Ethics and the A Priori: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology by Michael Smith

By Michael Smith

This quantity features a sequence of essays in regards to the nature of trust and hope, the prestige of normative judgment, and the relevance of the perspectives we tackle either those subject matters to the bills we provide of our nature as unfastened and accountable brokers. The lengthy awaited assortment includes the most influential of Michael Smith's essays written over a interval of fifteen years and may be of curiosity to scholars in philosophy and psychology.

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By Michael Smith

This quantity features a sequence of essays in regards to the nature of trust and hope, the prestige of normative judgment, and the relevance of the perspectives we tackle either those subject matters to the bills we provide of our nature as unfastened and accountable brokers. The lengthy awaited assortment includes the most influential of Michael Smith's essays written over a interval of fifteen years and may be of curiosity to scholars in philosophy and psychology.

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There has also been agreat deal of attention given to erotic film and video scenes that feature violence. Depictions of rape have been asource of much concern and hence much of the research into video pornography has studied the frequency and natureof such portrayals. Analysis of themes of sexual aggression against women has not been restricted to pornographicmaterial. Such themes, and theoften graphic images that characterise them, can be found in mainstream entertainment media, including general release cinema films and television programs.

8 per film), with female nudity exceeding male nudity by four to one. The main (8 category of sexuality was sexual intercourse between unmarried partners acts per film). , 1993). Sex in Explicit Videos Sexual content has traditionally been associated with restricted adult forms of entertainment. Prior to thepopularity of entertainment videos, explicit sexual content could be obtained through printed media,including books and magazines. Much explicit sexual material could be found,for instance, in adults-only paperbacks.

They distinguished two broad categories of music video. Performance videos contained images of the musical performer or group in concert,with or without a live audience. Concept videos werebased on astory line or subject of the story and featured the song’s artist(s) as the main performer(s). Love emerged as the dominant theme of performance and conceptvideos on bothtelevision channels. In one in three cases on MTV, sexual relations were featured prominently, and this was also true of four in tenvideos from the BET channel.

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