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Rules and ethics
eBook - Perspectives from anthropology and history
ISBN/EAN: 9781526148896
Umbreit-Nr.: 2772850
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 256 S.
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 10.08.2021
Auflage: 1/2021
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Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- This book investigates the pronounced enthusiasm that many traditions display for codes of ethics characterised by a multitude of rules. Recent anthropological interest in ethics and historical explorations of self-fashioning have led to extensive study of the virtuous self, but existing scholarship tends to pass over the kind of morality that involves legalistic reasoning.<i>Rules and ethics</i> corrects that omission by demonstrating the importance of rules in everyday moral life in a variety of contexts. In a nutshell, it argues that legalistic moral rules are not necessarily an obstruction to a rounded ethical self, but can be an integral part of it. An extended introduction first sets out the theoretical basis for studies of ethical systems that are characterised by detailed rules. This is followed by a series of empirical studies of rule-oriented moral traditions in a comparative perspective.
- Kurztext
- This book provides a new, interdisciplinary perspective on the importance of detailed rules to many of the worlds ethical traditions. A valuable theoretical introduction sets the agenda for a series of comparative studies, spanning pre-modern Hindu ethics, Classical Rome and Christian casuistry, contemporary Judaism and the Islamic sharia.
- Autorenportrait
- <p>Morgan Clarke is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Keble College<br><br>Emily Corran is Lecturer in Medieval History at University College London</p>