The ethics of gossiping: an objection against a Kantian account of gossip

• Main Author: Ong, Si Ying
• Other Authors: Grace Boey
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2024
• Subjects: Arts and Humanities; Humanities; Philosophy
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/174512
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Is gossip morally permissible? In a phrase such as this where one signals that they are steering away from ordinary conversation and towards gossip, “I don’t mean to gossip, but…”, I seek to understand the following: what makes gossip different from ordinary conversation, why there is an attempt to...