What part should description play in coming to judgment? Questions about genre have become more important in religious ethics as many seek to reform “thin” models of ethical arbitration by recourse to artistic, literary, and historical descriptions in their texts. In this book discussion, I explore what the consequences would be of pursuing this reform by turning to social anthropology—a discipline that relies on extensive empirical descriptions. I do this by considering the anthropology of ethics: a movement that seeks, for the first time, to devote systematic and sustained attention the moral lives of ethnographic informants. I focus on the ways that authors within this field attempt to arrive at more realistic portraits of the different ways societies play out the familiar ethical themes of freedom, responsibility, suffering and agency. Their work challenges religious ethicists to consider what ethical conversation across these differences would look like, and thus to reconsider the relationship between description and judgment in their work.

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审判的类型

描述应该在判断中起什么作用？关于体裁的问题在宗教伦理中变得越来越重要，因为许多人试图通过在他们的文本中求助于艺术、文学和历史描述来改革道德仲裁的“瘦”模型。在这本书的讨论中，我通过转向社会人类学——一门依赖于大量经验描述的学科，探讨了进行这种改革的后果。我通过考虑伦理人类学来做到这一点：这是第一次寻求对民族志信息提供者的道德生活给予系统和持续关注的运动。我专注于该领域的作者试图对社会表现出熟悉的自由、责任、痛苦和能动性等伦理主题的不同方式进行更现实的描绘的方式。