Setting the Moral Compass: Essays by Women Philosophers

Table of contents

The first page of every section is available free to non-members – click a section heading to start reading now!

• Setting the Moral Compass *
• Title Page *
• Preface v
• Acknowledgments vii
• Contents ix
• Contributors xi
• Setting the Moral Compass *
• Introduction 3
• Notes *
• I - An Ethics for Ordinary Life and Vulnerable Persons 21
• 1 - Virtue and the Skills of Ordinary Life 23
• Notes *
• 2 - The Household as Repair Shop 43
• Notes 56
• 3 - Taking Care: Care as Practice and Value 59
• Notes *

• Setting the Moral Compass *
• Title Page *
• Preface v
• Acknowledgments vii
• Contents ix
• Contributors xi
• Setting the Moral Compass *
• Introduction 3
• Notes *
• I - An Ethics for Ordinary Life and Vulnerable Persons 21
• 1 - Virtue and the Skills of Ordinary Life 23
• Notes *
• 2 - The Household as Repair Shop 43
• Notes 56
• 3 - Taking Care: Care as Practice and Value 59
• Notes *
• 4 - The Future of Feminist Liberalism 72
• Notes *
• II - What We Ought to Do for Each Other 90
• 5 - The Scope of Moral Requirement 91
• Notes *
• 6 - The Moral of Moral Luck 113
• Notes *
• 7 - Common Decency 128
• Notes *
• III - The Normative Importance of a Shared Social World 144
• 8 - Resentment and Assurance 145
• Notes *
• 9 - Genocide and Social Death 161
• Notes *
• 10 - Demoralization, Trust, and the Virtues 176
• Notes *
• IV - Achieving Adequate Moral Understandings 190
• 11 - Kant on Arrogance and Self-Respect 191
• Notes *
• 12 - Diversity, Trust, and Moral Understanding 217
• Notes *
• 13 - Globalizing Feminist Ethics 233
• Notes *
• 14 - The Idea of Moral Progress 256
• Notes *
• V - The Dramatic and Narrative Form of Deliberation and Agency 274
• 15 - The Improvisatory Dramas of Deliberation 275
• Notes *
• 16 - Narrative and Moral Life 288
• Notes *
• VI - Emotions, Reason, and Unreason 308
• 17 - Self-Constitution in the Ethics of Plato and Kant 309
• Notes *
• 18 - Emotional Rationality as Practical Rationality 333
• Notes *
• 19 - Killing in the Heat of Passion 353
• Notes *
• Index 379