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Moral Engagement in Public Life: Theorists for Contemporary Ethics

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Moral Engagement in Public Life: Theorists for Contemporary Ethics - McCarthy, Cameron (Editor), and Valdivia, Angharad N (Editor), and Bracci, Sharon L (Editor)
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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 ...

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Moral Engagement in Public Life: Theorists for Contemporary Ethics 2002, Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, New York

ISBN-13: 9780820457666

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