Murder On A Philosophical Note
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| Author | : S. Waller |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 263 |
| Release | : 2011-01-13 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1444341405 |
Serial Killers - Philosophy for Everyone investigates our profound intrigue with mass-murderers. Exploring existential, ethical and political questions through an examination of real and fictional serial killers, philosophy comes alive via an exploration of grisly death. Presents new philosophical theories about serial killing, and relates new research in cognitive science to the minds of serial killers Includes a philosophical look at real serial killers such as Ian Brady, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer and the Zodiac killer, as well as fictional serial killers such as Dexter and Hannibal Lecter Offers a new phenomenological examination of the writings of the Zodiac Killer Contains an account of the disappearance of one of Ted Bundy's victims submitted by the organization Families and Friends of Missing Persons and Violent Crime Victims Integrates the insights of philosophers, academics, crime writers and police officers
| Author | : Robert Guay |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0190464011 |
The gruesome double-murder upon which the novel Crime and Punishment hinges leads its culprit, Raskolnikov, into emotional trauma and obsessive, destructive self-reflection. But Raskolnikov's famous philosophical musings are just part of the full philosophical thought manifest in one of Dostoevsky's most famous novels. This volume, uniquely, brings together prominent philosophers and literary scholars to deepen our understanding of the novel's full range of philosophical thought. The seven essays treat a diversity of topics, including: language and the representation of the human mind, emotions and the susceptibility to loss, the nature of agency, freedom and the possibility of evil, the family and the failure of utopian critique, the authority of law and morality, and the dialogical self. Further, authors provide new approaches for thinking about the relationship between literary representation and philosophy, and the way that Dostoevsky labored over intricate problems of narrative form in Crime and Punishment. Together, these essays demonstrate a seminal work's full philosophical worth--a novel rich with complex themes whose questions reverberate powerfully into the 21st century.
| Author | : Adrian Brockless |
| Publisher | : Adrian Brockless |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2009-12-16 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1445209314 |
This book is not a typical philosophical text; it is only really a series of notes - what one might call short philosophical reflections - on various subjects grouped, loosely, into topics. Discussions in the book include an examination of the relationships between art and culture; what counts as good judgment (and why); rights and their relationship with our understanding of individuality; individuality and its relationship to ethical perspectives; what it means to receive a good education, and how this nourishes our understanding of the differences between education and training. It also looks at the role of art in education; the nature of art and its relationship with meaning, and the impact of the natural world on our understanding. Adrian Brockless is currently on the academic staff of Heythrop College, University of London.
| Author | : Marc Crépon |
| Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
| Total Pages | : 230 |
| Release | : 2019-05-07 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0823283763 |
Winner, 2002 French Translation Prize for Nonfiction Murderous Consent details our implication in violence we do not directly inflict but in which we are structurally complicit: famines, civil wars, political repression in far-away places, and war, as it’s classically understood. Marc Crépon insists on a bond between ethics and politics and attributes violence to our treatment of the two as separate spheres. We repeatedly resist the call to responsibility, as expressed by the appeal—by peoples across the world—for the care and attention that their vulnerability enjoins. But Crépon argues that this resistance is not ineluctable, and the book searches for ways that enable us to mitigate it, through rebellion, kindness, irony, critique, and shame. In the process, he engages with a range of writers, from Camus, Sartre, and Freud, to Stefan Zweig and Karl Kraus, to Kenzaburo Oe, Emmanuel Levinas and Judith Butler. The resulting exchange between philosophy and literature enables Crépon to delineate the contours of a possible/impossible ethicosmopolitics—an ethicosmopolitics to come. Pushing against the limits of liberal rationalism, Crépon calls for a more radical understanding of interpersonal responsibility. Not just a work of philosophy but an engagement with life as it’s lived, Murderous Consent works to redefine our global obligations, articulating anew what humanitarianism demands and what an ethically grounded political resistance might mean.
