Perfect Me
Perfect Me

Author: Heather Widdows

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2020-02-25

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 0691197148

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How looking beautiful has become a moral imperative in today's worldThe demand to be beautiful is increasingly important in today's visual and virtual culture. Rightly or wrongly, being perfect has become an ethical ideal to live by, and according to which we judge ourselves good or bad, a success or a failure. Perfect Me explores the changing nature of the beauty ideal, showing how it is more dominant, more demanding, and more global than ever before.Heather Widdows argues that our perception of the self is changing. More and more, we locate the self in the body--not just our actual, flawed bodies but our transforming and imagined ones. As this happens, we further embrace the beauty ideal. Nobody is firm enough, thin enough, smooth enough, or buff enough-not without significant effort and cosmetic intervention. And as more demanding practices become the norm, more will be required of us, and the beauty ideal will be harder and harder to resist.If you have ever felt the urge to "make the best of yourself" or worried that you were "letting yourself go," this book explains why. Perfect Me examines how the beauty ideal has come to define how we see ourselves and others and how we structure our daily practices-and how it enthralls us with promises of the good life that are dubious at best. Perfect Me demonstrates that we must first recognize the ethical nature of the beauty ideal if we are ever to address its harms.

Zarathustra and the Ethical Ideal
Zarathustra and the Ethical Ideal

Author: Robert Henri Cousineau

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1991-01-01

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9027220786

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This work defines its course in reference to Nietzsche's Also Sprach Zarathustra. The author uses Zarathustra to reflect how our understanding is wedded to affective modes, thematizing especially laughter, fear, awe and hope. The book invites us to rethink how to overcome some relevant impasses of contemporary analytic, hermeneutic and (post)deconstructionist thought. The author seeks the dialogue with the texts and the reader and gradually brings to the fore the ethical. In the words of the author: Most works on Nietzsche talk about him, few address him, much less invite the reader to walk with him. It is time for a dialogical itinerary.

Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal
Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal

Author: Somogy Varga

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-03-01

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1136508309

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Authenticity has become a widespread ethical ideal that represents a way of dealing with normative gaps in contemporary life. This ideal suggests that one should be true to oneself and lead a life expressive of what one takes oneself to be. However, many contemporary thinkers have pointed out that the ideal of authenticity has increasingly turned into a kind of aestheticism and egoistic self-indulgence. In his book, Varga systematically constructs a critical concept of authenticity that takes into account the reciprocal shaping of capitalism and the ideal of authenticity. Drawing on different traditions in critical social theory, moral philosophy and phenomenology, Varga builds a concept of authenticity that can make intelligible various problematic and potentially exhausting practices of the self.

The Oxford Handbook of Ethical Theory
The Oxford Handbook of Ethical Theory

Author: David Copp

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2006-01-26

Total Pages: 680

ISBN-13: 0195147790

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The Handbook is a comprehensive reference work in ethical theory consisting of commissioned articles by leading scholars. The first part treats meta-ethics and the second part normative ethical theory. As with all the Oxford Handbooks, the collection is designed to achieve three goals: exposition of central ideas, criticism of other approaches, and defenses of distinct points of view.

Idealist Ethics
Idealist Ethics

Author: W. J. Mander

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0198748892

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W. J. Mander examines the nature of idealist ethics: the form and content of ethical belief most typically adopted by philosophical idealists. He identifies a tradition of idealist ethics, before going on to argue that such an approach offers an attractive way of looking at moral questions and has much to contribute to contemporary discussion.

The Ethics of Care
The Ethics of Care

Author: Virginia Held

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 0195180992

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The author assesses the ethics of care as a promising alternative to the familiar moral theories that serve so inadequately to guide our lives. Held examines what we mean by care and focuses on caring relationships. She also looks at the potential of care for dealing with social issues and global problems.

The Ethical Ideal of Rose-Croix in Twelve Virtues
The Ethical Ideal of Rose-Croix in Twelve Virtues

Author: Serge Toussaint

Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2018-06-19

Total Pages: 59

ISBN-13: 1641403144

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The Ancient and Mystical Order of the Rose-Cross is a philosophical organization that perpetuates the teachings that the initiates have transmitted one to another through the centuries since the highest antiquity. Along with these teachings, it conveys a certain ethic based on the awakening of the virtues inherent in the human soul. Of these virtues, twelve have taken the attention of the grand master of the order, author of this book. Thus, he explains chapter in chapter in which patience, confidence, temperance, tolerance, detachment, selflessness, integrity, humility, courage, nonviolence, benevolence, and wisdom are qualities that every human being must acquire in the course of his existence not only because they justify our spiritual evolution but also because they contribute to the happiness of others.

Beyond the Ethical Demand
Beyond the Ethical Demand

Author: Knud Ejler Løgstrup

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13:

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This book contains excerpts, translated into English for the first time, from the numerous books and essays Løgstrup continued to write throughout his life after his landmark work, The Ethical Demand.