Moral Laboratories: Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life [1 ed.] 9780520959538, 9780520281196

Moral Laboratories is an engaging ethnography and a groundbreaking foray into the anthropology of morality. It takes us

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Moral Laboratories: Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life [1 ed.]
9780520959538, 9780520281196

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When as a child she first saw a canoe gliding on Lake Alexander in central Minnesota, Sue Leaf was mesmerized. The encha

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Outlines a lifestyle plan that explains how to create a family home on a budget, sharing recipes, shopping tips, and sug

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Chinese academic traditions take zuo ren—self-fulfillment in terms of moral cultivation—as the ultimate goal of educatio

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Why do policies and business practices that ignore the moral and generous side of human nature often fail? Should the

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He discusses these inner processes through the tragedies of Sophocles, which can inspire us with their enduring moral si

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Moral Philosophy and Moral Life addresses the questions of the role of moral philosophy and its relationship to our ordi

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