In the past fifteen years, there has been a virtual explosion of anthropological literature arguing that morality should be considered central to human practice. Out of this explosion new and invigorating conversations have emerged between anthropologists and philosophers. Moral Engines: Exploring the Ethical Drives in Human Life includes essays from some of the foremost voices in the anthropology of morality, offering unique interdisciplinary conversations between anthropologists and philosophers about the moral engines of ethical life, addressing the question: What propels humans to act in light of ethical ideals?

Prologue
Cheryl Mattingly

Chapter 1. The Question of 'Moral Engines': Introducing a Philosophical Anthropological Dialogue
Rasmus Dyring, Cheryl Mattingly, and Maria Louw

PART I: MORAL ENGINES AND HUMAN EXPERIENCE

Chapter 2. Ethics, Immanent Transcendence and the Experimental Narrative Self  
Cheryl Mattingly

Chapter 3. Being Otherwise: On Regret, Morality, and Mood
Jason Throop

Chapter 4. Haunting as Moral Engine: Ethical Striving and Moral Aporias among Sufis in Uzbekistan
Maria Louw

Chapter 5. Every Day: Forgiving after War in Northern Uganda
Lotte Meinert

Chapter 6. The Provocation of Freedom
Rasmus Dyring

PART II: MORAL ENGINES AND 'MORAL FACTS'

Chapter 7. On the Immanence of Ethics
Michael Lambek

Chapter 8. Where in the World are Values? Exemplarity and Moral Motivation
Joel Robbins

Chapter 9. Fault Lines in the Anthropology of Ethics
James Laidlaw

PART III: MORAL ENGINES AND THE HUMAN CONDITION

Chapter 10. An Ethics of Dwelling and a Politics of Worldbuilding: Responding to the Demands of the Drug War
Jarrett Zigon

Chapter 11. Human, the Responding Being:  Considerations Towards a Philosophical Anthropology of Responsiveness
Thomas Schwarz Wentzer

Chapter 12. The History of Responsibility
Francois Raffoul

Index