Ethical Egoism and Beyond

1979 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
James P. Sterba
Keyword(s):  
Moral Reasons ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Sea Islands ◽  
Ethical Egoism ◽  
Personal Gain ◽  
Rational Person ◽  
Moral Standards ◽  
National Bank ◽  
South Sea ◽  
Normal Human

Consider the case of Gary Gyges, an otherwise normal human being who, for reasons of personal gain, has embezzled $300,000 while working at People's National Bank and is in the process of escaping to the South Sea Islands where he will have the good fortune to live a pleasant life protected by the local authorities and untroubled by any qualms of conscience. If we assume that in the society from which Gyges is fleeing moral standards are generally observed, Gyges's behavior would be obviously immoral. Is it possible, however, that Gyges, a rational person, may have had perfectly consistent reasons for acting immorally? Is it also possible that Gyges may not have had any moral reasons at all to refrain from his act of embezzlement?

Impact of the War on South Sea Islands

1946 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 409 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Wesley Coulter
Keyword(s):  
Sea Islands ◽  
South Sea

scholarly journals Traversing Disability Stigma: Re-presenting 'Disability' as a form of 'Identity' in Victor Hugo's the Hunchback of Notre- Dame

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 3590-3592
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Victor Hugo ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Social Construct ◽  
The People ◽  
Disability Stigma ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Normal Human ◽  
Negative Connotation

“Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do one thing well, you are needed by someone” – Martina Navratilova. Though Disability Studies focused on the distinction between „impairment‟ and „disability‟ defining Disability as a social construct, we still perceive Disability as something abnormal, drifting from the normality, an impairment to human mind or body. This paper reflects on how Quasimodo, attains an Identity in the society with his disability of hunchback and deafness in Victor Hugo‟s The Hunchback of Notre - Dame. He was crowned as the “Pope of Fools” for being the ugliest person in Paris. Though the identity he gained had a negative connotation, it was his disability that made him known among the people. The deflection from normality – his hunchback made people recognize him. This paper reveals how a disabled person is perceived by the society and the struggles he faces for his survival living among the people who are ready to use him and exploit him for their personal gains and finally leaving him in the crisis with a preoccupied notion that the disabled deserve only such kind of treatment. The character Quasimodo is a living example that a disabled person also possesses the same feelings like love, care, happiness, lust etc. just like a normal human being do and how these feelings are restricted for him. This paper also evaluates the Disability Stigma working on the character Quasimodo making him stereotyped, discriminated, blamed, internalized and made victim of physical, mental and sexual violence

scholarly journals Brown Men and Women, or the South Sea Islands in 1895 and 1896

Science ◽  
1898 ◽  
Vol 8 (186) ◽  
pp. 111-111
Author(s):  
D. G. BRINTON
Keyword(s):  
Sea Islands ◽  
The South ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
South Sea

Tropics to Talk About: Witkacy and Oswald de Andrade

Tekstualia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 37-50
Author(s):  
Andrea Deca
Keyword(s):  
Pure Form ◽  
The Other ◽  
Sea Islands ◽  
The South ◽  
Old World ◽  
The Future ◽  
South Sea ◽  
The One

This paper concentrates on Witkacy’s Pure Form and the concept of Anthropophagy that was coined by Oswald de Andrade, and their affi nity with the notions of utopia and tropicality. Tropicality is detected in the form of the imaginary construction of Witkacy regarding the South Sea Islands on the one hand, and on the other in the utopic island of Vera Cruz, reinvented by Oswald de Andrade in his mature years. The seamen of the old world fi rst conceptualised Vera Cruz in this way in legends that alluded to the lost paradise and following this trace Oswald dreamt it could be a future paradise. Both Witkacy and de Andrade, beyond being artists, were thinkers of their specifi c cultures and had their theories regarding the future of mankind.

Where the Waves Fall. A New South Sea Islands History From First Settlement to Colonial Rule.

1984 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 737
Author(s):  
James A. Boutilier ◽  
K. R. Howe
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
Sea Islands ◽  
South Sea ◽  
The Waves
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