Imagination and ethical ideals : prospects for a unified philosophical and psychological understanding /
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| Author / Creator: | Tierney, Nathan L., 1953- |
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| Imprint: | Albany : State University of New York Press, c1994. |
| Description: | x, 184 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | SUNY series in ethical theory |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1710805 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Part 1. Imagination in Ethics: Philosophical Aspects
- 1. Contemporary Dilemmas in the Project of Ethical Understanding
- The Failure of the Ethics of Principle
- The Mark of the Ethical
- Imagination's Fate
- 2. Hume and Smith: Imagination in the Extension of Sympathy
- 3. Kant
- Kant's General Theory of Imagination
- Imagination in Moral Judgement and Feeling
- 4. The Seeing-As Concept of Imagination
- Introduction
- Wittgenstein's Concept of Seeing-as
- Schematisms of Interpretation
- 5. Ethical Ideas
- The Nature of Ideals
- Kierkegaard's Approach to Ethical Idealization
- Ideals in Moral Reflection
- 6. The Moral Philosophy of the Self
- Introduction
- The Self in Moral Life
- Part 2. Psychological Aspects
- 7. The Self in Classical Psychoanalysis
- 8. Ethical Idealization in Classical Psychoanalysis
- Freud
- Later Developments in Classical Psychoanalysis
- Hartmann's Ego Psychology
- 9. Heinz Kohut's Psychoanalytic Self Psychology
- The Bipolar Self
- Metaphsychology
- 10. Narcissism and Ethical Idealization in Self Psychology
- Part 3. Conclusions and Implications
- 11. Moral Authority for a Free People
- Autonomy and Authority
- Virtue Ethics Reconsidered
- Theory and Practice: Relativism and the Theoretician's Dilemma Reconsidered
- Democracy and Moral Authority
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Name Index
- Subject Index