Private Solidarity
Its natural to think of acts of solidarity as being public acts that aim at good outcomes, particularly at social change. I argue that not all acts of solidarity fit this mold - acts of what I call private solidarity are not public and do not aim at producing social change. After describing parad...
Published in: | Ethical theory and moral practice |
---|---|
Main Author: | |
Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
Journals Online & Print: | |
Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
Published: |
Springer Science + Business Media B. V
[2016]
|
In: |
Ethical theory and moral practice
|
RelBib Classification: | NCB Personal ethics NCC Social ethics VA Philosophy |
Further subjects: | B
Moral Development
B Virtue B Virtuous B Private B Solidarity B Simone Weil |
Online Access: |
Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (doi) |
Summary: | Its natural to think of acts of solidarity as being public acts that aim at good outcomes, particularly at social change. I argue that not all acts of solidarity fit this mold - acts of what I call private solidarity are not public and do not aim at producing social change. After describing paradigmatic cases of private solidarity, I defend an account of why such acts are themselves morally virtuous and what role they can have in moral development. |
---|---|
ISSN: | 1572-8447 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Ethical theory and moral practice
|
Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10677-015-9640-2 |