Minding the Gap: Moral Ideals and Moral Improvement

by Karen Stohr

Book Overview

Most of us care about being a good person. Most of us also recognize that we fall far short of our morals aspirations, that there is a gap between what we are like and what we think we should be like. The aim of moral improvement is to narrow that gap. And yet as a practical undertaking, moral improvement is beset by difficulties. We are not very good judges of what we are like and we are often unclear about what it would mean to be better. This book...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190867523
• ISBN13: 9780190867522
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.5"