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Sophie Grace Chappell - Knowing What To Do, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

Knowing What To Do

Imagination, Virtue, and Platonism in Ethics

Av Sophie Grace Chappell

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Sophie Grace Chappell develops a picture of what philosophical ethics can be like, once set aside from the idealising and reductive pressures of conventional moral theory. Her question is 'How are we to know what to do?', and the answer she defends is 'By developing our moral imaginations'. The series of studies presented in Knowing What To Do contribute to the case that the moral imagination is a key part of human excellence or virtue by showing that it plays a wide variety of roles in our practical and evaluative lives. There is no short-cut or formulaic way of knowing what to do; but the longer and more painstaking approach is more rewarding anyway. This approach involves developing our repertoire of natural human capacities for imagination, open deliberation, and contemplative attention to the world, the people, and the reality of value around us.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2017-03-30
  • Mått: 156 x 234 x 18 mm
  • Vikt: 532 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 350
  • Förlag: OUP OXFORD
  • ISBN: 9780198798859
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Sophie Grace Chappell is the author of numerous books and articles on ethics, ancient philosophy, epistemology, and philosophy of religion. She has taught at universities including the University of Oxford, the University of British Columbia, the University of East Anglia, and the University of Manchester. Since 2006 she has been Professor of Philosophy at The Open University.

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The book must be praised as an inspiring expression of an ethical vision with deep historical roots and urgent contemporary relevance . . . Timothy Chappell's book is itself an ethical exemplar, a study in the contemplation of value, a testament to ordinary goodness. Event those who disagree must contemplate his arguments; since "if we can't see individual specific things, we can't see anything at all."

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