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Moral Imagination: Implications of Cognitive Science for Ethics

By Mark Johnson

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
1993
ISBN
0226401685, 9780226401683
LCC
BJ1031 .J644 1993
Open Library ID
OL1725863M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (2235106 bytes)
Pages
299\299
DPI
300
Time added
2011-01-23 12:00:00

Description

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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