Andrew Sneddon

Offense and Offensiveness (eBook, ePUB)

A Philosophical Account

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a comprehensive study of the nature and significance of offense and offensiveness. It incorporates insights from moral philosophy and moral psychology to rationally reconstruct our ordinary ideas and assumptions about these notions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000218244
• Artikelnr.: 60058339

Autorenporträt

Andrew Sneddon is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa. He studies ethics and philosophical psychology. He is the author of Action and Responsibility (2006), Like-Minded: Externalism and Moral Psychology (2011), and Autonomy (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
1. Introduction
Part I. The Nature and Significance of Offense
2. The Nature of Offense
3. Offense and Well-Being Part I: Is Feeling Offended Intrinsically Bad?
4. Offense and Well-Being Part II: Interests and the Mind
5. The Significance of Offense: A Suggestion
Part II. The Nature and Significance of Offensiveness
6. Offensiveness and Symbolic Value
7. Putting Offense and Offensiveness Together: From Affect to Symbolic
Aspects of Ways of Living, and Back Again
8. The Significance of Offensiveness
Epilogue

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Prologue

1. Introduction

Part I. The Nature and Significance of Offense

2. The Nature of Offense

3. Offense and Well-Being Part I: Is Feeling Offended Intrinsically Bad?

4. Offense and Well-Being Part II: Interests and the Mind

5. The Significance of Offense: A Suggestion

Part II. The Nature and Significance of Offensiveness

6. Offensiveness and Symbolic Value

7. Putting Offense and Offensiveness Together: From Affect to Symbolic Aspects of Ways of Living, and Back Again

8. The Significance of Offensiveness

Epilogue