Ordinary Ethics

A Companion to Moral Anthropology

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 133-149

  Das, Veena ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Austin and Cavell's work, philosophical problems as human problems; Discussion on ethics, centrality to judgments based on reasoning; Habitual actions, moral sensibility in detecting the "human" within actions; Labor of bringing about an eventual everyday, from within the actual; Moral life, rules, customs, and habits; Objective, universal measures, needed in overcoming subjective dispositions; Ordinary ethics; Virtues as in Theravada Buddhism, on how one inhabits the world with others

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886495684     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118290620.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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