Minding the Gap: Moral Ideals and Moral Improvement
Autor Karen Stohren Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 oct 2019
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780190867522
ISBN-10: 0190867523
Pagini: 276
Dimensiuni: 216 x 147 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0190867523
Pagini: 276
Dimensiuni: 216 x 147 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Recenzii
In this innovative book, Karen Stohr breaks new ground in understanding how we develop our moral ideals and set about the task of moral improvement. Her fascinating account includes explorations of the obstacles to moral improvement, moral identity, the development of aspirational ideals, the social aspects of moral improvement through the construction of moral neighborhoods, and the related notions of moral stagecraft and moral pretense. In formulating her ideas, she draws on Aristotle, Kant,Confucianism, Jane Austen, and Erving Goffman, among other sources ... Stohr'sbook is a major contribution to philosophical thinking about moral formation.
In Stohr's excellent new book, self improvement turns out to be a largely social practice. She defends this view by appeal to some of the usual suspects in moral philosophy, but also to social science research, great works of literature, and a larger host of women and feminist philosophers than one usually sees discussed. The result is an engaging and insightful work of normative theory full of wisdom and nuance.
Karen Stohr offers a nuanced and sophisticated approach to a philosophically under-appreciated aspect of moral life: trying to be better than you are. Stohr offers nuanced analysis of the enriching complexities of daily life and social interaction, making clear how moral improvement for me will need cooperation and community with others. Stohr's account exemplifies both sense and sensibility, with both careful argument in defense of moral aspiration and a close eye on how the atmospherics of our "moral neighborhoods" inflect our moral possibilities.
In Stohr's excellent new book, self improvement turns out to be a largely social practice. She defends this view by appeal to some of the usual suspects in moral philosophy, but also to social science research, great works of literature, and a larger host of women and feminist philosophers than one usually sees discussed. The result is an engaging and insightful work of normative theory full of wisdom and nuance.
Karen Stohr offers a nuanced and sophisticated approach to a philosophically under-appreciated aspect of moral life: trying to be better than you are. Stohr offers nuanced analysis of the enriching complexities of daily life and social interaction, making clear how moral improvement for me will need cooperation and community with others. Stohr's account exemplifies both sense and sensibility, with both careful argument in defense of moral aspiration and a close eye on how the atmospherics of our "moral neighborhoods" inflect our moral possibilities.
Notă biografică
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).