Moral aims: essays on the importance of getting it right and practicing morality with others

Synopsis

'moral Aims' Brings Together Nine Previously Published Essays That Focus On The Significance Of The Social Practice Of Morality For What We Say As Moral Theorists, The Plurality Of Moral Aims That Agents Are Trying To Realize And That Sometimes Come Into Tension, And The Special Difficulties That Conventionalised Wrongdoing Poses. Critical Morality And Social Norms -- Moral Failure -- An Apology For Moral Shame -- Reaching, Relying On, And Contesting Social Consensus On Moral Norms -- The Virtue Of Civility -- Common Decency -- Standing For Something -- Conventionalized Wrongdoing -- Kant And Compliance With Conventionalized Injustice -- Responsibility And Reproach -- Telling Moral Stories For Others -- Emotional Work -- Changing One's Heart. Cheshire Calhoun. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.