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Ethical Life - Its Natural and Social Histories (Paperback)
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Ethical Life - Its Natural and Social Histories (Paperback)
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The human propensity to take an ethical stance toward oneself and
others is found in every known society, yet we also know that
values taken for granted in one society can contradict those in
another. Does ethical life arise from human nature itself? Is it a
universal human trait? Or is it a product of one's cultural and
historical context? Webb Keane offers a new approach to the
empirical study of ethical life that reconciles these questions,
showing how ethics arise at the intersection of human biology and
social dynamics. Drawing on the latest findings in psychology,
conversational interaction, ethnography, and history, Ethical Life
takes readers from inner city America to Samoa and the Inuit Arctic
to reveal how we are creatures of our biology as well as our
history--and how our ethical lives are contingent on both. Keane
looks at Melanesian theories of mind and the training of Buddhist
monks, and discusses important social causes such as the British
abolitionist movement and American feminism. He explores how styles
of child rearing, notions of the person, and moral codes in
different communities elaborate on certain basic human tendencies
while suppressing or ignoring others. Certain to provoke debate,
Ethical Life presents an entirely new way of thinking about ethics,
morals, and the factors that shape them.
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