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Ignatieff, Michael.
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Applied ethics -- Cross-cultural studies.
Ethics -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies.
Virtues -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies.
Virtues -- Political aspects -- Cross-cultural studies.
Ethics, Comparative.
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Ignatieff, Michael.
Applied ethics -- Cross-cultural studies.
Ethics -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies.
Virtues -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies.
Virtues -- Political aspects -- Cross-cultural studies.
Ethics, Comparative.
MARC Display
The ordinary virtues : moral order in a divided world / Michael Ignatieff.
by
Ignatieff, Michael.
Harvard University Press, 2017.
Call #:
170.9 I24o
Subjects
Applied
ethics
--
Cross-cultural
studies
.
Ethics
--
Social
aspects
--
Cross-cultural
studies
.
Virtues
--
Social
aspects
--
Cross-cultural
studies
.
Virtues
--
Political
aspects
--
Cross-cultural
studies
.
Ethics
, Comparative.
ISBN:
9780674976276 (hc.)
Description:
263 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Moral globalization and its discontents
--
Jackson Heights, New York: Diversity Plaza
--
Los Angeles: the moral operating systems of global cities
--
Rio de Janeiro: order, corruption, and public trust
--
Bosnia: war and reconciliation
--
Myanmar: the politics of moral narrative
--
Fukushima: resilience and the unimaginable
--
South Africa: after the rainbow
--
Conclusion: Human rights, global
ethics
, and the ordinary virtues.
Summary:
"A study of what ethical principles and practices people around the world hold in common and what institutions best allow virtue to flourish. It is based on a Carnegie Council project on comparative
ethics
that Michael Ignatieff has run for the past three years. Most works of comparative
ethics
look at formal systems of belief. What, for example, do Christian and Confucian texts say about the role of the family? What do the Koran or John Rawls say about treatment of the poor? This is, by contrast, a work of "lived
ethics
." Ignatieff took a team of researchers around the world to examine what values and ethical beliefs guide diverse people in practice. They went to places where people are living under unusual stresses or where contemporary
social
challenges are particularly clear. They went to Brazil, for example, to discuss life where corruption is a serious problem, to Sarajevo to talk about reconciliation, to Queens in New York to talk about diversity, and to Fukushima, Japan, to talk about disaster and recovery. Overall, they found more commonality than they were expecting, that whatever formal systems of belief prevail, people tend to orient themselves in similar ways around the values of trust, tolerance, forgiveness, reconciliation, and resilience. But where people are suffering they often doubt that others share their ethical beliefs and begin to circle the wagons to defend their own group. We shouldn't expect citizens to be heroes. So what institutions and political arrangements encourage or inhibit virtue? Overall, Ignatieff says, liberal constitutionalism seems most effective, but only as long as poverty and inequality are not allowed to get out of hand"--Provided by publisher.
"Michael Ignatieff is a Canadian author, academic and former politician. He was the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Leader of the Official Opposition from 2008 until 2011. Known for his work as a historian, Ignatieff has held senior academic posts at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard and Toronto"--From wikipedia.org website.
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