{"product_id":"natural-citizens-ethical-formation-as-biological-development-9781793633514","title":"Natural Citizens: Ethical Formation as Biological","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNatural Citizens: Ethical Formation as Biological Development presents a novel view, \"naturalist humanism,\" that applies recent scientific work challenging dichotomous views of biological development. Rather than being a passive victim of its evolutionary fate, the developing organism is an active participant, partly constructing its own ecological niche from internal and external resources. The human developmental environment, our ecological niche, has a distinctive socio-cultural character. Richard Paul Hamilton proposes that we understand the development of moral character as an integral part of biological development with the virtues construed as refinements of mundane social intelligence. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on work in 4E Cognition, Hamilton revisits the traditional idea of ethical understanding as quasi-perceptual but argues that this can only be made intelligible by taking a non-representationalist view of perception. The virtuous person has learned how to focus her attention on what enables her to live a fully human life, individually and communally. Given that not all societies are equally conducive to fully human lives, the concluding sections explore how contemporary capitalist society distorts our attention and what obstacles it places in the way of virtue. Natural Citizens highlights the unsustainable state of current social and economic relations and the urgent need for radical alternatives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Naturalist Humanism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter One: Why Should We Be Naturalists?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Two: Standard Naturalism, The Placement Problem and Companion in Guilt Arguments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Three: Is the Natural Goodness Approach of Philippa Foot and Michael Thompson a Suitable Candidate for Liberal Naturalism?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Four: The Possibility of a Transcendental Naturalism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Five: The Myth of The Biological Given and The Developmentalist Turn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Six: Virtues as Powers and Perfection\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Seven: Virtue as Skilled Perception\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Eight: Culture as Our Ecological Niche\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Nine: The Burdens of Attentiveness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Ten: Can There Be Bourgeois Virtues?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: Radical Hope and Revolutionary Virtue\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042665988439,"sku":"9781793633514","price":72.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781793633514.jpg?v=1750955080","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/natural-citizens-ethical-formation-as-biological-development-9781793633514","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}