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Thinking of others : on the talent for metaphor /
In Thinking of Others, Ted Cohen argues that the ability to imagine oneself as another person is an indispensable human capacity--as essential to moral awareness as it is to literary appreciation--and that this talent for identification is the same as the talent for metaphor. To be able to see onese...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
©2008.
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| Colección: | Princeton monographs in philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER ONE: The Talent for Metaphor; CHAPTER TWO: Being a Good Sport; CHAPTER THREE: From the Bible: Nathan and David; CHAPTER FOUR: Real Feelings, Unreal People; CHAPTER FIVE: More from the Bible: Abraham and God; CHAPTER SIX: More Lessons from Sports; CHAPTER SEVEN: Oneself Seen by Others; CHAPTER EIGHT: Oneself as Oneself; CHAPTER NINE: Lessons from Art; CHAPTER TEN: The Possibility of Conversation, Moral and Otherwise; CHAPTER ELEVEN: Conclusion: In Praise of Metaphor; Index.