Abolitionist movements
Abortion debate
Abrahamic religions
Aeschylus
Aesthetics; amoral; Daoist ethics and
Afghanistan; Karzai on
African Americans: civil rights movements; see also Slavery
Algeria
Allegory: “old man at the fort” (Daoist); “shepherd boys” (Zhuangzi)
Ambition
American Civil War
American moral heroism; see also War
American president
Amoral innocence, of babies
Amoral perspective; aesthetics from; death penalty from; legal system’s; Nietzsche’s; Zen perspective as
Analects (Confucius)
Anger: carnivalistic outrage; justice connected to; morality of; righteous; see also Emotions
Animal: innocence; virtues
Anthropocentric awareness
Antigone (Sophocles)
Antihumanist perspective
Antiwar movements
Arguing About War (Walzer)
Aristotle; Berns’ reference to; moral psychology as rhetorical tool; Rhetoric; Zen Buddhism v.
Autonomy, legal system’s
Ax analogy
Babe Ruth (Ruth, George Herman, Jr.)
Baby; crying infant example; as Daoist ideal
Bacteria analogy
“Bad”; see Good/bad distinction
Bakhtin, Mikhail
Bangladesh
Banner, Stuart
Battle of Algiers
Behavior: criminal actions; “right, customary, appropriate,”; will (intention) motivating; wu wei
Bentham, Jeremy; Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation; Luhmann on; measuring happiness; on slavery; utilitarianism of
Bernardo, Paul
Berns, Walter; Aristotle referenced by; on morality of anger; Zen perspective on anger v.
Bible
Bin Laden, Osama
Blair, Tony
Blofeld, John
Buddhists: Western philosophers and Daoists v.; see also Zen Buddhism
Bush, George H.
Bush, George W.
Calmness
Canada
Capital punishment; see Death penalty
Carnivalistic outrage
Categorical imperative
Categories of opposites
Catholic Church; see also Christian morality
CBS News
Cervantes, Miguel de
Character judgment
Cheaters
Cheating spouse
Children: Kant on “illegitimate”; kibbutz for; moral communication improving with age; parental love for; Summerhill school; see also Kohlberg, Lawrence
China; see also Mao Zedong
Chinese Communist Party
Christian morality; Catholic Church; Confucian morality v., on evil, moral values in; televangelists, unconditional love, Zen Buddhist model v.
Cí (parental love)
Civilian casualties; in Iraq
Civil rights movements
Classical age
Clinton, Bill
Common sense
Communication, moral; as human rights ally, improving with age; measuring of, rhetoric as, Walzer’s “just” war theory as; see also Mass media
Conflict, mass media’s attention on
Confucian morality; Analects; Christian model v.; Daoist view of; humanism in; law and; legal system based on; Roetz’s application of; rooted in xiao; “true person” of; Zeng Zi as exemplar of; Zhuangzi’s negative ethics v.
Conscience maintenance
Context, moral perspective within
Contingency formula, Luhmann’s
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (Rorty)
Control and power
Cornell, Drucilla, on ethics v. morality
Corporal punishment; see also Punishment
Courage
Courtroom trials
Crazy Horse
Creon
Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky)
Criminal actions: according to age; Bernardo; Berns; Latimer
Critique of Practical Reason (Kant)
Croatia
Crying infant, see also Baby
Cultural invariance
Dahmer, Jeffrey
Dao
Daodejing
Daoism; baby as ideal person; Confucian model v., “doing nothing so that nothing remains undone”; Kohlberg’s model v., “moral fool” of, morality of anger v., negative ethics of; nonhumanism of; “old man at the fort”; preserving moral foolishness; war v. social order in; Western philosophers v., on Wisdom Vision; Wohlfart on; Zhuangzi
De (power)
Dean, James
Death penalty; Berns on; clemency v. retribution; courtroom trials and, European Convention on Human Rights; history of; Kant on; as retribution; in United States; Zimring on; see also Revenge
Dewey, John
Dew, Thomas Roderick
Dickens, Charles
Divorce law
Don Quixote
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Dukakis, Michael
Dunwu rudao yaomen lun (Huihai)
Duty: moral, regarding abortion; as substitute for love; yí
Eastern philosophers, Western philosophers v.
