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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.
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.
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 ...
Olin Levi Warner, Imagination (1896). Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C. Imagination is the production of sensations, feelings and thoughts informing oneself. [1] These experiences can be re-creations of past experiences, such as vivid memories with imagined changes, or completely invented and possibly fantastic ...
Crary's first monograph, Beyond Moral Judgment, [12] discusses how literature and feminism help to reframe moral presuppositions. Her Inside Ethics [13] argues that ethics in disability studies and animal studies is stunted by a lack of moral imagination, caused by a narrow understanding of rationality and by a philosophy severed from literature and art.
But the boy’s death haunts him, mired in the swamp of moral confusion and contradiction so familiar to returning veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is what experts are coming to identify as a moral injury: the pain that results from damage to a person’s moral foundation. In contrast to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, which ...
Moral injury is a relatively new concept that seems to describe what many feel: a sense that their fundamental understanding of right and wrong has been violated, and the grief, numbness or guilt that often ensues. Here, you will meet combat veterans struggling with the moral and ethical ambiguities of war.
Ethical intuitionism (also called moral intuitionism) is a view or family of views in moral epistemology (and, on some definitions, metaphysics). It is foundationalism applied to moral knowledge, the thesis that some moral truths can be known non-inferentially (i.e., known without one needing to infer them from other truths one believes).