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Moral Imagination: Implications of Cognitive Science for Ethics
by Mark Johnson

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Using path-breaking discoveries of cognitive science, Mark Johnson argues that humans are fundamentally imaginative moral animals, challenging the view that morality is simply a system of universal laws dictated by reason. According to the Western moral tradition, we make ethical decisions by applying universal laws to concrete situations. But Johnson shows how research in cognitive science undermines this view and reveals that imagination has an essential role in ethical deliberation.

Expanding his innovative studies of human reason in Metaphors We Live By and The Body in the Mind Johnson provides the tools for more practical, realistic, and constructive moral reflection.

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Table of Contents

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: How Cognitive Science Changes Ethics1: Reason as Force: The Moral Law Folk Theory2: Metaphoric Morality3: The Metaphoric Basis of Moral Theory4: Beyond Rules5: The Impoverishment of Reason: Our Enlightenment Legacy6: What's Wrong with the Objectivist Self7: The Narrative Context of Self and Action8: Moral Imagination9: Living without Absolutes: Objectivity and the Conditions for Criticism10: Preserving Our Best Enlightenment Moral IdealsNotesIndex

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780226401690
Subtitle:
Implications of Cognitive Science for Ethics
Author:
Johnson, Mark
Author:
Johnson, Mark
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
Subject:
General
Subject:
Philosophy
Subject:
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Subject:
Cognitive science
Copyright:
1994
Publication Date:
November 1994
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
302
Dimensions:
9.04x5.95x.72 in. .91 lbs.
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