Moral Engagement in Public Life: Theorists for Contemporary Ethics

ISBN-13: 9780820457666 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 296 str.

McCarthy, Cameron

Opis

Ethical evaluation of language and action has relied historically on the western, monocultural assumptions of classical ethical theory. But persistent contemporary critiques undermine the moral force of ethical agency as individualistic, autonomous, and rationalistic. Contributors to Moral Engagement in Public Life take up the search for intellectual resources in light of these challenges by explicating twelve theorists in moral philosophy and communication ethics. Two classical theorists, Aristotle and Confucius, provide longstanding themes of ongoing relevance and serve as a point of departure for ten contemporary thinkers whose own perspectives are, in part, a response to classical thought in the current context. Together these theorists expand the conceptual domain crossculturally and internationally for understanding ethical discourse and action in practical and professional life.

Spis treści

Contents: Josina M. Makau: Preface - Christopher Lyle Johnstone: Aristotle's Ethical Theory in the Contemporary World: Logos, Phronêsis, and the Moral Life - Peggy J. Bowers: Charles Taylor's Practical Reason - Clifford G. Christians: The Social Ethics of Agnes Heller - Dong-Hyun Byun/Keehyeung Lee: Confucian Values, Ethics, and Legacies in History - David S. Allen: Jürgen Habermas and the Search for Democratic Principles - Sharon L. Bracci: The Fragile Hope of Seyla Bernhabib's Interactive Universalism - Ronald C. Arnett: Paulo Freire's Revolutionary Pedagogy: From a Story-Centered to a Narrative-Centered Communication Ethic - Jeffrey W. Murray: The Other Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas: Communication Beyond Relativism - Alexandre Lopes de Miranda: Mikhail Bakhtin's Philosophy of the Act - Mark Lawrence McPhail: Race, Coherence, and Moral Knowledge: Cornel West's Rhetoric and Politics of Convergence - Angharad Valdivia: bell hooks: Ethics from the Margins - Martha Cooper/Carole Blair: Foucault's Ethics - Deni Elliott: Afterword.

O autorze

The Editors: Sharon L. Bracci is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She has published numerous journal articles on intersections among communication ethics, public argument, and practical moral reasoning in media and health care contexts. She is currently Chair of the Communication Ethics Commission of the National Communication Association.
Clifford G. Christians is Research Professor in the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is co-author of Responsibility in Mass Communications (Third Edition, 1980), Good News: Social Ethics and the Press (1993), and Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning (Sixth Edition, 2001). He is coeditor of Jacques Ellul: Interpretative Essays (1981) and Communication Ethics and Universal Values (1997).