East of Eden (Steinbeck)
Eastwood, Clint
Education; see also Children; Mass media
Egypt
Elders; in Kohlberg’s model
Elshtain, Jean Bethke
Emotions: anger; hatred; Hegel’s “frenzy of self-conceit”; moral conviction inflaming; pleasure-pain dialectic; punishment as emotional necessity; virtuous conduct based on love; Zen perspective on
Empirical evidence; Bentham’s moral system and; Kant’s transcendent reason v.; Kohlberg’s model and; pseudomeasurement; see also Science
The Enlightenment; secularization of “justice” during
Enlightenment, state of: amoral perspective based on; rhetorical exercise v.
Environmental decline
Environmental movement
Ethical heroism, Wittgenstein’s
Ethical imperative, Kant’s
Ethical relativism
Europe
European Convention on Human Rights (1950)
Everyday life morality: cheating spouse; crying infant; sports
Evil; Bush, G. W., on; -doer; Huihai on; Kant’s theory of “inner wickedness”; Luhmann on; Wittgenstein on; see also Good/bad distinction
Extramarital sex
“Extra-moral” position, Nietzsche’s
Extreme humanism; see also Humanism
Fairness, in sports
Family: in East of Eden; ethics v. love within; see also Confucian morality
Farce
Feedback loop, morality
Feelings, role of, in virtuous conduct; see also Emotions
“Felicifc calculus”
FLN; see Front de Libération Nationale Foolishness, as wisdom; see also Moral fool
FOX News
France: Robespierre’s role; Terror of 1794
Free will
Front de Libération Nationale of Algeria (FLN)
Functional differentiation, Luhmann’s
Fundamentalism: human rights; moral; televangelists
Gaia hypothesis
Gay marriage
Gaza
Geneva Convention
Genocide; ethics applied to; justification for; in twentieth century
Germany: divorce law in; Nazi
Globalized age, communication in
Global warming
God’s love, as antidote for sin
God’s will
Good/bad distinction: applied to ethics; harmful applications of; in “old man at the fort”; problems of; Walzer’s model; Wittgenstein’s; Zhuangzi on; see also Evil
Good deeds
Good faith (xin)
Good life, Daoism on
Goodwill (ren)
Grand Theft Auto
Gray, John; antihumanist perspective of; on Daoist perspective; Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
Greek philosophers; Dao and Buddhist philosophers v.; on morality of anger; Socrates; Sophocles; see also Aristotle
Gretzky, Wayne
Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals (Kant)
Guantanamo
Gun control
Habermas, Jürgen
Happiness; “felicifc calculus”
Haraway, Donna J.
Hatred
Hayles, N. Katherine
Hegel, George Wilhelm Friedrich; on “frenzy of self-conceit”; on Kant; on laws for women v. men; Phenomenology of Spirit; Sittlichkeit of
Heraclitus
Heroism: American moral; ethical antihero v.
Hierarchy, Kohlberg’s
Hiroshima
Hitler, Adolf; Mein Kampf
Hobbes, Thomas
Hoffman, Joseph L.
Hollywood
Holmes, Robert L.
