Dedication
Part I: Variations
1. On Being "Imprisoned by One's Upbringing"
2. Moral Psychologies and Moral Ecologies
Bibliographical Essay
Part II: First Nature
3. Classical Chinese Sprouts
4. Modern Moral Psychology
5. Beyond Moral Modularity
6. Destructive Emotions
Bibliographic Essay
Part III: Collisions
7. When Values Collide
8. Moral Geographies of Anger
9. Weird Anger
10. For Love's and Justice's Sake
Bibliographical Essay
Part IV: Anthropologies
11. Self-Variations: Philosophical Archaeologies
12. The Content of Character
Bibliographical Essay
Notes
Acknowledgments
References
Index
Owen Flanagan was born and raised in Westchester County, New York. He is the author of the classics Varieties of Moral Personality (1991) and Consciousness Reconsidered (1992). He lives in Durham, NC, where he is currently James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy and Co-director of the Center for Comparative Philosophy at Duke University.
"Owen Flanagan presents a thorough and well-developed discussion on
the subject of moral possibilities in a culturally diverse world."
-- Catherine Monnet, Philosophical Practice
"The Geography of Morals is an excellent example of
multidisciplinary, comparative, cross-cultural moral philosophy in
action. I highly recommend it" -- Owen Flanagan, Reading
Religion
"In this extraordinary book, Owen Flanagan does it right. His
exploration of our moral lives is informed by both a deep
understanding of the science and a rich and critical engagement
with philosophical traditions from around the world. Flanagan is
lucid, insightful, brave, and often very funny. This is an exciting
and transformative book, of great value to anyone interested in
moral feelings and moral judgment." -- Paul Bloom, Brooks and
Suzanne Ragen
Professor of Psychology, Yale University
"In his readable tour de force the renowned philosopher Owen
Flanagan draws our attention to the huge gaps in our understanding
of morality in a diverse, interdependent and rapidly globalizing
world. Drawing on both moral psychology and comparative moral
philosophy allows Flanagan to point to the huge deficits in our
public discourse and schooling in morality and ethics. Flanagan's
elegant and inclusive intellectual toolkit, drawn from a diverse
tableau of
lived experiences, enables us to retrieve lived worlds we had
ignored as resources for our common good and will undoubtedly spark
much needed debate." -- Ebrahim Moosa, Professor of Islamic Studies
and
Religion, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre
Dame
"Flanagan offers a compelling and richly textured account of what
it means to take human moral diversity seriously. He shows that
there is more than one way to lead a good human life and that,
whatever the natural, cultural or historical sources of any
particular 'way,' it is always possible to have morally
enlightening conversations that transcend cultural boundaries. He
also reminds us that the best moral inquiry will draw on a variety
of sources,
including the empirical sciences and the study of history and
culture, as well as familiar and unfamiliar traditions of
philosophical inquiry." -- Michele Moody-Adams, Joseph Straus
Professor of Political
Philosophy and Legal Theory, Columbia University
"The core thesis of this remarkable book is that in our capacities
as moral agents, teachers, and thinkers we need to take equally
seriously the diversity of moral thinking around the globe and the
recent progress in modern moral psychology. Flanagan argues that
cross-cultural philosophy and empirical psychology exhibit
important areas of convergence, from which we should learn, and
also support broad areas of continued difference, which we should
celebrate."
-- Stephen C. Angle, Professor of Philosophy and East Asian
Studies, Wesleyan University
"The book does an excellent job of stretching the acknowledged
possibility space of morality. Flanagan convincingly shows that we
cannot responsibly conduct ethical inquiry in ignorance of cultural
diversity." --Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
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