Moral Boundaries

Author : Joan Tronto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000159080

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Moral Boundaries by Joan Tronto Pdf

In Moral Boundaries Joan C. Tronto provides one of the most original responses to the controversial questions surrounding women and caring. Tronto demonstrates that feminist thinkers have failed to realise the political context which has shaped their debates about care. It is her belief that care cannot be a useful moral and political concept until its traditional and ideological associations as a "women's morality" are challenged. Moral Boundaries contests the association of care with women as empirically and historically inaccurate, as well as politically unwise. In our society, members of unprivileged groups such as the working classes and people of color also do disproportionate amounts of caring. Tronto presents care as one of the central activites of human life and illustrates the ways in which society degrades the importance of caring in order to maintain the power of those who are privileged.

Author : Marion Smiley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226763255

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Moral Responsibility and the Boundaries of Community by Marion Smiley Pdf

The question of responsibility plays a critical role not only in our attempts to resolve social and political problems, but in our very conceptions of what those problems are. Who, for example, is to blame for apartheid in South Africa? Is the South African government responsible? What about multinational corporations that do business there? Will uncovering the "true facts of the matter" lead us to the right answer? In an argument both compelling and provocative, Marion Smiley demonstrates how attributions of blame—far from being based on an objective process of factual discovery—are instead judgments that we ourselves make on the basis of our own political and social points of view. She argues that our conception of responsibility is a singularly modern one that locates the source of blameworthiness in an individual's free will. After exploring the flaws inherent in this conception, she shows how our judgments of blame evolve out of our configuration of social roles, our conception of communal boundaries, and the distribution of power upon which both are based. The great strength of Smiley's study lies in the way in which it brings together both rigorous philosophical analysis and an appreciation of the dynamics of social and political practice. By developing a pragmatic conception of moral responsibility, this work illustrates both how moral philosophy can enhance our understanding of social and political practices and why reflection on these practices is necessary to the reconstruction of our moral concepts.

Author : Nachman Ben-Yehuda
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791401227

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The Politics and Morality of Deviance by Nachman Ben-Yehuda Pdf

The Politics and Morality of Deviance develops a theoretical framework and then applies it to four different and specific case studies in an explicit attempt to put the sociology of deviance back into mainstream sociology. It argues that deviance should be analyzed as a relative phenomenon in different and changing cultures, vis-a-vis change and stability in the boundaries of different symbolic/moral universes. It also argues that the legitimization of power should be thought of in terms of a moral order that in turn defines the societal boundaries of different symbolic/moral universes. Mills' concept of motivational accounting systems is utilized throughout the text in order to illustrate how the micro and macro levels of analysis can be integrated.

Author : Margrit Shildrick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781136184628

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Leaky Bodies and Boundaries by Margrit Shildrick Pdf

Drawing on postmodernist analyses, Leaky Bodies and Boundaries presents a feminist investigation into the marginalization of women within western discourse that denies female moral agency and embodiment. With reference to contemporary and historical issues in biomedicine, the book argues that the boundaries of both the subject and the body are no longer secure. The aim is both to valorise women and to suggest that 'leakiness' may be the very ground for a postmodern feminist ethic. The contribution made by Leaky Bodies and Boundaries is to go beyond modernist feminisms to radically displace the mechanisms by which women are devalued. The anxiety that postmodernism cannot yield an ethics, nor advance feminist concerns is addressed. This book will provide invaluable reading for those studying feminist philosophy, cultural studies and sociology.

Author : Gert Olthuis,Helen Kohlen,Jorma Heier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Caring
ISBN : 9042930233

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Moral Boundaries Redrawn by Gert Olthuis,Helen Kohlen,Jorma Heier Pdf

Joan Tronto's Moral Boundaries. A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care (1993) is one of the most influential works in the short history of the ethics of care. In her book, Tronto rethinks 'care' as one of the central activities of human life and explains that it is shaped through politics. Since it is two decades ago that Moral Boundaries was published it seems more than worthwhile to take stock of its significance. This volume does so. It attempts to redraw the moral boundaries Tronto discusses and explores the impact and meaning of her thinking for care ethics as a developing discipline. This volume celebrates the anniversary of a book. Our 'author of honour' is Joan Tronto herself. The contributions of the other authors concentrate on three domains: political theory, professional ethics and the understanding of care as practice.

