Word: bourgeoise
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Hills suspects your window is as good as broken. If it isn't, you've got scruples, and it's no wonder you're in the minority, considering how expensive life must be for you. Scruples of this sort have little to do with the kind of larger-scale morality...
Not to be dull or bourgeois, Hills wants to argue against this kind of behavior, in a useful and up-to-date way. Lying, cheating, stealing--especially when personal gain is involved--these are the vices he has in mind when he talks about immorality. (There is a chapter on...
Nevertheless, Fauvism (much helped by its name) is conventionally taken as the first modern art movement-"modern" because scandalous to the bourgeois of 1905. Its explosive nature has been much strummed upon, but we do not see enough of the paintings themselves. How do they look now, 70 years later...
What these four arguments add up to, in their sociophilosophical consequences, is the rejection of bourgeois hedonism, with its utilitarian emphasis on economic appetite, yet the retention of political liberalism with its concern for individual differences and liberty. Historically, political liberalism has been associated with bourgeois society.... But economic liberalism...
The centrality of the public household...is, to go back to Aristotle, a 'concern more with the good condition of human being than with the good condition of property.' It is a recognition of the distinction between ends and means and the reinstatement of social purposes as the 'good condition...