Discipline and Punish (1975), The History of Sexuality Vol. I (1976). Provides a framework for reading morality as a product of power-knowledge regimes, as well as inspiring an understanding of "bio-ethics" and the body as a site of morality.
b. Complementary References
Peter L. Berger & Thomas Luckmann
The Social Construction of Reality (1966). Becomes a foundation in explaining how moral systems are formed socially-historically, not as objective entities, but as "institutional realities."
Charles Taylor
Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity (1989). Relevant in the exploration of "moral horizon" and how moral identity is formed through relationships to higher values (hypergoods).
Alasdair MacIntyre
After Virtue (1981). Supports criticism of fragmentary modern morality, while enriching the discussion of tradition as a medium for moral articulation.
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Seyyed Hossein Nasr
The Need for a Sacred Science (1993). Presents a traditional Islamic ethical base that integrates cosmological and transcendental aspects as the foundation of Layers 5--6 in SMH.
Nurcholish Madjid, Komaruddin Hidayat, and Abdul Hadi WM