Author : Pat Lauderdale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Deviant behavior
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025659397

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Deviance and the Movement of Moral Boundaries by Pat Lauderdale Pdf

Author : Joan C. Tronto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Caring
ISBN : OCLC:1144496167

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Moral Boundaries by Joan C. Tronto Pdf

In Moral Boundaries, Joan C. Tronto provides one of the most original responses to the controversial questions surrounding women and caring and demonstrates that feminist thinkers have failed to realize the political context which has shaped their debates about care. Moral Boundaries contests the association of care with women as empirically and historically accurate, as well as politically unwise. In our society, other groups such as the working classes and people of color also do disproportionate amounts of caring. Tronto presents care as one of the central activities of human life and illustrates the ways in which society degrades the importance of caring in order to maintain the power of those who are privileged.

Author : Nachman Ben-Yehuda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226043363

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Deviance and Moral Boundaries by Nachman Ben-Yehuda Pdf

Author : Julian Petley,Chas Critcher,Jason Hughes,Amanda Rohloff
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781623564056

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Moral Panics in the Contemporary World by Julian Petley,Chas Critcher,Jason Hughes,Amanda Rohloff Pdf

Moral Panics in the Contemporary World represents the best current theoretical and empirical work on the topic, taken from the international conference on moral panics held at Brunel University. The range of contributors, from established scholars to emerging ones in the field, and from a working journalist as well, helps to cover a wide range of moral panics, both old and new, and extend the geographical scope of moral panic analysis to previously underrepresented areas. Designed from the outset to comprise a coherent and integrated set of viewpoints which share a common engagement with critically exploring moral panics in the contemporary world, it contains case studies instantly recognisable and familiar to a student readership (drugs, alcohol, sexual abuse and racism). The collection brings a fresh approach to analysis and argument by testing and extending the concept of moral panic and analyzing a range of topics and geographical contexts, accurately reflecting the state-of-the-art moral panics research today.

Author : Glenn D. Hook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136840999

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Decoding Boundaries in Contemporary Japan by Glenn D. Hook Pdf

This book sheds light on the changing nature of contemporary Japan by decoding a range of political, economic and social boundaries. With a focus on the period following the inauguration of Prime Minister Koizumi Junichirō, the book grows out of a recognition that, with the Koizumi administration playing a more proactive role internationally and moving ahead with deregulation and the ‘structural reform’ of the economy domestically, a range of boundaries have been challenged and reinscribed. Here ‘boundaries’ refers to the ways in which contemporary Japan is shaped as a separate entity by the inscription and reinscription of political, economic and social space creating insiders and outsiders, both internationally and domestically. The central argument of the book is that, in order to achieve the twin goals of greater international proactivity and domestic reform, the government and other actors supporting Koizumi’s new direction for Japan needed to take action in order to destabilize and reformulate a range of extant boundaries. While boundaries often remain invisible, the aim of this book is to promote an understanding of their significance by uncovering their pivotal role. Decoding Boundaries in Contemporary Japan brings together contributions from leading and emerging scholars from the UK, Japan and the United States. It will appeal to scholars and students of Japan as well as social scientists with an interest in borders and boundaries, political scientists interested in Asia.

Author : Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky
Publisher : Springer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319437477

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The Boundaries of Belonging by Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky Pdf

This book addresses an issue currently making political headlines in the United States—immigration. Immigrants have long engendered debates about the boundaries of belonging, with some singing their praises and others warning of their dangers. In particular, the 11 million unauthorized immigrants in the country provoke heated disagreements with issues of legality and morality at the forefront. Increasingly, such debates take place online, by organizations in the immigrant rights and the immigration control movements, who engage in symbolic work that includes blurring, crossing, maintaining, solidifying, and shifting the boundaries of belonging. Based on data collected from 29 national-level groups, this book features a cultural sociological analysis of the online materials deployed by social movement organizations debating immigration in the United States.

