Morality

His blog “The Great Seductions” constitutes a real pamphlet of the musical industries. A. Keen criticizes the social and evolutional platform Web 2.0 and its “cult of the amateur” which, according to him, destructs our culture and invalidates our morality by drowning the truth under manipulation and lies, and quality pieces under a torrent of mediocrity. Web 2.0 eats away at the economy of information such as books, music, cinema or newspaper, elements which threaten the creation of quality productions

pourrait contester cette explication en faisant valoir que, dans les trois théories morales les plus débattues, kantisme, utilitarisme, éthique des vertus, cette asymétrie n’existe pas.1 1 Michael Slote, « Some Advantages of Virtue Ethics » in From Morality to Virtue, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1992, p. 3- 21 qui donne la prime de la symétrie morale à l’éthique des vertus ; et mon « Self-other asymmetry », Ateliers de l’éthique, 2008, 3, 1, p. 79-89, où j’essaie de montrer que le kantisme et l’utilitarisme

displayed nihilism can smile the rest of the book discusses the development of anarcho-fascist doctrine that one must withdraw rather than be seduced by it. An amazing book, unstructured, speaking of the feeling of revolt pushed to the extreme, without morality. Experience to read. One thing is for sure, I have not met the writing style of Palahniuk elsewhere. The author plays with all rules, all laws. He rebuilt the literary style after spray? Maybe. Anyway, it works, it strikes, it disturbs. The goal

Coppée - Metternich, traître autrichien (OK).pdfFlorian COPPÉE Chargé d’études et d’analyses au ministère de l’Intérieur F-75008 florian.coppee@u-cergy.fr Metternich, organisateur de la trahison autrichienne contre la France en 1813 Résumé. — Clément Wenceslas Lothaire von Metternich, ministre autrichien des Affaires étrangères de 1809 à 1848, demeure un acteur particulièrement important dans l’histoire napoléonienne. En 1813, alors que son pays et la France sont alliés, il organise l’entrée

in every culture comprises what we could call a field of morality. Everything which is a source of solidarity is moral, everything which forces man to take account of other men is moral, everything which forces him to regulate his conduct through something other than the striving of his ego is moral, and morality is as solid as these ties are numerous and strong.11 Morality is fully half of the world of meaning in this sense. And morality may help to clarify the mid-twentieth-century illusion that

genuine care for Gatsby and the subsequent refusal of the latter to listen to the formerʼs advice shows the main difference between them : acceptance of the time passing. The harder he clings to his dreams, the harder heʼll fall seems to be Fitzgerald morality concerning American self-made men like Gatsby. A. The passing of time The previous chapter showed the end of an era : Tom bested Gatsby. Life stopped at this moment for the American self-made man. His whole life has been built around the reunion

definitive. Foundational rights can be inviolable in a given society, rather than being intrinsically inviolable. They are operant regardless of whether they are universal or not. One of the shortcomings of utilitarianism is its lack of a common morality acting as a social structure, and thus its tendency to breed individualism and indifference within society. The need “for a public sense of justice is necessary to make their [the contracting parties] secure association together possible” prevails

pourrait contester cette explication en faisant valoir que, dans les trois théories morales les plus débattues, kantisme, utilitarisme, éthique des vertus, cette asymétrie n’existe pas.1 1 Michael Slote, « Some Advantages of Virtue Ethics » in From Morality to Virtue, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1992, p. 3- 21 qui donne la prime de la symétrie morale à l’éthique des vertus ; et mon « Self-other asymmetry », Ateliers de l’éthique, 2008, 3, 1, p. 79-89, où j’essaie de montrer que le kantisme et

much of our thinking and societal practices (De Keijser, Van der lendeen, & Jackson, 2002). 04-Houser.qxd 3/14/2006 7:07 PM Page 30 30 WESTERN THEORIES OF ETHICS ADDITIONAL READINGS: UTILITARIAN ETHICS Brandt, R. B. (1992). Morality, utilitarianism, and rights. New York: Cambridge University Press. Goodin, R. E. (1993). Utility and the good. In P. Singer (Ed.), A companion to ethics (pp. 241–248). Malden, MA: Blackwell. Hare, R. M. (1982). Ethical theory and utilitarianism.

increase. That is a metatextual title. 1904: The Ambassadors: a mission from a Puritan New England elderly man to bring back to the U.S. the family son who has taken up a life of Bohemia in Paris. It’s about the cultural gap between American naive morality and its vision of French depravation. Things to remember about Henry James Theme of international subject, particularly the differences between America and Europe. Difference between innocence and corruption. Constantly James is contrasting