Search Results 1 - 22 of 22. Results contain 44 matches


content unlocked
Thematic

Pornography

There are three main questions about pornography. (1) How is pornography to be defined? Some definitions include the contention that it is morally wrong, while others define it ...

"pornography" appears most in:

content unlocked
content unlocked
content locked
Thematic

Pornography

REVISED

There are three main questions about pornography. (1) How is pornography to be defined? Some definitions include the contention that it is morally wrong, while others define it ...

"pornography" appears most in:

content locked
Thematic

Feminist philosophy

Feminist philosophy is philosophy that is aimed at understanding and challenging the oppression of women. Feminist philosophy examines issues that are traditionally found in practical ethics and political ...

"pornography" appears most in:

content locked
content locked
Thematic

Erotic art

Erotic art is art with a sexual content, which may be more or less overt. The presence of sexual content, however, is not sufficient for a work of ...

"pornography" appears most in:

content locked
Thematic

Sexuality, philosophy of

The philosophy of sexuality, like the philosophy of science, art or law, is the study of the concepts and propositions surrounding its central protagonist, in this case ‘sex’. ...

"pornography" appears most in:

content locked
content locked
content locked
Thematic

Law and morality

Within the tradition of natural law thinking which finds its roots in the philosophies of Aristotle and Aquinas, the political community has generally been understood in terms of ...

"pornography" appears most in:

content locked
Thematic

Art and morality

A complex set of questions is raised by an examination of the relationship between art and morality. First there is a set of empirical considerations about the effect ...

"pornography" appears most in:

content locked
content locked
content unlocked
Overview

Ethics

What is ethics? First, the systems of value and custom instantiated in the lives of particular groups of human beings are described as the ethics of these groups. ...

"pornography" appears most in:

content unlocked
content locked
Thematic

Law, limits of

Questions concerning the proper limits of law are of particular interest to thinkers in the Western political tradition of individualism. In this tradition the law is regarded primarily ...

"pornography" appears most in:

content locked
content locked
Thematic

Respect for persons

The idea that persons should treated with respect and that disrespecting someone is wrong is an important element of everyday morality and of moral philosophy and social and ...

"pornography" appears most in:

content locked
content locked
Thematic

Freedom of speech

Freedom of speech is one of the most widely accepted principles of modern political and social life. The three arguments most commonly offered in its defence are that ...

"pornography" appears most in:

content locked
content locked
content unlocked
Thematic

Applied ethics

Applied ethics is marked out from ethics in general by its special focus on issues of practical concern. It therefore includes medical ethics, environmental ethics, and evaluation of ...

"pornography" appears most in:

content unlocked
content locked
Biographical

Benjamin, Walter (1892–1940)

NEW

Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was an influential German intellectual, whose activity spanned the late years of the German empire and the volatile Weimar period, culminating in a tragic ...

"pornography" appears most in:

content locked
content unlocked
Overview

Ethics

REVISED

What is ethics? First, the systems of value and custom instantiated in the lives of particular groups of human beings are described as the ethics of these groups. ...

"pornography" appears most in:

content unlocked
content locked
Biographical

Nussbaum, Martha Craven (1947–)

A characteristic feature of Nussbaum’s work is the way in which she draws upon ancient Greek and Roman philosophy and literature to examine some of the most pressing ...

"pornography" appears most in:

content locked
Thematic

Postmodernism and political philosophy

Just as there is much disagreement over both what is meant by ‘postmodernism’ and which thinkers fall under this rubric, so also is there disagreement over its implications ...

"pornography" appears most in:

content locked
content unlocked
Thematic

Respect for persons

The idea that one should treat persons with due respect is an important part of common sense morality, but opinions differ about when respect is called for, ...

"pornography" appears most in:

content locked
Thematic

Toleration

Toleration emerged as an important idea in the seventeenth century, receiving its fullest defence in John Locke’s A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689). Initially developed in the context of ...

"pornography" appears most in:

content locked
Thematic

Dworkin, Ronald (1931–2013)

Ronald Dworkin’s early, highly controversial, thesis that there are right answers in hard cases in law, coupled with his attack on the idea that law is simply a ...

content locked
Thematic

Nietzsche: impact on Russian thought

Nietzsche’s thought had a massive influence on Russian literature and the arts, religious philosophy and political culture. His popularizers were writers, artists and political radicals who read his ...

"pornography" appears most in:

content locked
content locked
Thematic

Privacy

The distinction between private and public is both central to much legal and political thought and subject to serious challenge on philosophical, practical and political grounds by critics ...

"pornography" appears most in:

content locked
content locked
Thematic

Applied ethics

REVISED

Applied ethics is marked out from ethics in general by its special focus on issues of practical concern. It is concerned with ethical issues in various fields of ...

"pornography" appears most in:

content locked