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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450891103321

Titolo

Setting the moral compass [[electronic resource] ] : essays by women philosophers / / edited by Cheshire Calhoun

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004

ISBN

1-280-50224-X

0-19-534826-5

1-4237-6291-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (399 p.)

Collana

Studies in feminist philosophy

Altri autori (Persone)

CalhounCheshire

Disciplina

170/.82

Soggetti

Ethics

Feminist ethics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; Introduction; I: An Ethics for Ordinary Life and Vulnerable Persons; II: What We Ought to Do for Each Other; III: The Normative Importance of a Shared Social World; IV: Achieving Adequate Moral Understandings; V: The Dramatic and Narrative Form of Deliberation and Agency; VI: Emotions, Reason, and Unreason; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book brings together 19 women moral philosophers who have contributed to re-setting the compass of moral philosophy over the past two decades. This collection makes visible women moral philosophers' varied conceptions of the proper subjects, audiences, and purposes of moral philosophy.