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  2. Passion's Triumph over Reason - Wikipedia

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    Passion's Triumph over Reason: A History of the Moral Imagination from Spenser to Rochester, is a book by historian Christopher Tilmouth, first published by Oxford University Press in 2007. It is a study of English moral and philosophical attitudes to passion in the late sixteenth to seventeenth centuries.

  3. Imagination - Wikipedia

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    Moral imagination usually describes the mental capacity to find answers to ethical questions and dilemmas through the process of imagination and visualization. Different definitions of "moral imagination" can be found in the literature.

  4. Moral psychology - Wikipedia

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    Moral development and reasoning are two overlapping topics of study in moral psychology that have historically received a great amount of attention, even preceding the influential work of Piaget and Kohlberg. [28] Moral reasoning refers specifically to the study of how people think about right and wrong and how they acquire and apply moral ...

  5. The Philosophy of Freedom - Wikipedia

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    To achieve such free deeds, we must cultivate our moral imagination, our ability to imaginatively create ethically sound and practical solutions to new situations, in fact, to forge our own ethical principles and to transform these flexibly as needed - not in the service of our own egotistical purposes, but in the face of new demands and unique ...

  6. The Theory of Moral Sentiments - Wikipedia

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    The Theory of Moral Sentiments is a 1759 book by Adam Smith. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It provided the ethical , philosophical , economic , and methodological underpinnings to Smith's later works, including The Wealth of Nations (1776), Essays on Philosophical Subjects (1795), and Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue, and Arms (1763) (first published ...

  7. Mark Johnson (philosopher) - Wikipedia

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    Moral Imagination: Implications of Cognitive Science for Ethics, University of Chicago Press, 1993. The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason, University of Chicago Press, 1987. Philosophical Perspectives on Metaphor, University of Minnesota, 1981.

  8. Morality - Wikipedia

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    Ethics (also known as moral philosophy) is the branch of philosophy which addresses questions of morality. The word "ethics" is "commonly used interchangeably with 'morality' ... and sometimes it is used more narrowly to mean the moral principles of a particular tradition, group, or individual."

  9. Spinoza's Ethics - Wikipedia

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    Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order (Latin: Ethica, ordine geometrico demonstrata) is a philosophical treatise written in Latin by Baruch Spinoza (Benedictus de Spinoza). It was written between 1661 and 1675 [1] and was first published posthumously in 1677. The Ethics is perhaps the most ambitious attempt to apply Euclid's method in