Author : Justin Farrell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691176307

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The Battle for Yellowstone by Justin Farrell Pdf

Yellowstone holds a special place in America's heart. As the world's first national park, it is globally recognized as the crown jewel of modern environmental preservation. But the park and its surrounding regions have recently become a lightning rod for environmental conflict, plagued by intense and intractable political struggles among the federal government, National Park Service, environmentalists, industry, local residents, and elected officials. The Battle for Yellowstone asks why it is that, with the flood of expert scientific, economic, and legal efforts to resolve disagreements over Yellowstone, there is no improvement? Why do even seemingly minor issues erupt into impassioned disputes? What can Yellowstone teach us about the worsening environmental conflicts worldwide? Justin Farrell argues that the battle for Yellowstone has deep moral, cultural, and spiritual roots that until now have been obscured by the supposedly rational and technical nature of the conflict. Tracing in unprecedented detail the moral causes and consequences of large-scale social change in the American West, he describes how a "new-west" social order has emerged that has devalued traditional American beliefs about manifest destiny and rugged individualism, and how morality and spirituality have influenced the most polarizing and techno-centric conflicts in Yellowstone's history. This groundbreaking book shows how the unprecedented conflict over Yellowstone is not all about science, law, or economic interests, but more surprisingly, is about cultural upheaval and the construction of new moral and spiritual boundaries in the American West.

Author : Rex Supreme
Publisher : Author House
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781477254646

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The HUMAN Bible: The Neutral Bible by Rex Supreme Pdf

The brand new self-help book that is the ultimate in being pro-human - the ultimate in humanism(!) - with the new subject-theme of "Be good, be neutral ... but don't be bad". With brand new “How To Be ... ” subject-lessons: Supreme Super Power: The Secret Ultimate Power [ The Most Powerful New Human Subject-Lessons For Greatness, Fame, Fortune, And Power ] ( Created By And Given By John Rosario / Rex Supreme ) [p. 374] Super-Human: How To Become A Super Human(-Being) [ Become The Super-Human Version Of Yourself ] [p. 538] Human-God: How To Become Your Own God (A Self-God) [p. 558] Human-God: How To Be A Human-God (A Demi-God) [p. 566] Billionaire: How To Become A Billionaire (Become Billionaire-Rich, Famous & Powerful) [p. 586] THAT'S RIGHT! LEARN HOW TO BECOME A BILLIONAIRE! It’s humankind reformed, perfected and made superior (to its previous, regular self)!

Author : Luisa Passerini,uisa,,Dawn Lyon,Enrica Capussotti,Ioanna Laliotou
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781845452773

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Women Migrants From East to West by Luisa Passerini,uisa,,Dawn Lyon,Enrica Capussotti,Ioanna Laliotou Pdf

Based on the oral histories of eighty migrant women and thirty additional interviews with ‘native’ women in the ‘receiving’ countries, this volume documents the contemporary phenomenon of the feminisation of migration through an exploration of the lives of women, who have moved from Bulgaria and Hungary to Italy and the Netherlands. It assumes migrants to be active subjects, creating possibilities and taking decisions in their own lives, as well as being subject to legal and political regulation, and the book analyses the new forms of subjectivity that come about through mobility. Part I is a largely conceptual exploration of subjectivity, mobility and gender in Europe. The chapters in Part II focus on love, work, home, communication, and food, themes which emerged from the migrant women’s accounts. In Part III, based on the interviews with ‘native’ women – employers, friends, or in associations relevant to migrant women – the chapters analyse their representations of migrants, and the book goes on to explore forms of intersubjectivity between European women of different cultural origins. A major contribution of this book is to consider how the movement of people across Europe is changing the cultural and social landscape with implications for how we think about what Europe means. Cover image: Painting by Carla Accardi. Reproduced with the kind permission of Luca Barsi of the Galleria Accademia, Via Accademia Albertina 3/e, 10123 Torino.

Author : Julio Andrade
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030616304

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Morally-Demanding Infinite Responsibility by Julio Andrade Pdf

This book presents a conceptual mapping of supererogation in the analytic moral philosophical tradition. It first asks whether supererogation can be conceptualised in the absence of obligation or duty and then makes the case that it can be. It does so by enlisting the resources of the continental tradition, specifically using the work of Emmanuel Levinas and his notion of infinite responsibility. In so doing the book contributes to the ongoing efforts to create a common ethical terminology between the analytic and continental traditions within moral philosophy. Supererogatory actions are praiseworthy actions that go ‘beyond duty’, and yet are not blameworthy when not performed. In responding to this paradox, moral philosophy either brackets or attempts a reductionism of supererogation. Supererogation is epitomised in the paradigmatic figures of the saint and hero. Yet, most would agree that emulating these figures is too morally demanding. We rightly ask: where does moral obligation end? Is it even possible, or desirable to demarcate such a boundary? Besides the important theoretical issues these questions raise, they also speak to practical ethical dilemmas in the contemporary milieu, as they concern the global wealthy’s responsibility to the poor and the challenges of development aid work.