Speech And Morality

Author : Seana Valentine Shiffrin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691173613
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speech Matters written by Seana Valentine Shiffrin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To understand one another as individuals and to fulfill the moral duties that require such understanding, we must communicate with each other. We must also maintain protected channels that render reliable communication possible, a demand that, Seana Shiffrin argues, yields a prohibition against lying and requires protection for free speech. This book makes a distinctive philosophical argument for the wrong of the lie and provides an original account of its difference from the wrong of deception. Drawing on legal as well as philosophical arguments, the book defends a series of notable claims—that you may not lie about everything to the "murderer at the door," that you have reasons to keep promises offered under duress, that lies are not protected by free speech, that police subvert their mission when they lie to suspects, and that scholars undermine their goals when they lie to research subjects. Many philosophers start to craft moral exceptions to demands for sincerity and fidelity when they confront wrongdoers, the pressures of non-ideal circumstances, or the achievement of morally substantial ends. But Shiffrin consistently resists this sort of exceptionalism, arguing that maintaining a strong basis for trust and reliable communication through practices of sincerity, fidelity, and respecting free speech is an essential aspect of ensuring the conditions for moral progress, including our rehabilitation of and moral reconciliation with wrongdoers.

Author : Terence Cuneo
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191021334
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speech and Morality written by Terence Cuneo and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terence Cuneo develops a novel line of argument for moral realism. The argument he defends hinges on the normative theory of speech, according to which speech acts are generated by an agent's altering her normative position with regard to her audience, gaining rights, responsibilities, and obligations of certain kinds. Some of these rights, responsibilities, and obligations, Cuneo suggests, are moral. And these moral features are best understood along realist lines, in part because they explain how it is that we can speak. If this is right, a necessary condition of being able to speak is that there are moral rights, responsibilities, and obligations of a broadly realist sort.

Author : Thomas R. Nilsen
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethics of Speech Communication written by Thomas R. Nilsen and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1974 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : R. Cohen-Almagor
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230501826
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speech, Media and Ethics written by R. Cohen-Almagor and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-01-11 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speech, Media, and Ethics: The Limits of Free Expression is an interdisciplinary work that employs ethics, liberal philosophy, and legal and media studies to outline the boundaries to freedom of expression and freedom of the press, defined broadly to include the right to demonstrate and to picket, the right to compete in elections, and the right to communicate views via the written and electronic media. Moral principles are applied to analyze practical questions that deal with free expression and its limits.

Author : Jonathan Sacks
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541675320
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Morality written by Jonathan Sacks and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distinguished religious leader's stirring case for reconstructing a shared framework of virtues and values. With liberal democracy embattled, public discourse grown toxic, family life breaking down, and drug abuse and depression on the rise, many fear what the future holds. In Morality, respected faith leader and public intellectual Jonathan Sacks traces today's crisis to our loss of a strong, shared moral code and our elevation of self-interest over the common good. We have outsourced morality to the market and the state, but neither is capable of showing us how to live. Sacks leads readers from ancient Greece to the Enlightenment to the present day to show that there is no liberty without morality and no freedom without responsibility, arguing that we all must play our part in rebuilding a common moral foundation. A major work of moral philosophy, Morality is an inspiring vision of a world in which we can all find our place and face the future without fear.

Author : Robert H. Bork
Publisher : American Enterprise Institute Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tradition and Morality in Constitutional Law written by Robert H. Bork and published by American Enterprise Institute Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joe Spencer-Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351581201
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moral Talk written by Joe Spencer-Bennett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about moral talk in contemporary British political discourse, drawing on speeches, debates and radio phone-ins. Using a critical sociolinguistic approach, Spencer-Bennett explores the language people use to communicate moral judgement and highlights the relations between the things that people say, the contexts in which they are said and the circulating ideologies about meaning and morality. This is key reading for students and scholars studying language, politics and critical discourse analysis, within linguistics and anthropology.

Author : Justin Tosi
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190900156
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grandstanding written by Justin Tosi and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are all guilty of it. We call people terrible names in conversation or online. We vilify those with whom we disagree, and make bolder claims than we could defend. We want to be seen as taking the moral high ground not just to make a point, or move a debate forward, but to look a certain way--incensed, or compassionate, or committed to a cause. We exaggerate. In other words, we grandstand. Nowhere is this more evident than in public discourse today, and especially as it plays out across the internet. To philosophers Justin Tosi and Brandon Warmke, who have written extensively about moral grandstanding, such one-upmanship is not just annoying, but dangerous. As politics gets more and more polarized, people on both sides of the spectrum move further and further apart when they let grandstanding get in the way of engaging one another. The pollution of our most urgent conversations with self-interest damages the very causes they are meant to forward. Drawing from work in psychology, economics, and political science, and along with contemporary examples spanning the political spectrum, the authors dive deeply into why and how we grandstand. Using the analytic tools of psychology and moral philosophy, they explain what drives us to behave in this way, and what we stand to lose by taking it too far. Most importantly, they show how, by avoiding grandstanding, we can re-build a public square worth participating in.

Author : Niklas Forsberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781032112466
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lectures on a Philosophy Less Ordinary written by Niklas Forsberg and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive reinterpretation of J.L. Austin's philosophy. It opens new ways of thinking about ethics and other contemporary issues in the wake of Austin's philosophical work. Austin is primarily viewed as a philosopher of language whose work focused on the pragmatic aspects of speech. His work on ordinary language philosophy and speech act theory is seen as his main contribution to philosophy. This book challenges this received view to show that Austin used his most well-known theoretical notions as heuristic tools aimed at debunking the fact/value dichotomy. Additionally, it demonstrates that Austin's continual returns to the ordinary is rooted in a desire to show that our lives in language are complicated and multifaceted. What emerges is an attempt to think with Austin about problems that are central to philosophy today--such as the question about linguistic inheritance, truth, the relationship between a language inherited and morality, and how we are to cope with linguistic elasticity and historicity. Lectures on a Philosophy Less Ordinary will appeal to scholars and advanced students working on Austin's philosophy, philosophy of language, and the history of analytic philosophy.

Author : John R. Searle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521096263
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speech Acts written by John R. Searle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1969-01-02 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This small but tightly packed volume is easily the most substantial discussion of speech acts since John Austin's How To Do Things With Words and one of the most important contributions to the philosophy of language in recent decades.'--Philosophical Quarterly