Modern Morals in Postmodernity
A Critical Reflection on Professional Codes of Ethics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4795757 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T Van Meijl (0000-0002-0547-2627, Centre for Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Nijmegen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 65-81 |
| Publication date | 2000-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Dynamics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0921-3740 • E-ISSN: 1461-7048 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/092137400001200103 |
| OpenAlex | W2107038210 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 25 |
This article provides a critical analysis of the topical debate about the revision of anthropological codes of ethics in the 1990s. Ethical codes are approached from the viewpoint of postmodern ethics, which rejects the foundation of morality in a hierarchy of values on which professional codes of ethics are based. Whereas ethical codes are founded on the proposition that morality is non-ambivalent and universal, in postmodern ethics it is argued that the condition of morality is essentially ambivalent and not universalizable. The institutionalization of moral rules and regulations in an ethical code for anthropologists is therefore exposed as characteristic of morality in modernity, allowing the substitution of a code of ethics for the moral self. Postmodern ethics instead aims at the emancipation of the autonomous moral self and the vindication of its moral responsibility. In many ways this anti-Enlightenment project of postmodern philosophy bears interesting similarities with the premodern tradition of Socratic philosophy
Epistemology · Meta-ethics · Modernity · Morality · Normative ethics · Nursing ethics · Political science · Postmodernism · Postmodernity · Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies · Philosophy · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics
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Ethics and the Everyday
Introduction to the Special Number on Ethics
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Writing Culture
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Anthropology as Cultural Critique
Works and lives
After virtue
Update on Myrna Mack's Assassination
Developing the New AAA Code of Ethics
Rebirth of the Non-Western World
Are Women Surgeons Different
The Postmodern Condition
Ethics and the Profession of Anthropology
Universals and Particulars
New Politics in the South Pacific
Cultural Identity and Global Process
Anthropology Goes To War
The Rise and Fall of Project Camelot
Representing the Colonized
Professions of Duplexity
Introduction
| Unique citing works | 8 |
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| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2022 (18) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |