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Informationen zum Autor Barbara Herman is Griffin Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles. Klappentext Draws on Kant to address timeless issues in ethical theory as well as ones arising from moral problems! such as obligations to distant need! the history of slavery as it bears on affirmative action! and the moral costs of reparative justice. Zusammenfassung Herman draws on Kant to address both timeless issues in ethical theory and those arising from current moral questions! such as affirmative action and the costs of reparative justice. Challenging orthodoxies! he offers a view of moral competency as a complex achievement! governed by rational norms and dependent on supportive social conditions. Inhaltsverzeichnis * Preface *1. Making Room for Character *2. Pluralism and the Community of Moral Judgment *3. A Cosmopolitan Kingdom of Ends *4. Moral Literacy I: Responsibility and Moral Competence *5. Moral Literacy II: Can Virtue Be Taught? The Problem of New Moral Facts *6. Training to Autonomy: Kant and the Question of Moral Education *7. Bootstrapping *8. Rethinking Kant's Hedonism *9. The Scope of Moral Requirement *10. The Will and Its Objects *11. Obligatory Finds *12. Moral Improvisation *13. Contingency in Obligation * Notes * Credits * Index
