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Author Keane, Webb, 1955- author.

Title Ethical life : its natural and social histories / Webb Keane
Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 289 pages)
Contents Part One: Natures -- Introduction: 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
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."-- Amazon.com
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-280)
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Subject Ethics -- Anthropological aspects.
Ethics, Evolutionary.
Ethics -- Social aspects
Ethics
Principle-Based Ethics
PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY -- Social.
SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science.
Ethics -- Anthropological aspects
Ethics, Evolutionary
Ethics -- Social aspects
Sozialwissenschaften
Anthropologie
Ethik
Geschichte
Kulturanthropologie
Sozialethik
Sozialgeschichte
Theoriendynamik
Vergleichende Forschung
Verhaltenspsychologie
Weltordnung
Ethics -- Anthropological aspects.
Ethics, Evolutionary.
Ethics -- Social aspects.
Morale évolutionniste.
Morale -- Anthropologie.
Morale sociale.
Histoire sociale.
Morale -- Histoire.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1400873592
9781400873593