Social Theorists of Morality - Owen Abbott

Social Theorists of Morality

Essays on Moral Agency

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Buch | Hardcover
XIII, 358 Seiten
2025
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-75180-6 (ISBN)
139,09 inkl. MwSt

This book provides an interdisciplinary series of essays on key social theorists of morality. It explores contributions to social moral theorising made by W. E. B. Du Bois, G. H. Mead, Jane Addams, Alasdair MacIntyre, Carol Gilligan, Seyla Benhabib, Kwame Anthony Appiah, and Jonathan Haidt. It thus seeks to integrate alternative voices at the "foundations" of sociological theorising about morality, while entering into dialogues with post-Enlightenment moral philosophy and contemporary moral psychology. In so doing, it engages with perspectives of pragmatism, virtue ethics, care ethics, feminist critiques, and moral foundations theory. The essays discuss key topics in social theories of morality, including moral action, socialisation, habit and reflexiveness, relationships, emotion, self, identity, racism and colonialism, universalism, and innateness. It centres crucial (but often overlooked) questions of moral power, and assesses the relationship between moral theorising and normative argument. The essays are conjoined by a running theme of moral agency-how it is constituted and how it is enacted-which orientates the book's arguments and critiques.

Owen Abbott is Lecturer in Social Sciences at Cardiff University, UK. He is the author of The Self, Relational Sociology, and Morality in Practice, which was awarded the British Sociological Association's Philip Abrams Memorial Prize in 2020 for best first, sole-authored book. He is co-author of Masking in the Pandemic: Materiality, Interaction, and Moral Practice. His research focuses on moral practice, moral agency, and the moral dynamics of personal lives. He has recently completed a Leverhulme Trust funded empirical project exploring forgiving and not forgiving in personal relationships.

1. Introduction.- 2. W. E. B. Du Bois's Forgotten Sociology of Morality: Contesting the Foundations and Informing the Future of the Sociology of Morality.- 3. George Herbert Mead: Morality from the Perspective of the Act, Self, and Experience.- 4. Jane Addams's Sociology of Moral Practice and Practice of Moral Sociology.- 5. Alisdair MacIntyre: Virtue, Practices, Identity and Traditions.- 6. Carol Gilligan's Different Moral Voice: Gender, Ethics of Care, and the Reconstitution of the Moral Domain.- 7. Seyla Benhabib: Interactive Universalism, the Concrete Other, and Discourse Ethics.- 8. Kwame Anthony Appiah: Ethics, Identity, and Idealization.- 9. Jonathan Haidt: Social Intuitionism and Moral Foundations Theory.- 10. Conclusion: A Social Perspective on Moral Agency.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 14.1.2025
Reihe/Serie Palgrave Studies in Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity
Zusatzinfo XIII, 358 p.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeine Soziologie
Schlagworte ethics • moral agency • moral constitution • Moral Philosophy • moral power • Moral practice • moral psychology • Moral Self • Relational Sociology • Social Theory • Sociological theorists • Sociology of Morality • Virtues
ISBN-10 3-031-75180-9 / 3031751809
ISBN-13 978-3-031-75180-6 / 9783031751806
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