Ethical Life : Its Natural and Social Histories / Webb Keane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keane, Webb, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 sider)

Edition:

Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The human propensity to take an ethical stance toward oneself and others is found in every known society, yet we also know that values taken for granted in one society can contradict those in another. Does ethical life arise from human nature itself? Is it a universal human trait? Or is it a product of one's cultural and historical context? Webb Keane offers a new approach to the empirical study of ethical life that reconciles these questions, showing how ethics arise at the intersection of human biology and social dynamics.Drawing on the latest findings in psychology, conversational interaction, ethnography, and history, Ethical Life takes readers from inner city America to Samoa and the Inuit Arctic to reveal how we are creatures of our biology as well as our history-and how our ethical lives are contingent on both. Keane looks at Melanesian theories of mind and the training of Buddhist monks, and discusses important social causes such as the British abolitionist movement and American feminism. He explores how styles of child rearing, notions of the person, and moral codes in different communities elaborate on certain basic human tendencies while suppressing or ignoring others.Certain to provoke debate, Ethical Life presents an entirely new way of thinking about ethics, morals, and the factors that shape them.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

PART ONE. Natures

Introduction. Ethical Affordances, Awareness, and Actions

Chapter 1. Psychologies of Ethics

PART TWO. Interactions

Chapter 2. Selves and Others

Chapter 3. Problematizing Interaction

Chapter 4. Ethical Types

PART THREE. Histories

Chapter 5. Awareness and Change

Chapter 6. Making Morality in Religion

Chapter 7. Making Morality in Political Revolution

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9781400873593

1400873592

OCLC:

919297156