A Peripatetic Argument for the Intrinsic Goodness of Human Life: Alexander of Aphrodisias' Ethical Problems I

Apeiron ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Echeñique
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Ethical Problems ◽  
Intrinsic Goodness ◽  
Alexander Of Aphrodisias

AbstractIn this article I argue for the thesis that Alexander's main argument, in Ethical Problems I, is an attempt to block the implication drawn by the Stoics and other ancient philosophers from the double potential of use exhibited by human life, a life that can be either well or badly lived. Alexander wants to resist the thought that this double potential of use allows the Stoics to infer that human life, in itself, or by its own nature, is neither good nor bad (what I call the Indifference Implication). Furthermore, I shall argue that Alexander's main argument establishes that human life, despite exhibiting a double potential of use, is by its own nature or intrinsically good. Finally, given that this is not a conclusion that the Stoics are likely to accept, I shall also contend that the argument should be regarded as conducted for the most part in foro interno, as a way of persuading the Peripatetics themselves of the falsity of the Indifference Implication, precisely because of the risk that such an implication be derived from their own theoretical framework.

Alexander of Aphrodisias: Ethical Problems

1991 ◽  
Vol 84 (5) ◽  
pp. 423
Author(s):  
Lawrence P. Schrenk ◽  
R. W. Sharples
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Problems ◽  
Alexander Of Aphrodisias

Alexander of Aphrodisias: Ethical Problems.

1992 ◽  
Vol 101 (4) ◽  
pp. 845
Author(s):  
Brad Inwood ◽  
R. W. Sharples
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Problems ◽  
Alexander Of Aphrodisias

Sounds of Web Advertising

2011 ◽  
pp. 535-551
Author(s):  
Iben Bredahl Jessen ◽  
Nicolai Jørgensgaard Graakjaer
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Web Content ◽  
Web Advertising ◽  
Communicative Functions ◽  
Banner Ads ◽  
Visual Phenomena ◽  
Web Ads ◽  
The Web ◽  
Commercial Messages

Sound seems to be a neglected issue in the study of web ads. Web advertising is predominantly regarded as visual phenomena–commercial messages, as for instance banner ads that we watch, read, and eventually click on–but only rarely as something that we listen to. The present chapter presents an overview of the auditory dimensions in web advertising: Which kinds of sounds do we hear in web ads? What are the conditions and functions of sound in web ads? Moreover, the chapter proposes a theoretical framework in order to analyse the communicative functions of sound in web advertising. The main argument is that an understanding of the auditory dimensions in web advertising must include a reflection on the hypertextual settings of the web ad as well as a perspective on how users engage with web content.

Adaptive Institutions and Networked Governance

2021 ◽  
pp. 49-76
Author(s):  
Jeffrey D. Pugh
Keyword(s):  
International Organizations ◽  
Human Security ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Host Community ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Democratic Government ◽  
Dense Networks ◽  
Networked Governance ◽  
Governance Networks ◽  
Political Incentive

Chapter 3 lays out the main argument of the book, that in the context of the invisibility bargain, a democratic government has a political incentive to prioritize the interests of citizens over migrants (even when formal institutions promise protections), and thus may be an inadequate guarantor of security in migrant-receiving areas. The resulting gaps in formal state protections can increase migrant vulnerability and escalate conflict between migrants and citizens. Governance networks that connect international organizations, nonstate actors and the state can emerge to fill these gaps, adapting innovative forms of governance that complement, substitute, or compete with state authority and security provision. More diverse and dense networks provide a greater number of potential access points through which migrants might gain the resources and protections they need to thrive in the host community. The chapter provides a theoretical framework for understanding how governance networks contribute to host-migrant human security.

scholarly journals Contemporary Socio-Cultural Issues in Recent Mithila Paintings

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-27
Author(s):  
Santosh Kumar Singh
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Women's Issues ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
The One

This article examines how Mithila art functions as a window to Maithili values and its current innovations in the field which notes the change both in society and the canvas. Two illustrious contemporary Mithila painters, Rani Jha from India and S. C. Suman from Nepal, shows how Mithila art has swerved from traditional motifs and themes to the on-going socio-cultural and socio-political issues even as the aim of painting is commercial, that is, to earn money by making the art saleable among foreign tourists and art lovers. While Rani Jha mostly highlights women’s issues, Suman remains engaged with Nepal’s volatile political situation which sometimes makes him pessimistic and sometimes optimistic. It also makes the point that Mithila painting is largely women-centred, despite the hold of patriarchy. The one, controlling, socio-semiotic meaning of Mithila art is that it is an expression of women’s assertiveness and agency of their subjectivity within the Lakshman Rekha drawn by Maithili patriarchy. The objective of this research is to show how the geographically confined Maithili drawing happens to communicate larger issues at national and global levels at a fresh time. And to prove the main argument, this study makes use of the theoretical framework of socio-semiotic analysis. A semiotic analysis of the artwork in the light of the specific socio-cultural contexts of Mithila reveals that the art not only alerts and modifies the mindset of the stakeholders but also visualizes the socio-cultural troubles of the existing era.

The Morality and Utility of Organ Transplantation

Utilitas ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Audi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Organ Transplantation ◽  
Human Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Common Procedure ◽  
Ethical Problems ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
Organ Sales ◽  
Donor Recruitment

Organ transplantation is at once a technology that raises new ethical problems and a good testing ground for various moral principles. It has become a common procedure in some countries and, at least in the United States, promises to become even more so. It poses questions about costs and benefits as well as the very large question of whether we should try to renew human life indefinitely and, if so, at what cost. It raises the problem of whether organs are the property of their possessors – at least when the possessors are competent adults. It raises issues of organ sales, of what might be called donor recruitment, of informed consent, of reparations when transplant fails, of eligibility for transplant, and of competition for medical time and expertise between transplantation and other, less dramatic kinds of medical care. This essay touches on all of these topics, with the aim of identifying the broad dimensions of the ethical problems of organ transplantation and some of the moral principles that may help us solve them.

scholarly journals Konsep Etika Epikuros dan Problem Media Sosial

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Bahrul Afif
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Ethical Theory ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Ethical Thought ◽  
Ethical Problems ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Ethical Concept ◽  
False News ◽  
Descriptive Method

In the last few decades, one of the ethical problems that has taken a lot of public attention is the hoax problem on social media. Social media, which was originally created as a medium to facilitate the delivery of messages and information, is actually being misused to spread false news which eventually breeds hatred and animosity. One philosopher who is famous for his thoughts on ethical concepts, namely Epicurean. This article will discuss how the Epikuros ethical concept and its relevance to social media problems. This paper is classified in library research and uses the hermeneutical descriptive method. The typology of Epicurean thought belongs to the ethical theory of hedonism, Epicurean in its ethical thought establishes pleasure or pleasure (hedone) as the highest ideal in human life. The intended enjoyment is not only from the material aspect, but the most important thing is the enjoyment of the soul which is referred to as ataraxia. To achieve ataraxia that is by trying to avoid suffering and anxiety. According to Epicureans, in order to avoid suffering and anxiety, humans must have the attitude of phronesis or prudence, which is interpreted as an attitude of vigilance. When connected with social media problems, this attitude of vigilance is very relevant and important to be owned by every individual as a user of social media, so as not to become part of the chain of hoax distribution.

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