Cecilie Eriksen

Nigel Pleasants

Julia Hermann

Neil O'Hara

Moral certainty refers to those aspects of morality – moral acting, feeling, and thinking – that are beyond doubt, explanation, and justification. The essays in this book explore the concept of moral certainty and its application and usefulness in contemporary moral debates. The notion of moral certainty, which is inspired by the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, is emerging as a key reference point in contemporary moral philosophy. An investigation into the implications of moral certainty is called for, given that so many discussions in moral philosophy concern the possibility of justifying our moral beliefs. The concept of moral certainty also feeds directly into the emerging field of hinge epistemology. The chapters in this volume tackle the following issues: meta-questions around whether and how we can make sense of the concept of moral certainty; the role of moral certainty in contemporary debates on gender, racism, bias, and historically unjust practices; ways in which radical change in society engendered by new technologies might affect moral certainties; and the role of the notion of moral certainty in the debates on free will and moral responsibility. Philosophical Perspectives on Moral Certainty will appeal to researchers and advanced students working on ethics and moral philosophy, epistemology, philosophy of technology, and Wittgenstein.

Philosophical Perspectives on Moral Certainty

Nora Hämäläinen

The world we live in is constantly changing. Climate change, transforming gender conceptions, emerging issues of food consumption, novel forms of family life and technological developments are altering central areas of our forms of life. This raises questions of how to cope with and understand the moral changes implicit in such alterations. This volume is the first to address moral change as such. It brings together anthropologists and philosophers to discuss how to study and theorize the change of norms, concepts, emotions, moral frameworks and forms of personhood.

Anthropologists and Philosophers Engage with Transformations of Life Worlds

New Perspectives on Moral Change

Joel Haviv

Vi ønsker alle at have indflydelse og medbestemmelse i vores arbejdsliv. Myndighed stimulerer vores engagement og ansvarsfølelse. Og igennem de seneste årtier er flere og flere bærende elementer i arbejdet blevet lagt ud til medarbejderne selv. Fx arbejdstid, projektstyring og supervisering i forhold til indfrielse af mål. Men alligevel er det ikke nødvendigvis en større oplevelse af myndighed, der præger vores arbejde. Tværtimod kan umyndiggørelse i nye former spores – når ledelsen ikke tager ansvar for grænserne for medarbejdernes arbejdsindsats; når store faggrupper i det offentlige fratages fagligt råderum; når større dele af arbejdsstyrken udgrænses af depression, stress eller arbejdsløshed; når fagbevægelsen mister forbindelsen til arbejderne, eller når embedsfolk oplever stigende misbrug i magtapparatet. Denne bog undersøger disse former for umyndiggørelse i arbejdslivet og viser, hvorfor de opstår, og hvilke konsekvenser de kan have. Forfatterne viser også, hvordan medarbejdere, ledere og beslutningstagere på forskellige niveauer kan dæmme op for umyndiggørelse og være med til at styre denne udvikling i det moderne arbejdsliv.

Umyndiggørelse

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Medarbejder eller modarbejder - religion i moderne arbejdsliv

Cecilie Eriksen

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