Moral Failure

Moral Failure: On the Impossible Demands of Morality asks what happens when the sense that I must collides with the realization that I can't. Bringing together philosophical and empirical work in moral psychology Lisa Tessman here examines moral requirements that are non-negotiable and that contravene the principle that ought implies can. In some cases it is because two non-negotiable requirements conflict that one of them becomes impossible to satisfy and yet remains binding. In other cases performing a particular action may be non-negotiably required -- even if it is impossible -- because not performing the action is unthinkable.