Within a Range of Possibilities: Morality and Ethics in Social Life
- 15 June 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Ethnos
- Vol. 74 (2), 251-276
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00141840902940492
Abstract
Despite its now common currency the anthropological concept of morality remains underdeveloped. One anthropologist who has made several important attempts to work out a more precise theoretical concept of morality is Joel Robbins. In his most recent contribution to this endeavor Robbins addresses the tension in anthropology between what he calls the morality of reproduction and the morality of freedom. In this article, I suggest an alternative solution to the problem of conceiving the distinction between a nonconsciously enacted morality and the conscious awareness of ethical dilemmas and moral questioning. I will support this distinction with ethnographic and life-historical material from my research on the moral lives of some Muscovites.Keywords
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