Karen Stohr

Minding the Gap

Moral Ideals and Moral Improvement

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 147mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780190867522
• ISBN-10: 0190867523
• Artikelnr.: 55461084

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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