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SUMMARY:Speaking Ethically Across Borders: Interdisciplinary Approaches - 
 Speaker to be confirmed
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CONTACT:Speaker to be confirmed
DESCRIPTION:Recent years have seen a dramatic growth in the study of ethic
 s among social anthropologists. Much of this growth has been due to the as
 similation into anthropological thinking of virtue ethics building on two 
 streams of theoretical work: that of Foucault\, and that of virtue ethicis
 ts working in the Anglo-Saxon philosophical tradition.\n\nProponents of th
 e virtue-ethics approach in anthropology argue that a focus on self- culti
 vation as a process allows for sufficient attention to be paid to self-con
 scious reflection. Reflection and the freedom it entails\, they argue\, ar
 e essential aspects of ethical life that traditional social scientific app
 roaches to ethics--Durkheimian approaches--simply ignore.\n\nThere appears
  to remain an area of ethical experience\, however\, that neither approach
  can easily accommodate. Since virtue ethics sees ethical judgment as the 
 result of cultivation within a self-conscious ethical tradition\, it can n
 o more account for ethical judgment outside of or between traditions than 
 the Durkheimian approach can.\n\nYet history is full of situations in whic
 h multiple\, self-conscious ethical traditions meet\, and in which people 
 try to judge each other\, persuade each other\, or draw lessons from each 
 other across the borders that separate those traditions. These situations 
 are what we call ‘speaking ethically across borders’\, and this is the
  phenomenon that the conference\, and the publication we hope to produce f
 rom it\, will aim to explore.
LOCATION:CRASSH Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, CB3 9D
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