John M Parrish
Biographic Data
| ID | 4975789 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John M Parrish |
| GIVEN NAMES | John M |
| FAMILY NAME | Parrish |
| SIGNATURE | PARRISH J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola Marymount University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Producing” Politics in Wag the Dog
Political philosophy has long worried about the blurred line between politics and entertainment. Plato famously held that democratic politics is highly susceptible to manipulation working through the art of storytelling and proposed banishing dramatists from his good society. More recently, some thinkers have focused on a different vulnerability: that ours is becoming a mass entertainment culture, increasingly shaped by a mass media amalgam of th…
The Decline of Mercy in Public Life
The virtue of mercy is widely admired, but is now marginalized in contemporary public life. Yet for centuries it held a secure place in western public discourse without implying a necessary contradiction with justice. Alex Tuckness and John M. Parrish ask how and why this changed. Examining Christian and non-Christian ancient traditions, along with Kantian and utilitarian strains of thought, they offer a persuasive account of how our perception o…
The Role of Spiritual Experiences and Activities in the Relationship Between Chronic Illness and Psychological Well-Being
Manipulating Democracy
From the publisher. Manipulation is a source of pervasive anxiety in contemporary American politics. Observers charge that manipulative practices in political advertising, media coverage, and public discourse have helped to produce an increasingly polarized political arena, an uninformed and apathetic electorate, election campaigns that exploit public fears and prejudices, a media that titillates rather than educates, and a policy process that to…
Collective responsibility and the state
This article considers the question of whether and to what degree citizens are responsible collectively for the actions of their state. In contrast to current accounts of collective responsibility, which focus on causality or affect as means for transmitting responsibility, the article develops an alternative account, the ‘authorized state’ model. This model, drawn from core intuitions of the social contract tradition, sees collective responsibil…
Paradoxes of Political Ethics
How do the hard facts of political responsibility shape and constrain the demands of ethical life? That question lies at the heart of the problem of 'dirty hands' in public life. Those who exercise political power often feel they must act in ways that would otherwise be considered immoral: indeed, paradoxically, they sometimes feel that it would be immoral of them not to perform or condone such acts as killing or lying. John Parrish offers a wide…
Collective responsibility and the state
This article considers the question of whether and to what degree citizens are responsible collectively for the actions of their state. In contrast to current accounts of collective responsibility, which focus on causality or affect as means for transmitting responsibility, the article develops an alternative account, the ‘authorized state’ model. This model, drawn from core intuitions of the social contract tradition, sees collective responsibil…
Paradoxes of Political Ethics
How do the hard facts of political responsibility shape and constrain the demands of ethical life? That question lies at the heart of the problem of 'dirty hands' in public life. Those who exercise political power often feel they must act in ways that would otherwise be considered immoral: indeed, paradoxically, they sometimes feel that it would be immoral of them not to perform or condone such acts as killing or lying. John Parrish offers a wide…
Collective responsibility and the state
This article considers the question of whether and to what degree citizens are responsible collectively for the actions of their state. In contrast to current accounts of collective responsibility, which focus on causality or affect as means for transmitting responsibility, the article develops an alternative account, the ‘authorized state’ model. This model, drawn from core intuitions of the social contract tradition, sees collective responsibil…
Manipulating Democracy
From the publisher. Manipulation is a source of pervasive anxiety in contemporary American politics. Observers charge that manipulative practices in political advertising, media coverage, and public discourse have helped to produce an increasingly polarized political arena, an uninformed and apathetic electorate, election campaigns that exploit public fears and prejudices, a media that titillates rather than educates, and a policy process that to…
The Role of Spiritual Experiences and Activities in the Relationship Between Chronic Illness and Psychological Well-Being
The Decline of Mercy in Public Life
The virtue of mercy is widely admired, but is now marginalized in contemporary public life. Yet for centuries it held a secure place in western public discourse without implying a necessary contradiction with justice. Alex Tuckness and John M. Parrish ask how and why this changed. Examining Christian and non-Christian ancient traditions, along with Kantian and utilitarian strains of thought, they offer a persuasive account of how our perception o…
Producing” Politics in Wag the Dog
Political philosophy has long worried about the blurred line between politics and entertainment. Plato famously held that democratic politics is highly susceptible to manipulation working through the art of storytelling and proposed banishing dramatists from his good society. More recently, some thinkers have focused on a different vulnerability: that ours is becoming a mass entertainment culture, increasingly shaped by a mass media amalgam of th…
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Democracy (2 works) · Enlightenment (2 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Law (2 works)