Homosexuality; mass media and
Honor
Huihai, Dazhu: on pairs of opposites; on virtue and evil
Human ambition
Human condition, Christian view of
Humanism: anti-; Confucian; extreme; non-, of Daoism
Hussein, Saddam
Iliad
“Illegitimate” children, Kant on
Impartiality
India
Infant; see Baby
Innocence: animal; baby’s; in war
Intention (will)
Internet, morality proliferation via
Interpretation, imposition of
Intervention: refraining from/minimizing
Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (Bentham)
Intuitiveness
Iran
Iraq war; Bush, G. W., on; death toll of Americans; death toll of Iraqis
Islam
Israel
Japan
Jerry Springer
Jie (villainous tyrant)
Johanns, Michael
Judaism
Judge; mass media as; modern expectations of; TV courtrooms
Jus ad bellum
Jus in bello
Just and Unjust Wars (Walzer)
Justice; anger connected to; “just” war theory; legal v. divine; Luhmann on
“Just” war theory
Kafka, Franz
Kantian ethicists
Kantian moral philosophy; categorical imperative; Critique of Practical Reason; Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals; Hegel’s critique of; on “inner wickedness”; Kohlberg’s model and; Luhmann on; marriage laws; The Metaphysics of Morals; on moral judgments; Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Present Itself as Science; on punishment; Robespierre’s moral philosophy v.; on servant as property; on sex
Kant, Immanuel; see Kantian moral philosophy
Karzai, Hamid
Kaufmann, Walter: on Antigone; on Hegel
Kibbutz
Kierkegaard, Søren
Kleist, Heinrich Wilhelm von
Kohlberg, Lawrence; Daoism v. model of moral development; on elders; “Kantian” sixth stage of moral development; The Measurement of Moral Judgment; model of moral development; The Philosophy of Moral Development; pseudomeasurement by; Roetz’s application of;a stages of moral reasoning; universality of stages model
Koran
Korea, World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1998
Kosovo
Kuhn, Thomas
Language: advertising; ineptitude of; moral
Laozi
Latimer, Robert
Law: as antidote to morality; in Antigone; Confucian view of; dialectic between love and; God’s will as; Kant on marriage; pragmatic basis of; progress effected through; sports
“Law and order” approach
“Lecture on Ethics” (Wittgenstein)
Lectures on Aesthetics (Hegel)
Legal system; amoral values of; autonomy of; based on Confucian morality; Berns’ model of; demoralization of; German divorce laws; history of; human rights as basis of; judge’s ideal role in; Luhmann on; “operationally closed”; Rasch on; for “stabilizing expectations”; traffic law example; see also Punishment
“Letting-be”
Leviathan (Hobbes)
Lewinsky, Monica
Linji (Zen master): on moralists; on philosophical moralists
Literature; philosophy and
Love; as antidote to morality; in Antigone; Christian unconditional; cí (parental love); in East of Eden; xiao (filial piety)
Loyalty (zhong)
Luck
Luhmann, Niklas; on Bentham and Kant; on evil; on justice in legal system; on mass media; on morality and pathology; “operationally closed” legal system; The Reality of the Mass Media; on society’s “functional differentiation”
Lynch mob
Machiavelli, Niccolò
McMurtry, Larry
Mandela, Nelson
Mao Zedong; see also China
Maraldo, John
Marriage: divorce law; gay; Kant on; polygamous
Mass media; Bush, G. W., using; carnivalistic outrage on; Jerry Springer; judgment of homosexuality via; Luhmann on; Mao
Zedong using; morality production/proliferation by; support for war via; televangelists; TV courtrooms; war rhetoric of; see also Communication, moral
Measurement: Bentham’s, of happiness; Kohlberg’s pseudo-
The Measurement of Moral Judgment (Kohlberg)
Meditation, Zen Buddhist concern with
Mein Kampf (Hitler)
Mercy killing
Metamorphosis (Kafka)
The Metaphysics of Morals (Kant)
Michael Kohlhaas (von Kleist)
Mill, John Stuart
Modest radical
Moral awe, ethical relativism and
Moral choice, dilemmas; abortion debate; Latimer case
Moral conviction, emotionality of
Moral crises, response to
Moral fool: agnostic position of; baby as; Daoist; ethical relativism v.; Kohlhaas as opposite of; negative ethics of; neopragmatist position of; in “old man at the fort”
Moralists
Morality-free zones
Morality of anger; Daoist
objection to; Zen Buddhist
objection to
Moral judgment; context of; Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation; Jerry Springer; Kohlberg’s measuring of; sports rules v.; Zen on; see also Kantian moral philosophy
Moral mindset; as cause of problems; heroism; Kant’s categorical imperative; state of enlightenment v.; see also Mass media
Moral progress, theory of
Moral reasoning, Kohlberg on development of
Moral relativist
Moral smartness, Walzer’s
Movies; see also Mass media
Murder: extralegal; Kant on penalty for; legal distinctions regarding; mercy killing; of women
Myers, Larry
Nabokov, Vladamir
Narrative, morality and
Nascimento, Edson Arantes do (Pelé)
Native Americans
Natural resource exploitation
Nazi Germany
Negative ethics: Saner’s four types of; Zen’s; Zhuangzi’s
Neill, A. S.
