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Author / Creator:	Johnson, Mark, 1949-
Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1997.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Ethics. Imagination. Philosophy and cognitive science -- Moral and ethical aspects. Cognitive science -- Moral and ethical aspects. Cognitive science -- Moral and ethical aspects. Ethics. Imagination.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11241143

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Varying Form of Title:	Implications of cognitive science for ethics
ISBN:	9780226223230 022622323X 9780226401690 9780226401683 0226401685 0226401693
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO; viewed on March 9, 2015).
Summary:	Preface Acknowledgments 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 Notes Index.
Other form:	Print version: Johnson, Mark. Moral Imagination : Implications of Cognitive Science for Ethics. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2014 9780226401683

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Summary:	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.<br> <br> 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.
Physical Description:	1 online resource
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780226223230 022622323X 9780226401690 9780226401683 0226401685 0226401693