Cheshire Calhoun

Moral Aims

Essays on the Importance of Getting It Right and Practicing Morality with Others

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Produktbeschreibung

Moral Aims brings together nine previously published essays that focus on the significance of the social practice of morality for what we say as moral theorists, the plurality of moral aims that agents are trying to realize and that sometimes come into tension, and the special difficulties that conventionalized wrongdoing poses.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 204g
• ISBN-13: 9780199328796
• ISBN-10: 019932879X
• Artikelnr.: 47871006

Autorenporträt

Cheshire Calhoun is professor of philosophy at Arizona State University. She works in the areas of normative ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of emotion, and feminist philosophy. Her previous book, Feminism, the Family, and the Politics of the Closet: Lesbian and Gay Displacement, was published by OUP in 2000. For Oxford University Press, she edits the series Studies in Feminist Philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
I Critical Morality and Social Norms
1 Moral Failure
2 An Apology for Moral Shame
II Reaching, Relying On, and Contesting Social Consensus on Moral Norms
3 The Virtue of Civility
4 Common Decency
5 Standing for Something
III Conventionalized Wrongdoing
6 Kant and Compliance with Conventionalized Injustice
7 Responsibility and Reproach
IV Telling Moral Stories for Others
8 Emotional Work
9 Changing One's Heart
Bibliography
Index