Moral Failure: On the Impossible Demands of Morality

Synopsis

Tessman Points Out A Tendency To Not Acknowledge The Difficulties That Impossible Moral Requirements And Unavoidable Moral Failures Create In Moral Life, And Traces This Tendency Through Several Different Literatures, From Scholarship On Holocaust Testimony To Discussions Of Ideal And Nonideal Theory, From Theories Of Supererogation To Debates About Moral Demandingness, And To Feminist Care Ethics. Are There Impossible Moral Requirements? -- Moral Dilemmas And Impossible Moral Requirements -- Moral Intuition And Moral Reasoning -- Risking Confidence -- Evasions -- Witnessing Moral Failure -- Idealizing Morality -- Endless Demands -- Minimizing The Demands Of Morality -- On Having An Inexhaustible Source Of Moral Requirements. Lisa Tessman. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.