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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Emrys WestacottPublisher: Princeton University Press Imprint: Princeton University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780691141992ISBN 10: 0691141991 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 23 October 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: In Print  Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Language: English Table of Contents"Introduction 1 Chapter 1: The Rights and Wrongs of Rudeness 13 Chapter 2: The Ethics of Gossiping 53 Chapter 3: O n Snobbery: Is It Sinful to Feel Superior? 100 Chapter 4: ""That's not funny--that's sick!"" 162 Chapter 5: Why Should I Respect Your Stupid Opinion? 215 Acknowledgments 261 Notes 265 Index 289"ReviewsGeneral readers interested in how philosophy can be applied to daily life will gain much from this well-written book. -- Library Journal Westacott asks tough questions about the nature and meaning of these 'bad habits.' Arguing that conventional wisdom masks the benefits of practices often viewed as moral failings, he challenges us to engage 'with a world in which categories, terminologies, expectations, and norms are in constant flux.' His book is accessible, rigorous, and droll. -- Glenn Altschuler, Boston Globe In Westacott's microethical analyses, as with Socratic badinage, it's the process of inquiry, as much as the result, that engages the reader's interest. His tree-chart algorithms probably won't be that useful to anyone having to make a decision. But they reveal some of implicit choices that we often make very quickly when dealing with other people. The unexamined life may not be worth living, but it is, after all, where we spend most of our time. The Virtues of Our Vices shines a little light in that direction. -- Scott McLemee, Inside Higher Ed Writing from a broadly utilitarian standpoint rather than for specialists, Westacott thinks that consideration of particular examples will result in a more nuanced approach ... Respect is not always required, either: some opinions deserve our contempt. Westacott by no means wishes to claim that there are no good reasons for the standard verdicts on the practices he considers. Rather, he aims to show that particular situations often resist fixed rules. General readers interested in how philosophy can be applied to daily life will gain much from this well-written book. -- Library Journal Author Information"Emrys Westacott is professor of philosophy at Alfred University in Alfred, New York. His work has been featured in the New York Times and has appeared in the ""Philosopher's Magazine"", ""Philosophy Now"", the ""Humanist"", the ""Philosophical Forum"", and many other publications. He is also the coauthor of ""Thinking through Philosophy: An Introduction""." Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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