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Moral Engines : Exploring the Ethical Drives in Human Life / ed. by Maria Louw, Thomas Schwarz Wentzer, Cheryl Mattingly, Rasmus Dyring.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: WYSE Series in Social Anthropology ; 5Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (266 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781785336935
  • 9781785336942
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 170 23
LOC classification:
  • BJ52 .M67 2018
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
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?

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

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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?

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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