Charientic
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| [[Charientic]] is a term coined by [[Peter Glassen]], derived from the Greek ''[[charis]]'', meaning [[grace]]. | [[Charientic]] is a term coined by [[Peter Glassen]], derived from the Greek ''[[charis]]'', meaning [[grace]]. | ||
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| + | :"It is one of the objects of what is sometimes called “general theory of value” to study all sorts of value judgments or (what would be a better name for them) evaluational judgments. But what the sorts of evaluational judgment are is a question that has so far by no means been settled. There are only two kinds of evaluational judgment that are universally recognized and that have well–established names, the ethical or moral, and the aesthetic. Another pair that have sometimes been mentioned are the prudential and the economic. The object of this paper is to direct attention to still another, quite distinct, sort of evaluational judgment which we commonly make, to give judgments of this sort a name, and to characterize them in a provisional way." | ||
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"Following Glassen (1958), Feinberg (1985, 107–112) holds that the obscene is a “charientic” category (deriving from the Greek 'charis', meaning something like grace), a category he believes should be distinguished both from the moral and the aesthetic. On this view, charientic judgments concern neither the morally good ..." --Understanding Pornographic Fiction: Sex, Violence, and Self-Deception (2016) by Charles Nussbaum |
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Charientic is a term coined by Peter Glassen, derived from the Greek charis, meaning grace.
He first used the term in his article "Charientic" Judgments
- "It is one of the objects of what is sometimes called “general theory of value” to study all sorts of value judgments or (what would be a better name for them) evaluational judgments. But what the sorts of evaluational judgment are is a question that has so far by no means been settled. There are only two kinds of evaluational judgment that are universally recognized and that have well–established names, the ethical or moral, and the aesthetic. Another pair that have sometimes been mentioned are the prudential and the economic. The object of this paper is to direct attention to still another, quite distinct, sort of evaluational judgment which we commonly make, to give judgments of this sort a name, and to characterize them in a provisional way."
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