Lisa Tessman

When Doing the Right Thing Is Impossible

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Produktbeschreibung

In this accessible yet throught-provoking work, Lisa Tessman takes us through gripping examples of the impossible demands of morality ¿ some epic, and others quotidian ¿ whose central predicament is: How do we make decisions when morality demands we do something that we cannot?

Produktdetails

• Philosophy in Action
• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 185mm x 133mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 246g
• ISBN-13: 9780190657581
• ISBN-10: 0190657588
• Artikelnr.: 47869810

Autorenporträt

Lisa Tessman is Professor of Philosophy at Binghamton University. She teaches and does research in ethics, moral psychology, feminist philosophy, and related areas. Her work focuses on understanding how real human beings construct morality and experience moral demands, especially under difficult conditions. She is the author of Burdened Virtues: Virtue Ethics for Liberatory Struggles (OUP, 2005), and Moral Failure: On the Impossible Demands of Morality (OUP, 2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: Are There Moral Dilemmas?
Chapter 2. Negotiable and Non-Negotiable Moral Requirements
Chapter 3. How Do We Make Moral Judgments?
Chapter 4. The Experience of Requirement
Chapter 5. Love and the Unthinkable
Chapter 6. Sacred Values
Chapter 7. Constructing Morality
Conclusion