Moralizing Cultures

• Author(s): Vytautas Kavolis,
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Pages: 154
• ISBN_10: 0819186406
  ISBN_13: 9780819186409
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Civilization , Philosophy / Reference , Social Science / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ,

Description:... This book takes part in the current revival of social-scientific interest in the study of moralities by seeking to introduce as its foundation a cross-civilizational framework that makes it possible to subject all traditions seeking to induce socially responsible behavior, both religious and secular, to systematic investigation. Contents: Preface; Analytical Orientations; Ancestral Voices; Moralizing Arrangements: Traditional Systems of Moralization, Modern Systems of Moralization, On the Coordination of Moral Cultures, Symbolic Designs: Civilizational Rebels, Romanticism and Daoism; Logic of Evil as Secular Moralities, Into A Later, More Global Modernity: The Humanization of Morality; Index