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Tantalus;: Or, The future of man, (To-day and to-morrow series)

F. C. S Schiller

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1924. Schiller uses the hero Tantalus to defend social eugenics and argues that civilization and science permit the weak and feeble-minded to survive, threatening the human race.

The task of social hygiene

Havelock Ellis

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Henry Havelock Ellis (1859-1939), known as Havelock Ellis, was a British doctor, a sexual psychologist and a social reformer. His father was a sea captain, and in 1875 he left London on his father's ship for Australia, and soon after his arrival in Sydney obtained a position as a master at a private school. He returned to England in April 1879 and decided to take up the study of sex. He studied medicine at St Thomas' Hospital, although he never had a regular medical practice; he joined The Fellowship of the New Life in 1883, meeting other social reformers Edward Carpenter and George Bernard Shaw. In November, 1891 at the age of 32, he married the English writer and proponent of women's rights, Edith Lees. Their "open marriage" was the central subject in Ellis's autobiography, My Life. His book Sexual Inversion (1897), was the first English medical text book on homosexuality, co-authored with John Addington Symonds. Other psychologically important concepts developed by Ellis include autoerotism and narcissism. He was a supporter of eugenics which he wrote about in The Task of Social Hygiene (1912).

Value, Welfare, and Morality

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This book addresses critical issues in normative ethical theory. Every such theory must contain not only a theory of motivation but also a theory of value, and the link that is often forged between what is valuable and what would be right is human welfare or well-being. This topic is a subject of considerable controversy in contemporary ethics, not least because of the current reconsideration of utilitarianism. Indeed, there is as much disagreement about the nature of value and its relationship to welfare and morality, as there is about the substantive content of normative ethical theories. The essays in this collection, all new and written by a distinguished team of moral philosophers, provide an overview, analysis, and an attempted resolution of those controversies. They constitute the most rigorous available account of the relationship among value, welfare, and morality.

Ethics of Cultural Appropriation

James O. Young

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Through a combination of empirical research and philosophical analysis in essays by leading experts in the social sciences, "The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation" undertakes a comprehensive and systematic investigation of the moral and aesthetic questions that arise from the practice of cultural appropriation. This title includes research that is equally informed by empirical knowledge and general normative theory. It features jointly authored chapters, from multi-disciplinary perspective, that provide unique integration and authority. It provides a coherent and authoritative perspective gained by the collaboration of philosophers and specialists in the field who all participated in a unique research project that met twice to discuss cultural appropriation.

Morality in Classical European Sociology: The Denial of Social Plurality (Mellen Studies in Sociology)

Steven J. Thiele

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This text is a comprehensive study seeking to show the significance of the acceptance or rejection of universal moral authority in the classical sociology of Marx, Weber, and Durkheim. Appeal to such an authority, whether it be Durkheim's social order, Marx's historical progress or Weber's genuine individual, leads immediately to a set of insoluble dualisms such as freedom/determinism, agency/structure, and is/ought, problems which have plagued classical European sociology. The writings of Nietzsche and Anderson are utilized to draw out what it means to take morality as problematic. It is one of the achievements of moral authority that it quarantines itself from enquiry by creating the impression that it, and its attendant dualisms, are universal and therefore to be taken for granted. This study attempts to demonstrate that Marx and Weber have an understanding of what it means to take morality as a problem, but that they are also strongly moral. Their work is constituted by both an appeal to moral authority and a sense that there is something deeply problematic about such an appeal. By showing how these two antagonistic themes appear in and shape their work, a number of insights result.