Download or read book Setting the Moral Compass written by Cheshire Calhoun and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-12-25 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Setting the Moral Compass brings together the (largely unpublished) work of nineteen women moral philosophers whose powerful and innovative work has contributed to the "re-setting of the compass" of moral philosophy over the past two decades. The contributors, who include many of the top names in this field, tackle several wide-ranging projects: they develop an ethics for ordinary life and vulnerable persons; they examine the question of what we ought to do for each other; they highlight the moral significance of inhabiting a shared social world; they reveal the complexities of moral negotiations; and finally they show us the place of emotion in moral life.