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The wisdom of repugnance or appeal to disgust, [1] also known informally as the yuck factor, [2] is the belief that an intuitive (or "deep-seated") negative response to some thing, idea, or practice should be interpreted as evidence for the intrinsically harmful or evil character of that thing.
The White House on Monday denounced the group of neo-Nazis who marched in a Columbus, Ohio, neighborhood on Saturday, calling it a "sickening display" and saying it was hostile to American values.
The Nature and Moral Significance of Disgust is a 2011 book by Daniel Ryan Kelly in which the author provides a philosophical examination of disgust. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Oh Say Can You Say? is a children's book written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss, and published in 1979 by Random House.It is a collection of 22 tongue-twisters.
Disgust (Middle French: desgouster, from Latin gustus, ' taste ') is an emotional response of rejection or revulsion to something potentially contagious [1] or ...
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Italian: Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore [ˈsɛi persoˈnaddʒi in ˈtʃerka dauˈtoːre]) is an Italian play by Luigi Pirandello, written and first performed in 1921.
Remember the horror and disgust we felt in those times when Father threw a tantrum at dinner over too much salt in the soup and called Mother a fool." [ 26 ] [ i ] Chekhov attended the Greek School in Taganrog and the Taganrog Gymnasium (since renamed the Chekhov Gymnasium ), where he was held back for a year at fifteen for failing an ...
Beyond being a mere personification, Ate has little actual identity. [10] In the Iliad, Agamemnon, the leader of Greek expedition against Troy, tells the story of Ate's deception of Zeus, and her subsequent banishment from Olympus, an etiological myth supposedly explaining how Ate entered the world of men. [11]