The poverty of (moral) philosophy
Towards an empirical and pragmatic ethics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2398038 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marcus Morgan (0000-0001-5378-9293, University of Cambridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 129-146 |
| Publication date | 2014-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Social Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1368-4310 • E-ISSN: 1461-7137 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1368431013505016 |
| OpenAlex | W2169300628 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 40 |
This article makes both a more general and a more specific argument, and while the latter relies upon the former, the inverse does not apply. The more general argument proposes that empirical disciplines such as sociology are better suited to the production of ethical knowledge than more characteristically abstract and legalistic disciplines such as philosophy and theology. The more specific argument, which is made through a critique of Bauman's Levinasian articulation of ethics, proposes what it calls 'pragmatic humanism' as a viable alternative model for sociological ethics to follow. This model rejects the abstract notion of some innate and universally distributed moral impulse, and instead turns to acknowledgement of the precariousness of life as a strategic resource in the construction, rather than revelation, of ethical solidarity
Acknowledgement · Epistemology · Humanism · Political science · Sociology · Solidarity · Computer Science · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics · Zygmunt Bauman's Sociology
Invitation to sociology
The Provocation of Levinas
After Empire
Deconstruction, Pragmatism, Hegemony
After Virtue
Democracy and Social Ethics
The Philosophical Writings of Descartes
Value-judgments in Social Science
Distant Suffering
Sociology after the Holocaust
Affinities in the socio-political thought of Rorty and Levinas
An Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Ethics and the Sociology of Morals
Vulnerability and Human Rights
The origins of totalitarianism
Frames of war
Torture and the Ethics of Photography
The Square of Intimate Citizenship
Invented Moralities
Anti-Minotaur
Pragmatism and the prospects of sociological theory
Outline of a social theory of rights
Optimism and agency in the sociology of Zygmunt Bauman
Democracy in One Country
Pragmatism as a Philosophy of the Social Sciences
William James
Pragmatism and Feminist Theory
Pragmatic Sociology as Cultural Sociology
The Role of the Intellectual in Liquid Modernity
Sociology as Ethics
Zygmunt Bauman's poisoned gift of morality
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |