TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kitcher,Philip
AU  - Heilinger,Jan-Christoph
TI  - Moral progress
T2  - The Munich lectures in ethics
SN  - 9780197549155
AV  - BJ1311 
U1  - 171/.7 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Ethics, Evolutionary
KW  - Ethics
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Pragmatism
KW  - Class of Fall 2015
KW  - Daimler Fellow
KW  - Fellow
KW  - Written at the Academy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "The overall aim of this book is to understand the character of moral progress, so that making moral progress may become more systematic and secure, less chancy and less bloody. Drawing on three historical examples - the abolition of chattel slavery, the expansion of opportunities for women, and the increasing acceptance of same-sex love - it asks how those changes were brought about, and seeks a methodology for streamlining the kinds of developments that occurred. Moral progress is conceived as pragmatic progress, progress from rather than progress to, achieved by overcoming the problems and limits of the current situation. Two kinds of problems are distinguished: problems of exclusion, found when the complaints of some people (the oppressed) are ignored; and problems of false consciousness, present when the oppressed adopt judgments from the ambient society and do not protest their condition. The proposed methodology advocates procedures for listening to voiced complaints and for systematically reviewing the way in which particular self-conceptions, ideals and identities are taken to be appropriate for various groups of people. Through outlining a picture of moral practice, at both the individual and the societal levels, the book seeks to orient moral philosophy away from metaethical questions of realism and towards moral methodology"--
ER  -