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.
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Anthropology.
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Ethical relativism.
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08.38 ethics. (NL-LeOCL)077593472
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Anthropology. (OCoLC)fst00810196
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Ethical relativism. (OCoLC)fst00915828
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Ethics. (OCoLC)fst00915833
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Culturele antropologie.
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Methodologie.
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Ethiek.
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Relativisme.
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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 |
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Online version: Moody-Adams, Michele M. Fieldwork in familiar places. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997 (OCoLC)609290899 |
ISBN |
0674299531 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780674299535 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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0674007948 |
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9780674007949 |
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