Contesting Moralities

Author : Nannekke Redclift
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1135393419
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contesting Moralities written by Nannekke Redclift and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-08-16 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions of public and private morality, values and choices have become important areas of collective discussion. A key feature of this book is that it takes an ethnographic rather than a philosophical or speculative approach to moral debates. This study examines the contemporary explosion of ethical discourse in the public domain and the growing importance of moral rhetoric as an aspect of social relations.

Author : Iliana Sarafian
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800739079
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contesting Moralities written by Iliana Sarafian and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2023-04-14 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roma identities have often been presented in literature as collectively constructed and in opposition to those who are not Roma. Contesting Moralities challenges these preconceptions about Roma identification by disentangling the binaries between Roma and non-Roma, state and non-state, public and private. It explores topics resonating in contemporary Romani studies that are in need of further exploration through individual perspectives, including history, activism, kinship, childhood, and gender hierarchies. The book paints a complex picture of inequality and how it is negotiated amid conflicting, ambiguous and contradictory regimes of power and moral demands, including those of state and kin.

Author : Nannekke Redclift
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 9781844720149
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contesting Moralities written by Nannekke Redclift and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2005-05-23 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions of public and private morality, values and choices have become important areas of collective discussion. A key feature of this book is that it takes an ethnographic rather than a philosophical or speculative approach to moral debates. This study examines the contemporary explosion of ethical discourse in the public domain and the growing importance of moral rhetoric as an aspect of social relations.

Author : Christopher J. Peters
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199749957
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Matter of Dispute written by Christopher J. Peters and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-19 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law often purports to require people, including government officials, to act in ways they think are morally wrong or harmful. What is it about law that can justify such a claim? In A Matter of Dispute: Morality, Democracy, and Law, Christopher J. Peters offers an answer to this question, one that illuminates the unique appeal of democratic government, the peculiar structure of adversary adjudication, and the contested legitimacy of constitutional judicial review. Peters contends that law should be viewed primarily as a device for avoiding or resolving disputes, a function that implies certain core properties of authoritative legal procedures. Those properties - competence and impartiality - give democracy its advantage over other forms of government. They also underwrite the adversary nature of common-law adjudication and the duties and constraints of democratic judges. And they ground a defense of constitutionalism and judicial review against persistent objections that those practices are "counter-majoritarian" and thus nondemocratic. This work canvasses fundamental problems within the diverse disciplines of legal philosophy, democratic theory, philosophy of adjudication, and public-law theory and suggests a unified approach to unraveling them. It also addresses practical questions of law and government in a way that should appeal to anyone interested in the complex and often troubled relationship among morality, democracy, and the rule of law. Written for specialists and non-specialists alike, A Matter of Dispute explains why each of us individually, and all of us collectively, have reason to obey the law - why democracy truly is a system of government under law.

Author : Simone Schiller-Merkens
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787691195
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Contested Moralities of Markets written by Simone Schiller-Merkens and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlighting the sources, processes and outcomes of moral struggles in and around markets, this volume advances our current understanding of markets and their contested moralities.

Author : David Weissman
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783748788
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agency: Moral Identity and Free Will written by David Weissman and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is agency in all we do: thinking, doing, or making. We invent a tune, play, or use it to celebrate an occasion. Or we make a conceptual leap and ask more abstract questions about the conditions for agency. They include autonomy and self-appraisal, each contested by arguments immersing us in circumstances we don’t control. But can it be true we that have no personal responsibility for all we think and do? Agency: Moral Identity and Free Will proposes that deliberation, choice, and free will emerged within the evolutionary history of animals with a physical advantage: organisms having cell walls or exoskeletons had an internal space within which to protect themselves from external threats or encounters. This defense was both structural and active: such organisms could ignore intrusions or inhibit risky behavior. Their capacities evolved with time: inhibition became the power to deliberate and choose the manner of one’s responses. Hence the ability of humans and some other animals to determine their reactions to problematic situations or to information that alters values and choices. This is free will as a material power, not as the conclusion to a conceptual argument. Having it makes us morally responsible for much we do. It prefigures moral identity. Closely argued but plainly written, Agency: Moral Identity and Free Will speaks for autonomy and responsibility when both are eclipsed by ideas that embed us in history or tradition. Our sense of moral choice and freedom is accurate. We are not altogether the creatures of our circumstances.

Author : Matjaž Potrc
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135892512
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Challenging Moral Particularism written by Matjaž Potrc and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Particularism is a justly popular ‘cutting-edge’ topic in contemporary ethics across the world. Many moral philosophers do not, in fact, support particularism (instead defending "generalist" theories that rest on particular abstract moral principles), but nearly all would take it to be a position that continues to offer serious lessons and challenges that cannot be safely ignored. Given the high standard of the contributions, and that this is a subject where lively debate continues to flourish, Challenging Moral Particularism will become required reading for professionals and advanced students working in the area.

Author : Simone Schiller-Merkens
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787691217
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Contested Moralities of Markets written by Simone Schiller-Merkens and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlighting the sources, processes and outcomes of moral struggles in and around markets, this volume advances our current understanding of markets and their contested moralities.

Author : Paul T. Phillips
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773541128
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contesting the Moral High Ground written by Paul T. Phillips and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2013 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How four of Britain's best-known thinkers influenced the public consciousness on issues from God to the environment.

Author : Stephen Hunt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351951769
Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christianity written by Stephen Hunt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For two millennia Christianity has embraced fairly consistent views of human sexuality. Today, there exist more varied outlooks on the subject. This volume on Christianity in the The Library of Essays on Sexuality and Religion series overviews the contrasting Christian perceptions of sexuality. Part 1 includes a number of previously published articles that are theological in nature and present biblical interpretations of sexuality. Here, several Christian voices are permitted to speak from their varied perspectives, both conservative and liberal. Part 2 features contributions focusing on the Christian tradition of celibacy and asceticism. Part 3 surveys scholarly work emphasising the relationship between sexuality, gender and patriarchy. Part 4 offers academic interpretations of Christian expressions of sexuality through the mediums of worship, ritual and the sacraments. The final part peruses contemporary contestations of conventional Christian views. This is undertaken by presenting articles examining views of gay sexuality, assisted human reproduction and priestly celibacy.