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Criticism and Compassion: The Ethics and Politics of Claudia Card
offers a unique perspective on the range of issues explored by Card
during her distinguished career in philosophy. Investigates her
work as an early leader in the development of feminist philosophy,
challenging many preconceptions about the society's norms regarding
gender, marriage, and motherhood Crossing many disciplinary
boundaries, her concept of social death has come to play a
significant role in multidisciplinary field of genocide studies
This volume combines many of Claudia Card's important essays with
recently commissioned essays by leading philosophers whose work has
been influenced by Card The full scope of Card's philosophy is
presented here - both in her own words and those of her critics and
interpreters
Indispensable to the research practice carried out by so-called
"contracting researchers," who are often based in the Global North,
"facilitating researchers," often based in those conflict-affected
areas of the Global South that contracting researchers are
contracted to study, are usually the ones who truly regulate the
access and flow of knowledge. Yet as often as not, they are
referred to merely as 'fixers', with their contributions
systematically erased in final research texts. Facilitating
Researchers in Insecure Zones brings together first-hand accounts
by several facilitating or "brokering" researchers in three
settings afflicted by armed conflict--namely, DR Congo, Sierra
Leone and Jharkhand, India--in order to highlight the varied and
crucial roles they play. In so doing, this volume also bears
witness to the insecurities and resource-scarcities they have to
navigate in order to facilitate the research of others. Ultimately,
their experiences and insights point to more equitable fieldwork
and more collaborative processes of knowledge production. For its
first-hand accounts of fieldwork in insecure zones, as well as for
its diverse geographical and topical coverage, this book is a
must-read for researchers and students researching interested in
ethnographic and fieldwork methods and ethics, particularly as they
apply to conflicts and to research in the Global South.
iLowerSecondary Global Citizenship Workbooks provide structured,
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Ethics: The Key Thinkers introduces the individuals who have
wrestled with core moral questions and shaped how we understand
ethics today, from what constitutes a good life to arguments about
what is right and wrong. Chapters are organised chronologically and
cover figures from a wide range of traditions in ancient, modern
and contemporary philosophy, explaining exactly how a particular
individual has changed the development of ethical theory as a
whole. Alongside chapters on Plato, Aristotle, Marx and Nietzsche,
this fully updated 2nd edition now provides: * A global approach to
the history of ethics, featuring new chapters on Confucian,
Buddhist and African thinkers * Further reading guides to the
latest writing on each thinker * A conclusion that looks ahead to
new directions in contemporary ethical theory For anyone looking to
better understand the ideas, people and debates behind one of
philosophy's most important subjects, Ethics: The Key Thinkers is
the ideal starting point.
In The Peaceable Kingdom Stanley Hauerwas claims that "to begin by
asking what is the relation between theology and ethics is to have
already made a mistake." Hauerwas's claim, and his contribution
toward a socially constituted and historically embodied account of
the moral life and moral reason, are often charged with
sectarianism, relativism, and tribalism. Emmanuel Katongole defends
Hauerwas's dismissal of the traditional philosophical "problem" of
the relation between ethics and religion. It is, he argues, part of
Hauerwas's wider attempt to set aside the dominant Kantian moral
tradition. Standard fare in moral philosophy, inspired by that
tradition, fosters a highly formal, ahistorical view of ethics that
does not do justice to our experience of ourselves as moral agents.
Although it is difficult for us to fathom, pure monsters do not
exist. Terrorists and other serial killers massacre innocent
people, yet are perfectly capable of loving their own parents,
neighbors, and children. Hitler, sending millions to their death,
was contemptuous of meat eaters and a strong advocate of animal
welfare. How do we reconcile such moral ambiguities? Do they
capture something deep about how we build values? As a
developmental scientist, Philippe Rochat explores this possibility,
proposing that as members of a uniquely symbolic and self-conscious
species aware of its own mortality, we develop uncanny abilities
toward lying and self-deception. We are deeply categorical and
compartmentalized in our views of the world. We imagine essence
where there is none. We juggle double standards and manage
contradictory values, clustering our existence depending on context
and situations, whether we deal in relation to close kin,
colleagues, strangers, lovers, or enemies. We live within multiple,
interchangeable moral spheres. This social-contextual determination
of the moral domain is the source of moral ambiguities and blatant
contradictions we all need to own up to.
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