ÉTICA DEL HUMOR. FUNDAMENTOS Y APLICACIONES DE UNA NUEVA TEORÍA ÉTICA
by Juan Carlos Siurana
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THE ETHICS OF HUMOR. FOUNDATIONS AND APPLICATIONS OF A NEW ETHICAL THEORY
Though laughter and smiles are a part of our everyday lives, they are not always used appropriately. We need to learn how to laugh, to educate our sense of humor. This book is a meditation on humor in general, the humor we deploy and perceive on a day-to-day basis, and on the ethical dimensions that underpin it. It puts forward a new ethical theory, placing humor at the Archimedean point from which to further our understanding as moral subjects, offering explanations as to our moral conduct and pointing the way towards ethical improvement as both individuals and as a group After defining what humor is and portraying the current state of play among experts on the subject, the author sets out an approach based on the major contributions made by the great philosophers. Then, taking in such fundamental ethical categories as moral sentiment, virtue, duty, capacity and responsibility, he puts forward his own ethical theory (what he refers to as the ethics of humor), based on both linguistic and biological rationale, unveiling a new medical/philosophical method: clinical ethics, capable of interpreting humor as a point where ethics and health intersect. This volume also points out various means by which this ethical theory might be brought to bear on fields such as healthcare, business, education, politics, the mass media and everyday life, setting great store by the contributions of psychology, above all the discovery of the role good humor has to play in health and the instruments used to measure it. Juan Carlos Siurana argues that good humor gives expression to freedom, is universal and contains within itself the basis of a cross-cultural ethical approach, one that is well worth understanding and teaching. Given that humor crosses over into every dimension of our personal and professional lives, the book is aimed at a broad, multidisciplinary public (philosophers, medical practitioners, nurses, company executives, the teaching profession, politicians, psychologists, journalists, etc.), as well as anyone with an interest in the various registers of humor. He offers both theoretical and practical tools for the ethical improvement of professions, organizations and the public at large.
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Worldwide rights available excluding Spain.
Author Biography
Juan Carlos Siurana is a professor of moral philosophy and the director of a research group on bioethics at the University of Valencia. He is the author of Una brújula para la vida moral, La sociedad ética, Voluntades anticipadas, and Los consejos de los filósofos.
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- Publication Date May 2015
- Publish StatusPublished
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