What is moral progress? Are we striving for moral progress when we
seek to 'make the world a better place'? What connects the
different ways in which moral agents, their actions, and the world
can become morally better? This book proposes an explication of the
abstract concept of moral progress and explores its relation to our
moral lives. Integrating the perspectives of rival normative
theories, it draws a clear distinction between ethical and moral
progress and makes the case that moral progress can neither happen
merely in theory, nor come about by a fluke. Still, the ideal of
moral progress as a deliberate improvement in practices with a
positive impact on the world is but one of several types of moral
progress, relating in different ways to the theoretical and
practical capacities of moral agents. No elevated level of
sophistication in these capacities is required for moral progress
to be possible, and the abstract idea of moral progress need not be
on moral agents' minds in the pursuit of the morally better.
However, a desire for impactful moral progress, far from being a
moral fetish, marks a particularly valuable moral outlook.
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