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Moral failure : on the impossible demands of morality / Lisa Tessman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tessman, Lisa, 1966- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 281 pages)
- Other Title:
- On the impossible demands of morality
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Tessman points out a tendency to not acknowledge the difficulties that impossible moral requirements and unavoidable moral failures create in moral life, and traces this tendency through several different literatures, from scholarship on Holocaust testimony to discussions of ideal and nonideal theory, from theories of supererogation to debates about moral demandingness, and to feminist care ethics.
- Contents:
- Are there impossible moral requirements?
- Moral dilemmas and impossible moral requirements
- Moral intuition and moral reasoning
- Risking confidence
- Evasions
- Witnessing moral failure
- Idealizing morality
- Endless demands
- Minimizing the demands of morality
- On having an inexhaustible source of moral requirements.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-065091-5
- 0-19-939615-9
- 0-19-939616-7
- OCLC:
- 892430154
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