Le réalisme moral

Legal insanity, moral insanity, and Stendhal's Le rouge et le noir.

PROBLEMS pertaining to concepts of legal and medical insanity have long been present and at times seem to defy solution. Differing views of justice, the impulse toward revenge, and the devices to expiate guilt of the individual and society complicate further the complex currents of any era. They were with us in the aftermath of the killing of a President and the condemnation of his alleged assa...

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Le livre est tout le problème

The search into new ways of writing is confronted with certain obstacles, the foremost of which is that of the book and its conventions inherited from 536 years of existence. Yet, literature is by in large independent of the particular medium that is the book, as reminds us the age-old oral tradition or the contemporary research of the Oulipo. The incursion of the computer into literature has t...

Moral Distinctiveness and Moral Inquiry

Actions can be moral or immoral, surely, but can also be prudent or imprudent, rude or polite, sportsmanlike or unsportsmanlike, and so on. The fact that diverse methods of evaluating action exist seems to give rise to a further question: what distinguishes moral evaluation in particular? In this article, my concern is methodological. I argue that any account of the distinctiveness of morality ...

The community of nursing: moral friends, moral strangers, moral family.

Unlike bioethicists who contend that there is a morality common to all, H. Tristan Engelhardt (1996) argues that, in a pluralistic secular society, any morality that does exist is loosely connected, lacks substantive moral content, is based on the principle of permission and, thus, is a morality between moral strangers. This, says Engelhardt, stands in contrast to a substance-full morality that...