Between Persons: How Concepts of the Person Make Moral Experience Possible. (March 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Parish, Steven M.
• Is Part Of: Ethos. Volume 42:Number 1(2014:Mar.)
• Page Start: 31
• Page End: 50
• Publication Date: 2014-03
• Subjects: Ethnopsychology -- Periodicals; Personality and culture -- Periodicals; 155.805
• DOI: 10.1111/etho.12037
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0091-2131

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main"> <title>Abstract</title> <p>Moral theories often conflate morality with society or mind, while detaching mind from society, and society from subjectivity. This eliminates the existential "space between" persons where morality is a process of making mutually recognized lives possible. Moral experience is a cultural experience of intersubjectivity, which has social and cultural, subjective and reflective, imaginative and practical, and existential and bodily dimensions. Concepts of the person organize the moral possibilities of intersubjectivity; they can help situate culturally formulated ethics in "the space between persons" in ways that help generate the moral presence afforded others and self.</p> </abstract>