Functional Words, Facts and Values

1976 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. W. Cragg
Keyword(s):  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Recent Discussion ◽  
The Many ◽  
Substantial Interest

Functional words are of substantial interest in moral philosophy because they appear to lie at the juncture of description and evaluation. This is no doubt the reason that they have played a significant part in much recent discussion of the relation between facts and values. Yet, in spite of the many discussions in which functional words have made an appearance, their significance for an understanding of the relation between facts and values remains unclear. A thorough-going examination of the nature of functional words would appear to be in order. And while such a study is beyond the scope of a single article it should nevertheless be possible to make a beginning. That, at any rate, is my objective in what follows.

The Purposes of Broadcasting – Revisited

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Petley
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Public Service Broadcasting ◽  
Conservative Government ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Uk

This chapter focuses on a report on the future of broadcasting in the UK commissioned in 1960 by the then Conservative government. It suggests that the most significant part of the report for current debates about the future of the BBC in particular, and of public service broadcasting in general, is its robust and combative dismissal of the populist approach to television — an approach which thoroughly infused many of the attacks on the report and which has become a hallmark of the many onslaughts on public service broadcasting in the intervening years. Today, we desperately need an analysis of both the strengths and weaknesses of public service broadcasting as it currently exists, as well as a blueprint for its future, which is as profound, challenging, well-informed, and intellectually self-confident as was the report when it was published in 1962.

Writing the Novel of Ideas: The Philosopher and Public Intellectual

Iris Murdoch ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 41-58
Author(s):  
Anne Rowe
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Political Views ◽  
The Many

Murdoch’s place as a writer in the tradition of ‘the novel of ideas’, is explored in this chapter, as are the ways in which her political views and her standing as a public intellectual impact on novels that she denied were intentionally informed by either. The reasons why Murdoch’s moral philosophy was not well received on its publication are explained as is its current significance in the field of Virtue Ethics. The chapter moves on to illustrate the ways that her philosophy covertly infiltrates her novels without any trace of didacticism, and the difficult moral paradoxes it raises. It looks at the function of the many amateur and professional philosophers who feature in the novels before it moves on to explore how Murdoch’s robust opinions on political and social issues covertly inform novels in ways which have never been fully acknowledged by literary critics.

scholarly journals 道家的生命倫理思想及其現代價值

2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-52
Author(s):  
Kezhou JI
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Ethical Dimension ◽  
Ancient China ◽  
Digital Commons ◽  
The Many

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in Chinese; abstract also in English.道家學派產生於中國歷史上的春秋戰國時期，他的代表著作主要包括《老子》、《莊子》、《列子》等。道家豐富的生命倫理學思想主要包括崇尚自然的生命觀、保身盡年的生命價值觀、少私寡欲和崇尚無為的養生觀、尊道積德和崇尚自由的道德觀，以及提倡天人合一的生態觀。在現代社會發展過程中，道家生命倫理學思想對尊重人性、堅持生命至上，維護人的發展；對人類社會整體的健康和諧發展；對適度消費、保持資源有序利用和推動社會可持續發展；對維護人類社會協調發展；對人類修德養生以及對現代生態觀和環境保護都有著重要的借鑒價值。通過對道家生命倫理思想的研究，我們可以看到東方哲學智慧的閃光點，歷史證明東方哲學思想有著和西方一樣光彩奪目的歷史，在現代社會發展過程中，我們面臨著許多新問題，而西方工具主義對此則顯得力不從心，因此借鑒東方智慧，發掘東方先哲思想則顯得尤為重要，歷史的現實已經證明東方智慧，尤其是中國古代哲學，所具有的思想智慧有更為重要的現實意義和參考價值。Daoism was one of the major philosophical traditions of ancient China, based on the teachings of Laozi and Zhuangzi. This essay focuses on the Daoist view of human life and its relation to the environment, and argues that the ethical dimension of Daoism is still relevant to life today. Given the many ecological and bioethical crises we are now confronting, it is important that we re-evaluate Daoism, especially its view on the unity between humans and nature.This essay deals with human health in terms of physical health, mental health and environmental health. These aspects correspond to the three dimensions of the Daoist concept of “harmony”: harmony with oneself, harmony with other people, and harmony with the environment. Uncovering the traditional roots of Daoism will help us to reconstruct a moral philosophy that values life, especially in a world that has become dominated by capitalism and consumerism.DOWNLOAD HISTORY | This article has been downloaded 15276 times in Digital Commons before migrating into this platform.

