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Zusatztext This collection of previously published essays by Cheshire Calhoun, with an original introduction, supplies an absorbing assemblage of some well-known and some lesser-known essays that hang together remarkably well. The overall effect is that of a robust and provocative approach to ethical theory, in a form that will appeal to readers of nonideal theory and readers of feminist ethical work ... The meta-philosophical strengths of the whole move me to recommend it to anyone in moral philosophy; I particularly recommend the book to scholars of nonideal theory who may find it easy to forget that past work in feminist philosophy offers some of the best models of nonidealizing methodology. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
