Rules and Ethics: Perspectives from Anthropology and History

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Morgan Clarke (Associate Professor in Social Anthropology) Emily Corran (Lecturer in Medieval History)

Rules and Ethics

Perspectives from Anthropology and History

Morgan Clarke (Associate Professor in Social Anthropology), Emily Corran (Lecturer in Medieval History)

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English

Manchester University Press
10 August 2021

Medieval history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700; Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600; Sociology: customs & traditions; Social & cultural anthropology

This book investigates the pronounced enthusiasm that many traditions display for codes of ethics characterised by a multitude of rules. Recent anthropological interest in ethics and historical explorations of 'self-fashioning' have led to extensive study of the virtuous self, but existing scholarship tends to pass over the kind of morality that involves legalistic reasoning. Rules and ethics corrects that omission by demonstrating the importance of rules in everyday moral life in a variety of contexts. In a nutshell, it argues that legalistic moral rules are not necessarily an obstruction to a rounded ethical self, but can be an integral part of it. An extended introduction first sets out the theoretical basis for studies of ethical systems that are characterised by detailed rules. This is followed by a series of empirical studies of rule-oriented moral traditions in a comparative perspective.

Edited by: Morgan Clarke (Associate Professor in Social Anthropology), Emily Corran (Lecturer in Medieval History)
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 19mm
ISBN: 9781526148902
ISBN 10: 1526148900
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 10 August 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: rules and ethics – Morgan Clarke and Emily Corran Part I: Rules enabling moral life 1 Conscience is tradition: classical Hindu law and the ethics of conservatism – Donald R. Davis, Jr. 2 Manners and morals: codes of civility in early modern England – Martin Ingram 3 Control of the self and the casuistry of vows: Christian personal conscience and clerical intervention in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries – Emily Corran Part II: Rules and virtue 4 Rules and the unruly: Roman exemplary ethics – Rebecca Langlands 5 ‘For the love of God’? The First Commandment and sacramental confession in early modern Catholic Europe – Nicole Reinhardt 6 Counting good and bad deeds under military rule: Islam and divine bookkeeping in Nablus (Palestine) – Emanuel Schaeublin Part III: Rules about rules 7 Tactics of transformation: self-formation and the multiplicity of authority in Polish conversions to Judaism – Jan Lorenz 8 Conscience and action in the Islamic madhhab-law tradition – Talal Al-Azem 9 Comparing casuistries: rules, rigour and relaxation in Islam and Christianity – Morgan Clarke Afterword – James Laidlaw Index -- .

Morgan Clarke is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Keble College Emily Corran is Lecturer in Medieval History at University College London -- .