The Concept of Moral Progress / / Frauke Albersmeier.

• VerfasserIn: Albersmeier, Frauke,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Practical Philosophy Ser.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 247 p.)

What is moral progress? Are we striving for moral progress when we seek to ‘make the world a better place’? What connects the different ways in which moral agents, their actions, and the world can become morally better? This book proposes an explication of the abstract concept of moral progress and...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1 Methodological Preliminaries
• 2 Moral Progress: Conceptual Commitments, Pragmatic Expectations
• 3 Ethics and the Idea of Moral Progress
• 4 The Phenomenon of Moral Progress
• 5 Moral Progress and Moral Motivation: Improvement as a Fetish?
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index