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Author Moody-Adams, Michele M.

Title Fieldwork in familiar places : morality, culture, and philosophy / Michele M. Moody-Adams.

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  170.42 M817F    Check Shelf
Description x, 260 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-254) and index.
Contents Taking Disagreement Seriously -- Mapping the Relativist Domain -- Relativism, Ethnocentrism, and the Decline of Moral Confidence -- The Empirical Underdetermination of Descriptive Cultural Relativism -- Cultural Authority, Cultural Complexity, and the Doctrine of Cultural Integration -- The Perspicuous "Other": Relativism "Grown Tame and Sleek" -- The Use and Abuse of History -- History, Ethnography, and the Blurring of Cultural Boundaries -- Relativism as a "Kind of Historiography"? -- Moral Debate, Conceptual Space, and the Relativism of Distance -- Plus ca change ... : The Myths of Moral Invention and Discovery -- Morality and Its Discontents -- On the Supposed Inevitability of Rationally Irresolvable Moral Conflict -- Pluralism, Conflict, and Choice -- On the Alleged Methodological Infirmity of Moral Inquiry -- Does Pessimism about Moral Conflict Rest on a Mistake? -- Moral Inquiry and the Moral Life -- Moral Inquiry as an Interpretive Enterprise -- The Interpretive Turn and the Challenge of "Anti-Theory" -- A Pyrrhic Victory? -- Objectivity and the Aspirations of Moral Inquiry -- Morality and Culture through Thick and Thin -- The Need for Thick Descriptions of Moral Inquiry -- Moral Conflict, Moral Confidence, and Moral Openness toward the Future -- Critical Pluralism, Cultural Difference, and the Boundaries of Cross-Cultural Respect -- The Strange Career of "Culture."
Summary The persistence of deep moral disagreements -- across cultures as well as within them -- has created widespread skepticism about the objectivity of morality. Moral relativism, moral pessimism, and the denigration of ethics in comparison with science are the results. Moody-Adams challenges the misconceptions about morality, culture, and objectivity that support these skepticisms, to show that we can take moral disagreement seriously and yet retain our aspirations for moral objectivity.
Subject Ethics.
Anthropology.
Ethical relativism.
08.38 ethics. (NL-LeOCL)077593472
Anthropology. (OCoLC)fst00810196
Ethical relativism. (OCoLC)fst00915828
Ethics. (OCoLC)fst00915833
Culturele antropologie.
Methodologie.
Ethiek.
Relativisme.
Added Title Field work in familiar places
Other Form: Online version: Moody-Adams, Michele M. Fieldwork in familiar places. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997 (OCoLC)605039143
Online version: Moody-Adams, Michele M. Fieldwork in familiar places. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997 (OCoLC)609290899
ISBN 0674299531 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780674299535 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0674007948
9780674007949
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