Moral Imagination Implications of Cognitive Science for Ethics

Name: Moral Imagination Implications of Cognitive Science for Ethics
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ISBN: 9780226401690

ISBN-10: 0226401693

ISBN-13: 9780226401690

Edition: 1993

Authors: 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.

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/1/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 302
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.89" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: How Cognitive Science Changes Ethics



Reason as Force: The Moral Law Folk Theory



Metaphoric Morality



The Metaphoric Basis of Moral Theory



Beyond Rules



The Impoverishment of Reason: Our Enlightenment Legacy



What's Wrong with the Objectivist Self



The Narrative Context of Self and Action



Moral Imagination



Living without Absolutes: Objectivity and the Conditions for Criticism



Preserving Our Best Enlightenment Moral Ideals


Notes


Index