Knowing what to do : imagination, virtue, and platonism in ethics /

Timothy Chappell develops a picture of what philosophical ethics can be like, once set aside from conventional moral theory. He asks 'how are we to know what to do?', and answers 'by developing our moral imaginations' - a key part of human excellence, which plays many roles in ou...

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Imagination, virtue, and platonism in ethics
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.
1. Verfasser:
Chappell, T. D. J.
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Zusammenfassung:
Timothy Chappell develops a picture of what philosophical ethics can be like, once set aside from conventional moral theory. He asks 'how are we to know what to do?', and answers 'by developing our moral imaginations' - a key part of human excellence, which plays many roles in our practical and evaluative lives.
Umfang:
1 online resource (viii, 339 pages)
Anmerkungen:
Description based upon print version of record.
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780198798859
0198798857
9780191507731
0191507733
Schlagworte:
Ethics.
Virtue.
Imagination.
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