Piers Benn
Biographic Data
| ID | 3973699 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Piers Benn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Piers |
| FAMILY NAME | Benn |
| SIGNATURE | BENN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Discussion of Piers Benn's ‘Ethics, Comedy, and Free Speech’
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Ethics, Comedy, and Free Speech
I introduce some philosophical considerations concerned with free speech, drawing on the work of J. S. Mill and rejecting some commonly heard arguments for thinking that threats to free speech, whether in general or in comedy, have been exaggerated. I then move to moral objections to certain sorts of comedy, noting the distinction between objecting to the intrinsic badness of jokes and objecting to offending people's sensibilities. I argue that i…
Intellectual Freedom and the Culture Wars
Ethics
Is Sex Morally Special
This paper attempts to clarify what is, and is not, meant by claiming that special moral considerations apply to sexual behaviour that cannot apply to other areas of life. It then poses the problem by reference to virtue ethics, asking whether there are any virtues or vices specific to sex, which go beyond general considerations like justice and benevolence. This leads to a mostly sympathetic treatment of Scruton’s Aristotelian derivation of sexu…
Permissible Killing
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Permissible Killing. By Suzanne Uniacke. (Cambridge UP, 1994. Pp. ix + 244. Price not given.) Piers Benn Piers Benn University of Leeds Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 45, Issue 181, October 1995, Pages 550–552, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220330 Published: 01 October 1995
Political theory
Is Sex Morally Special
This paper attempts to clarify what is, and is not, meant by claiming that special moral considerations apply to sexual behaviour that cannot apply to other areas of life. It then poses the problem by reference to virtue ethics, asking whether there are any virtues or vices specific to sex, which go beyond general considerations like justice and benevolence. This leads to a mostly sympathetic treatment of Scruton’s Aristotelian derivation of sexu…
Political theory
Permissible Killing
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Permissible Killing. By Suzanne Uniacke. (Cambridge UP, 1994. Pp. ix + 244. Price not given.) Piers Benn Piers Benn University of Leeds Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 45, Issue 181, October 1995, Pages 550–552, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220330 Published: 01 October 1995
Is Sex Morally Special
This paper attempts to clarify what is, and is not, meant by claiming that special moral considerations apply to sexual behaviour that cannot apply to other areas of life. It then poses the problem by reference to virtue ethics, asking whether there are any virtues or vices specific to sex, which go beyond general considerations like justice and benevolence. This leads to a mostly sympathetic treatment of Scruton’s Aristotelian derivation of sexu…
Ethics
Intellectual Freedom and the Culture Wars
Discussion of Piers Benn's ‘Ethics, Comedy, and Free Speech’
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Ethics, Comedy, and Free Speech
I introduce some philosophical considerations concerned with free speech, drawing on the work of J. S. Mill and rejecting some commonly heard arguments for thinking that threats to free speech, whether in general or in comedy, have been exaggerated. I then move to moral objections to certain sorts of comedy, noting the distinction between objecting to the intrinsic badness of jokes and objecting to offending people's sensibilities. I argue that i…
Political science (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Comedy (2 works) · Free speech (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law in Society and Culture (2 works) · Literature (2 works)