Laurence Thomas
Biographic Data
| ID | 3698217 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laurence Thomas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laurence |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomas |
| SIGNATURE | THOMAS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Moral Majesty of Acts of Goodwill
To begin with a very simple but yet ever so profound truth: Acts of goodwill are very wide ranging.Jumping into a river in order to save a person's life is certainly an act of goodwill.But we just as clearly have an act of goodwill when, for example, a healthy 25-year old passenger on a vehicle of public transportation gives up her or his seat to either an elderly person or a handicapped person who has just boarded the vehicle of transportation.L…
The Majesty of Courage in a Society
The Importance of Trust
Self-Assessment and Moral Righteousness
The character of humanity
In a Facebook posting on 24 June 2015, the following claim is made by Francis Kong: Human beings never outgrow their need for appreciation.Since a genuine expression of appreciation is unequivocall
Should Race Matter? Unusual Answers to the Usual Questions
This is a most engaging, informed, and honest work. The third characterization perhaps reflects the subtitle of the book. Boonin is not concerned to be politically correct. Nor does he have a conservative agenda. There is no predicting where Boonin is going to stand. The second characterization of the book reflects the fact that he is quite informed about how the treatment of blacks has unfolded in the United States. From start to finish, Boonin …
Skin Lighteners, Black Consumers and Jewish Entrepreneurs in South Africa
This article considers the rise and decline of South Africa's lucrative and controversial skin-lighteners market through examination of the business history of the largest manufacturers, Abraham and Solomon Krok, and their evolving personas as millionaires and philanthropists. Such examination reveals how the country's skin-lighteners trade emerged as part of the broader growth of a black consumer market after the Second World War and how element…
Forgiveness as Righteousness
The Family and the Political Self
Having children is the most common aim among human beings. The Family and the Political Self aims to capture the insights that can be gleaned from taking this truth seriously. One truth is that human beings may not be as self-interested as is commonly supposed. In this book Laurence Thomas argues that the best construal of the political self reflects this truth
Moral Equality and Natural Inferiority
This essay is a commentary upon "Race and Kant" by Thomas Hill, Jr and Bernard Boxill. They argue that although Kant in his anthropological writings took blacks to be inferior, his moral theory requires that they be shown the proper moral respect since blacks are persons nonetheless. \n\nI argue that this argument is sound, because the conception of inferiority that Kant attributed to blacks does not permit showing them the proper moral respect. …
Morality and a Meaningful Life
I aim to capture the intuition that the moral person is, in virtue of being such, favored over the immoral person to lead a meaningful life. I argue that the reason for this is that the moral person is open to affirmation from others in a way that the immoral person is not. Central to the argument is the idea of psychological health. Being affirmed by others is a fundamental aspect of being psychologically healthy. Thus, I say that being moral an…
Trente ans après
Sexual Desire, Moral Choice, and Human Ends
Sexual Orientation and Human Rights
What rights govern heterosexual and homosexual behaviors? Two distinguished philosophers debate this important issue in Sexual Orientation and Human Rights. Laurence Thomas argues that a society which has the constitutional resources to protect hate groups can protect homosexuals without valorizing the homosexual life-style. He defends the view that the Bible cannot warrant the venom that, in the name of religion, is often expressed against homos…
Living with One's Past
Becoming an Evil Society
Vessels of Evil
Preface Part I: On Becoming an Evil Self 1. Two Faces of Evil: An Introduction 2. The Human Condition Good and Bad * Immoral Rapprochement * Understanding Obedience to Authority * Obeying Authority and Becoming Morally Sullied 3. The Moral Community Common-Sense Morality * Moral Drift * The People of Le Chambon 4. Characterizing Evil Acts of Evil 5. The Psychology of Doubling The Problem * Doubling and Multiple Personality Disorder * The Psycholo…
The Matrices of Malevolent Ideologies
This essay aims to shed some light on the perennial tensions between Blacks and Jews in the United States. Beginning with a brief account of both racism and anti-semitism , I argue that both groups have embraced, if only unwittingly, negative stereotypes concerning the other. I then suggest an innocent confusion that came about during the Civil Rights movement. Finally, I stress the fact that each group must recognize that its suffering, however …
Moral Flourishing in an Unjust World
While moral ideals are of the utmost importance, the truth of the matter is that we live in a world that falls considerably short of the ideal. Drawing upon a variety of theoretical considerations from both psychology and philosophy, 1 aim to make explicit some of the concrete steps that can be taken to overcome patterns of injustice. To this end, the ideas of textured affirmation and moral deference are developed.
