Faversham Stoa is a philosophy discussion group meeting on the 3rd Tuesday of every month from 7.30 to 9.30pm in the Embarrassment, Shame and Guilt
Mark Twain said that human beings are the only creatures that blush? – or have the need to! What are the characteristics of embarrassment? What do we get embarrassed about and why? Do the RBC managers feel embarrassed or are they immune? – as most of us suspect?
Some articles to read
- Embarrassment
- Wikipedia article on embarrassment
- Blushing
- Wikipedia article on blushing
- Why do we blush?
- From essortment information service
- Why do we blush?
- (From The Shopshire Star) Two centuries after the birth of Shrewsbury’s most famous son, the naturalist Charles Darwin, there is still no evolutionary explanation for why humans blush.
- Why do we blush?
- From Yahoo Answers.
- Shame
- From Wikipedia
- Badge of shame
- A technique of social control by visibly stigmatising someone (From Wikipedia)
- Modesty
- From Wikipedia
- Shame society
- From Wikipedia
- Sample chapter from Phil Hutchinson's book 'Shame and Philosophy'
- Understanding Shame and Humiliation in Torture
- Sexual Guilt
- Guilt
- Humiliation
- Losing Face
- Spray campaign debate heats up
- Story from the Sun.Star Manila about a shame campaign
- Humiliation is simply wrong
- Article from USATODAY.com – Searching for alternatives to imprisonment makes sense, but it's a mistake to embrace shaming as one of them. The very goal of shaming is the dehumanization of another person before, and with the participation of, the public.
- Martha Nussbaum on shame
- Excerpt from Martha Nussbaum's 'Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law' published by Princeton University Press
- Moral embarrassment
- Morality and shame in China. Article from Shanghai Star
