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SIURANA APARISI, Juan Carlos. The features of the ethics of humor: A proposal from contemporary authors. Veritas [online]. 2013, n.29, pp.9-31. ISSN 0718-9273.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-92732013000200001.

I emphasize some of the contributions of contemporary authors that deal with the issue of humor from an ethical perspective, mainly: Ronald de Sousa, Joseph Boskin, John Morreall, Simon Critchley and Vittorio Hösle. Starting from their thoughts I defend that the «ethics of humor» has, at least, the following features: it helps us to recognize the ethical values in which we really believe, it detects the ethically incorrect humor that maintains stereotypes, it promotes the development of virtues, it criticize the vices of the society contributing to build a more ethical society, and justifies with adequate reasons the laughing that tries to improve ethically our society.

Palabras clave : ethics of humor; ethical humor; philosophy of humor; virtues.

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