Assessing the Boundaries of the Moral Community - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Assessing the Boundaries of the Moral Community write by . This book was released on 2006. Assessing the Boundaries of the Moral Community available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Boundaries of the Moral (and Legal) Community
The Boundaries of the Moral (and Legal) Community - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Boundaries of the Moral (and Legal) Community write by Brian Leiter. This book was released on 2011. The Boundaries of the Moral (and Legal) Community available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over the last 250 years both moral philosophy and ordinary moral opinion have witnessed a remarkable expansion of their conception of the 'moral' community, that is, the community of creatures that are thought entitled to basic moral (and ultimately legal) consideration - whatever the precise details of what such consideration requires. 'Being human' is what matters now in terms of membership in the moral community, not race, gender, religion, or, increasingly, sexual orientation. (Species membership - hence the 'being human' - remains a barrier to entry, however.) How to explain these developments? According to 'Whig Histories, ' this is really a story of expanding moral knowledge. Just as we discovered that the movement of mid-size physical objects is governed by the laws of Newtonian mechanics, and that those same laws do not describe the behavior of quantum particles, so too we have discovered that chattel slavery is a grave moral wrong and that women have as much moral claim on the electoral vote as men. I argue against the Whig Histories in favor of non-Whig Histories that explain the expanding moral community in terms of biological, psychological, and economic developments, not increased moral knowledge. If the non-Whig Histories are correct, should we expect the 'species barrier' to membership in the moral community to fall? I argue for a skeptical answer.
The Boundaries of Moral Discourse
The Boundaries of Moral Discourse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Boundaries of Moral Discourse write by Mane Hajdin. This book was released on 1994. The Boundaries of Moral Discourse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Wading Through Many Voices
Wading Through Many Voices - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wading Through Many Voices write by Harold Recinos. This book was released on 2011-04-16. Wading Through Many Voices available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Wading through Many Voices brings together the voices of Latino/a, African American, Asian American, Native American, and Euro-American scholars to produce a dialogue of public theology: how faith-communities, divided by race, class, ethnicity, and gender, can find a common ground for life together. The authors articulate a multiethnic perspective on public theology that counters the divisive identity politics of U.S. public life with systematic thinking that strengthens the commitment to critically transform social relations in light of a shared vision of public good. The contributors develop a shared public theology that addresses social divisions while offering readers a broad vision to collaborate and struggle for an improved understanding of the common good for our pluralistic society. In light of emerging social issues, the contributors suggest that a fundamental respect for difference is a required first value for living together in a common social and political space.
Handbook of the Sociology of Morality
Handbook of the Sociology of Morality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Handbook of the Sociology of Morality write by Steven Hitlin. This book was released on 2010-10-17. Handbook of the Sociology of Morality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Human beings necessarily understand their social worlds in moral terms, orienting their lives, relationships, and activities around socially-produced notions of right and wrong. Morality is sociologically understood as more than simply helping or harming others; it encompasses any way that individuals form understandings of what behaviors are better than others, what goals are most laudable, and what "proper" people believe, feel, and do. Morality involves the explicit and implicit sets of rules and shared understandings that keep human social groups intact. Morality includes both the "shoulds" and "should nots" of human activity, its proactive and inhibitive elements. At one time, sociologists were centrally concerned with morality, issues like social cohesion, values, the goals and norms that structure society, and the ways individuals get socialized to reproduce those concerns. In the last half-century, however, explicit interest in these topics has waned, and modern sociology has become uninterested in these matters and morality has become marginalized within the discipline. But a resurgence in the topic is happening in related disciplines – psychology, neurology, philosophy, and anthropology - and in the wider national discourse. Sociology has much to offer, but is not fully engaged in this conversation. Many scholars work on areas that would fall under the umbrella of a sociology of morality but do not self-identify in such a manner, nor orient their efforts toward conceptualizing what we know, and should know, along these dimensions. The Handbook of the Sociology of Morality fills a niche within sociology making explicit the shared concerns of scholars across the disciplines as they relate to an often-overlooked dimension of human social life. It is unique in social science as it would be the first systematic compilation of the wider social structural, cultural, cross-national, organizational, and interactional dimension of human moral (understood broadly) thought, feeling, and behavior.
