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4 - Agonistic Pluralists

Three Philosophers of Value Conflict

from Part I - Intellectual Sources and Disciplinary Engagements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2023

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James Laidlaw  and
Patrick McKearney
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James Laidlaw
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This chapter compares and contrasts the thought of three philosophers – Bernard Williams, Charles Taylor, and Martha Nussbaum – who developed influential and idiosyncratic ways of reforming Anglo-American moral philosophy. Their positions substantially overlap inasmuch as they hold that the goods of human life are necessarily multiple and persistently in conflict, which has implications for the structure and content of ethical life everywhere. All three are of interest to anthropology because they hold that history, culture, social relations, and biographical experience make a difference to the goods and values that inform human life, and therefore that moral philosophy needs to be, to at least a very large degree, an empirical, descriptive, and comparative discipline. The different, sometimes even rival, ways in which they pursue that project offer anthropologists of ethics the chance to reflect on how and why they might develop an anthropology that would fulfil these authors’ different visions of moral philosophy.

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pluralismtragedyvalue conflictsmoral emotionsrelativismutilitarianismKantianismliberalismpoliticsreligion
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The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Ethics , pp. 96 - 129
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Print publication year: 2023

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