Social Stratum and Morality

Medicine, morality and health care social media

Social media includes many different forms of technology including online forums, blogs, microblogs (i.e. Twitter), wikipedias, video blogs, social networks and podcasting. The use of social media has grown exponentially and time spent on social media sites now represents one in five minutes spent online. Concomitant with this online growth, there has been an inverse trajectory in direct face-t...

Morality, Rationality and Impartiality

Morality as somehow involving rationality and impartiality received classic expression in philosophy of Kant who frankly speaks of “rational and impartial spectator” in contemplating the universal law. The overall aim of this paper is to show (1) that the idea of morality implies rationality and this will be reached at in refuting the moral scepticism; but (2) it does not necessarily indicates ...

The Culture of Morality social development, context, and conflict

Knowledge, Morality and Hope: The Social Thought of Noam Chomsky

ed from their fifth filter, namely anti-communism). Thus they discuss the way that news is filtered through (1) the ‘important common interests [that owners of major media share] with other major corporations, banks, and government’ (p. 14); (2) the need of the media to sell an audience to advertisers who are interested in ‘audiences with buying power’ (p. 16); (3) the dependence of media on go...

The Correlated History of Social Organization, Morality, and Religion

Morality and religion have evolutionary and cultural roots in the social behavior of our ancestors . Fundamental precursors and major features of morality and religion appear to have changed gradually in concert with social transitions in our history. These correlated changes involve trends toward increased breadth and complexity of social interaction, leading to a stepwise extension of the sco...