Moral Aims

Essays on the Importance of Getting It Right and Practicing Morality with Others
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-19-932879-6
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 477 g

We rely on two different conceptions of morality. On the one hand, we think of morality as a correct action guide. Morality is accessed by taking up a critical, reflective point of view where our concern is with identifying the moral rules that would be the focus of the requiring activities of persons in a hypothetical social world whose participants were capable of accessing the justifications for everyone's endorsing just this set of rules. On the other hand, in doing virtually anything connected with morality--making demands, offering excuses, justifying choices, expressing moral attitudes, getting uptake on our resentments, and the like-we rely on social practices of morality and shared moral understandings that make our moral activities and attitudes intelligible to others. This second conception of morality, unlike the first, is not shaped by the aim of getting it right or the contrast between correct and merely supposed moral requirements. It is shaped by the moral aim of practicing morality with others within an actual, not merely hypothetical, scheme of social cooperation. If practices based on misguided moral norms seem not to be genuine morality under the first conception, merely hypothetical practices seem not to be the genuine article under the second conception.

The premise of this book, which collects together nine previously published essay and a new introduction, is that both conceptions are indispensable. But exactly how is the moral theorist to go about working simultaneously with two such different conceptions of morality? The book's project is not to construct an overarching methodology for handling the two conceptions of morality. Instead, it is to provide case studies of that work being done.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Calhoun, Cheshire

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.