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之农

又有无事生非的密码！
还望操持大权的论坛掌门通令各派，
少作障碍，
也好让美文妙论早传天下！

虎彬

安师兄你好，
刚收到你的著作，很好，非常感谢。你的论文我也看了一下。我听到钟老他谈过这样的观点。当然，你有自己的切身实践，自己有体会。以后多向你指教。

虎彬

“田野”这个词有些过时了。把农民的生活现场叫“田野”，这本身是有问题的。我同意你观点，现在的“田野”应该是我们身边的日常生活。作家们有句话，说到处后有生活。不见的非要到遥远的地方才叫“田野”。我们是否应该告别“田野”这个词？

shi

非常赞同尹兄意见，有学者主张使用“实地考察”，我觉得比“田野作业”更能体现工作性质。

巴莫曲布嫫

Fieldwork in Familiar Places
Morality, Culture, and Philosophy

Harvard Univ. Press

November 1997
ISBN 0-674-29953-1


Michele M. Moody-Adams
The persistence of deep moral disagreements--across cultures as well as within them--has created widespread skepticism about the objectivity of morality. Moral relativism, moral pessimism, and the denigration of ethics in comparison with science are the results. Fieldwork in Familiar Places challenges the misconceptions about morality, culture, and objectivity that support these skepticisms, to show that we can take moral disagreement seriously and yet retain our aspirations for mora objectivity.

Michele Moody-Adams critically scrutinizes the anthropological evidence commonly used to support moral relativism. Drawing on extensive knowledge of the relevant anthropological literature, she dismantles the mystical conceptions of "culture" that underwrite relativism. She demonstrates that cultures are not hermetically sealed from each other, but are rather the product of eclectic mixtures and borrowings rich with contradictions and possibilities for change. The internal complexity of cultures is not only crucial for cultural survival, but will always thwart relativist efforts to confine moral judgments to a single culture. Fieldwork in Familiar Places will forever change the way we think about relativism: anthropologists, psychologists, historians, and philosophers alike will be forced to reconsider many of their theoretical presuppositions.
Moody-Adams also challenges the notion that ethics is methodologically deficient because it does not meet standards set by natural science. She contends that ethics is an interpretive enterprise, not a failed naturalistic one: genuine ethical inquiry, including philosophical ethics, is a species of interpretive ethnography. We have reason for moral optimism, Moody-Adams argues. Even the most serious moral disagreements take place against a background of moral agreement, and thus genuine ethical inquiry will be fieldwork in familiar places. Philosophers can contribute to this enterprise, she believes, if they return to a Socratic conception of themselves as members of a rich and complex community of moral inquirers.

Book Reviews:
It is refreshing to read such a spirited, original, and well-informed account and defense of such a position in moral philosophy, and how sensitivity to cultural differences can be reconciled with objectivism. Moody-Adams is to be commended for showing, what is often lacking in more purely theoretical accounts of either relativism or objectivism, that it really matters whether one is an objectivist or not. Fieldwork in Familiar Places is a superior and important work in moral philosophy.
   --Lawrence Blum, Mind [UK]

"[A] rigorous and intelligent account of the state of moral inquiry in an era of moral relativism...Fieldwork in Familiar Places provides a good many tools to continue the ongoing work of scrutinising implicit assumptions. At the same time-and this too is a compliment to its author-it makes clear that there is no necessity to converge on a unique solution."
   --Wing-sam Chow, Anthropos [Germany]

"Moody-Adams offers us not only one of the best recent critiques of moral relativism but also the first one to examine systematically the anthropological literature on which relativists usually base their philosophical claims."
   --Thomas Wren, Ethics

"Michele Moody-Adams' book is a major contribution to moral philosophy. Its first important contribution is a brilliant examination of relativism. What she shows is that relativists do not merely arrive at conclusions that are untenable, but that even the supposed 'anthropological facts' of hopeless divergence on ethical principles between different cultures depend upon questionable methodology and tendentious interpretation. And this is important because if one takes the relativists' 'facts' at face value, one's understanding of the relations between culture and morality is bound to end up distorted, even if one does not accept the more extreme versions of cultural relativism. A second contribution of the book, one that interlocks with the first, is an original and powerful reconception of the tasks of moral philosophy--one that frees moral inquiry from the obligation to come up with a final theory or a set of principles that are to solve all moral problems, and that connects rationality with problem-solving rather than with finality and absoluteness. There are few books that belong in the library of everyone who thinks seriously about fact and value; this is one of them!"
   --Hilary Putnam
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ling4490

  各位前辈好，好想看《家乡》这篇文章，但没有密码，麻烦哪位告知一下开门的钥匙，谢谢！