This book attacks the assumption found in much moral philosophy that social control as such is an intellectually and morally destructive force. It replaces this view with a richer and deeper perspective on the nature of social character aimed at showing how social freedom cannot mean immunity from social pressure. The author demonstrates how our competence as rational and social agents depends on a constructive adaptation of social control mechanisms. Our facility at achieving our goals is enhanced, rather than undermined, by social control. The author then articulates sources, contracts, and degrees of legitimate social control in different social and historical settings. Drawing on a wide range of material in moral and political philosophy, law, cognitive and social psychology, anthropology, and literature, Professor Schoeman shows how the aim of moral philosophy ought to be to understand our social character, not to establish fortifications against it in the name of rationality and autonomy.
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This book attacks the assumption found in much moral philosophy that social control as such is an intellectually and morally destructive force.
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After reviewing some contexts in which privacy predominates as an issue, I shall show that there are two very different kinds of privacy, serving diametrically opposed functions vis-a-vis social control over the individual. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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After reviewing some contexts in which privacy predominates as an issue, I shall show that there are two very different kinds of privacy, serving diametrically opposed functions vis-a-vis social control over the individual. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Tita, Miss Juliana, Middle Ages, Henry James, John Stuart Mill, San Francisco, Hannah Arendt, Supreme Court, United States New!
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- On Liberty by John Stuart Mill on 6 pages
- A Theory of Justice by John Rawls on 5 pages
- Wise Choices, Apt Feelings (Clarendon Paperbacks) by Allan Gibbard on 4 pages
- The Morality of Freedom by Joseph Raz in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Moralities of Everyday Life by John Sabini in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Privacy and the Politics of Intimate Life by Patricia Boling on 4 pages
- The Limits Of Privacy by Amitai Etzioni in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Transforming Privacy: A Transpersonal Philosophy of Rights (Praeger Series in Transformational Politics and Political Science) by Stefano Scoglio on page 50, and Back Matter
- Keeping God's Silence: Towards a Theological Ethics of Communication (Challenges in Contemporary Theology) by Rachel Muers on page 201, and Back Matter
- Ethical Decision Making in Fund Raising by Marilyn Fischer on page 165, and Back Matter
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