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Mar 10, 2016 · In her 1922 best-selling book, Etiquette, Emily Post wrote, “Etiquette must, if it is to be of more than trifling use, include ethics as well as manners.” So, just what […]
Sep 28, 2014 · In this novel, the paying guests are Leonard and Lilian Barber. They're a lower middle class couple who move in, really, as lodgers within a house that belongs to Frances Ray and her mother. And...
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Moral philosophers constantly remind us how very important it is to treat one another with respect. After all, we are persons; and persons have a special dignity. Persons are ends in themselves—and must be acknowl- edged as such. Experts on manners have a strikingly similar drum beat.
Consider how the following list of moral values can be used to develop a “moral compass” to help direct actions and decision of everyday life: Acceptance. Favorable reception or belief in something. Accomplishment. Doing or finishing something successfully. Accountability.
Table manners are tiny, above-ground traces of a larger, submerged system of ethics; they are tools for expressing what is important to us as a culture. At best, etiquette is ethics in a...
Manners and the Moral Life. David McPherson. Abstract: I explore the place of manners in the moral life, particularly with regard to their role in virtue education and in expressing virtue. The approach developed here is Aristotelian and Confucian in character.
Crossref reports the following articles citing this article: Matteo Bonotti, Steven T Zech Conspiracism and Civility, Political Studies Review 22, no.2 2 (Dec 2022): 272–279.