Neopragmatist position
Nietzsche, Friedrich; Twilight of the Idols
Nisan, Mordecai
Nobles, Richard
Noninterference lifestyle
Normative ethics
Novels; see Literature
Nussbaum, Martha
“Old man at the fort” (Daoist)
Oliver Twist (Dickens)
Opposites, categories of
Original sin
Orwell, George
Otey, Herbert Lamont
Pain-pleasure dialectic; Bentham’s application of
Pairs of opposites
Pakistan
Palestine
Paradigms, ethical behavior
Parental love
Parsons, Talcott
Passionate love
Pathology, ethics v.
Pelé (Edson Arantes do Nascimento)
Penal law
Perkins, Franklin
Phenomenology of Spirit (Hegel)
The Philosophy of Moral Development (Kohlberg)
The Philosophy of the Limit (Cornell)
Plato
Pleasure-pain dialectic; see Pain-pleasure dialectic
Pollution
Pol Pot
Polygamous marriage
Polynices
Pontecorvo, Gillo
Pornography
Power and control
Pragmatism: allegory about; ethical, project; ethics v.; law based on; moral fool’s; Rorty’s; Zen Buddhist
Premarital sex
Prisoners’ rights
Professional philosophers
Progress, theory of moral
Prohibition
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Present Itself as Science (Kant)
Property, rights regarding
Proust, Marcel
Pseudomeasurement
Public opinion
Punishment; Berns’ on; corporal; Crime and Punishment; fear of, in Kohlberg’s first stage; Kant on; moral and emotional necessity of; Zimring on death penalty as; see also Death penalty
Radical
Rasch, William
Raskolnikov, Rodion
Rationality
Rawls, John; model of fairness
The Reality of the Mass Media (Luhmann)
Reason; Critique of Practical Reason; Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals; The Metaphysics of Morals; Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Present Itself as Science; see also Science
Rector, Ricky
Relativism, ethical; moral awe and; Zhuangzi’s
Religion: Abrahamic; scriptures; separation of state and; see also specific religion
Ren (goodwill)
Responsibility, moral
Revenge; Aristotle on; pain-pleasure dialectic behind; retributional ethics; see also Death penalty
Rhetoric (Aristotle); Zen Buddhism v.
