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. Rules and
ethics 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. --
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