Reflective Life Living Wisely with Our Limits

Name: Reflective Life Living Wisely with Our Limits
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ISBN: 9780199575602

ISBN-10: 0199575606

ISBN-13: 9780199575602

Edition: 2010

Authors: Valerie Tiberius

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What can we do to live life wisely? You might think that the answer would be to think and reflect more. But this is not Valerie Tiberius's answer. On her view, when we really take account of what we are like - when we recognize our psychological limits - we will see that too much thinking and reflecting is bad for us. Instead, we need to think and reflect better. This means that we need to develop wisdom: we need to care about things that will sustain us and give us goodexperiences, we need to have perspective on our successes and failures, and we need to be moderately self-aware and cautiously optimistic about human nature. Further, we need to know when to think about our values,…

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List price: $34.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 3/25/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 236
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.21" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English




The Reflective Life and Reflective Values



Introduction



Living Well and Your Point of View



Process and Goal: Why Start with the First-Person Point of View?



Aristotle and Virtue



A Road Map



Reflective Values



Value Commitments and Justification



Reflective Values



The Justification of Reflective Values: Some Concerns



Conclusion: Values and the Challenges of Modern Life



Wisdom and Perspective



Wisdom and Flexibility



A Reflective Conception of a Good Life



The Limits of Reflection and the Importance of Shifting Perspectives



Attentional Flexibility



Wisdom and Rationality



Conclusion



Perspective



Having Perspective: Some Examples



Perspective and Reflective Values



Refining the Account of Perspective



The Value of Perspective



Conclusion



Self-Awareness



The Scope and Limits of Self-Knowledge



Acquiring Self-Knowledge



Moderate Self-Awareness: Habits and Skills



The Value of Self-Awareness



Conclusion



Optimism



Preliminaries: Endorsement and Virtue



The Value of Being Realistic



Cynicism



Realistic Optimism



The Value of Optimism



Conclusion



Beyond The First-Person Point of View



Morality and the Reflective Life



Reflective Virtues and Moral Agency



Wise Decisions and Value Conflicts



Some Problems: Discretion, Complacency, and Intractable Conflicts



Conclusion



Normativity and Ethical Theory



Arbitrariness and the Desire to Live Well



Contingency



The Painter and the Anatomist



Conclusion



Conclusion


Bibliography


Index