Moral aims : essays on the importance of getting it right and practicing morality with others / Cheshire Calhoun.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Calhoun, Cheshire, author.

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 259 pages)

Other Title:

Essays on the importance of getting it right and practicing morality with others

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'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 conventionalised wrongdoing poses.

Contents:

Critical morality and social norms

Moral failure

An apology for moral shame

Reaching, relying on, and contesting social consensus on moral norms

The virtue of civility

Common decency

Standing for something

Conventionalized wrongdoing

Kant and compliance with conventionalized injustice

Responsibility and reproach

Telling moral stories for others

Emotional work

Changing one's heart.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-049372-0

0-19-027210-4

0-19-932880-3