Right(s); civil rights movements; derivation of; European Convention on Human Rights; fundamentalism and; human, as legal basis; moral communication as basis for; of prisoners; property; voting; women’s
Righteous anger; see also Anger
Robespierre, Maximilien; Kantian morality v.; Reign of Terror
Roetz, Heiner
Romania
Rorty, Richard; pragmatism of
Russia
Ruth, George Herman, Jr. (Babe Ruth)
Sage, moral; Xu You; Zhuangzi’s
Saner, Hans
Scandals
Schiff, David
Science; Bentham’s application of; empirical evidence; Kant’s application of; Kohlberg’s application of; Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Present Itself as Science
Secularization, of Christian moral values
Self-descriptions, repertoire of
Self-perfection
Self-producing social process
Self-referral consciousness, Zen Buddhist concern with
Self-righteousness
Serbia
Servants, Kant on
Sex: homosexuality; Kant on
Sex and the City
“Shepherd boys” (Zhuangzi)
Shia
Shi Yu (moral exemplar)
Shun (ancient ruler)
“Sin”; antidote for
Sittlichkeit
Skepticist position
Slavery: abolitionist movement; Bentham on; Dew on; Kant on servants; moral progress theory on
Smart bombs
Smartness, moral
Smoking analogy
Social crises; in Michael Kohlhaas
Social esteem
Society: complex and productive; Confucian view of; Daoism on ideal; “functional differentiation” of; law as antidote of morality in; law v. morality within; moral mindset of; paradigms accepted in; philosophy as discourse within; production of morality by; The Reality of the Mass Media on; Zhuangzi view of
Socrates
Sophocles
Sports; rules of; separation of law and morality in
“Stabilization of expectations”
Stages of moral reasoning
Stalin, Joseph
Star Wars
Stealing
Steinbeck, John
Sterne, Laurence
Stillschweigend
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (Gray)
Suffering, Zen Buddhist concern with
Summerhill school
Sunni
“Symbolic Transformation of American Capital Punishment” (Zimring)
Taliban
Taylor, Charles
Televangelists
Television; Sex and the City
Ten Commandments
Terrorism; Reign of Terror; Walzer on
Theater
Theory of moral progress
Thinking: anthropocentric awareness; conscience maintenance; Huihai on; moralists on; see also Mass media
Tomb Raider
Tool: Aristotle’s rhetorical; “just” war theory as; morality as; weight-lifting as
Torah
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Wittgenstein)
Traffic law
Tragic hero, Wittgenstein’s
Tristram Shandy (Sterne)
True person
Truth, neopragmatist concept of
Truthfulness
Twentieth century: genocide in; slavery abolished in
Twilight of the Idols (Nietzsche)
Unconditional love
United States; abolitionist movement in; abortion debate in; African Americans; antiwar movements; civil rights movements; Civil War; death penalty in; Guantanamo; Iraqi and Afghan civilians killed; Iraq war; Native Americans; president; “Symbolic Transformation of American Capital Punishment”; see also Slavery Universality
Utilitarianism: Bentham’s; in Kohlberg’s stages model; utilitarian ethicists
Values, legal rights v.
Vietnam; World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1998
Villains
Virtual ethics
Virtual morality
Virtuous conduct: animals’; Greek philosophers on; Huihai on; potential conflict requiring; role of emotion in
Volonté genérale (public opinion)
Voting rights
Walzer, Michael; Arguing About War; identifying “innocent” in war; Just and Unjust Wars; “just” war theory; on terrorism
War; antiwar movements; Arguing About War; civilian v. military deaths; critique of Walzer’s theory on; Daoist perspective on; heroism; “just” war theory; legitimate, in Eastern philosophies; Native American tradition of; smart bombs; Western philosophical perspective on
Weight-lifting analogy
Weight loss, moral talk v. actual
Weizman, Eyal
Western philosophical tradition
Will (intention): free will; God’s; goodwill (ren); volonté genérale
Wisdom: moral sage; Vision
Witch hunts
Wittgenstein, Ludwig: on ethical heroism; good/evil distinction; on ineffability of ethics; “Lecture on Ethics”
Wohlfart, Günter; on pre-Socratic v. Daoist positions
Women; Bentham on; Hegel on; Nussbaum on rights of; rights of
World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1998
World War I
World War II; World Almanac on
Wrestling, professional
Wu wei (doing nothing so that nothing remains undone)
Xiao (filial piety)
Xin (good faith)
Xu You (legendary sage)
Yao (ancient ruler)
Yí (duty)
Yi Erzi (man who has visited Yao)
Zen Buddhism; amoral perspective of; on anger; Aristotle v.; Christian model v.; Daoism v.; morality of anger v.; on philosophical moralists; pragmatism in; Rhetoric v.; on right thinking
Zeng zi (disciple of Confucius)
Zero-perspective
Zhi (a robber); moral values of
Zhong (loyalty)
Zhou (villainous tyrant)
Zhuangzi
Zimring, Franklin E.