Minding the gap : moral ideals and moral improvement / Karen Stohr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stohr, Karen, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Moral motivation.

Ethics.

Social ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 260 pages).

Other Title:

Moral ideals and moral improvement

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019].

Summary:

This text is a philosophical exploration of the gap between our moral ideals and the imperfect moral reality in which we live, and the implications of that gap for the practical project of moral improvement. We are limited in our ability to recognize and be guided by moral ideals, owing to a variety of moral and epistemic shortcomings. In light of that, how can the practical project of moral improvement get off the ground? An account of moral improvement should begin from psychologically plausible starting points, and it should also rely on ideals that are both normatively authoritative and regulatively efficacious for the agent taking up the project. The work argues that moral improvement should be understood as the project of articulating and inhabiting an aspirational moral identity.

Contents:

The gap

Where we stand

Moral identities

Moral aspirations

Moral neighborhoods

Moral stagecraft

Social pretense

Self-deprecation

Being agreeable

The veil of philanthropy.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 30, 2019).

ISBN:

0-19-086754-X

0-19-086755-8

0-19-086753-1