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Title Setting the moral compass : essays by women philosophers / edited by Cheshire Calhoun.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 384 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Studies in feminist philosophy
Studies in feminist philosophy.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents I. AN ETHICS FOR ORDINARY LIFE AND VULNERABLE PERSONS -- Virtue and the skills of ordinary life / Marcia Homiak -- Household as repair shop / Elizabeth V. Spelman -- Taking care: care as practice and value / Virginia Held -- Future of feminist liberalism / Martha C. Nussbaum -- II. WHAT WE OUGHT TO DO FOR EACH OTHER -- Scope of moral requirement / Barbara Herman -- Moral of moral luck / Susan Wolf -- Common decency / Cheshire Calhoun -- III. THE NORMATIVE IMPORTANCE OF A SHARED SOCIAL WORLD -- Resentment and assurance / Margaret Urban Walker -- Genocide and social death / Claudia Card -- Demoralization, trust, and the virtues / Annette C. Baier -- IV. ACHEIVING ADEQUATE MORAL UNDERSTANDINGS -- Kant on arrogance and self-respect / Robin S. Dillon -- Diversity, trust, and moral understanding / Marilyn Friedman -- Globalizing feminist ethics / Alison M. Jaggar -- Idea of moral progress / Michele Moody-Adams -- V. THE DRAMATIC AND NARRATIVE FORM OF DELIBERATION AND AGENCY -- Improvisatory dramas of deliberation / Amelie Oksenberg Rorty -- Narrative and moral life / Diana Tietjens Meyers -- VI. EMOTIONS, REASON, AND UNREASON -- Self-constitution in the ethics of Plato and Kant / Christine M. Korsgaard -- Emotional rationality as practical rationality / Karen Jones -- Killing in the heat of passion / Marcia Baron.
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Subject Ethics.
Ethics.
Feminist ethics.
Feminist ethics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Calhoun, Cheshire.
Other Form: Print version: Setting the moral compass. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004 0195154746 0195154754 (DLC) 2003048636 (OCoLC)51969124
ISBN 1423762916 (electronic book)
9781423762911 (electronic book)
0195154746 (alkaline paper)
0195154754 (paperback ; alkaline paper)