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Nov 1, 2013 · Theorists of that time recognized that the boundaries of satire were vague, and critics in more recent years have chipped at aspects of the standard account, as where Griffin argues at length that satire sometimes aims to provoke inquiry rather than to affirm clear moral standards. 9 But these broad characterizations still present a compelling general account of moral satire, even if a ...
- Nicholas Diehl
- 2013
So in terms of both subject (ap- titude toward the target. This aspect of satire plied is ethics) and structure (argument by analogy), also typically achieved by the use of analogy. Hav- moral satires have a recognizable kinship with ing established a relationship between the fiction philosophy.
Nov 1, 2012 · Satire and definition. This paper explores some of the difficulties involved in defining satire. Neither the formal characteristics of satire nor its informing purposes, including its variable associations with humour and the provocation of amusement allow for a unifying definition over the long term. It considers a range of approaches to and ...
Oct 26, 2023 · The sociology of morality may help us gain a new perspective on civil society. In this chapter, I start with the postulate that the sociology of morality is descriptive ethics, a form of knowledge about how people think and act morally in their social life and how social, economic, and political conditions shape their moral ideas and actions (Hämäläinen, 2016).
- Bin Xu
- bin.xu@emory.edu
ascription. Outrage has a moral shape because it is concerned with desert. Moral features of a situation can be invoked to contest the fittingness of out-rage as a response to that situation. In this case, a single moral feature of the situation—Susan’s deservingness—shows that outrage fails to fit. But, say
Sociology and the Moral Order. 3. logy and the Moral Order. rom philosophy to sociology Morality is about the obligations of the individual to the social group, and moralists over the ages have been keen to clarify what thos. indi-vidual obligations are. Philosophers and theologians have used the tools of systematic thought to consider how ...
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Nov 2, 2021 · Abstract. This chapter provides an overview of the place of morality in the history of mainstream sociological theory. Morality was central to the inception of sociological thought, waned in importance for the latter half of the twentieth century, and is currently experiencing a bit of a revival. This chapter traces these ebbs and flows ...
