New Perspectives on Moral Change - Anthropologists Philosophers Engage With Transformations of Life

The world we live in is constantly changing. Climate change, transforming gender conceptions, emerging issues of food consumption, novel forms of family life and technological developments are altering central areas of our forms of life. This raises questions of how to cope with and understand the moral changes implicit in such alterations. This volume is the first to address moral change as such. It brings together anthropologists and philosophers to discuss how to study and theorize the change of norms, concepts, emotions, moral frameworks and forms of personhood.

About the author

Cecilie Eriksen is special consultant at National Center of Ethics, The Ministry of Health, Denmark. She is the author of Moral Change – Dynamics, Structure and Normativity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). She has further published on Wittgenstein and Løgstrup as well as  co-edited and contributed to volumes on topics such as law and legitimacy, modern work life, and contextual ethics.

Nora Hämäläinen is docent and university researcher at the University of Helsinki and the author of Literature and Moral Theory (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Descriptive Ethics: What does Moral Philosophy Know about Morality (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).

Summary

The world we live in is constantly changing. Climate change, transforming gender conceptions, emerging issues of food consumption, novel forms of family life and technological developments are altering central areas of our forms of life.

Product details

• Authors: Cecilie Hamalainen Eriksen
• Assisted by: Cecilie Eriksen (Editor), Eriksen Cecilie (Editor), Nora Hamalainen (Editor), Nora Hämäläinen (Editor)
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9781800735972
• ISBN: 978-1-80073-597-2
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: WYSE Series in Social Anthropology; Wyse Social Anthropology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Religious issues & debates, Social and cultural anthropology, Religious life and practice, Anthropology (General), Anthropology of Religion