Impossible Dreams

Rationality, Integrity And Moral Imagination
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-31615-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 526 g

Conventional wisdom and commonsense morality tend to take the integrity of persons for granted. But for people in systematically unjust societies, self-respect and human dignity may prove to be impossible dreams.Susan Babbitt explores the implications of this insight, arguing that in the face of systemic injustice, individual and social rationality

Autoren/Hrsg.

Babbitt, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Myths, Fantasies, and Realism: The Story of Sethe; Transformation Experiences and Rational Deliberation; Objective Interests, Nonpropositional Knowledge, and Conversion Experiences; Leading Life from the Inside: Individuals, Minority Rights, and Some Problems About Indeterminacy; Personal Integrity, Politics, and Moral Imagination; Feminists and Nature: A Defense of Essentialism; Reason and the Erotic: The Moral Significance of Personal Relations and Commitments; Philosophy and Literature: Recalling the Archangel; Epilogue

Über Autor(innen)

Susan E. Babbitt is assistant professor of philosophy at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.