Zone Morality / / David Weissman.
Traditional moral theory usually has either of two emphases: virtuous moral character or principles for distributing duties and goods. Zone Morality introduces a third focus: families and businesses are systems created by the causal reciprocities of their members. These relations embody the duties a...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2014] ©2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (130 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Morality and Metaphysics -- 2 Character -- 3 Moral experience -- 4 Regulation -- 5 Politics -- 6 Justification -- Bibliography -- Name index |
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Summary: | Traditional moral theory usually has either of two emphases: virtuous moral character or principles for distributing duties and goods. Zone Morality introduces a third focus: families and businesses are systems created by the causal reciprocities of their members. These relations embody the duties and permissions of a system’s moral code. Core systems satisfy basic interests and needs; we move easily among them hardly noticing that moral demands vary from system to system. Moral conflicts arise because of discord within or among systems but also because morality has three competing sites: self-assertive, self-regarding people; the moral codes of systems; and regulative principles that enhance social cohesion. Each wants authority to control the other two. Their struggles make governance fragile. A strong church or authoritarian government reduces conflict by imposing its rules, but democracy resists that solution. Procedural democracy is a default position. Its laws and equitable procedures defend people or systems having diverse interests when society fails to create a public that would govern for the common interest. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783110352610 9783110238570 9783110238488 9783110636949 9783110369526 9783110370393 |
ISSN: | 2198-1868 ; |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110352610 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | David Weissman. |