Knowing What To Do

Imagination, Virtue, and Platonism in Ethics

Bibliographic Data

ID8065203
AuthorsTimothy Chappell (0000-0002-8862-7048, The Open University, corresponding author)
Year2014
Pages336
Publication date2014-03-27
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueKnowing What to Do (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199684854.001.0001
OpenAlexW4236214026
Open LibraryOL28515290M
ISBN9780199684854
LanguageEN
Citations received23
References cited87

This book develops a picture of what philosophical ethics can be like, once set from the idealizing and reductive pressures of conventional moral theory. Its question is ‘How are we to know what to do?’, and its answer is ‘By developing our moral imaginations’. The series of studies that constitute this book contribute to the case that the imagination is a key part of human excellence or virtue by showing that it plays a wide variety of different roles in our practical and evaluative lives. There is no short-cut or formulaic way of knowing what to do; but the longer and more painstaking approach is more rewarding anyway. This approach involves developing our repertoire of natural human capacities for imagination, open deliberation, and contemplative attention to the world, the people, and the reality of value around us

Art · Contemplation · Deliberation · Epistemology · Excellence · Key (lock · Natural (archaeology · Political science · Repertoire · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Variety (cybernetics · Virtue · Computer Science · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Ethics in medical practice · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Act (philosophy) · Ethics · Imagination · Normativity (Ethics) · Platonists · History · Law · Philosophy

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