Ethics

Authors

  • Raymond Massé Département Anthropologie, Université Laval

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17184/eac.anthropen.009

Keywords:

Deliberation, Critical hindsight, Freedom, Arbitration, Moral career, Morality, Values, Reflexivity

Abstract

Ethics constitutes the time and place of a critical reflection on the morality of our individual and collective actions. Recent anthropology suggests an analysis of ethics as a process of construction and questioning of norms throughout a personal and social moral career. Ethics is therefore the place of freedom, of arbitration and of the weighing of moral obligations.

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Published

2016-09-01