Ethical life : its natural and social histories / Webb Keane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keane, Webb, 1955- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics--Anthropological aspects.

Ethics.

Ethics, Evolutionary.

Ethics--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

xii, 289 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2016]

Contents:

Part 1 Natures

Introduction Ethical Affordances, Awareness, and Actions 3

Some Questions about Ethical Life 6

Defining Ethics and Morality 16

Awareness and Reflexivity 21

Ethical Affordances 27

Overview of the Book 32

Chapter 1 Psychologies of Ethics 39

Seeking Ethical Foundations 39

How Psychologists Define Ethics and Morality 40

Empathy and Altruism 46

Self and Other 48

Mind Reading 51

Psychology's Challenge to Ethical Awareness 54

Moral Emotions and Normative Judgments 58

Third-Person Perspective 63

Making Things Explicit 67

Ethical Affordances in Psychology 70

Part 2 Interactions

Chapter 2 Selves and Others 77

Giving Accounts 77

Inter subjectivity 79

Intention-Seeking 83

Conversational Inferences 86

Shared Reality 88

Regard for One Another 93

A Semiotics of Character 96

Ethical Vulnerability 99

Chapter 3 Problematizing Interaction 110

Dignity and Respect 110

Variations on Intersubjectivity 117

Underdetermined Emotions, Specific Concepts 122

The Opacity of Other Minds 124

Interiority 126

One's Own Thoughts 128

Local Themes, Affordances Everywhere 130

Chapter 4 Ethical Types 133

Moral Breakdown? 133

Self-Awareness and Other People 136

Standing before the Law 140

The Inner Clash of Ethical Voices 143

Dysfluency and Ethical Conflict 146

Disciplining the Clash of Voices 148

Typifying Character Explicitly 151

Ethical Figures and Types 153

Defining the Situation 156

Interaction as Affordance 160

Part 3 Histories

Chapter 5 Awareness and Change 167

Shirting Stances 167

Ethical Progress? 172

The Social Production of Ethical Problems 180

Abolitionism 184

Consciousness-Raising 187

From Personal Experiences to Analytical Categories Reconstructing Ethical Feelings 194

Chapter 6 Making Morality in Religion 199

Ethical Life and Morality Systems 199

Historical Objects 201

Taking Ethics in Hand 203

Ethics as Piety 206

Habitual Ethics 207

The God's-Eye Point of View 208

Entextualization and Sacred Truth 211

Abstraction and Struggle 214

Chapter 7 Making Morality in Political Revolution 216

The Ethical Attack on Religion 216

Ethical Sources of Vietnamese Revolutionary Thought 218

Everyday Ethics, Everyday Oppression 221

Revolutionary Ethics 223

Reforming Social Interaction 228

The Various Fates of Ethical Revolution 233

History's Affordances 237.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-280).

ISBN:

9780691167732

0691167737

OCLC:

908083977