Ethical Life: Its Natural and Social Histories

by Webb Keane

Book Overview

The human propensity to take an ethical stance toward oneself and others is found in every known society, yet we also know that values taken for granted in one society can contradict those in another. Does ethical life arise from human nature itself? Is it a universal human trait? Or is it a product of one's cultural and historical context? Webb Keane offers a new approach to the empirical study of ethical life that reconciles these questions,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691167737
• ISBN13: 9780691167732
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.3"