Moral Imagination: Implications of Cognitive Science for Ethics

Johnson, Mark

ISBN 10: 0226401693 / ISBN 13: 9780226401690

Edité par University of Chicago Press, 1994

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Synopsis :

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.

À propos de l'auteur: Mark Johnson is the Philip H. Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oregon and the author of numerous books.

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Titre : Moral Imagination: Implications of Cognitive...
Éditeur : University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition : 1994
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : good