Minding the Gap: Moral Ideals and Moral Improvement

ISBN-13: 9780190867522 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 232 str.

Karen Stohr

Recenzje

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.

O autorze

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).