Anthropological Realism

Ethics for a Global World

Stephen J. A. Ward, Clifford G. Christians (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

445 Seiten

2024 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-8618-5 (ISBN)

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Anthropological Realism is a new theory of ethics that transforms static moral principles into global normative ideals. Two prominent weaknesses in the field provide the rationale for this book. First, as a discipline, ethics lacks a strong theoretical basis. A second concern is moral parochialism. Technologies are global, but international perspectives rarely reflect an ethics anchored in humanity as a whole.Progress in developing a moral globalism as the basis for ethics has been prevented by unproductive dualisms that lead to stalemates. Ethics is typically divided into opposites such as individual and society, consequentialism and deontology, and local and global.To deal constructively with this history of unproductive disputes, the book focuses on a fundamental rivalry in philosophical ethics—the opposition between realism and anti-realism. To move the field forward, the authors create a next-generation moral theory of hybrid moral realism that promotes a sustainable global ethics of humaneness and human flourishing.

Stephen J. A. Ward (PhD) is an internationally recognized author of twelve books on ethics and public philosophy. He is Distinguished Lecturer on Ethics at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada, and Founding Director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin, USA. He has also been Director of the UBC School of Journalism. He was a war correspondent and newsroom manager for fourteen years, with a lifetime award for service to professional journalism in Canada.Clifford G. Christians (PhD, LittD, DHL) was Director of the Institute of Communications Research and Head of the PhD in Communications program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA, Charles H. Sandage Distinguished Professor, and is the winner of six university teaching awards. He has been a visiting scholar at the Universities of Princeton, Oxford, and Chicago, and Fulbright Faculty Scholar in Finland, Tanzania and Ukraine. His books and articles, translated into nine languages, have won two dozen awards.

Erscheinungsdatum	05.04.2024
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
ISBN-10	1-5275-8618-9 / 1527586189
ISBN-13	978-1-5275-8618-5 / 9781527586185
Zustand	Neuware