In Turkey, there is a scarcity of research on the portrayal of different types of motherhood in media, particularly in films. This chapter aims to contribute to the existing research on the representation of motherhood in Turkish cinema after 2000 by examining the two mothers in the film 2 Girls (2005), directed by Kutluğ Ataman. The mothers in this film manipulate and exploit their relationships with their daughters, but their actions can be understood within the confines of patriarchal norms and values. Consequently, Turkish mothers are depicted as strategic agents within a patriarchal structure in this film, which deviates from the stereotypes and clichés found in previous Turkish motherhood films. This chapter elaborates on the concept of a bad mother, and by relating the bad qualities of the mothers in the film to a wider Turkish patriarchal normative structure, it also shifts at least some of the blame from them as individuals to the surrounding social structure. It is premature to determine whether this represents a new trend towards realism in Turkish motherhood films, as no other similar film has been produced since. However, the fact that 2 Girls portrays mothers in a distinct manner compared to other contemporary Turkish motherhood films warrants closer examination.

Att stå upp för någon i nöd är moraliskt riktigt. Men en rättfärdig stat kan inte tvinga sina medborgare att ha civilkurage.

In this paper, I intend to criticize an argument, made by the philosopher Panos Paris, claiming that moral goodness is both a necessary and a sufficient condition of beauty. I will argue that Paris’s idea of functional beauty, on which his argument relies, does not work, as it misrepresents judgements of beauty, in fact reducing them to moral judgements. I will argue that judgements of beauty and moral judgements should be understood as distinct and independent of each other. That is, the morally good is not necessarily beautiful, and the beautiful is not necessarily morally good.

Akademin måste kunna visa att den klarar av att se skillnaden mellan att söka sanning och att vilja vara på den sida som samtidens aktivism kallar den rätta. Det skriver Per Bauhn, professor emeritus i praktisk filosofi vid Linnéuniversitetet, i årets första sommarkrönika.