Developing Moral Sensitivity (Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138888273 ISBN 13: 9781138888272

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

Moral sensitivity affects whether and how we see others, note moral concerns, respond with delicacy, and navigate complex social interactions. Scholars from a variety of fields explore the concept of moral sensitivity and how it develops, beginning with a natural moral capacity for sensitivity towards others that is shaped in a variety of ways through relationships, forms of teaching, and social institutions. Each of these influences alters the capacity as well as one’s responses in complex ways. The concept of moral sensitivity deepens as progressive chapters demonstrate its increasing complexity through development within individuals, over time, as they mature, and as their relationships and social contexts expand. The chapters integrate research from philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, literature, education, and media and technology studies, with key chapters by Darcia Narváez, Nancy E. Snow, Michael S. Pritchard, and Stephen J. Thoma and a Foreword by Owen Flanagan. It is the only comprehensive presentation of interdisciplinary work on moral sensitivity that integrates a theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical analysis. This highly interdisciplinary approach provides a new way of thinking about the relationship of individuals to society and moral sensitivity as a social phenomenon, extending current research in ethics, moral psychology, and psychology toward situated, embodied, and contextual analyses.

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About the Author

Deborah S. Mower is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Youngstown State University, USA.

Phyllis Vandenberg is Professor of Philosophy at Grand Valley State University, USA

Wade L. Robison is the Ezra A. Hale Professor of Applied Ethics at the Rochester Institute of Technology, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138888273
• ISBN 13: 9781138888272
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 302
• Editor: Mower Deborah, Robison Wade L., Vandenberg Phyllis