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Author: Thaddeus Metz 

A Relational Moral Theory draws on neglected resources from the Global South and especially the African philosophical tradition to provide a new answer to a perennial philosophical question: what do all morally right actions have in common as distinct from wrong ones? Thaddeus Metz points out that the principles of utility and of respect for autonomy, the two rivals that have dominated Western moral theory for the last two centuries, share an individualist premise. Once that common assumption is replaced by a relational perspective given prominence in African ethical thought, a different comprehensive principle, one focused on harmony or friendliness, emerges. Metz argues that this principle corrects the blind spots of the Western moral principles, and has implications for a wide array of controversies in applied ethics that an international audience of moral philosophers, professional ethicists, and similar thinkers will find compelling.

A Relational Moral Theory: African Ethics in and beyond the Continent 1st Table of contents:

1. Introduction
1.1 ‘The Great Gift from Africa’
1.2 An African Moral Theory
1.3 Meta-Ethics: Identifying the Best Moral Theory
1.4 Normative Ethics: The Best African Moral Theory
1.5 Applied Ethics: The Best Moral Theory, from Africa
Part I. Meta-Ethics: African Ethics without a Metaphysical Ground
2. Reconsidering Ontology’s Relevance
2.1 Minding the Is/Ought Gap
2.2 From Materialism to Egalitarianism?
2.3 From the Social Self to Communitarianism?
2.4 More Instances of the Gap
2.5 How Not to Fall into the Gap
3. Analysing African Ethics
3.1 Justifying an African Moral Theory
3.2 An Analytic Approach
3.3 A Secular Content
3.4 The Key Intuitions
3.5 ‘African’: What’s in a Name?
Part II. Normative Ethics: Communality as the Ground of African Morality
4. The Common Good
4.1 Well-Being as the ‘Master Value’
4.2 The Common Good as Foundation
4.3 The Limits of the Common Good
4.4 Well-Being: Neither Master nor Slave
5. Vital Force
5.1 Life as the ‘Greatest Value’
5.2 Vital Force as Foundation
5.3 The Limits of Vital Force
5.4 Life: Neither Greatest nor Smallest
6. Communal Relationship
6.1 Harmony as the ‘Highest Good’
6.2 Communality: Identity and Solidarity
6.3 The Limits of Extant Communal Principles
6.4 From Highest Good to Basic Duty
7. A Relational Moral Theory
7.1 Rightness as Friendliness
7.2 The Capacity to Commune as Foundation
7.3 Corollaries of the Principle
7.4 Accounting for the Key Intuitions
7.5 Avoiding Common Objections to African Morality
7.6 Turning to Friendly Competition with the West
Part III. Applied Ethics: Communality as the Ground of Morality Simpliciter
8. Environmental Ethics
8.1 Interacting with Nature
8.2 Neither Individualist nor Holist
8.3 The Capacity to Commune as Foundation Redux
8.4 Humans and Animals
8.5 Plants, Species, and Ecosystems
9. Biomedical Ethics
9.1 Treating Bodies and Minds
9.2 The Point of Medical Treatment
9.3 Enhancements
9.4 Whom to Treat
9.5 Abortion and Infanticide
9.6 Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide
10. Research Ethics
10.1 Learning about Bodies and Minds
10.2 Free and Informed Consent
10.3 Confidentiality
10.4 Ancillary Standards of Care
11. Education Ethics
11.1 Teaching Students
11.2 Culture as an End
11.3 Virtue as an End
11.4 Knowledge for Its Own Sake?
12. Business Ethics
12.1 Producing Goods and Services
12.2 The Point of a Firm
12.3 Stakeholders
12.4 Managerialism
12.5 Breaking Contracts, Violating Oaths
13. Conclusion
13.1 Some Strengths of a Relational Moral Theory
13.2 From Prescriptive to Descriptive: A Relational Theory of Moral Behaviour
13.3 From Right Action to Good Character: A Relational Theory of Virtue
13.4 From Interpersonal to Institutional: A Relational Theory of Justice

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