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Morality Made Visible - Edward Westermarck's Moral and Social Theory (Hardcover)
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Morality Made Visible - Edward Westermarck's Moral and Social Theory (Hardcover)
Series: Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
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While highly respected among evolutionary scholars, the
sociologist, anthropologist and philosopher Edward Westermarck is
now largely forgotten in the social sciences. This book is the
first full study of his moral and social theory, focusing on the
key elements of his theory of moral emotions as presented in The
Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas and summarised in Ethical
Relativity. Examining Westermarck's evolutionary approach to the
human mind, the author introduces important new themes to
scholarship on Westermarck, including the pivotal role of emotions
in human reciprocity, the evolutionary origins of human society,
social solidarity, the emergence and maintenance of moral norms and
moral responsibility. With attention to Westermarck's debt to David
Hume and Adam Smith, whose views on human nature, moral sentiments
and sympathy Westermarck combined with Darwinian evolutionary
thinking, Morality Made Visible highlights the importance of the
theory of sympathy that lies at the heart of Westermarck's work,
which proves to be crucial to his understanding of morality and
human social life. A rigorous examination of Westermarck's moral
and social theory in its intellectual context, this volume connects
Westermarck's work on morality to classical sociology, to the
history of evolutionism in the social and behavioural sciences, and
to the sociological study of morality and emotions, showing him to
be the forerunner of modern evolutionary psychology and
anthropology. In revealing the lasting value of his work in
understanding and explaining a wide range of moral phenomena, it
will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology and psychology
with interests in social theory, morality and intellectual history.
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