Vessels of evil
Living Morally
Characterizing and Responding to Nazi Genocide
Journal Article CHARACTERIZING AND RESPONDING TO NAZI GENOCIDE: A REVIEW ESSAY Get access Laurence Thomas Laurence Thomas SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 11, Issue 3, October 1991, Pages 371–379, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/11.3.371 Published: 01 October 1991
Jews, Blacks, and Group Autonomy
Pride, Shame and Guilt
In this book, the author's discussion of pride, shame and guilt centres on the beliefs involved in the experience of any of these emotions. Through a detailed study, she shows how these beliefs are alike in that they are directed towards the self and its status, and how they differ in the specific view taken of the self. She illustrates the experience of these three emotions by examples taken from Engish literature. Unlike invented cases, these s…
Two Models of Courage
Central to our conception of courage is the idea of bearing up under formidable circumstances or acting in the face of a grave risk to oneself. Let us call this feature the condition of formidable obstacles. Everyone agrees that this much is characteristic of courageous behaviour. After that, however, there is considerable disagreement regarding two other issues in particular. Is courage a virtue, by which Walton means (52–55): Is a courageous ac…
Friendship
Skin Lighteners, Black Consumers and Jewish Entrepreneurs in South Africa
This article considers the rise and decline of South Africa's lucrative and controversial skin-lighteners market through examination of the business history of the largest manufacturers, Abraham and Solomon Krok, and their evolving personas as millionaires and philanthropists. Such examination reveals how the country's skin-lighteners trade emerged as part of the broader growth of a black consumer market after the Second World War and how element…
Family and social factors associated with substantiation of child abuse and neglect reports
Morality and a Meaningful Life
I aim to capture the intuition that the moral person is, in virtue of being such, favored over the immoral person to lead a meaningful life. I argue that the reason for this is that the moral person is open to affirmation from others in a way that the immoral person is not. Central to the argument is the idea of psychological health. Being affirmed by others is a fundamental aspect of being psychologically healthy. Thus, I say that being moral an…
Sexual Desire, Moral Choice, and Human Ends
Pride, Shame and Guilt
In this book, the author's discussion of pride, shame and guilt centres on the beliefs involved in the experience of any of these emotions. Through a detailed study, she shows how these beliefs are alike in that they are directed towards the self and its status, and how they differ in the specific view taken of the self. She illustrates the experience of these three emotions by examples taken from Engish literature. Unlike invented cases, these s…
Case Studies
Motor vehicle accidents are the leading cause of death and injury in children over one year of age in the United States. In response to this problem, bills have been introduced in the legislatures of more than twenty states that would require children to be restrained when riding in motor vehicles. Details such as age limits and types of allowable restraint devices have varied with the individual proposals. Laws have been passed in Tennessee and …
Rationality and moral autonomy
Friendship, Altruism, and Morality
Family and social factors associated with substantiation of child abuse and neglect reports
A tribute
Friendship
Jews, Blacks, and Group Autonomy
Pride, Shame and Guilt
In this book, the author's discussion of pride, shame and guilt centres on the beliefs involved in the experience of any of these emotions. Through a detailed study, she shows how these beliefs are alike in that they are directed towards the self and its status, and how they differ in the specific view taken of the self. She illustrates the experience of these three emotions by examples taken from Engish literature. Unlike invented cases, these s…
Two Models of Courage
Central to our conception of courage is the idea of bearing up under formidable circumstances or acting in the face of a grave risk to oneself. Let us call this feature the condition of formidable obstacles. Everyone agrees that this much is characteristic of courageous behaviour. After that, however, there is considerable disagreement regarding two other issues in particular. Is courage a virtue, by which Walton means (52–55): Is a courageous ac…
Characterizing and Responding to Nazi Genocide
Journal Article CHARACTERIZING AND RESPONDING TO NAZI GENOCIDE: A REVIEW ESSAY Get access Laurence Thomas Laurence Thomas SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 11, Issue 3, October 1991, Pages 371–379, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/11.3.371 Published: 01 October 1991
Living Morally
Moral Flourishing in an Unjust World
While moral ideals are of the utmost importance, the truth of the matter is that we live in a world that falls considerably short of the ideal. Drawing upon a variety of theoretical considerations from both psychology and philosophy, 1 aim to make explicit some of the concrete steps that can be taken to overcome patterns of injustice. To this end, the ideas of textured affirmation and moral deference are developed.
