Durkheim, Morals And ModernityThorough and wide-ranging examination of the science of morals, reviving and defending the tradition of a scientific approach to ethics. Engages with recent debates on modernism and morality, demonstrating the contemporary relevance of Durkheim's ideas. This book is intended for social and political theory, philosophy of science and Durkheimian studies within sociology, philosophy and politics. |
Contents
Durkheims project | 1 |
Part I America | 23 |
Part II The kingdom and the republic | 139 |
from is to ought | 251 |
Notes | 263 |
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abstract acceptance Alcan Année sociologique anomie appeal argues argument aspirations attachment basic belief Boutroux causality cohesion commitment concern conflict conscience collective constitutive core criticism cult culture Delbos developing and flourishing discussion division of labour Dreyfus Affair dualism Durkheim 1975b duty dynamic egoism emphasizes enlightenment essential ethics everyone's explain faith freedom groups Guyau human ideal human patrie ibid idea identity individual interest internalist programme involves Kant Kant's Kantian kingdom of ends Latin thesis lectures on moral liberal man’s ment metaphysics milieu modern society modern world Montesquieu moral education moral law moral science mythological truths nature obligatory organic particular connexions passage philosophical principle rational rationale reality reason religion religious reprinted in Durkheim republic of persons Revolution risk rules sacred says sense sentiment social and moral society’s sociology solidarity Steven Lukes suicide supersensible symbols talk teleology things thought tion traditional understanding vidual virtue virtue ethics whole