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Moral Moods
Author(s) -
Throop C. Jason
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
ethos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.783
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1548-1352
pISSN - 0091-2131
DOI - 10.1111/etho.12039
Subject(s) - existentialism , morality , embodied cognition , moral disengagement , salient , moral authority , social psychology , psychology , modalities , sociology , moral psychology , moral behavior , legal norm , epistemology , political science , philosophy , social science , law
In this article, I seek to examine how local moral concerns are revealed, contested, and negotiated in instances wherein individuals take up ethically imbued and viscerally laden moods. Halfway between moments of explicit ethical reflection and habitual embodied forms of morality, I argue that moral moods are temporally complex existential modalities that transform through time and yet often entail a durativity that extends beyond the confines of particular morally salient events and interactions.