Moral Change: Dynamics, Structure, and Normativity

ISBN-13: 9783030610364 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 180 str.

Cecilie Eriksen

Spis treści

1. Introduction

Part I The Dynamics and Structures of Moral Change

2. Angel makers and the Swedish child care laws of 1902

3. Turning the other cheek with a check in the hand

4. The obedient Danes and the smoking Law

5. A rebirth of justice? Indigenous land rights in Canada

6. Poor little sweep! Child labour in the UK

7. From death penalty to church weddings

8. Being moved beyond our good and evil: The Crow case

9. Co-work and compromises: The birth of the CRC

10. Conclusion: Army of metaphors

11. Interlude: The normative challenges of moral change

Part II The Normativity of Moral Change

12. Moral conflict

13. Moral uncertainty

14. Moral certainty

15. Moral distortion

16. Moral revolution

17. Moral progress

18. Conclusion: Contextual ethics.

O autorze

Cecilie Eriksen is a Postdoc at the Ethics Institute, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Utrecht University, Netherlands.

 

Blurb

How does moral change happen? What leads to the overthrow or gradual transformation of moral beliefs, ideals, and values? Change is one of the most striking features of morality, yet it is poorly understood. In this book, Cecilie Eriksen provides an illuminating map of the dynamics, structure, and normativity of moral change. Through eight narratives inspired by the legal domain and in dialogue with modern moral philosophy, Eriksen discusses moral bias, conflict, progress, and revolutions. She develops a context-sensitive understanding of ethics and shows how we can harvest a knowledge of the past that will enable us to build a better future.