Chiasma: A Site for Thought is pleased to invite submissions for its seventh issue, on theoretical and philosophical investigations into the concept of ethics. ‘Ethics’ bleeds into our colloquial discourse, arising in everyday life through discourse on a multitude of interests: Contemporary news media is forever obsessing over the ethics of events—including but not limited to the preponderance of military weaponry (c.f. Drone strikes) and general war, economic and political decision making, religious observation and debate, and (above all else) celebrity gossip. Conceptual investigations into the ethical have even re-entered popular culture with the popularity of the television show The Good Place which asks the question: “who died and put Aristotle in charge of ethics?” before moving on from Hellenic ethics to the Enlightenment philosophy of David Hume and Immanuel Kant, and continuing on to the existential philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre. This issue aims to investigate not only these threads of the ‘ethical’ within the Occidental canon, but to extend this discourse to the diversity of theoretical possibility in the area of ethics. Ethics is applicable to almost any school of thought, and no matter which philosophical school one subscribes to, one must reflect on the ethics of their investigation.
Articles should be 5,000-10,000 words long, formatted according to the Chicago Manual of Style 16th Edition, and cited with footnotes. Articles should include abstracts of ~150 words. Please send anonymized articles with abstracts to chiasma.asiteforthought@gmail.com by January 15, 2020.
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