{"product_id":"ethical-life-9780691167732","title":"Ethical Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 Ke\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments xi   Part One Natures  Introduction Ethical Affordances, Awareness, and Actions 3  Some Questions about Ethical Life 6  Defining Ethics and Morality 16  Awareness and Reflexivity 21  Ethical Affordances 27  Overview of the Book 32  Chapter 1 Psychologies of Ethics 39  Seeking Ethical Foundations 39  How Psychologists Define Ethics and Morality 40  Empathy and Altruism 46  Self and Other 48  Mind Reading 51  Psychology's Challenge to Ethical Awareness 54  Moral Emotions and Normative Judgments 58  Third-Person Perspective 63  Making Things Explicit 67  Ethical Affordances in Psychology 70   Part Two Interactions  Chapter 2 Selves and Others 77  Giving Accounts 77  Intersubjectivity 79  Intention-Seeking 83  Conversational Inferences 86  Shared Reality 88  Regard for One Another 93  A Semiotics of Character 96  Ethical Vulnerability 99  Chapter 3 Problematizing Interaction 110  Dignity and Respect 110  Variations on Intersubjectivity 117  Underdetermined Emotions, Specific Concepts 122  The Opacity of Other Minds 124  Interiority 126  One's Own Thoughts 128  Local Themes, Affordances Everywhere 130  Chapter 4 Ethical Types 133  Moral Breakdown? 133  Self-Awareness and Other People 136  Standing before the Law 140  The Inner Clash of Ethical Voices 143  Dysfluency and Ethical Conflict 146  Disciplining the Clash of Voices 148  Typifying Character Explicitly 151  Ethical Figures and Types 153  Defining the Situation 156  Interaction as Affordance 160   Part Three Histories  Chapter 5 Awareness and Change 167  Shifting Stances 167  Ethical Progress? 172  The Social Production of Ethical Problems 180  Abolitionism 184  Consciousness-Raising 187  From Personal Experiences to Analytical Categories 190  Reconstructing Ethical Feelings 194  Chapter 6 Making Morality in Religion 199  Ethical Life and Morality Systems 199  Historical Objects 201  Taking Ethics in Hand 203  Ethics as Piety 206  Habitual Ethics 207  The God's-Eye Point of View 208  Entextualization and Sacred Truth 211  Abstraction and Struggle 214  Chapter 7 Making Morality in Political Revolution 216  The Ethical Attack on Religion 216  Ethical Sources of Vietnamese Revolutionary Thought 218  Everyday Ethics, Everyday Oppression 221  Revolutionary Ethics 223  Reforming Social Interaction 228  The Various Fates of Ethical Revolution 233  History's Affordances 237  Conclusion 241  Affordances, Awareness, Agency 241  Human Rights 248  Humanitarianism 256  First-, Second-, and Third-Person Positions 259   Bibliography 263  Index 281","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403820704087,"sku":"9780691167732","price":29.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691167732.jpg?v=1730484641","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ethical-life-9780691167732","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}