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Book Title
Fieldwork in Familiar Places : Morality, Culture, and Philosophy
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9780674007949

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Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674007948
ISBN-13
9780674007949
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2163675

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Number of Pages
272 Pages
Publication Name
Fieldwork in Familiar Places : Morality, Culture, and Philosophy
Language
English
Publication Year
2002
Subject
Ethics & Moral Philosophy, General, Anthropology / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Philosophy, Social Science
Author
Michele M. Moody-Adams
Format
Trade Paperback

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0.1 in
Item Weight
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Michele Moody-Adams' book is a major contribution to moral philosophy. Its first important contribution is a brilliant examination of relativism. What she shows is that relativists do not merely arrive at conclusions that are untenable, but that even the supposed 'anthropological facts' of hopeless divergence on ethical principles between different cultures depend upon questionable methodology and tendentious interpretation. And this is important because if one takes the relativists' 'facts' at face value, one's understanding of the relations between culture and morality is bound to end up distorted, even if one does not accept the more extreme versions of cultural relativism. A second contribution of the book, one that interlocks with the first, is an original and powerful reconception of the tasks of moral philosophy--one that frees moral inquiry from the obligation to come up with a final theory or a set of principles that are to solve all moral problems, and that connects rationality with problem-solving rather than with finality and absoluteness. There are few books that belong in the library of everyone who thinks seriously about fact and value; this is one of them!, [A] rigorous and intelligent account of the state of moral inquiry in an era of moral relativism... Fieldwork in Familiar Places provides a good many tools to continue the ongoing work of scrutinising implicit assumptions. At the same time-and this too is a compliment to its author-it makes clear that there is no necessity to converge on a unique solution., Michele Moody-Adams's book is a major contribution to moral philosophy. Its first important contribution is a brilliant examination of relativism. What she shows is that relativists do not merely arrive at conclusions that are untenable, but that even the supposed 'anthropological facts' of hopeless divergence on ethical principles between different cultures depend upon questionable methodology and tendentious interpretation. And this is important because if one takes the relativists' 'facts' at face value, one's understanding of the relations between culture and morality is bound to end up distorted, even if one does not accept the more extreme versions of cultural relativism. A second contribution of the book, one that interlocks with the first, is an original and powerful reconception of the tasks of moral philosophy--one that frees moral inquiry from the obligation to come up with a final theory or a set of principles that are to solve all moral problems, and that connects rationality with problem-solving rather than with finality and absoluteness. There are few books that belong in the library of everyone who thinks seriously about fact and value; this is one of them!, Moody-Adams offers us not only one of the best recent critiques of moral relativism but also the first one to examine systematically the anthropological literature on which relativists usually base their philosophical claims., [A] rigorous and intelligent account of the state of moral inquiry in an era of moral relativism...Fieldwork in Familiar Places provides a good many tools to continue the ongoing work of scrutinising implicit assumptions. At the same time-and this too is a compliment to its author-it makes clear that there is no necessity to converge on a unique solution., It is refreshing to read such a spirited, original, and well-informed account and defense of such a position in moral philosophy, and how sensitivity to cultural differences can be reconciled with objectivism. Moody-Adams is to be commended for showing, what is often lacking in more purely theoretical accounts of either relativism or objectivism, that it really matters whether one is an objectivist or not. Fieldwork in Familiar Places is a superior and important work in moral philosophy.
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
170/.42
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction Taking Disagreement Seriously Mapping the Relativist Domain Relativism, Ethnocentrism, and the Decline of Moral Confidence The Empirical Underdetermination of Descriptive Cultural Relativism Cultural Authority, Cultural Complexity, and the Doctrine of Cultural Integration The Perspicuous "Other": Relativism "Grown Tame and Sleek" The Use and Abuse of History History, Ethnography, and the Blurring of Cultural Boundaries Relativism as a "Kind of Historiography"? Moral Debate, Conceptual Space, and the Relativism of Distance Plus ca change...:The Myths of Moral Invention and Discovery Morality and Its Discontents On the Supposed Inevitability of Rationally Irresolvable Moral Conflict Pluralism, Conflict, and Choice On the Alleged Methodological Infirmity of Moral Inquiry Does Pessimism about Moral Conflict Rest on a Mistake? Moral Inquiry and the Moral Life Moral Inquiry as an Interpretive Enterprise The Interpretive Turn and the Challenge of "AntiTheory" A Pyrrhic Victory? Objectivity and the Aspirations of Moral Inquiry Morality and Culture through Thick and Thin The Need for Thick Descriptions of Moral Inquiry Moral Conflict, Moral Confidence, and Moral Openness toward the Future Critical Pluralism, Cultural Difference, and the Boundaries of Cross-Cultural Respect The Strange Career of "Culture" Epilogue Notes Works Cited Index
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Moral relativism and pessimism, and the denigration of ethics in comparison with science are the results of widespread skepticism about the objectivity of morality. The author examines anthropological evidence for moral relativism, and finds that the complexity of cultures will always thwart efforts to confine moral judgments to a single culture., The persistence of deep moral disagreements--across cultures as well as within them--has created widespread skepticism about the objectivity of morality. Moral relativism, moral pessimism, and the denigration of ethics in comparison with science are the results. Fieldwork in Familiar Places challenges the misconceptions about morality, culture, and objectivity that support these skepticisms, to show that we can take moral disagreement seriously and yet retain our aspirations for moral objectivity. Michele Moody-Adams critically scrutinizes the anthropological evidence commonly used to support moral relativism. Drawing on extensive knowledge of the relevant anthropological literature, she dismantles the mystical conceptions of "culture" that underwrite relativism. She demonstrates that cultures are not hermetically sealed from each other, but are rather the product of eclectic mixtures and borrowings rich with contradictions and possibilities for change. The internal complexity of cultures is not only crucial for cultural survival, but will always thwart relativist efforts to confine moral judgments to a single culture. Fieldwork in Familiar Places will forever change the way we think about relativism: anthropologists, psychologists, historians, and philosophers alike will be forced to reconsider many of their theoretical presuppositions. Moody-Adams also challenges the notion that ethics is methodologically deficient because it does not meet standards set by natural science. She contends that ethics is an interpretive enterprise, not a failed naturalistic one: genuine ethical inquiry, including philosophical ethics, is a species of interpretive ethnography. We have reason for moral optimism, Moody-Adams argues. Even the most serious moral disagreements take place against a background of moral agreement, and thus genuine ethical inquiry will be fieldwork in familiar places. Philosophers can contribute to this enterprise, she believes, if they return to a Socratic conception of themselves as members of a rich and complex community of moral inquirers.

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