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Ethics Goes to the Movies: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy

✍ Scribed by Christopher Falzon


Publisher
Routledge
Year
2018
Tongue
English
Leaves
317
Edition
1
Category
Library

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✦ Table of Contents


Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Rear Window Ethics
What Is Ethics?
Film as Experimental
Exploring Ethics Through Film
Chapter 1 Excess and Obsession: Ancient Ethics
Why Be Moral?
Plato’s Moral Theory
Aristotle and Virtue Ethics
Stoicism
Epicureanism
FEATURE FILMS: DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE and UNDER THE SKIN
Chapter 2 Sin and Self-Denial: Religious Ethics
Divine Command
Augustine
Aquinas and Natural Law
The Problem of Evil
FEATURE FILMS: CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS and THE ADDICTION
Chapter 3 Pleasure, Happiness and Rights: Enlightenment Ethics
Hobbes and the Social Contract
Enlightenment and Happiness
Utilitarianism
Locke and Rights
The Libertine and Scientific Morality
FEATURE FILMS: DIRTY HARRY and THE DARK KNIGHT
Chapter 4 Personhood and Autonomy: Kantian Ethics
Duty and Desire
Persons
Autonomy
Marx
Habermas and Discourse Ethics
FEATURE FILMS: HIGH NOON and NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Chapter 5 Slaves, Supermen and Authentic Selves: Existentialist Ethics
Nietzsche
Kierkegaard
Twentieth-Century Existentialism: Sartre et al.
The Social Situation: de Beauvoir
FEATURE FILMS: ROPE and FIGHT CLUB
Chapter 6 Encounters with Aliens: Ethics and the Other
The Critique of β€˜Traditional’ Ethics
The Ethics of Care
Levinas, Ethics and the Other
Foucault, Power and Ethics
Experiments in Living
FEATURE FILMS: CASABLANCA and FORCE MAJEURE
Filmography
Glossary
Bibliography
Index


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