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Michele Moody-Adams (1956–) is a moral philosopher whose works characteristically involve nuanced and multidimensional accounts of human cultures, societies, and institutions. Central to her work is an understanding of social dynamics regarding consensus-building, dissent and disagreement, the limits of permissibility, and conditions for the transformation and progression of political and educational institutions. Moody-Adams views moral philosophy as one desirable mode of moral inquiry among many whose primary task is to stimulate and improve the self-reflection of moral agents through close attention to the meaning of norms, values, and ideals faced in lived human contexts. While Moody-Adams’s work can be characterized primarily as moral philosophy, her approach has engendered important contributions in fields such as philosophy of culture, political philosophy, democratic theory, law, education, philosophy of race, feminist philosophy, and Africana philosophy.
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Meagher, T. (2022). Moody-Adams, Michele. In: Sellers, M., Kirste, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6730-0_285-1
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