Description
Anthropologists have long explained social behaviour as if people always do what they think is best. But what if most of these explanations only work because they are premised upon ignoring what philosophers call 'akrasia' - that is, the possibility that people might act against their better judgment? The contributors to this volume turn an ethnographic lens upon situations in which people seem to act out of line with what they judge, desire and intend. The result is a robust examination of how people around the world experience weaknesses of will, which speaks to debates in both the anthropology of ethics and moral philosophy.
Author: Patrick McKearney
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 06/09/2023
Pages: 260
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781805390008
ISBN10: 1805390007
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
- Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy
- Social Science | Sociology | Social Theory
About the Author
Nicholas H. A. Evans is a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and author of Far From the Caliph's Gaze: Being Ahmadi Muslim in the Holy City of Qadian (Cornell University Press, 2020).