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Author:

Chappell, T. D. J. (Timothy D. J.), author.

Title:

Knowing what to do : imagination, virtue, and Platonism in ethics / Timothy Chappell.

Edition:

First Edition.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

viii, 339 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Ethics.
Normativity (Ethics)
Imagination.
Virtue.
Platonists.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-333) and index.

Contents:

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.

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.

ISBN:

0199684855 (hardback)
9780199684854 (hardback)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)881731037

LCCN:

2013945608

Locations:

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)