| Author | : Costica Bradatan |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 2015-02-26 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1472525825 |
What do Socrates, Hypatia, Giordano Bruno, Thomas More, and Jan Patocka have in common? First, they were all faced one day with the most difficult of choices: stay faithful to your ideas and die or renounce them and stay alive. Second, they all chose to die. Their spectacular deaths have become not only an integral part of their biographies, but are also inseparable from their work. A "death for ideas" is a piece of philosophical work in its own right; Socrates may have never written a line, but his death is one of the greatest philosophical best-sellers of all time. Dying for Ideas explores the limit-situation in which philosophers find themselves when the only means of persuasion they can use is their own dying bodies and the public spectacle of their death. The book tells the story of the philosopher's encounter with death as seen from several angles: the tradition of philosophy as an art of living; the body as the site of self-transcending; death as a classical philosophical topic; taming death and self-fashioning; finally, the philosophers' scapegoating and their live performance of a martyr's death, followed by apotheosis and disappearance into myth. While rooted in the history of philosophy, Dying for Ideas is an exercise in breaking disciplinary boundaries. This is a book about Socrates and Heidegger, but also about Gandhi's "fasting unto death" and self-immolation; about Girard and Passolini, and self-fashioning and the art of the essay.
| Author | : Jeff McMahan |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 564 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 9780195169829 |
Drawing on philosophical notions of personal identity and the immorality of killing, Jeff McMahan looks at various issues, including abortion, infanticide, the killing of animals, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.
| Author | : Torbjörn Tännsjö |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0190225580 |
When is it right to kill? Three ethical theories are examined, deontology, a moral rights theory, and utilitarianism. The implications of each theory are worked out for different kinds of killing. In the final analysis, utilitarianism can best account for our considered intuitions about these kinds of killing.
| Author | : Benjamin S. Yost |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 297 |
| Release | : 2019-02-13 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0190901179 |
The specter of procedural injustice motivates many popular and scholarly objections to capital punishment. So-called proceduralist arguments against the death penalty are attractive to death penalty abolitionists because they sidestep the controversies that bedevil moral critiques of execution. Proceduralists do not shoulder the burden of demonstrating that heinous murderers deserve a punishment less than death. However, proceduralist arguments often pay insufficient attention to the importance of punishment; many imply the highly contentious claim that no type of criminal sanction is legitimate. In Against Capital Punishment, Benjamin S. Yost revitalizes the core of proceduralism both by examining the connection between procedural injustice and the impermissibility of capital punishment and by offering a comprehensive argument of his own which confronts proceduralism's most significant shortcomings. Yost is the first author to develop and defend the irrevocability argument against capital punishment, demonstrating that the irremediability of execution renders capital punishment impermissible. His contention is not that the act of execution is immoral, but rather that the possibility of irrevocable mistakes precludes the just administration of the death penalty. Shoring up proceduralist arguments for the abolition of the death penalty, Against Capital Punishment carries with it implications not only for the continued use of the death penalty in the criminal justice system, but also for the structure and integrity of the system as a whole.
| Author | : John Elias |
| Publisher | : Guernica Editions |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Civilization, Modern |
| ISBN | : 9781550710847 |
A study on Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Sartre, Foucault, Habermas, and Derrida
| Author | : Bernard N. Schumacher |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2010-09-30 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1139493272 |
This book contributes to current bioethical debates by providing a critical analysis of the philosophy of human death. Bernard N. Schumacher discusses contemporary philosophical perspectives on death, creating a dialogue between phenomenology, existentialism and analytic philosophy. He also examines the ancient philosophies that have shaped our current ideas about death. His analysis focuses on three fundamental problems: (1) the definition of human death, (2) the knowledge of mortality and of human death as such, and (3) the question of whether death is 'nothing' to us or, on the contrary, whether it can be regarded as an absolute or relative evil. Drawing on scholarship published in four languages and from three distinct currents of thought, this volume represents a comprehensive and systematic study of the philosophy of death, one that provides a provocative basis for discussions of the bioethics of human mortality.
