Anthropological Realism: Ethics for a Global World
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Progress in developing a moral globalism as the basis for ethics has been prevented by unproductive dualisms that lead to stalemates. Ethics is typically divided into opposites such as individual and society, consequentialism and deontology, and local and global.
To deal constructively with this history of unproductive disputes, the book focuses on a fundamental rivalry in philosophical ethics—the opposition between realism and anti-realism. To move the field forward, the authors create a next-generation moral theory of hybrid moral realism that promotes a sustainable global ethics of humaneness and human flourishing.
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About the author
Clifford G. Christians (PhD, LittD, DHL) was Director of the Institute of Communications Research and Head of the PhD in Communications program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA, Charles H. Sandage Distinguished Professor, and is the winner of six university teaching awards. He has been a visiting scholar at the Universities of Princeton, Oxford, and Chicago, and Fulbright Faculty Scholar in Finland, Tanzania and Ukraine. His books and articles, translated into nine languages, have won two dozen awards.
