edited by Wolfgang Edelstein, Gertrud Nunner-Winkler.
1st ed.
Boston :
Elsevier,
2005.
1 online resource (vi, 409 pages).
Advances in psychology,
137
0166-4115 ;
Includes bibliographical references.
The meaning of moral ought / Jürgen Habermas -- Between Aristotle and Kant : sketch of a morality of recognition / Axel Honneth -- Contexts of recognition : comments on Axel Honneth's moral perspective beyond Aristotle and Kant / Micha Brumlik -- Emotions and the origins of morality / Martha C. Nussbaum -- What should count as moral behavior? The nature of "early morality" in children's development / Augusto Blasi -- Discourse in context / Vilhjálmur Árnason -- Moral intimacy and moral judgment : tailoring general theories to personal contexts / Bill Puka -- Moral resilience : the unhappy moralist / Fritz K. Oser and Roland Reichenbach -- Do concepts matter? The impact of a justice framing on responses to a moral dilemma : a research note / Rainer Döbert and Natalie Juranek -- The discontents and contents in cultural practices : it depends on where you sit / Elliot Turiel -- Changes in moral understanding : an intergenerational comparison / Gertrud Nunner-Winkler -- Is community compatible with autonomy? Cultural ideals versus empirical realities / Joan G. Miller -- Is community compatible with autonomy? Some comments to Joan Miller's research on differing moralities in India and the United States / Lothar Krappmann -- Reasoning about moral obligations and interpersonal responsibilities in different cultural contexts / Monika Keller [and others] -- Partiality and identity : psychological research on preferential behavior toward group members / Mordecai Nisan -- Culture, context, and the psychological sources of human rights concepts / Larry Nucci -- To forgive and forget / Avishai Margalit.
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Morality in context is a timely topic. A debate between philosophers and social scientists is a good way to approach it. Why is there such a booming interest in morality and why does it focus on context? One starting point is the change in the sociostructural and sociocultural conditions of modern societies. This involves change in the empirical conditions of moral action and in the social demand on morality. As these changes are accounted for and analyzed in the social sciences, new perspectives emerge that give rise to new ways of framing issues and problems. These problems are best addressed by way of cooperation between philosophers and social scientists. As Habermas (1990) has pointed out in a much cited paper, philosophers depend on social science to fill in the data they require to answer the questions raised by philosophy in its "placeholder" function. The reverse also holds true: Social science needs the conceptual clarifications that philosophy can provide. With respect to morality, such mutual interchanges are of particular importance the contributions to this book show convincingly.