Moral laboratories [electronic resource] : family peril and the struggle for a good life / Cheryl Mattingly.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Part One. First Person Virtue Ethics -- 1. Experimental Soccer and the Good Life -- 2. First Person Virtue Ethics and the Anthropology of Morality -- Part Two. Moral Becoming and the Everyday -- 3. Home Experiments: Scenes from the Moral Ordinary -- 4. Luck, Friendship, and the Narrative Self -- 5. Moral Tragedy: The Perils of a Superstrong Black Mother -- 6. The Flight of the Blue Balloons: Narrative Suspense and the Play of Possible Selves -- Part Three. Moral Pluralism as Cultural Possibility -- 7. Rival Moral Traditions and the Miracle Baby -- 8. Dueling Confessions: Revolution in the First Person -- 9. Tragedy, Possibility, and Philosophical Anthropology -- Bibliography -- Index.

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