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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788956203321

Autore

Weissman David <1936->

Titolo

Zone morality / / David Weissman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

3-11-037684-9

3-11-035261-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (130 p.)

Collana

Categories ; ; 5

Classificazione

CC 7260

Disciplina

303.3/72

Soggetti

Reciprocity (Psychology)

Interpersonal relations

Values

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-128) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Morality and Metaphysics -- 2 Character -- 3 Moral experience -- 4 Regulation -- 5 Politics -- 6 Justification -- Bibliography -- Name index

Sommario/riassunto

Traditional moral theory usually has either of two emphases: virtuous moral character or principles for distributing duties and goods. Zone Morality introduces a third focus: families and businesses are systems created by the causal reciprocities of their members. These relations embody the duties and permissions of a system's moral code. Core systems satisfy basic interests and needs; we move easily among them hardly noticing that moral demands vary from system to system. Moral conflicts arise because of discord within or among systems but also because morality has three competing sites: self-assertive, self-regarding people; the moral codes of systems; and regulative principles that enhance social cohesion. Each wants authority to control the other two. Their struggles make governance fragile. A strong church or authoritarian government reduces conflict by imposing its rules, but democracy resists that solution. Procedural democracy is a default position. Its laws and equitable procedures defend people or systems having diverse interests when society fails to create a public that would



govern for the common interest.