Why things matter to people social science, values and ethical life
Andrew Sayer undertakes a fundamental critique of social science's difficulties in acknowledging that people's relation to the world is one of concern. As sentient beings, capable of flourishing and suffering, and particularly vulnerable to how others treat us, our view of the world is sub...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
2011
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction : a relation to the world of concern
- 2. Values within reason
- 3. Reason beyond rationality : values and practical reason
- 4. Beings for whom things matter
- 5. Understanding the ethical dimension of life
- 6. Dignity
- 7. Critical social science and its rationales
- 8. Implications for social science
- Appendix: comments on philosophical theories of ethics
- References
- Index.
