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Moral Impossibility Ethical, Political, and Psychological Perspectives
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
Biography
Silvia Caprioglio Panizza is Senior Researcher at University of Pardubice, Czech Republic and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at University College Dublin, Ireland. She is the author of The Ethics of Attention: Engaging the Real with Iris Murdoch and Simone Weil (Routledge, 2022) and co-editor, with Mark Hopwood, of The Murdochian Mind (Routledge, 2022).
“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
