RT Article
T1 Moral Progress and Human Agency
JF Ethical theory and moral practice
VO 20
IS 1
SP 153
OP 168
A1 Moody-Adams, Michele M.
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1565753275
AB The idea of moral progress is a necessary presupposition of action for beings like us. We must believe that moral progress is possible and that it might have been realized in human experience, if we are to be confident that continued human action can have any morally constructive point. I discuss the implications of this truth for moral psychology. I also show that once we understand the complex nature and the complicated social sources of moral progress, we will appreciate why we cannot construct a plausible comprehensive action-guiding theory of moral progress. Yet while the nature and sources of moral progress consistently thwart many theoretical hopes, the idea of moral progress is a plausible, critically important and morally constructive principle of historical interpretation.
K1 Moral Agency
K1 Moral Progress
K1 Moral Psychology
DO 10.1007/s10677-016-9748-z