Moral Engines Exploring the Ethical Drives in Human Life
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Biografisk notat
Cheryl Mattingly is Professor of Anthropology at University of Southern California. She is a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow and has received numerous awards from the American Anthropological Association, including the Victor Turner Prize, the Stirling Prize and the New Millennium Prize. Her most recent book is Moral Laboratories: Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life (University of California Press 2014).<p>
<em>âAll the chapters show, in their own way, that philosophical anthropology offers a very sophisticated approach to understand how humans live⌠The dialogue between anthropology and philosophy that underlies this volume has clearly enriched the understanding of ethical drives in human life.â</em> <strong>⢠History of the Human Sciences</strong></p>
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<em>âOverall the text offers an insightful interdisciplinary discussion on the topics of morality and ethics, albeit a conflicted title and theme as is made evident by many of the authorsâ concerns with the idea and term âmoral enginesâ throughout the volume. A fascinating read for those interested in the in the field regardless of what side of the fence one sits.â</em> <strong>⢠Irish Journal of Anthropology</strong></p>
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<em>âThis is an excellent collection of essays that contributes to the growing anthropological literature on morality and ethics. It addresses the current debates in a new and useful way.â</em> <strong>⢠Johan Rasanayagam</strong>, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen</p>
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<em>âThis stimulating volume suggests a new metaphor to reshape this central question to moral theory within an anthropological perspective.â</em> <strong>⢠Samuel Leze</strong>, Ecole Normale SupĂŠrieure de Lyon</p>
In the past fifteen years, there has been a virtual explosion of anthropological literature arguing that morality should be considered central to human practice. Out of this explosion new and invigorating conversations have emerged between anthropologists and philosophers. Moral Engines: Exploring the Ethical Drives in Human Life includes essays from some of the foremost voices in the anthropology of morality, offering unique interdisciplinary conversations between anthropologists and philosophers about the moral engines of ethical life, addressing the question: What propels humans to act in light of ethical ideals?
What fundamentally drives human beings to strive for moral perfection? Is it care of the self? Is it care for others? Is it inextricably wedded to politics? Moral Engines includes some of the foremost voices in the anthropology of morality, representing a unique interdisciplinary conversation between anthropologists and philosophers about the moral engines of ethical life.
Prologue
Cheryl Mattingly
Chapter 1. The Question of 'Moral Engines': Introducing a Philosophical Anthropological Dialogue
Rasmus Dyring, Cheryl Mattingly, and Maria Louw
PART I: MORAL ENGINES AND HUMAN EXPERIENCE
Chapter 2. Ethics, Immanent Transcendence and the Experimental Narrative Self Â
Cheryl Mattingly
Chapter 3. Being Otherwise: On Regret, Morality, and Mood
Jason Throop
Chapter 4. Haunting as Moral Engine: Ethical Striving and Moral Aporias among Sufis in Uzbekistan
Maria Louw
Chapter 5. Every Day: Forgiving after War in Northern Uganda
Lotte Meinert
Chapter 6. The Provocation of Freedom
Rasmus Dyring
PART II: MORAL ENGINES AND 'MORAL FACTS'
Chapter 7. On the Immanence of Ethics
Michael Lambek
Chapter 8. Where in the World are Values? Exemplarity and Moral Motivation
Joel Robbins
Chapter 9. Fault Lines in the Anthropology of Ethics
James Laidlaw
PART III: MORAL ENGINES AND THE HUMAN CONDITION
Chapter 10. An Ethics of Dwelling and a Politics of Worldbuilding: Responding to the Demands of the Drug War
Jarrett Zigon
Chapter 11. Human, the Responding Being:Â Considerations Towards a Philosophical Anthropology of Responsiveness
Thomas Schwarz Wentzer
Chapter 12. The History of Responsibility
Francois Raffoul
Index