scholarly journals Finest frugt - om ‘den Vartou Kjællingepræst’: En guide til Grundtvig-Studier 1948-2008, II

2010 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-153
Author(s):  
Aage Jørgensen
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
World War ◽  
Subsequent Research ◽  
The Many

Finest frugt - om ‘den Vartou Kjællingepræst’: En guide til Grundtvig- Studier 1948-2008, II[Fruit of the finest - concerning (the Vartov Old Biddies ’past or A guide to Grundtvig-Studier 1948-2008, II]By Aage JørgensenAs early as 1948, the Grundtvig Society of 8 September 1947 launched an annual journal, Grundtvig-Studier. Since then, the journal has published a significant part of the subsequent research on Grundtvig, including important debate on the many Grundtvig dissertations that have appeared since World War II. This article is the second part of an anniversary retrospect introduced in Grundtvig-Studier 2009 which reviews the content of the volumes of Grundtvig-Studier hitherto issued. It deals with contributions to the journal on Grundtvig’s educational deliberations and their significance for Danish schools, especially the folkhighschools, together with the overall subsequent reception of his pedagogical thinking both within Denmark and in the wider world.

The Many Moral Particularisms

2005 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean McKeever ◽  
Michael Ridge
Keyword(s):  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Moral Life ◽  
Moral Particularism ◽  
Philosophical Inquiry ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
The Many ◽  
Broad Interest

What place, if any, moral principles should or do have in moral life has been a longstanding question f or moral philosophy. For some, the proposition that moral philosophy should strive to articulate moral principles has been an article of faith. At least since Aristotle, however, there has been a rieh counter-tradition that questions the possibility or value of trying to capture morality in principled terms. In recent years, philosophers who question principled approaches to morality have argued under the banner of moral particularism. Particularists can be found in diverse areas of philosophical inquiry, and their positions and arguments are of broad interest. Despite its importance, a proper evaluation of particularism has been hindered both by the diversity of arguments employed to defend it, and, perhaps more significantly, by the diversity of positions that can fairly claim to be particularist.

Moral Philosophy and Law and Economics

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian H. Bix
Keyword(s):  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Law And Economics ◽  
Vast Number ◽  
The Many

This article explores how law and economics is viewed from the perspective of moral philosophy. Given that ‘law and economics’ is a category that covers a large and diverse set of theories and theorists, and that ‘moral philosophy’ as a category is even larger and more diverse, there are a vast number of potential topics and perspectives. The article offers a sample of the many intersections of those two categories. Part I offers a brief introduction to some central ideas of economics and to the different schools of moral philosophy. Part II summarizes some defences of law and economics from the perspective of moral philosophy, while Part III summarizes criticisms from the same source.

scholarly journals Exploring ‘islandness’ and the impacts of nature conservation through the lens of wellbeing

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 298-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
SARAH COULTHARD ◽  
LOUISA EVANS ◽  
RACHEL TURNER ◽  
DAVID MILLS ◽  
SIMON FOALE ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Recent Discussion ◽  
Subjective Perceptions ◽  
Social Wellbeing ◽  
Global North ◽  
The Many

