Moral engines : exploring the ethical drives in human life / edited by Cheryl Mattingly [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mattingly, Cheryl, 1951- editor.

Series:

Wyse series in social anthropology ; Volume 5.

Wyse Series in Social Anthropology ; Volume 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics--Anthropological aspects.

Ethics.

Ethics--Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn, 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:

Frontmatter

Contents

Prologue

1 The Question of ‘Moral Engines’ Introducing a Philosophical Anthropological Dialogue

Part I Moral Engines and Human Experience

2 Ethics, Immanent Transcendence and the Experimental Narrative Self

3 Being Otherwise: On Regret, Morality and Mood

4 Haunting as Moral Engine: Ethical Striving and Moral Aporias among Sufis in Uzbekistan

5 Every Day: Forgiving after War in Northern Uganda

6 The Provocation of Freedom

Part II Moral Engines and ‘Moral Facts’

7 On the Immanence of Ethics

8 Where in the World are Values? Exemplarity and Moral Motivation

9 Fault Lines in the Anthropology of Ethics

Part III Moral Engines and the Human Condition

10 An Ethics of Dwelling and a Politics of Worldbuilding: Responding to the Demands of the Drug War

11 Human, the Responding Being: Considerations Towards a Philosophical Anthropology of Responsiveness

12 The History of Responsibility

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80758-645-6

1-78533-694-0

OCLC:

1009334568