Publication

1991 - Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

98,250 words, Guess

Page Count

393 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing171813
  • Goodreads4830082

Classifications

  • DDC170/.1/9
  • LCCBJ45 .F53 1991

Description

Owen Flanagan argues in this book for a more psychologically realistic ethical reflection and spells out the ways in which psychology can enrich moral philosophy. Beginning with a discussion of such "moral saints" as Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Oskar Shindler, Flanagan charts a middle course between an ethics that is too realistic and socially parochial and one that is too idealistic, giving no weight to our natures.

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Other Editions

  • Varieties of moral personality: ethics and psychological realismHarvard University Press1991-01-01

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