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The Ethical Condition (Paperback)
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The Ethical Condition (Paperback)
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Written over a thirty-year span, Michael Lambek's essays in this
collection point with definitive force toward a single central
truth: ethics is intrinsic to social life. As he shows through rich
ethnographic accounts and multiple theoretical traditions, our
human condition is at heart an ethical one-we may not always be
good or just, but we are always subject to their criteria.
Detailing Lambek's trajectory as one anthropologist thinking deeply
throughout a career on the nature of ethical life, the essays
accumulate into a vibrant demonstration of the relevance of ethics
as a practice and its crucial importance to ethnography, social
theory, and philosophy. Organized chronologically, the essays begin
among Malagasy speakers on the island of Mayotte and in northwest
Madagascar. Building from ethnographic accounts there, they
synthesize Aristotelian notions of practical judgment and virtuous
action with Wittgensteinian notions of the ordinariness of ethical
life and the importance of language, everyday speech, and ritual in
order to understand how ethics are lived. They illustrate the
multiple ways in which ethics informs personhood, character, and
practice; explore the centrality of judgment, action, and irony to
ethical life; and consider the relation of virtue to value. The
result is a fully fleshed-out picture of ethics as a deeply rooted
aspect of the human experience.
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