being told stories. For