Ajax

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krista K. Thomason
Keyword(s):  
Traditional View ◽  
Moral Emotion ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Making Sense

The first chapter introduces the story of Ajax to help illustrate three philosophical positions on shame: the traditional view, the naturalistic view, and the pessimistic view. It begins with an exposition of the traditional view and explains why it might be a tempting account of shame as a moral emotion. It then introduces the dark side of shame and shows that the traditional view cannot account for it. Given these concerns, the naturalistic view might be seen as an alternative. The chapter shows how the naturalistic view cannot explain how shame might be morally valuable. Chapter 1 ends with a question: can one provide an account of shame that shows how it can be morally valuable while at the same time making sense of its dark side?

Naked

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krista K. Thomason
Keyword(s):  
Moral Emotion ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Virtuous Life ◽  
Moral Philosophers

Moral philosophers have long argued that shame can be a morally valuable emotion that helps people realize when they fail to be the kinds of people they aspire to be. According to these arguments, people feel shame when they fail to live up to the norms, standards, and ideals that are valued as part of a virtuous life. But lurking in the shadows is the dark side of shame. People might feel shame when they fail to live up to their values, but they also feel shame about sex, nudity, being ugly, fat, stupid, or low-class. What is worse, people often respond to shame with violence and self-destruction. This book argues for a unified account of shame that embraces shame’s dark side. Rather than try to explain away the troubling cases as irrational or misguided, it presents an account of shame that makes sense of both its good and bad side. Shame is the experience of a tension between two aspects of one’s self: one’s self-conception and one’s identity. People are liable to feelings of shame because they are not always who they take themselves to be. Shame is a valuable moral emotion, and even though it has a dark side, people would not be better off without it.

scholarly journals Subclinical psychopathy, interpersonal workplace exchanges and moral emotions through the lens of affective events theory (AET)

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Boulter ◽  
Clive Boddy
Keyword(s):  
Natural Habitat ◽  
Moral Emotions ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Moral Emotion ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Affective Events Theory ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Organisational Effectiveness ◽  
Affective Events ◽  
The Impact

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to better comprehend the subclinical psychopath's intra and interpersonal moral emotions in the context of their natural habitat, the workplace, alongside implications for employees and organisations.Design/methodology/approachThis study draws on affective events theory (AET) to illuminate this dark-side phenomenon. Thematic analysis is used to identify themes from qualitative data collected from a small sample of interviews conducted with human resource management (HRM) directors and other managers.FindingsThe findings show that the subclinical psychopath is agentic, being unfettered by intra self-directed conscious moral emotions. The predominant moral emotion directed at employees during interpersonal workplace exchanges is typically anger. However, it appears likely the subclinical psychopath fakes this moral emotion as a smokescreen for manipulative and exploitative gains. The predominant moral emotion directed by employees towards the subclinical psychopath is fear. Employees resort to avoidance and withdrawal behaviour and intentions to quit become a reality.Practical implicationsThe signalling quality of employees' moral emotions and subsequent dysfunctional avoidance and withdrawal behaviour can provide valuable information to HRM professionals in the detection of subclinical psychopaths which is acknowledged as notoriously difficult.Originality/valueThis study contributes new knowledge to subclinical psychopathy and makes novel use of AET to explore this personality type as a driver of employees' negative workplace emotions, the impact on employees' behaviour alongside implications for organisational effectiveness.

Spelling of Phonemes: Correct Spellings, Legal Substitutions, and Illegal Substitutions

1993 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Treiman
Keyword(s):  
Traditional View ◽  
Writing System ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Correct Spelling ◽  
Spoken Words

So far, I have examined children’s spellings at the level of whole words. The results show that children have more difficulty with some kinds of words than others. For example, children often misspell words that contain multiple-letter graphemes, words such as that and sang. Children often misspell irregular words, words such as said and come. One would guess that th is the trouble spot in that and ai is the trouble spot in said. However, because the analyses presented so far are confined to whole words, I cannot say for sure. To determine which parts of words are difficult to spell, I must move from the level of whole words to the level of individual phonemes and individual graphemes. The need to examine children’s spellings at the level of phonemes and graphemes stems from the nature of the English writing system itself. As discussed in Chapter 1, the English writing system is basically alphabetic. Although most phonemes may be spelled in more than one way, there are relations between phonemes and graphemes. For instance, /k/ may be spelled with k, as in key, c, as in care, or ck, as in back, among other possibilities. Adults cannot always choose the correct spelling from among these possibilities, but we know that /k/ could never be written with m or b. Our knowledge of phoneme-grapheme correspondences tells us that Carl or Karl are reasonable renditions of the spoken form /k’arl/ but that Marl is not. Traditionally, it was thought that children learn to spell on a visual basis, by memorizing the sequence of letters in each word. In this view, children treat printed words as wholes. They do not learn relations between the parts of printed words (graphemes) and the parts of spoken words (phonemes). The traditional view further implies that children memorize one word at a time. They do not learn relations between sounds and spellings that apply to many different words. Findings reported in Chapter 2 suggest that this traditional view of learning to spell is incorrect For example, children's difficulty on irregular words like said and come suggests that children learn about the correspondences between phonemes and graphemes.

‘Modernity’ and the Making of Social Order in Twentieth-Century Europe

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
DENNIS SWEENEY
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Political Transformations ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Structuralist Theory ◽  
The World ◽  
Twentieth Century Europe

It is hard not to be struck by the continuing interest in the concept of ‘modernity’ or ‘the modern’ for making sense of the economic, cultural and political transformations of twentieth-century Europe. Seemingly laid to rest by the early 1980s for its association with modernisation theory, modernity as a concept was revived during the late 1980s and 1990s largely by European historians working on countries, especially Germany and Russia, with nineteenth- and twentieth-century histories that modernisation theorists deemed models of developmental backwardness or case studies in the failure to modernise and its consequences. But, like its striking re-appearance in scholarship on those areas of the world – especially Asia and Africa – written off as the most irredeemably un-modern or ‘traditional’ by modernisation theorists, this renewed interest in modernity derives from very different interventions in post-structuralist theory and cultural and postcolonial studies, which have generated new definitions, and critiques ‘modernity’ and its ‘dark side’ from the vantage point of ‘postmodernity’.

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