Synopses & Reviews
This anthology focuses on emotions and motives that relate to our status as moral agents, our capacity for moral judgement, and the practices that help to define our social lives. Attachment, trust, respect, conscience, guilt, revenge, depravity, and forgiveness are among the topics discussed. Collectively, the thirteen essays in this collection represent a time-honored tradition in ethics: the effort to throw light on fundamental questions concerning the complexities of the human soul.
Table of Contents
Introduction
John Deigh
Trust and Antitrust
Annette Baier
Agency, Attachment, and Difference
Barbara Herman
Two Kinds of Respect
Stephen L. Darwall
Integrity
Lynne McFall
Appeals to Conscience
James F. Childress
The Decline of Guilt
Herbert Morris
Shame and Self-Esteem: A Critique
John Deigh
Norms of Revenge
Jon Elster
Vulgarity
M. W. Barnes
Wickedness
S. I. Benn
Moral Death: A Kantian Essay on Psychopathy
Jeffrie G. Murphy
Forgiveness
Norvin Richards
Gratitude
Fred R. Berger
Index