SUMMARYMotivated by growing concern as to the many threats that islands face, subsequent calls for more extensive island nature conservation and recent discussion in the conservation literature about the potential for wellbeing as a useful approach to understanding how conservation affects people's lives, this paper reviews the literature in order to explore how islands and wellbeing relate and how conservation might impact that relationship. We apply a three-dimensional concept of social wellbeing to structure the discussion and illustrate the importance of understanding island–wellbeing interactions in the context of material, relational and subjective dimensions, using examples from the literature. We posit that islands and their shared characteristics of ‘islandness’ provide a useful setting in which to apply social wellbeing as a generalizable framework, which is particularly adept at illuminating the relevance of social relationships and subjective perceptions in island life – aspects that are often marginalized in more economically focused conservation impact assessments. The paper then explores in more depth the influences of island nature conservation on social wellbeing and sustainability outcomes using two case studies from the global north (UK islands) and global south (the Solomon Islands). We conclude that conservation approaches that engage with all three dimensions of wellbeing seem to be associated with success.

scholarly journals Reflections on statistical modelling: A conversation with Murray Aitkin

2021 ◽  
pp. 1471082X2110605
Author(s):  
Murray Aitkin ◽  
John Hinde ◽  
Brian Francis
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Modelling ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Applied Statistics ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many

A virtual interview with Murray Aitkin by Brian Francis and John Hinde, two of the original members of the Centre for Applied Statistics that Murray created at Lancaster University. The talk ranges over Murray's reflections of a career in statistical modelling and the many different collaborations across the world that have been such a significant part of it.

Miskawayh’s Apologia for Greek Philosophy

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Mohd Nasir Omar
Keyword(s):  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Eleventh Century ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Philosophical Study ◽  
Greek Philosophy ◽  
Major Work ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Greek Thought ◽  
The Many ◽  
Important Evidence

In the East, Greek philosophy was studied as early as the fourth century, not however, by the Muslims but by the Arab Syrian Christians. It was Syrian Christians who brought wine, silk and other precious items to the West, but it was the Syrians also who cultivated Greek sciences for many centuries before they eventually transmitted them to the Muslim philosophers, especially in the tenth and eleventh century Baghdad. Miskawayh (d.1030), a great Muslim moralist, was among the philosophers who flourished in Baghdad at such times. He was well educated in Islamic studies as well as in philosophy, especially Greek philosophy. The many quotations from Greek sources which are found in Miskawayh’s works, especially in his major work on ethics, Tahdhib al-Akhlaq (The Refinement of Character), provide important evidence for this study to argue that they also have contributed to the formation of his moral philosophy. This paper thus, seeks to investigate Miskawayh’s own attraction to Greek ideas, which eventually led him towards the acceptance of Greek thought and also towards the need for an apologetic on behalf of philosophical study and on the relations between philosophy and the divine revelation.

Miskawayh’s Apologia for Greek Philosophy

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Mohd Nasir Omar
Keyword(s):  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Eleventh Century ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Philosophical Study ◽  
Greek Philosophy ◽  
Major Work ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Greek Thought ◽  
The Many ◽  
Important Evidence

In the East, Greek philosophy was studied as early as the fourth century, not however, by the Muslims but by the Arab Syrian Christians. It was Syrian Christians who brought wine, silk and other precious items to the West, but it was the Syrians also who cultivated Greek sciences for many centuries before they eventually transmitted them to the Muslim philosophers, especially in the tenth and eleventh century Baghdad. Miskawayh (d.1030), a great Muslim moralist, was among the philosophers who flourished in Baghdad at such times. He was well educated in Islamic studies as well as in philosophy, especially Greek philosophy. The many quotations from Greek sources which are found in Miskawayh’s works, especially in his major work on ethics, Tahdhib al-Akhlaq (The Refinement of Character), provide important evidence for this study to argue that they also have contributed to the formation of his moral philosophy. This paper thus, seeks to investigate Miskawayh’s own attraction to Greek ideas, which eventually led him towards the acceptance of Greek thought and also towards the need for an apologetic on behalf of philosophical study and on the relations between philosophy and the divine revelation.

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