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Author Johnson, Mark, 1949-

Title Moral imagination : implications of cognitive science for ethics / Mark Johnson
Published Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 1993

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Description xiv, 287 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Introduction: How Cognitive Science Changes Ethics -- 1. Reason as Force: The Moral Law Folk Theory -- 2. Metaphoric Morality -- 3. The Metaphoric Basis of Moral Theory -- 4. Beyond Rules -- 5. The Impoverishment of Reason: Our Enlightenment Legacy -- 6. What's Wrong with the Objectivist Self -- 7. The Narrative Context of Self and Action -- 8. Moral Imagination -- 9. Living without Absolutes: Objectivity and the Conditions for Criticism -- 10. Preserving Our Best Enlightenment Moral Ideals
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-282) and index
Subject Cognitive science -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Cognitive science.
Ethics.
Imagination -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Imagination.
LC no. 92029896
ISBN 0226401685 (acid-free paper)
0226401693 (paperback)