Minding the Gap - Moral Ideals and Moral Improvement

List of contents

• Introduction


• Chapter 1: The Gap


• Chapter 2: Where We Stand


• Chapter 3: Moral Identities


• Chapter 4: Moral Aspirations


• Chapter 5: Moral Neighborhoods


• Chapter 6: Moral Stagecraft


• Chapter 7: Social Pretense


• Chapter 8: Self-Deprecation


• Chapter 9: Being Agreeable


• Chapter 10: The Veil of Philanthropy


• Conclusion


• Bibliography

About the author

Karen Stohr is the Ryan Family Term Associate Professor of Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy at Georgetown University and Senior Research Scholar in Georgetown's Kennedy Institute of Ethics. She works primarily in normative ethical theory, focusing on Aristotelian virtue ethics and Kantian ethics. She also writes on the ethical dimensions of civility, manners, and social interactions. She is author of On Manners (Routledge, 2011).

Summary

The book is an exploration of how we narrow the gap between our moral ideals and our actual selves. It develops an account of moral improvement as a practical project requiring what Karen Stohr calls a "moral neighborhood." Moral neighborhoods are constructed through social practices that instantiate shared moral ideals in a flawed world.

Product details

• Authors: Karen Stohr, Karen (Ryan Family Term Associate Professor Stohr, Stohr Karen
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.10.2019
• EAN: 9780190867522
• ISBN: 978-0-19-086752-2
• No. of pages: 276
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Ethical issues & debates, Ethical issues and debates