Social theorists of morality: Essays on moral agency

Abbott, Owen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2285-3672 2024. Social theorists of morality: Essays on moral agency. Palgrave Studies in Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity, Palgrave.

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Book
Book Type:	Authored Book
Status:	In Press
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BJ Ethics E History America > E151 United States (General) H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Publisher:	Palgrave
ISBN:	978-3-031-75180-6
Funders:	Leverhulme Trust
Last Modified:	08 Oct 2024 10:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/172272

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