Why this book?
- To become familiar with discussions of social ethics within the framework of contemporary moral philosophy.
- To understand the relationship between tolerance, individual rights, and civic life.
- To ethically examine issues such as violence, torture, and justice.
- To learn about Arash Naraghi's perspective on civil society and moral virtues.
About the book
"Tolerance and Civility (Essays on Social Ethics)" is a collection of seventeen essays by Arash Naraghi on social ethics. This book attempts to show how moral principles can play a role in regulating human relations in civil society and which virtues and values are essential for an ethical life in the public sphere.
In this work, Naraghi considers social ethics a subset of applied ethics; a field concerned with moral judgment about real-life situations in social life. The book's essays fall into two general sections: the first essays deal more with meta-ethical issues and metaphysical and epistemological foundations, while the later essays examine topics in social ethics.
Among the subjects discussed in the book are the relationship between religion and ethics, ethics and mysticism, the relation between Islamic ethics and liberal ethics, the virtue of tolerance, forgiveness, just violence, justice, human rights, the rights of social groups, political divorce, and the ethics of vegetarianism. This book is suitable for those interested in moral philosophy, political philosophy, and discussions related to civil society.
Social ethics is, in fact, a subset of applied ethics. It reflects more on the practical questions of human beings within the context of social life and strives to make principled moral judgments about social situations. Of course, contemporary social ethics goes beyond the circle of individual and private relationships and is not even limited to the realm of social relations among humans; it also seeks to reconstruct and restore human relations with the realm of animals and nature on a moral basis.
From the table of contents
- 1Realism and Anti-Realism in Ethics
- 2The Relationship Between Religion and Ethics
- 3Ethics and Mysticism
- 4The Relation Between Islamic Ethics and Liberal Ethics
- 5Being a Muslim and the Virtue of Tolerance in the Public Sphere
- 6The Paradox of Tolerance
- 7The Virtue of Forgiveness
- 8Civil Society and Just Violence
- 9On Just Violence
- 10Justice and the Spirit of the Law
- 11The Ethics of Torture
- 12Violation of Physical Dignity
- 13Infidelity in Marital Relationships
- 14Democracy and the Problem of Group Rights
- 15Political Divorce
- 16A Dialogue on Human Rights and Ethnic Rights
- 17The Virtue of Vegetarianism