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'Agent Plus' and 'Practical Reasoner': A Comparative Study of the Ethical Person

Demmer, Ulrich

Ethnos, 2015-01, Vol.80 (1), p.91-116 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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'Agent Plus' and 'Practical Reasoner': A Comparative Study of the Ethical Person
Autor: Demmer, Ulrich
Assuntos: Anthropology ; anthropology of ethics ; Community ; Comparative Analysis ; Comparative studies ; Concepts ; Concepts of person ; Cultural history ; ethical agency ; Ethics ; Ethnographic research ; Ethnography ; Field work ; Fieldwork ; India ; practical reason ; South India ; Taylor, Charles
É parte de: Ethnos, 2015-01, Vol.80 (1), p.91-116
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Descrição: This paper explores an understanding of the person in terms of practical reason. Based on my fieldwork among the Jenu Kurumba and on ethnographic data on four other communities, I analyse how these five communities conceptualise the ethical person. To understand these concepts, I consult studies of an anthropology of ethics concerned with practical reason. Additionally I draw on Charles Taylor's concept of the 'agent plus' and Alasdair MacIntyre's notion of the 'practical reasoner'. I argue that both Neo-Aristotelian notions are fundamentally important for understanding the concepts of the ethical person among the five cultural formations investigated in this paper.
Editor: Stockholm: Routledge
Idioma: Inglês;Francês;Alemão;Sueco

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