Vessels of evil
Becoming an Evil Society
Vessels of Evil
Preface Part I: On Becoming an Evil Self 1. Two Faces of Evil: An Introduction 2. The Human Condition Good and Bad * Immoral Rapprochement * Understanding Obedience to Authority * Obeying Authority and Becoming Morally Sullied 3. The Moral Community Common-Sense Morality * Moral Drift * The People of Le Chambon 4. Characterizing Evil Acts of Evil 5. The Psychology of Doubling The Problem * Doubling and Multiple Personality Disorder * The Psycholo…
The Matrices of Malevolent Ideologies
This essay aims to shed some light on the perennial tensions between Blacks and Jews in the United States. Beginning with a brief account of both racism and anti-semitism , I argue that both groups have embraced, if only unwittingly, negative stereotypes concerning the other. I then suggest an innocent confusion that came about during the Civil Rights movement. Finally, I stress the fact that each group must recognize that its suffering, however …
Living with One's Past
Sexual Orientation and Human Rights
What rights govern heterosexual and homosexual behaviors? Two distinguished philosophers debate this important issue in Sexual Orientation and Human Rights. Laurence Thomas argues that a society which has the constitutional resources to protect hate groups can protect homosexuals without valorizing the homosexual life-style. He defends the view that the Bible cannot warrant the venom that, in the name of religion, is often expressed against homos…
Sexual Desire, Moral Choice, and Human Ends
Trente ans après
Moral Equality and Natural Inferiority
This essay is a commentary upon "Race and Kant" by Thomas Hill, Jr and Bernard Boxill. They argue that although Kant in his anthropological writings took blacks to be inferior, his moral theory requires that they be shown the proper moral respect since blacks are persons nonetheless. \n\nI argue that this argument is sound, because the conception of inferiority that Kant attributed to blacks does not permit showing them the proper moral respect. …
Morality and a Meaningful Life
I aim to capture the intuition that the moral person is, in virtue of being such, favored over the immoral person to lead a meaningful life. I argue that the reason for this is that the moral person is open to affirmation from others in a way that the immoral person is not. Central to the argument is the idea of psychological health. Being affirmed by others is a fundamental aspect of being psychologically healthy. Thus, I say that being moral an…
The Family and the Political Self
Having children is the most common aim among human beings. The Family and the Political Self aims to capture the insights that can be gleaned from taking this truth seriously. One truth is that human beings may not be as self-interested as is commonly supposed. In this book Laurence Thomas argues that the best construal of the political self reflects this truth
Forgiveness as Righteousness
Skin Lighteners, Black Consumers and Jewish Entrepreneurs in South Africa
This article considers the rise and decline of South Africa's lucrative and controversial skin-lighteners market through examination of the business history of the largest manufacturers, Abraham and Solomon Krok, and their evolving personas as millionaires and philanthropists. Such examination reveals how the country's skin-lighteners trade emerged as part of the broader growth of a black consumer market after the Second World War and how element…
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