Ethics, Persuasion and Truth

Ethics, Persuasion and Truth
Author: J. J. C. Smart
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2020-07-20
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1000077144

Originally published in 1984, deals with meta-ethics – that is the semantics and pragmatics of ethical language. This book eschews the notions of meaning and analyticity on which meta-ethics normally depends. It discusses questions of free will and responsibility and the relations between ethics on the one hand and science and metaphysics on the other. The author regards ethics as concerned with deciding what to do and with persuading others – not with exploring a supposed realm of ethical fact.

Ethics and Professional Persuasion

Ethics and Professional Persuasion
Author: Ralph D. Barney
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2003-07-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1135586624

Examining the applied media ethics question of professional persuasion, this special double issue resulted from a colloquium and conference on allowable ethical limits of deception in professional persuasion. Participants were invited to reason their way toward a threshold that would define acceptable deception for a professional persuader in pursuit of favorable market and public opinion conditions for a client. As a whole, this issue covers a broad range of views and expressions of opinion that often come close to defining the threshold between morally acceptable and morally outrageous persuasion.

Engaged Persuasion in a Post-Truth World

Engaged Persuasion in a Post-Truth World
Author: Stephen K. Hunt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2021-09-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9781516548231

Engaged Persuasion in a Post-Truth World provides an innovative approach to inspire students' interest in persuasive communication in today's ever-evolving world. The book moves beyond theory and addresses new media, engaged citizenship, and deconstructing messages in a post-truth world to deepen students' exploration of persuasion. This multi-disciplinary, research-driven textbook highlights contemporary studies in persuasion. It covers the dynamics of persuasion, including important source, receiver, and message components while also exploring the effects of persuasive communication on receivers' attitudes, values, beliefs, and behaviors. Students examine the application of persuasive communication concepts and theories to their lives in multiple contemporary contexts, such as campus, residence, workplace, classroom, and online communities. Unique themes explored in the book include the application of contemporary persuasion theory and research to the post-truth era, the influence of new media on persuasive communication, and how students can use persuasion to become civically engaged and advance the common good. A highly relevant and wholly original approach, Engaged Persuasion in a Post-Truth World is an exemplary text for courses in persuasive communication.

The Ethics of Persuasion

The Ethics of Persuasion
Author: Brooke Rollins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-02-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9780814255834

Challenges the traditional thinking that rhetoric is primarily utilitarian by demonstrating how Derrida's philosophy prioritizes ethical imperatives even as one is trying to persuade.

Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition

Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition
Author: Randal Marlin
Publisher: Broadview Press
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2013-09-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1770484663

This book develops a sophisticated account of propaganda and its intriguing history. It begins with a brief overview of Western propaganda, including Ancient Greek theories of rhetoric, and traces propaganda’s development through the Christian era, the rise of the nation-state, World War I, Nazism, Communism, and the present day. The core of the book examines the ethical implications of various forms of persuasion, not only hate propaganda but also insidious elements of more generally acceptable communication such as advertising, public relations, and government information, setting these in the context of freedom of expression. This new edition is updated throughout, and includes additional revelations about a key atrocity story of World War I.

Persuasion Ethics Today

Persuasion Ethics Today
Author: Margaret Duffy
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2015-12-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317309642

Persuasion Ethics Today explores persuasive communication in the fields of advertising, promotions, public relations and integrated marketing communication, and is designed for course use in advertising curricula. Ethical questions have become increasingly important in today’s media landscape, and issues of regulation, privacy, and convenience are the subjects of heated debate among consumers, industry professional, policy makers, and interest groups. With the explosion of social media, mobile devices, tracking technologies, and behavioral targeting, the ethical issues about persuasion continue to increase in importance. This book’s goal is to offer a broad introduction to the ethical standards, challenges, understanding, and decision-making strategies involved in the practice of persuasion. Persuasion Ethics Today links real world persuasive communication activities to fundamental philosophies of ethics. It also offers tools for students and practitioners to engage with ethical dilemmas in a systematic way, and jumpstart debates about the right ethical choices in an increasingly complex media and social environment.

Talking About Good and Bad Without Getting Ugly

Talking About Good and Bad Without Getting Ugly
Author: Paul Chamberlain
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2009-09-20
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0830877118

Abortion. Gay marriage. Euthanasia. How do we talk about these issues in a pluralistic society? The truth is that we often avoid such conversations in order not to offend others or appear "intolerant." But in doing so, we miss out on opportunities to influence others' views and make a real difference in the world. In Talking About Good and Bad Without Getting Ugly, Paul Chamberlain offers a way out of this dilemma. Drawing on his years of experience as a teacher of apologetics and ethics, Chamberlain leads us through the maze of obstacles we often encounter when trying to discuss moral matters. Combining keen insight with practical wisdom, he squarely confronts the reality of our culture's moral relativism, notions about "tolerance," fascination with new technologies and other challenges to moral discourse. Through helpful illustrations and sample conversations, he uncovers the real issues that lie behind these obstacles, and he offers practical strategies for getting past them without "getting ugly."

The ethics of rhetoric

The ethics of rhetoric
Author: Richard M. Weaver
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2023-11-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

"The ethics of rhetoric" by Richard M. Weaver. Published by DigiCat. DigiCat publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each DigiCat edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

The Ethics of Authenticity

The Ethics of Authenticity
Author: Charles Taylor
Publisher:
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2018-08-06
Genre: Civilization, Modern
ISBN: 0674987691

Everywhere we hear talk of decline, of a world that was better once, maybe fifty years ago, maybe centuries ago, but certainly before modernity drew us along its dubious path. While some lament the slide of Western culture into relativism and nihilism and others celebrate the trend as a liberating sort of progress, Charles Taylor calls on us to face the moral and political crises of our time, and to make the most of modernity's challenges. "The great merit of Taylor's brief, non-technical, powerful book...is the vigor with which he restates the point which Hegel (and later Dewey) urged against Rousseau and Kant: that we are only individuals in so far as we are social... Being authentic, being faithful to ourselves, is being faithful to something which was produced in collaboration with a lot of other people... The core of Taylor's argument is a vigorous and entirely successful criticism of two intertwined bad ideas: that you are wonderful just because you are you, and that 'respect for difference' requires you to respect every human being, and every human culture--no matter how vicious or stupid." --Richard Rorty, London Review of Books