Del i serien Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

Moral Impossibility

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Ethical, Political, and Psychological Perspectives

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvSilvia Caprioglio Panizza

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This volume provides a comprehensive picture of the significance of moral impossibility. It explores conceptual and applied questions through the moral psychology, meta-ethics, and politics of moral impossibility.In every choice, action, and act of the imagination, what is possible for us is variously determined and delimited not only by physical and logical limits, but also by moral ones. These limits mark the domain of ‘moral impossibility’. Moral impossibilities limit what we conceive of, what we consider practically, and what we are capable of doing. They manifest in what is not-thought, unthinkable, undoable. They have individual and collective roots, change over time, and have significant consequences for the framing of problems, for the scope of deliberation, and for individual and social worldviews – as well as the conflicts that arise between them. This phenomenon is ubiquitous, yet scarcely discussed. This volume aims to open up and unify a field of inquiry by collecting original philosophical contributions exploring both conceptual and applied questions addressing the moral psychology, meta-ethics, and politics of moral impossibility.Moral Impossibility will appeal to scholars and graduate students working in normative ethics, meta-ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of action, and social and political philosophy.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-08-03
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt453 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory
Antal sidor256
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032897356

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Introduction Silvia Caprioglio Panizza Chapter 1. Moral Impossibility: What It Is and Why It Matters Silvia Caprioglio Panizza Chapter 2. How Virtues and Institutions Limit Practical Thought Ulf Hlobil Chapter 3. Reflections on Moral Impossibility for the Virtuous: Towards a Dual Model of Virtuous Agency Peter Shiu-Hwa Tsu Chapter 4. The Innocence You Have Fought For Sophie Grace Chappell Chapter 5. Pacifism: Impossible, Unthinkable, or Merely Wrong? Sami Pihlström Chapter 6. The Bat and the Dolphin: Perception, Imagination, and the Impossibility of Empathy Carlo Salzani Chapter 7. ‘Here I Stand’. Moral Impossibility and Personal Practical Necessity Katharina Bauer Chapter 8. Murdoch on Moral Realism and First-Person Moral Judgments Craig Taylor Chapter 9. Trying to Understand Another’s Moral Impossibility Christopher Cowley Chapter 10. Virtue or Self-Sabotage? Moral Incapacity, the Superego, and the Unconscious Talia Morag Chapter 11. The Experience of the Unthinkable Evgenia Mylonaki Chapter 12. The Beautiful and the Good Simone Weil, Translated by Aviad Heifetz Postscript. Simone Weil on Moral Impossibility and Moral Dexterity Aviad Heifetz

“This is a genuinely ground-breaking collection on a fascinating and important subject.”Duncan Richter, Virginia Military Institute, USA“This book represents a fantastically interesting intervention into contemporary debates in moral philosophy, offering a rich examination of the concept of moral impossibility.”James H.P. Lewis, Cardiff University, UK“Exploring various aspects of the theme of moral impossibility, this volume contributes to broadening the scope and range of contemporary reflection in ethics, in a direction of growing interest to philosophers. Readers from literary studies, psychology, and social and political theory will also find much to stimulate and reward them in these essays.”Christopher Cordner, University of Melbourne, Australia