Knowing what to do : imagination, virtue, and Platonism in ethics / Timothy Chappell.
2014
170 C467k 2014
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Title
Knowing what to do : imagination, virtue, and Platonism in ethics / Timothy Chappell.
Edition
First Edition.
ISBN
9780199684854 (hardback)
0199684855 (hardback)
0199684855 (hardback)
Published
Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Language
English
Description
viii, 339 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
170 C467k 2014
System Control No.
(OCoLC)881731037
(OCoLC)881731037
(OCoLC)881731037
Summary
Presents what philosophical ethics can be like if freed from the idealizing and reductive pressures of conventional moral theory, making the case that moral imagination is a key part of human virtue by showing the variety of roles it plays in our practical and evaluative lives.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-333) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
What Makes a Good Decision?
Three Kinds of Moral Imagination
Intuition, System, and the 'Paradox' of Deontology
Impartial Benevolence and Partial Love
Internal Reasons and the Heart's Desire
On the Very Idea of Criteria for Personhood
Glory as an Ethical Idea
Beauty and Nobility in Ethics
Moral Certainties
Why Ethics is Hard
The Varieties of Knowledge in Plato and Aristotle
Platonistic Virtue Ethics.
Three Kinds of Moral Imagination
Intuition, System, and the 'Paradox' of Deontology
Impartial Benevolence and Partial Love
Internal Reasons and the Heart's Desire
On the Very Idea of Criteria for Personhood
Glory as an Ethical Idea
Beauty and Nobility in Ethics
Moral Certainties
Why Ethics is Hard
The Varieties of Knowledge in Plato and Aristotle
Platonistic Virtue Ethics.
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