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Knowing What to Do: Imagination, Virtue, and Platonism in Ethics

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Knowing What To Do: Imagination, Virtue, and Platonism in Ethics - Chappell, Sophie Grace
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Sophie Grace Chappell develops a picture of what philosophical ethics can be like, once set aside from the idealising and reductive pressures of conventional moral theory. Her question is 'How are we to know what to do?', and the answer she defends is 'By developing our moral imaginations'. The series of studies presented in Knowing What To Do contribute to the case that the moral imagination is a key part of human excellence or virtue by showing that it plays a wide variety of roles in our practical and evaluative lives. ...

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Knowing What To Do: Imagination, Virtue, and Platonism in Ethics 2017, Oxford University Press, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780198798859

Paperback

Knowing What To Do: Imagination, Virtue, and Platonism in Ethics 2014, Oxford University Press, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780199684854

Hardcover