The ethics of efficacy in North India's goonda raj (rule of toughs) The ethics of efficacy in North India's
The ethics of efficacy in North India's goonda raj (rule of toughs) The ethics of efficacy in North India's
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印度北部的 goonda raj（强硬统治）的效能伦理 印度北部的效能伦理
DOI：
10.1111/1467-9655.12404
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发表时间：
2016
影响因子：
1.2
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Piliavsky A
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作者：
Piliavsky A
这篇关于北印度政治中的暴徒(流氓或强盗)的研究，是对道德人类学中的智力方法的评论。更特别的是，它对最近将“美德”作为人类生活的主要道德坐标的做法提出了批评意见。根据在印度北部进行的实地研究，我们发现，当人们庆祝暴徒成为领导者时，他们这样做并不是因为他们在他们身上看到了善良的人，而是因为他们认为他们有能力把事情做好。这种功效伦理学不仅是工具性的，也不是美德伦理学的另一种变体。相反，它提出了一种完全不同的道德目的论，旨在采取有效的行动，而不是优秀的品格。在挑战晚期伦理学以自我为中心的倾向的同时，我们也对“道德”和“实践”判断之间的对比，以及“道德”本身的局限性作了初步的评论。
This study ofgoondas(gangsters or toughs) in North Indian politics comes by way of a comment on intellectual method in the anthropology of moralities. More especially, it offers critical remarks on the recent adoption of ‘virtue’ as the cardinal moral co‐ordinate of human life. Drawing on field research conducted across northern India, we show that when people celebrate goondas as leaders, they do so not because they see in them virtuous men, but because they think them capable of ‘getting things done’. This ethics of efficacy is neither merely instrumental nor is it but another variant of virtue ethics. It presents, instead, an altogether different moral teleology orientated towards effective action rather than excellent character. While challenging the self‐centred bent of the late anthropology of ethics, we also make preliminary remarks on the contrast between ‘moral’ and ‘practical’ judgement, and the limits of ‘the moral’ as such.