Modern ethics falsely severs morality from socially formed virtue and recognition

Evidence

This modern view not only takes the moral question to be quite different from the “social” question “How should I behave if I want to do well?” but assumes that doing well and having it socially recognized that one is doing well have nothing to do with acting morally. And yet it is precisely the way in which the answers to these two questions have been connected (and disconnected) in Muslim societies that needs systematic investigation—that is, how learning forms of thought and behavior properly (that would be socially recognized and admired as demonstrations and exemplars of religious virtues) comes to be a precondition for acting ethically. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 1187

Categorization

• XREF: Complicates the Cooper thread’s implicit assumption that secular morality is authentic while social-formation is dubious. — connects to: Rethinking political ethics requires revising assumptions about human sociability — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 565