Moral engines : exploring the ethical drives in human life / edited by Cheryl Mattingly, Rasmus Dyring, Maria Louw, Thomas Schwarz Wentzer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mattingly, Cheryl, 1951- editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Wyse series in social anthropology ; v. 5.

Wyse Series in Social Anthropology ; Volume 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics--Anthropological aspects.

Ethics.

Ethics--Cross-cultural studies.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

vi, 259 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2018.

Summary:

In the past fifteen years, there has been a virtual explosion of anthropological literature arguing that morality should be considered central to human practice. Out of this explosion new and invigorating conversations have emerged between anthropologists and philosophers. Moral Engines: Exploring the Ethical Drives in Human Life includes essays from some of the foremost voices in the anthropology of morality, offering unique interdisciplinary conversations between anthropologists and philosophers about the moral engines of ethical life, addressing the question: What propels humans to act in light of ethical ideals?

Contents:

The question of moral engines : introducing a philosophical anthropological dialogue / Cheryl Mattingly, Rasmus Dyring, Maria Louw

Ethics, immanent transcendence and the experimental narrative self / Cheryl Mattingly

Being otherwise : on regret, morality, and mood / Jason Throop

Haunting as moral engine : ethical striving and moral aporias among Sufis in Uzbekistan / Maria Louw

Every day : forgiving after war in northern Uganda / Lotte Meinert

The provocation of freedom / Rasmus Dyring

On the immanence of ethics / Michael Lambek

Where in the world are values? : exemplarity, morality and social process / Joel Robbins

Fault lines in the anthropology of ethics / James Laidlaw

An ethics of dwelling and a politics of world-building : responding to the demands of the drug war / Jarrett Zigon

Human, the responding being : considerations towards a philosophical anthropology of responsiveness / Thomas Schwartz Wentzer

The history of responsibility / Francois Raffoul

Afterword / Jonathan Lear.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Moral engines.

ISBN:

9781785336935

1785336932

OCLC:

986237345

Publisher Number:

99974740800