Culture and Morality Revisited
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3877646 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tom Claes (Rijksuniversiteit Gent Aspirant N.F.W.O., corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 349-386 |
| Publication date | 1990-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Dynamics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0921-3740 • E-ISSN: 1461-7048 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/092137409000300402 |
| OpenAlex | W2076924878 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
In a review essay on morality and culture, Mary Douglas pointed out that there exists little communication between anthropologists writing on morals and the (Western) moral philosophers. According to Douglas, the greatest responsibility for this division arises from the unwillingness of the moral philosophers to take anthropological data seriously. How this should be done remains unsolved but I do not think it to be surprising. As things stand now, it is impossible that it could ever happen and Douglas herself hints at this possibility. I would like to defend the claim that moral philosophy, at least for now, should not try to incorporate the findings of the anthropologists because there is not much to learn from them. This might appear provocative because it seemingly carries the suggestion that anthropologists should accommodate themselves to moral philosophy. This is not entirely true. My second claim is that cultural anthropologists, for the moment, should not try to incorporate the findings of moral philosophy either because they too have nothing to learn from latter
Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Moral philosophy · Moral psychology · Moral responsibility · Morality · Nothing · Sociology · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Law in Society and Culture · Philosophy · Social Science and Policy Research
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1995 - 2022 (28) |
| Highly cited | No |