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The Enlargement of Life : Moral Imagination at Work.
Moral imagination, according to John Kekes, is indispensable to a fulfilling and responsible life. By correcting a parochial view of the possibilities available to us and overcoming mistaken assumptions about our limitations, moral imagination liberates us from self-imposed narrowness. It enlarges l...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2018.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; The Enlargement of Life; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One The Ideal; 1. Reflective Self-Evaluation; 1.1 From Autonomy to Reflective Self-Evaluation; 1.2 The Problem of Exclusion; 1.3 The Problem of Morality and Responsibility; 1.4 The Problem of Moral Obtuseness; 1.5 The Balanced Ideal; 1.6 Imagination; 2. Moral Imagination; 2.1 Characteristics; 2.2 Possibilities and Limits; 2.3 Reason and the Voluntarist Ideal; 2.4 Moral Imagination and the Good; 2.5 Overview; Part Two The Corrective Imagination; 3. Understanding Life Backward.
- 3.1 Mill's Case3.2 Limitations; 3.3 Sincerity; 3.4 Promethean Romanticism; 3.5 Transcending Limits; 3.6 The Need for Balance; 4. From Hope and Fear Set Free; 4.1 Myth and Reality; 4.2 Contingency; 4.3 Oedipus's Achievement; 4.4 Coping with Contingency; 4.5 Is Realism Enough?; 5. All Passion Spent; 5.1 Responsibility and Fulfillment; 5.2 Living Responsibly; 5.3 Opting for Responsibility; 5.4 Going Deeper; 5.5 Shortchanged by Morality; 5.6 Overview; Part Three From Exploratory to Disciplined Imagination; 6. Registers of Consciousness; 6.1 The Approach; 6.2 The General Imbroglio.
- 6.3 The Failure and Its Sources6.4 Aesthetic Romanticism and Its Snares; 6.5 Exploratory Imagination and Aesthetic Romanticism; 7. This Process of Vision; 7.1 Halfway to Fulfillment; 7.2 Growing in Appreciation of Life; 7.3 Seeing Things as They Are; 7.4 Integrated Lives; 7.5 An Honorable Failure; 8. An Integral Part of Life; 8.1 Self-Transformation; 8.2 A Book Consubstantial with Its Author; 8.3 Innocence and Reflection; 8.4 Growing Inward; 8.5 Living Appropriately; 8.6 Overview; Part Four The Disciplined Imagination; 9. Toward a Purified Mind; 9.1 Purity; 9.2 Two Kinds of Purity.
- 9.3 Transcendental Romanticism9.4 Reflective Purity; 9.5 Reflective Purity and the Balanced Ideal; 10. The Self's Judgment of the Self; 10.1 The Standard View; 10.2 Doubts about the Standard View; 10.3 The Revised View; 10.4 Doubts about the Revised View; 10.5 Shame and the Balanced Ideal; 11. The Hardest Service; 11.1 Reason and Reflective Self-Evaluation; 11.2 The Uses of Reason; 11.3 Reason in Reflective Self-Evaluation; 11.4 Wrestling with Truth; 11.5 Overview; Notes; Works Cited; Index.