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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Webb Keane |
ISBN: | 9780691167732 0691167737 |
OCLC Number: | 943941857 |
Description: | xii, 289 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Part One. Natures. Ethical affordances, awareness, and actions ; Psychologies of ethics -- Part Two. Interactions. Selves and others ; Problematizing interaction ; Ethical types -- Part Three. Histories. Awareness and change ; Making morality in religion ; Making morality in political revolution -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
Responsibility: | Webb Keane |
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"A book that masterfully interweaves insights from philosophy and the natural and social sciences."--Max Hayward, Times Literary Supplement "This far-reaching discussion of ethical life and moral systems by anthropologist Keane aspires to combine the traditions of what he calls 'natural history' with those of 'social history'... This rich and original study will certainly fascinate anyone with an intellectual interest in morality and ethics."--Choice "Ethical Life is an extraordinary book. It is broad in its scope, careful and reflective in its elaboration of a theoretical vocabulary, it deals with basic issues for the humanities and the social sciences and manages to produce genuine and thought-provoking new insights."--Ethical Theory and Moral Practice "An extraordinary achievement that deserves a wide readership way beyond anthropology. In short, Keane has given social scientists a theoretically informed way in which to approach ethics as an empirical phenomenon and he has provided scholars usually working within moral philosophy new challenges with his invitation to think of ethics as socially engrained--all the way down."--Klaus Hoeyer, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Read more...

