| Moral Contexts Contributor(s): Walker, Margaret Urban (Author) |
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ISBN: 0742513785 ISBN-13: 9780742513785 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2002 Annotation: To be truly reflective, moral thinking and moral philosophy must become aware of the contexts that bind our thinking about how to live. These essays show how to do this, and why it makes a difference. Visit our website for sample chapters! |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory |
| Dewey: 171.7 |
| LCCN: 2002009258 |
| Series: Feminist Constructions |
| Physical Information: 0.76" H x 6.2" W x 9.44" (0.96 lbs) 248 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Many contexts shape and limit moral thinking in philosophy and life. Human conditions of vulnerability and interdependency, of limited awareness and control, of imperfect insight into ourselves and others are inevitable contexts that neither moral thought nor theory should forget. To be truly reflective, moral thinking and moral philosophy must become aware of the contexts that bind our thinking about how to live. This collection of essays by Margaret Urban Walker seek to show how to do this, and why it makes a difference. Contingent and changeable contexts that shape moral thinking include our individual histories, our social positions, and institutional roles, relationships, cultural settings, and social arrangements, and the specific moral idioms we pick up along the way. The paradigms and specialized language of ethical theory are contexts, too; they shape how moral theory looks and what or whom it looks at. Ethical theory and practice are meaningless without these Moral Contexts. |